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Manage WordPress with WP Remote

by InMotion Hosting Contributor

Managing WordPress can seem like a full-time job, especially if you’re maintaining multiple websites. If you’re looking for an easier way to monitor and complete WordPress maintenance tasks, you may want to try WP Remote.  WP Remote, a 3rd party tool with a WordPress plugin for full site integration, allows you to manage themes, plugins, Read More >

WordPress Backups - Protect Your WordPress Website

Why WordPress Backups are Important

Backups are a critical part of maintaining one of your most valuable marketing assets – your website. No matter your skill level or the type of WordPress website you create, maintaining a WordPress backup is non-negotiable.

When you backup WordPress, you protect yourself from headaches that loss data could cause. Maybe you accidentally delete a lot of important content, or you’re a victim of a hack that wipes out multiple pages, or updating a plugin creates hassles right when you need it the least.

With a solid WP backup process in place, you can easily restore your website back to its former glory without a lot of fuss and time.

Explore our many WordPress tutorials on how to backup WordPress and protect your website from time-consuming errors.

Considerations for Backing up WordPress

Nowadays, the most common way to manage backups and restore your WordPress site is through plugins. However, that isn’t the only way. Your skill level and technical comfortability will determine your backup plan for your WordPress site.

If you’re a beginner, you’ll agree that plugins are the easiest way to manage your backups. But more advanced users may feel more comfortable jumping in cPanel or the server. 

Though, no matter your technical knowhow, below you’ll find a WordPress backup tutorial that will fit your needs. 

Recommended WordPress Backup Plugins

With the help of a plugin, you can easily create, schedule, and manage your backups. You can also use a backup to restore your site or even use the plugin to delete old backups to save disk space of your server.

Below are a few recommended WordPress backup plugins for you to consider for your website maintenance.

If you’re researching a backup plugin that isn’t listed above, simply make sure it covers the below functions:

  • Can schedule your backup to occur on a regular basis
  • Will warn you if you are making changes without properly backing up
  • Can roll back changes automatically if your site breaks 
  • Will save a backup copy on your server for quick recovery and send a copy offsite to a storage location of your choice
  • Encrypt your backups

For more details, please see our article on recommended Backup Plugins. If you’re working with a developer, review these instructions on how to help your developer transfer your WordPress site using a backup plugin.

Advance Backup Methods & cPanel

Advance WordPress users who are used to completing server-level tasks can also backup their websites without installing, activating, and learning a plugin. Here are additional options for backing up WordPress:

Latest Tutorials for Backing up WordPress

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    How to Configure Kanban Boards for WordPress

    by InMotion Hosting Contributor

    Kanbans are useful for visualizing progress of tasks for project management, customer relationship management (CRM), content production, employee onboarding, and more. Professionals across multiple industries integrate kanban software to improve productivity when the waterfall project methodology doesn’t work. Fortunately, WordPress users don’t need to create an account for Trello or Asana to benefit from this Read More >

    WordPress 5.6 Release Notes

    by InMotion Hosting Contributor

    WordPress 5.6 was officially launched on December 8, and the final WordPress release of 2020 came packed with new updates and features.  The development team focused on continuing to improve the Gutenberg block editor in this release, as well as enhancing security with expanded auto-updates, and bringing users a brand new Twenty-Twenty-One theme. But that Read More >

    Using Site Health Info in WordPress

    by Arnel Custodio

    WordPress has a tool that can give you one of the best sources of information for your installation: Site Health Info. Using this tool you will be able to find all the important information about your WordPress installation. This information includes WordPress versions, directory locations, file sizes, active and inactive themes, active and inactive plugins, Read More >

    Using the Heartbeat Control Plugin

    by Arnel Custodio

    If you are not familiar with the WordPress Heartbeat API, then you should learn how it affects your WordPress site. Basically, this feature establishes real-time communication between the server where your site is hosted and the browser that is connecting to your site when you’re logged into the Administrator Dashboard. The admin-ajax.php file sends an Read More >

    How to Add Videos to WordPress

    by InMotion Hosting Contributor

    Rich, engaging content is a must-have for your website. Once visitors land on your site, good content entices them to stay and explore. One of the easiest ways to do this is to add videos to your WordPress site.  As our attention span decreases, creating content that will quickly capture that waning attention is ever Read More >

    Benefits of Joining the WordPress Community Online

    by InMotion Hosting Contributor

    WordPress is the platform of choice for over a third of websites gracing the internet. Much of its appeal, in addition to beginner-friendly, is the warm, welcoming community supporting the open-source software.  All across the world, there are hundreds of WordPress meetups, WordCamps, and other community events that bring WordPress fans of all experience levels Read More >

    Prevent Unauthorized WordPress Administrator Login Attempts

    by Arnel Custodio

    In this article, I’ll show you how to lock down and password protect your WordPress website. We’ll do this by limiting access to the /wp-admin directory and the wp-login.php script. Using these methods you will be able to help prevent unauthorized WordPress Administrator login attempts. Looking for a secure WordPress host? Look no further than Read More >

    Don’t Fear Your WordPress Website

    by InMotion Hosting Contributor

    Amy is part of the all-women release squad for WP 5.6! I have a confession and I hope you won’t judge: I am in love with WordPress.  Well, me and 38% of the internet (1). Not that I’m jealous or anything. I know it’s part of the WordPress.org mission to be inclusive, which means WordPress Read More >

    How to Fix WordPress Login Temporarily Disabled

    by Arnel Custodio

    If you’re visiting this page, most likely it is because you have been locked out of your WordPress site and cannot log in. In this tutorial, we’ll explain exactly what has happened and how you can regain access. If you’re having trouble with your WordPress host, then check out InMotion’s

    WordPress Website Builders and Uses

    by InMotion Hosting Contributor

    If you’re new to the WordPress world or are thinking about becoming a WordPress freelancer, chances are you’ve heard about and considered using WordPress site builders.  But what are WordPress website builders and should you use them for your website? For this question, we reached out to Joseph Wood,  a WordPress thought leader, to learn Read More >

    WordPress 5.5 Release Notes

    by InMotion Hosting Contributor

    WordPress 5.5.1 Maintenance Release WordPress 5.5.1 was released on September 1, 2020, and was the first maintenance release for WordPress 5.5 featuring 34 bug fixes and five enhancements, including five bug fixes for the blocks editor. The major bugs fixed with WordPress 5.5.1 were: A full list of WordPress 5.5.1 Maintenance Release bug fixes and Read More >

    How to Hide your WordPress Admin URL with iThemes Security

    by Jeff Matson

    Hiding your WordPress login URL is an excellent way to vastly increase the security of your site, especially from brute force attacks. In this article, we will show you how to effectively and easily change your WordPress admin URL with just a few clicks. Hiding your WordPress Admin URL First, log in to your WordPress Read More >

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