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Always Create a backup of your site before installing new plugin's or themes.

Two great backup plug-ins on our website available for members or to purchase take off the strain of creating manual backups

How to install backup plugin via zip file on WordPress

How to install backup plugin via FTP, SFTP, Control Panel ect

 

How to Manually Backup Your Complete WordPress Install Using cPanel

  1. Login to your cPanel.
  2. Under Files, click File Manager.
  3. On the left panel, find the public_html folder and expand the folder by clicking on the + symbol. Select the folder with your website's name.
  4. Right-click your website's folder and select Compress.
  5. Select Zip Archive and click Compress File(s).
  6. After the compression is complete, select the zip file and click Download on the top menu bar.
  7. Now, place your backup in a secure location on your hard drive.
  8. Your manual backup is complete! Repeat this process as frequently as necessary
  9. Backup your database

How to Manually Backup Your Complete WordPress Install Using FTP, SFTP or another panel.

1. Connect to your sites directory via your chosen connection method.

2. Locate the directory of your install usually public_html

3. Download the directory and save to a secure location.

4. You may wish to compress the file once downloaded.

5. Backup your database.

 

Backing up your WordPress database:

While logged in to your WordPress hosting control panel, click on phpMyAdmin under the database section.

phpmyadmin

  1. This will launch phpMyAdmin window. Make sure your WordPress database is selected inside phpMyAdmin. If it isn’t, then click on your WordPress database name to select it. You will be able to see the list of WordPress database tables when it is selected.
  2. Once your database is selected, click on Export link from the top menu bar.
  3. You will be asked to select the export method. You need to select custom as it will give you more options to explore.
  4. Clicking on custom will reveal more options. First it will show all your tables in your WordPress database as selected.
  5. Sometimes WordPress plugins add their own tables to your database. If there are any tables that you would like to exclude from export, then you can deselect them. If you are unsure, then it is better to keep them all selected.
  6. Scroll down to the output section. By default, phpMyAdmin will show you the output of the export process as text. You need to change that by selecting ‘Save output to a file’ option. For compression you need to select zipped or gzipped option.
  7. Now you need to scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on the ‘Go’ button.
  8. PhpMyAdmin will now send you the database export as zip or gzip file.

That’s all, you have successfully made a manually WordPress database backup.

Further Database backup information

Protect your backup by keeping it in multiple secure locations. 

It's best practice to keep multiple copies of your backups — and ideally, this will include cloud and local storage. Some options include Google Drive, Dropbox, or a hard drive.Â