How To Backup Your WordPress Website For FREE in Minutes

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How To Backup Your WordPress Website For FREE in Minutes | Two Simple Methods

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Today, I share how to backup your WordPress website for free and in minutes. I breakdown two methods that you can use to backup your WordPress website.
The first method is using a WordPress plugin called UpdraftPlus. The second method is using your cPanel to backup your website.
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► Today we cover the following chapters in this WordPress backup tutorial:
0:00 Intro
01:11 WordPress dashboard
01:35 Plugin backup (method 1)
02:22 Manual backup with UpdraftPlus
03:01 Automatic backup with UpdraftPlus
06:08 Restore website
07:07 cPanel backup (method 2)
09:17 Outro
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@crunchygooeycookie Жыл бұрын

I love your voice clear and gentle

@StewartGauld Жыл бұрын

Thank you 😊 I appreciate it

@thingsthatclick 9 ай бұрын

Thank you for your video!!! So clear, informative and to the point!!

@StewartGauld 9 ай бұрын

You are so welcome!

@pablowoods9886 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for this, I'd waded through several articles and videos looking for a clear, direct solution to this but most were hard work to get through and convoluted. Your vid was straight to the point and perfectly explained! cheers! subscribed

@StewartGauld Жыл бұрын

I'm glad! Thanks for leaving a comment.

@lily0175 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for this - very straight forward for a geriatric novice!!

@StewartGauld 5 ай бұрын

Welcome!

@CoreyHinde 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much Stewart, people simply forget to do this stuff!

@StewartGauld 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Corey! Super important activity for all website owners.

@walidnazmifordigitization5204 Жыл бұрын

Appreciate your dedication to support bummies - I took advantage too!

@StewartGauld Жыл бұрын

Awesome!

@gsg3912 Жыл бұрын

WOW!!!!!! This was so incredibly helpful. I followed along with you and created backups of my website through both of these methods. 💯🎯🔥 Your videos are always insightful. You recommend nice and reliable plugins and I can see that you put special emphasis on it. Thank you so much for everything you do, Stewart. Much much appreciated! 🙂🫶🙌

@StewartGauld Жыл бұрын

Welcome! Thanks for the lovely comment!

@ukhomecaredirectory Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much, saved me a lot of time!! All completed.

@StewartGauld Жыл бұрын

Your welcome!

@samlawrence1975 Жыл бұрын

WordPress makes backing up your WordPress site simple. You have the choice to manually perform this using cPanel, Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP), or special WordPress plugins. #Next3offload is one of the most effective plugins Backup Your WordPress Website.

@StewartGauld Жыл бұрын

Hey Sam, Thanks for your feedback.

@Fatepathfinder 5 ай бұрын

Could you, please, answer this quick question: Can I still use this WP Backup Plugin for my WP org based website backup, in a case my website has a hosting server provider outside the WP com? I am grateful for your time given to my question - much appreciated.

@MandarinLeisure 2 жыл бұрын

A really easy to understand tutorial, thank you Stewart. One question though (from a novice WordPress user), If my website crashes how do I get into it to be able to restore from the backup?

@StewartGauld 2 жыл бұрын

Hey mate, Good question. If you cannot access your site, it's best to get in touch with your hosting provider.

@MandarinLeisure 2 жыл бұрын

@@StewartGauld Thank you, that makes sense now

@sathyapramodh8338 5 ай бұрын

nice explanation with no extra masala

@StewartGauld 5 ай бұрын

Thank you so much 🙂

@danlopez9887 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much Stewart, your video was very helpful

@StewartGauld 2 жыл бұрын

You are very welcome

@BurcuAyanus 11 ай бұрын

Amazing, thank you!

@StewartGauld 11 ай бұрын

Welcome 🤗

@erinj2484 8 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for this.

@StewartGauld 8 ай бұрын

You are so welcome!

@tarawatsn Жыл бұрын

Excellent tutorial Stewart. You speak nice and clearly and slowly with very helpful instructions. Thanks so much!

@StewartGauld Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@bhanujamitra2697 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Stewart, this was really very helpful to a newbie like me :)

@StewartGauld 2 жыл бұрын

Your welcome 🤗

@rajap8630 Жыл бұрын

Good one for the beginners

@StewartGauld Жыл бұрын

Glad you think so!

@terryduperon4354 2 жыл бұрын

Super helpful, thank you.

@StewartGauld 2 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@marie1538 8 ай бұрын

Thank you, Stewart, for this tutorial, which even I, as a non-techie, understood. I do, however, have one question: what is the benefit of sending the back up to a remote place, like Google Drive? Is it necessary to do both ways of back up? Have a nice day! 😊

@StewartGauld 8 ай бұрын

Your welcome! It's best to store your backups in a remote place. That way you are not filling up your WordPress database full of backups, also if you cannot access your backups at least you can from your remote storage.

@marie1538 8 ай бұрын

Thank you! I understand now….😊

@backyardfireworks 16 күн бұрын

Will this plugin back up my Woocommerce store as well?

@StewartGauld 15 күн бұрын

Sure will!

@KylaB30 Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!!!!

@StewartGauld Жыл бұрын

Glad it helped!

@vhercules9992 Ай бұрын

Thanks a lot Stewart, does this plugin also backup woocommerce products/services?

@StewartGauld Ай бұрын

Yes it does!

@vhercules9992 Ай бұрын

@@StewartGauld Thanks for your reply!

@jacklynbarcena409 Жыл бұрын

Hi Stewart, Thanks for this guide! Very helpful! Just asking, I can't see backup wizard & back up in my CPanel. How can I have that?

@StewartGauld Жыл бұрын

Hey Jacklyn, You might need to get in touch with your hosting provider. Thanks,

@eevam 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much :)

@StewartGauld 2 жыл бұрын

Welcome!

@bizwomenbuildingwomen1592 2 жыл бұрын

Hello this is very helpful thank you! How does this work when you have multiple wordpress sites in c-panel? Are all wordpress sites backed up?

@StewartGauld 2 жыл бұрын

Hey mate, No you will need to use this for each WordPress website that you have.

@davidprice5100 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Stewart great video, silly question just wondering in this first example when you use updraft are you saving the backup to your computer or your hosts server? Also using cpanel I gather it is saving backup to your hosts server?

@StewartGauld 2 жыл бұрын

Hey David, You want to save your back up to an external destination, such as Google drive so you do not take up space on your server. Cpanel will be stored on your server. However, you can download both backups from both methods to your computer.

@davidprice5100 2 жыл бұрын

@@StewartGauld Thanks so much Stewart

@StewartGauld 2 жыл бұрын

@@davidprice5100 welcome!

@jordany3083 2 жыл бұрын

Hey Stewart, Another great video! I have a question. I restored my website from a backup of 3 weeks ago. When I did it completely messed my site up. Is there anyway to reverse the back up and go back to what it looked like before? I did not have a backup stored from today. Hoping to just undo or reverse the backup I did just now.

@StewartGauld 2 жыл бұрын

Hey Jordan, I'm sorry to hear! This can happen. I suggest reaching out to your hosting provider for support on this.

@elizabethdelay9534 Жыл бұрын

😭I need help. Im not techy at all. I got that updraft plus and did a backup to google drive but when I went to it went to an empty folder. I cant figure it out. I also tried to backup to my computer disk and it wouldn't let me open it because its connected to internet explorer somehow which isn't supported anymore

@emerioprietojr5697 2 жыл бұрын

In the first method using the plugin you can choose where to store backup files, in the Cpanel Method can you choose the storage area?

@StewartGauld 2 жыл бұрын

You can store in your home directory and or download onto your computer.

@nikostudywo7882 Жыл бұрын

is it available only for the Business Plan user?

@StewartGauld Жыл бұрын

Correct with WordPress.com

@JulainSmithiscool 2 жыл бұрын

Ur video is awesome

@StewartGauld Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@karisolamodi 2 жыл бұрын

For the second method, I don't have Backup Wizard and Backup under the "file" section in my CPanel. What should I do, please?

@StewartGauld 2 жыл бұрын

Hey mate, I would reach out to your hosting provider in regards to this.

@Gutbucket3000 10 ай бұрын

There is on option to "add new" from plugins on my dashboard. There are no options at all.

@StewartGauld 10 ай бұрын

What WordPress are you using? .com or .org

@danieltill.marketing 10 ай бұрын

I tried Google Drive back up but it didn't work when I went to upload the files for a back up...

@StewartGauld 10 ай бұрын

Did you get in touch with you host to help out?

@danieltill.marketing 10 ай бұрын

@@StewartGauld it was for a client who use an unreliable hosting company. I thought it would be an issue with updraft, or could it possibly be a hosting issue? Thanks in advance bro

@StuartMacadam 2 жыл бұрын

Yes my son :D

@StewartGauld 2 жыл бұрын

I’m glad!

@baruchben-david4196 Жыл бұрын

I dunno... I made the backups easily enough; but I was unable to restore the websites...

@StewartGauld Жыл бұрын

What happened mate?

@hichamamroussi9087 9 ай бұрын

I had a 504 error but the restauration worked 🤨

@StewartGauld 8 ай бұрын

Weird! I'll have to look into this.

@hichamamroussi9087 8 ай бұрын

@@StewartGauld I think it has something to do with the PHP version of the hosting service where I tried to restore my backup, some plugins I had installed require a more recent PHP version than the 7.4.33. The weird thing is that it did restore them anyway, or maybe there was something I didn't notice.

@hichamamroussi9087 8 ай бұрын

@@StewartGauld But the good thing with Updraft Plus is that it shows a message saying that the PHP version may cause an issue before clicking on "restore", this is something I didn't find using another plugin called "WPvivid".