UpdraftPlus: WP Backup & Migration Plugin
Backup, restore or migrate your WordPress website to another host or domain. Schedule backups or run manually. Migrate in minutes.
4.8(8,422 reviews)
·3.0M+ active installs·Updated 1 week agoAs of April 2026, UpdraftPlus: WP Backup & Migration Plugin is a WordPress backup plugin with 3.0M+ active installations and a 4.8/5 rating from 8,422 reviews. It has been downloaded 154M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.2+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Download volume is stable this week. Support resolution rate: 86%. Top alternative: All-in-One WP Migration and Backup.
4.8/58,422 reviews
3.0M+active installs
86%resolved
14 yearssince 2012
Overview
The UpdraftPlus Backup & Migration Plugin is trusted by the WordPress community to backup, restore and migrate their WordPress websites. UpdraftPlus is actively installed on more than 3 million websites around the world.
Backup with UpdraftPlus
UpdraftPlus is the world’s highest ranking and most popular scheduled backup and migration plugin. Backup to your preferred storage location and restore in just three clicks.
Backup to Dropbox, Google Drive, Amazon S3 (or compatible), Rackspace Cloud, FTP, DreamObjects, Openstack Swift or email.
The paid version also allows you to backup to Microsoft OneDrive, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Backblaze B2, SFTP, SCP, pCloud, WebDAV or UpdraftVault, our integrated storage option for UpdraftPlus.
Backup manually or schedule to run every 2, 4, 8 or…
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Ratings & Reviews
4.88,422 reviews
5 ★
7,927
4 ★
158
3 ★
52
2 ★
43
1 ★
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Recent Reviews
Un OTTIMO PLugin
by gesrm·2 days ago
Utilizzo il free e devo dire che mi trovo molto bene. Lo consiglio
Must have!
by unkgraphics·4 days ago
Great plugin, even the free version has robust options for 3rd-party storage
It never fails
by hadders·4 days ago
It saves lots of time and concern about backups or restoration.
It just works!
·5 days ago
I am surprised how well this plugin operates. Highly recommend!
helped me a lot!
by royalfth·5 days ago
Helps me to mess around with my website and do unsafe experiments 🙂
- This topic was modified 3 days, 11 hours ago by royalfth.
Download Trends
Today: 27KYesterday: 26KThis week: 156KPeriod total: 19.5M
Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.2+ requiredTested up to 7.0 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.26
51.5%
v1.25
25.5%
v1.24
8.9%
Other
8.0%
v1.23
6.2%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
The UpdraftPlus backup blog is the best place to learn in more detail about any important changes.
N.B. Paid versions of UpdraftPlus Backup / Restore have a version number which is 1 higher in the first digit, and has an extra component on the end, but the changelog below still applies. i.e. changes listed for 1.16.32.x of the free version correspond to changes made in 2.16.32.x of the paid version.
1.26.2 – 03/Mar/2026
- TWEAK: Added PHP 8.5 support to UpdraftClone
- TWEAK: Fix deprecation warnings in PHP 8.4 for the Dropbox integration
- TWEAK: Make abort backup warning icon responsive with percentage-based sizing
- TWEAK: Prevent the suppressed PHP warnings from being output in the backup and restore log on PHP 8.0+
- TWEAK: On a site where the site owner has restricted (super-)administrators (so that they can’t restore backups), require a constant to first be set to use the HTTP debug tool for internal IP addresses.
…and 2 more changes
Contributors
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