Backup and Staging by WP Time Capsule is an automated incremental backup plugin that backs up your website changes as per your schedule to Dropbox, Go …
As of April 2026, Backup and Staging by WP Time Capsule is a WordPress backup plugin with 20K+ active installations and a 4.1/5 rating from 125 reviews. It has been downloaded 1.5M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.9.14+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Downloads are up 20% this week. Top alternative: All-in-One WP Migration and Backup.
WP Time Capsule was created to ensure peace of mind with WP updates and put the fun back into WordPress. It uses the cloud apps’ native file versioning system to detect changes and backs up just the changed files and db entries to your account.
You need to sign up for an account on our website https://service.wptimecapsule.com to get a 30 days full featured trial.
With WP Time Capsule you can
Backup in real-time
You can backup your site in real-time which means you will now be able to revert your site to how it was just an hour ago. Also, you can change the backup interval to every 6 hours or 12 hours or daily.
Staging
With a single click staging it’s a breeze to test any change you are planning to do on your site. Test your updates on staging with a single click
Auto…
I initially purchased a license with high expectations, believing it would integrate well with MainWP as advertised. While I did experience some early challenges with the plugin unexpectedly stopping, I appreciated the support I received after reaching out.
Once connected with the support team, they were incredibly helpful, guiding me through each step to ensure my backups were functioning properly. Due to recent limitations on Dropbox API requests, we opted to switch to Amazon S3, which has been working successfully.
So far, everything is running smoothly, and backups are performing as expected.
I tested the plugin in 30 websites and the plugin uses a lot of RAM. In shared hosting for expamples blocks the accounts. In VPS uses all RAM available (more than 3GB). The plugin creates additional tables in the database with more than 30.000 or 50.000 rows and more than 50mb… After talk with support team (with many email), they don’t offert any solution. So I lost 200€ of my money… I don’t recommed it.
Ignore the people on here moaning because they don’t realise that any backup solution should be monitored regularly.
We have 130 sites working flawlessly on this best-value solution, and the support when something doesn’t work as expected is responsive and detailed. We’re very pleased with this backup regime and would heartily recommend this plugin.
Great plugin. The auto-backup-before-plugin-updates has saved me many times – makes for a quick rollback on a site if there’s an issue. Greatly appreciate the support team – they answer quickly and usually know immediately what my problem is and how to solve it, and if not, they dig in and find an answer. Great support, great plugin – we have about 100 sites using it and I wouldn’t be without it. Thank you!
| WordPress | 3.9.14+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Release Date – 22 Sep 2025
Fix: DB backup failed in a few cases when the Hummingbird plugin is active.
Improvement: Added new bucket regions in Wasabi and Backblaze.
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