Backup and Restore Your WordPress Website Using UpdraftPlus
Ravi Chahar
Customer Support Specialist || ???? WordPress Professional || Web Developer || Speaker || Social Media Marketer ??
It’s always recommended to be prepared even for the worst times. You should know how to backup and restore your WordPress website using UpdraftPlus.
Due to the technical aspects of WordPress, most of the people don’t like to follow the manual way to backup a WordPress website.
Apart from that, everyone looks for a backup plugin. UpdraftPlus is considered as one of the best plugins. The free version is enough to backup and restores your WordPress website.
To every WordPress user, it’s advised to do the daily backups.
Many websites get hacked every year and no one likes that. Most of the people make the mistake of not backing up their websites.
In this article, I am going to walk you through a simple process.
Backing up Your WordPress Website
No doubt that WordPress plugins are the saviors for many.
Most of the people are depending on the thousands of plugins available in the WordPress directory.
Install and the activate the UpdraftPlus plugin and go to Settings>>UpdraftPlus.
Step 1: – On its dashboard, you can easily see a button to backup the website. Click on the “Backup Now” button and it will start compressing the files and folders in a ZIP file.
A popup will appear, you will see the checkboxes to check. By default, it will backup the whole website, you just need to click on the backup now button.
You can see the process goes on.
Step 2: – Once the backup is finished, you will see it on the dashboard. To download the backup file, click on the “Existing Backups” tab.