WordPress – Creating a Backup of Your Site

Purpose: Take a backup of your site at specific date so if shit hits the fan with it, you can just upload that version of your site and be gucci again

WP Reset – This tool is used to reset the site back to the state before any changes. It is not a backup plugin though!

How to Create Backup of Your WordPress Site:

  • Plugins – Updraft Plus
  • Hosting Provider – e.x. Codeguard by Hostgator – sometimes this is included
  • Manual backups

Follow this to find out how to create backups using updraft plus (super easy and straight forward) -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJI-ZMD7qWE&ab_channel=CreateaProWebsiteCreateaProWebsite

Set up remote backup so it uploads it to Google driveAlso set automatic updates up so you do it on a timely cadenceyou can also set up backups based on before plugin/theme changes, but this is a premium feature (we have wp reset for this)