How to install out-of-date version of system plugin?

[Phillip Ponzer [Cprime]]

The Code Macro plugin has been upgraded to a system plugin in Confluence 5.4. This is fine, however, I cannot install the version I prefer (version 2.1.1) because of this.

I would like to install the older version of the Code Macro plugin because of the bug the latest version introduced: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-31476

[Joe Clark · Accepted solution]

You'll need to get your hands dirty on the file system to change Confluence's bundled plugins. We have a KB article on how to do this: https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+to+Edit+Bundled+or+System+Plugins

Note that Atlassian doesn't support this kind of configuration, so if you make a change like this and it screws things up, our support team will ask you to revert the change before troubleshooting any further.

[Davin Studer]

You might be able to do it using the old plugin admin page. Not sure ... I'm not on 5.4.

http://<server base url>/admin/viewplugins.action

[Phillip Ponzer [Cprime]]

Nice idea! Just tried it, however, and it will not allow me to either uninstall the Code Macro plugin or install the older version on top of it.

[Davin Studer]

Ok. There are some plugins that the new plugin manager will not let you disable, but the old one will, so I was hoping that it might help out in this case.