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December 6, 2012
With the WPBackItUp Backup Plugin you’re protected against hackers, malware, host outages, and even your own mistakes. WPBackItUp creates a backup of every setting, post, comment, revision, plugin, theme, media file and upload with just a single click.
WPBackItUp generates a compressed backup of your entire website no matter how large a site you have. Your backup can be quickly and easily downloaded right from your WordPress dashboard.
The WPBackItUp backup plugin has been available to the WordPress community since 2012 and is used to back up more than 30,000 websites every day. It’s one of the most widely tested, reliable, and highly rated backup plugins available! And with our long history, you can feel confident that we are going to be around for many years to come.
Simply install WPBackItUp and within minutes you will have a complete backup of your entire site.
Just a few clicks and you’ll have a complete backup that safeguards all of your valuable content.
Here are just a few of our incredible features.
Community Edition Features (free)
Premium Features (paid)
Does the thought of losing your website keep you up at night? All that time, effort and money you’ve invested could be gone in an instant.
WordPress is an incredible product but there are many things that can go wrong. You could get hacked, your hosting company could go out of business, you could install a bad plugin or theme, the list is endless, and without a good backup, you could lose everything.
If this isn’t something that keeps you up at night, then it really should be. It was keeping us up at night so we decided to do something about it. In 2012 we created the WPBackItUp backup plugin and made it freely available to the WordPress community.
Since 2012 we have added many incredible features and have even created a premium version of our backup plugin, but our fundamental goal has remained the same. We want to make creating a WordPress backup as simple, effective and complete as possible. We don’t want anything to prevent you from regularly creating a backup of your WordPress site.
We offer the Community Edition of our backup plugin for free so that you will BackItUp and sleep better at night.
We offer free support via the WordPress support forum but before posting a question please make sure you are running the current version of WPBackItUp. We frequently add features and fix issues so please make sure your version is up to date before posting an issue. We also ask that you review our online documentation and FAQ’s which are available on the WPBackItUp Support Portal before posting your questions.
Restoring your site can be very stressful and often times quite complex so we offer a few options to our Community Edition customers.
If you are a do it yourself kind of person then we provide detailed instructions on the WPBackItUp Support Portal. Here we walk you through the process to restore your database manually.
We also provide step by step instructions for manually restoring plugins, themes and media files.
But if you aren’t someone that wants to do it yourself, then check out our Premium Backup Plugin. With WPBackItUp premium you will have access to our one-click restore which takes care of all the hard work for you.
WPBackItUp Premium provides a number of additional features not included in the Community Edition. You can purchase a No-Risk WPBackItUp Premium License anytime from the WPBackItUp site.
One Click Restore:
WPBackItUp premium allows you to restore your backup from the WordPress dashboard with just a single click.
Automated Backups:
WPBackItUp premium allows you to schedule your backup to run whenever you need them to.
Priority Support:
WPBackItUp is supported by a team of professional. If you are using WPBackItUp to safeguard your business website then priority support is available to our premium customers. Please see www.wpbackitup.com for details.
Automatically Restore/Clone/Duplicate/Migrate your Website:
Need to restore, clone, duplicate or migrate your website? We make that easy too!
The premium version of the WPBackItUp backup plugin allows you to restore your website from backup with a single click. All you do is select the backup you want to restore and click restore, right from your WordPress dashboard. It’s that easy, and your site is back up and running in minutes.
Please review our FAQ’s or ask them in the support forum.
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Installing WPBackItUp is easy and straightforward.
You can find more detailed instructions in our online documentation
Yes, we have provided WPBackItUp free to the WordPress community since 2012. We do this because we don’t want there to be any reason you aren’t backing up your WordPress site, it’s that important.
The free version is made possible by our generous premium customers. Please use WPBackItUp free for as long as needed but if you are able, consider supporting our community by becoming a premium customer. See www.wpbackitup.com/premium for details.
Sure! The backup archive generated by WPBackItUp contains everything you need to restore your WordPress site. We even created a guide to help you. Please see our online documentation for details.
Yes, the premium version of WPBackItUp provides a one-click restore option. If you can click a button then you can restore your site. Please see www.wpbackitup.com for pricing info and our no-risk offer.
WPBackItUp is really fast. Unless your site is extremely large(many gigabytes) it should only take a few minutes for your backup to complete.
If your back up has been running for longer than 15 minutes then there may be an issue. Before contacting support please close your browser and try the backup again. If it continues happening, contact support.
Yes, WPBackItUp has been around since 2012 and has over 100,000 installs all over the world. WPBackItUp can be used safely and easily on most hosts.
Yes. WPBackItUp works on both Windows and Linux hosts. WPBackItUp even works with WordPress sites hosted on Windows Azure.
Not yet but this feature will be available in an upcoming version of WPBackItUp. We listen to requests so if this is an important feature to you then please let us know by submitting a feature request.
Yes, but this feature is only available with the premium version of WPBackItUp. Please see www.wpbackitup.com for pricing info and our no-risk offer.
WPBackItUp works on the current release of WordPress and is updated to function with all new releases.
This is a tough one. In many cases, a backup created by WPBackItUp can be used to restore to a different version of WordPress but this is not recommended. It is very important that you keep all your WordPress versions the same but if you find yourself in this situation. Please contact support before attempting this on your own.
Yes, WPBackItUp supports multisite but at this time we can only backup and restore entire networks.
Yes, it does. Your entire database will be exported into a set of SQL files and saved in the backup archive created by WPBackItUp. This file is used by WPBackItUp premium to restore your site and may be also be used for manual restores.
Please see www.wpbackitup.com for information about WPBackItUp premium or for manual-restore instructions
Yes, the database export contains everything related to the database.
Yes. WPBackItUp is used by many professional designers & developers just this way. Once you have your WordPress site setup the way you want, just BackItUp and use that backup archive as a starting point for all your new sites.
Yes, WPBackItUp is just like any other WordPress plugin. You must install it on any site that you wish to perform a backup or restore.
WPBackItUp creates a backup of everything. This includes plugins, plugin settings, themes, theme settings, pages, posts, users, uploads, everything.
WPBackItUp supports very large sites. We have a number of customers with extremely large sites that use WPBackItUp regularly.
Yes. We continually improve WPBackItUp and test it with every new version of WordPress.
Yes, please make sure you are always running the current version of WPBackItUp.
General support questions should be posted to the WordPress support forums. If you are WPBackItUp premium customer then support requests may be submitted the portal support.wpbackitup.com
Our online documentation and full list of FAQs can be found at support.wpbackitup.com
*Release Date – January 25, 2026
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Enabled plugin to work with version 3.8
Enabled plugin to work with version 3.7.1
Modified admin interface.
Removed redundant code.
Changed DB Export and import method to work on all hosting.
Changed DB backup method to work on shared hosting.
Setup alert if DB is 0 bytes.
Fixed status reporting for backup/restore process and built-in localization.
Recommended upgrade: Amalgamated lite and pro versions of the plugin.
Major updates to improve plugin performance and stability.
Minor updates to plugin functionality.
Brought versioning inline with WPBackItUp Lite. Fixed incorrect message on restore interface. Fixed restoration access.
Backup from mysqldump, restore from mysql command line, restore functionality from uploaded files, file size limit check according to server before uploads, setInterval termination after operation, status update as the task completes using XML.
Introduced mysqldump for backup and shell exec for copy/delete operations.
Added ability to restore from server.
Improved auto-update facility and plugin stability.
Fixed critical issues the auto-upgrade access.
Fixed critical issues the auto-upgrade access.
Fixed issues with the restoration access.
Fixed the auto-update engine and license key activation system.
Minor bugs patched for auto-update engine.
WPBackItUp integrated with licensing and auto-update engine.
Initial version of the plugin released.
| Version | Download | Type |
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| 2.1.0 | Download | Stable |
| 2.0.0 | Download | Stable |
| 1.50.0 | Download | Stable |
| 1.45.0 | Download | Stable |
| 1.43.0 | Download | Stable |
| 1.42.0 | Download | Stable |
| 1.41.0 | Download | Stable |
| 1.40.0 | Download | Stable |
| 1.39.0 | Download | Stable |
| 1.38.0 | Download | Stable |
| 1.37.0 | Download | Stable |
| 1.36.0 | Download | Stable |
| 1.35.0 | Download | Stable |
| 1.34.0 | Download | Stable |
| 1.33.0 | Download | Stable |
| 1.32.0 | Download | Stable |
| 1.31.0 | Download | Stable |
| 1.30.0 | Download | Stable |
| 1.29.0 | Download | Stable |
| 1.28.0 | Download | Stable |
| 1.27.0 | Download | Stable |
| 1.26.0 | Download | Stable |
| 1.25.0 | Download | Stable |
| 1.24.0 | Download | Stable |
| 1.23.0 | Download | Stable |
| 1.22.0 | Download | Stable |
| 1.21.0 | Download | Stable |
| 1.20.0 | Download | Stable |
| 1.19.0 | Download | Stable |
| 1.18 | Download | Stable |
| 1.17.0 | Download | Stable |
| 1.16.0 | Download | Stable |
| 1.15.7 | Download | Stable |
| 1.15.6 | Download | Stable |
| 1.15.5 | Download | Stable |
| 1.15.4 | Download | Stable |
| 1.15.3 | Download | Stable |
| 1.15.2 | Download | Stable |
| 1.15.1 | Download | Stable |
| 1.15 | Download | Stable |
| 1.14.7 | Download | Stable |
| 1.14.6 | Download | Stable |
| 1.14.5 | Download | Stable |
| 1.14.4 | Download | Stable |
| 1.14.3 | Download | Stable |
| 1.14.2 | Download | Stable |
| 1.14.1 | Download | Stable |
| 1.14.0 | Download | Stable |
| 1.13.6 | Download | Stable |
| 1.13.5 | Download | Stable |
| 1.13.3 | Download | Stable |
| 1.13.2 | Download | Stable |
| 1.13.1 | Download | Stable |
| 1.13 | Download | Stable |
| 1.12.5 | Download | Stable |
| 1.12.4 | Download | Stable |
| 1.12.3 | Download | Stable |
| 1.12.2 | Download | Stable |
| 1.12.1 | Download | Stable |
| 1.12 | Download | Stable |
| 1.11.1 | Download | Stable |
| 1.11.0 | Download | Stable |
| 1.10.9 | Download | Stable |
| 1.10.8 | Download | Stable |
| 1.10.7 | Download | Stable |
| 1.10.6 | Download | Stable |
| 1.10.5 | Download | Stable |
| 1.10.4 | Download | Stable |
| 1.10.3 | Download | Stable |
| 1.10.2 | Download | Stable |
| 1.10.1 | Download | Stable |
| 1.10.0 | Download | Stable |
| 1.9.2 | Download | Stable |
| 1.9.1 | Download | Stable |
| 1.9 | Download | Stable |
| 1.8 | Download | Stable |
| 1.7.5.1 | Download | Stable |
| 1.7.5 | Download | Stable |
| 1.7.4 | Download | Stable |
| 1.7.3 | Download | Stable |
| 1.7.2 | Download | Stable |
| 1.7.1 | Download | Stable |
| 1.7.0 | Download | Stable |
| 1.6.7 | Download | Stable |
| 1.6.6 | Download | Stable |
| 1.6.5 | Download | Stable |
| 1.6.4 | Download | Stable |
| 1.6.3 | Download | Stable |
| 1.6.2 | Download | Stable |
| 1.6.0 | Download | Stable |
| 1.5.5 | Download | Stable |
| 1.5.4 | Download | Stable |
| 1.5.3 | Download | Stable |
| 1.5.2 | Download | Stable |
| 1.5.1 | Download | Stable |
| 1.5.0 | Download | Stable |
| 1.4.2 | Download | Stable |
| 1.4.1 | Download | Stable |
| 1.4.0 | Download | Stable |
| 1.3.0 | Download | Stable |
| 1.2.2 | Download | Stable |
| 1.2.1 | Download | Stable |
| 1.2.0 | Download | Stable |
| 1.1.6 | Download | Stable |
| 1.1.4 | Download | Stable |
| 1.1.2 | Download | Stable |
| 1.1.1 | Download | Stable |
| 1.1.0 | Download | Stable |
| 1.0.9 | Download | Stable |
| 1.0.8 | Download | Stable |
| 1.0.7 | Download | Stable |
| 1.0.6 | Download | Stable |
| Development | Download | Trunk |