A powerful, user-friendly WordPress plugin to backup, restore, import, and export your entire site—including database, plugins, themes, uploads, and demo content. Built for reliability, speed, and ease of use.

• One-Click Backup & Restore: Effortlessly create and restore backups of your WordPress site.
• Database Import/Export: Backup, export, and restore your WordPress database with ease.
• Plugin & Theme Backup: Export and import all plugins and themes, or restore them from a backup.
• Uploads & Folder Backup: Securely backup and restore your uploads folder and other important directories.
• Demo Content Import: Provide a seamless demo content import solution for theme and plugin developers.
• Modern Admin UI: Clean, React-powered admin interface for managing backups and server metrics.
• AJAX & Nonce Security: All operations are secured with WordPress nonces and AJAX for a smooth experience.
• Automated Backup Scheduling: Set up daily, weekly, or monthly automated backups with email notifications.
• Email Notifications: Receive detailed email reports when scheduled backups complete successfully.
• Backup Status Tracking: Monitor backup completion status and history through the admin interface.

Starting with version 0.2.0, WP Backup supports chunked upload of large backup ZIP files directly via the command line using a REST API endpoint, perfect for big sites or automated workflows.

• CLI Tool & Usage Guide →

This feature enables you to:

• Upload and restore backup ZIPs larger than typical browser/APIs allow.
• Integrate with the open source CLI client wpb-upload-cli.

How it works:

1. Generates an upload session for the backup ZIP, sending it in chunks to avoid timeouts or browser limits.
2. After upload completes, triggers the restore process via a REST API endpoint.

Quick Start:

• See wpb-upload-cli for command-line usage instructions, authentication, and automation tips.

Security: Only admins (users with the manage_options capability) can use this REST API/CLI upload feature.

1. Upload the plugin files to the /wp-content/plugins/worry-proof-backup directory, or install via the WordPress Plugins screen.
2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress.
3. Access the WP Backup menu in your WordPress admin sidebar.

• Create a Backup: Click 'Create Backup', select what to include (database, plugins, themes, uploads), and confirm.
• Restore a Backup: Choose a backup from the list and click 'Restore'.
• Import/Export: Use the import/export tools to move your site or demo content between environments.
• Demo Content: Theme/plugin authors can bundle demo content for easy import by users.

WP Backup provides a developer-friendly way to package and import demo content, making it ideal for theme and plugin authors who want to offer a quick start for their users.

• WordPress 6.0 or higher
• PHP 8.0 or higher

Worry Proof Backup is built with modern techniques to ensure your data restores safely, quickly, and reliably – especially when working with large backup files.

We require PHP 8.0 or higher for the following reasons:

PHP 8 introduces Just-In-Time (JIT) compilation, which significantly speeds up operations like:

• Extracting ZIP archives with tens of thousands of files
• Reading and writing large file contents in memory
• Fast, stable looping over file lists

In PHP 7, some built-in functions like stream_get_contents() can behave inconsistently with large files or streams. PHP 8 provides:

• More reliable file extraction
• Fewer write failures and timeouts
• Better handling of memory streams

Our plugin supports restoring entire folders with thousands of files, which demands fast and reliable filesystem operations – something PHP 8 handles far better than PHP 7.

We strongly recommend upgrading to PHP 8.0+ for optimal compatibility, performance, and security – not just for this plugin, but for your entire WordPress site.

Most hosting providers support PHP 8 – feel free to reach out to your hosting support team and ask for an upgrade.

GPL v2 or later. See LICENSE for details.

Developed by @Mike