WP BackItUp Community Edition
Backup, restore, clone, duplicate or migrate your site effortlessly with the WPBackItUp backup plugin. Backup every setting, post, comment, revision, …
4.6(297 reviews)
·6.0K+ active installs·Updated 2 months agoAs of April 2026, WP BackItUp Community Edition is a WordPress backup plugin with 6.0K+ active installations and a 4.6/5 rating from 297 reviews. It has been downloaded 704K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.8.0+ and PHP 5.2.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Downloads are up 18% this week. Top alternative: All-in-One WP Migration and Backup.
4.6/5297 reviews
6.0K+active installs
704K+total downloads
14 yearssince 2012
Overview
With the WPBackItUp Backup Plugin you’re protected against hackers, malware, host outages, and even your own mistakes. WPBackItUp creates a backup of every setting, post, comment, revision, plugin, theme, media file and upload with just a single click.
WPBackItUp generates a compressed backup of your entire website no matter how large a site you have. Your backup can be quickly and easily downloaded right from your WordPress dashboard.
The WPBackItUp backup plugin has been available to the WordPress community since 2012 and is used to back up more than 30,000 websites every day. It’s one of the most widely tested, reliable, and highly rated backup plugins available! And with our long history, you can feel confident that we are going to be around for many years to come.
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Ratings & Reviews
4.6297 reviews
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Recent Reviews
Crappy Support
by sunyataji·2 months ago
Couldn’t get plugin to work, it kept on creating errors in restore files, customer support was nonsensical and insufficient. A week before subscription renewal I requested cancellation via customer support—my subscription was deactivated but I was still charged the $79.00 renewal fee. Subsequent emails to Support were ignored . . . can’t get much worse than that.
SCAM!!! DO NOT INSTALL
by vladabrasch·2 years ago·3 replies
SCAM!!! DO NOT INSTALL
Perfect tool and support.
by beeszz·2 years ago·1 reply
A very usefull backup tool and perfect service, even for the lite version.
Very good support!
by tamaranied·3 years ago·1 reply
I really like the plugin – easy to use and good pricing. But the best thing is, that they have a great support team, if something doesn’t work with your plugin, they help you fast.
Great support!
by martijnvb·3 years ago·1 reply
I had a problem restoring a backup. The support team really helped super fast and was able to solve the problem.
Download Trends
Today: 31Yesterday: 30This week: 243Period total: 17K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.8.0+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 5.2.4+ required |
Version Adoption
v2.1
36.0%
Other
29.2%
v2.0
14.6%
v1.43
10.4%
v1.50
9.8%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
2.10
*Release Date – January 25, 2026
- SECURITY: Fixed broken access control vulnerability in admin action dispatcher – Added authentication and authorization checks to prevent unauthenticated users from triggering admin actions
- FEATURE : Event Logging System – Tracks plugin updates, theme updates, WordPress core updates, content changes, security events, and settings changes
- FEATURE : New “Event Logging” settings tab with enable/disable toggle
- FEATURE : Event Statistics Dashboard – View event counts by type (updates applied, content changes, security events, settings changes, pending updates)
- FEATURE : Critical plugin detection – High priority alerts when security plugins (Wordfence, Sucuri, etc.) are updated
…and 10 more changes
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