UpdraftPlus - Complete Description
Category: Productivity • Platform: WordPress Plugin
UpdraftPlus is one of the world's most popular and highly-rated scheduled backup and migration plugins, trusted and actively installed on over 3 million WordPress websites. It provides a reliable solution for backing up, restoring, and migrating WordPress sites.
💾 Backup with UpdraftPlus
UpdraftPlus allows users to create backups manually or schedule them to run every 2, 4, 8, or 12 hours, daily, weekly, monthly, or fortnightly.
Storage Locations
| Free Version Storage Options | Premium Version (Also includes Free Options) |
|---|---|
| Dropbox | Microsoft OneDrive |
| Google Drive | Microsoft Azure |
| Amazon S3 (or compatible) | Google Cloud |
| Rackspace Cloud | Backblaze B2 |
| FTP | SFTP / SCP |
| DreamObjects | pCloud |
| Openstack Swift | WebDAV |
| UpdraftVault (integrated storage) |
↩️ Restore with UpdraftPlus
Your WordPress site is vulnerable to hacks, failed updates, server crashes, or human errors. UpdraftPlus simplifies the recovery process:
- Easy Restoration: Restore your website in just a few clicks.
- Component Selection: Choose exactly which components to restore (e.g., plugins, themes, database, etc.).
🔄 Migrate with UpdraftPlus
The free version makes it easy to migrate your WordPress website to a new web host, server, or domain.
- Process: Simply download your database, plugins, themes, etc., from the source site and upload them to the destination site.
- Automatic Handling: A built-in search-and-replace engine automatically identifies and replaces old URLs/strings to reflect the new location, saving time and reducing the risk of broken links.
✅ Why UpdraftPlus is Trusted
The plugin is relied upon because it "just works" consistently across millions of diverse WordPress deployments.
Key Features:
- Comprehensive: Handles Backups, Migrations, and Restores.
- Versatile: Offers a huge number of remote storage locations.
- Convenient: Allows you to schedule backups for a 'set and forget' approach.
- Proven: Trusted and actively deployed on over 3 million sites.
