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BackWPup – WordPress Backup & Restore Plugin
v5.7.8
Back up, restore, and protect your WordPress website with automated backups, cloud storage, one-click recovery, and AI-assisted backup management.
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- Rank
- #136 24h -1 · 7d -1
- Est. installs
- 484,147 High confidence
- Total downloads
- 25M all time
- Rating
- 4.0 ★ 1.3K reviews
- Official installs
- 400,000+ public bucket
- Support threads
- 17 last 2 months
- Support resolved
- 94% of threads
- Tested up to
- WP 7.1.3 compatibility
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Maintenance & compatibility
9 days ago
Last release
- Version
- 5.7.8
- Requires WP
- 5.3
- Requires PHP
- 7.4
- On WP.org since
- 2009
About BackWPup
BackWPup is a WordPress plugin by WP Media, first published on WordPress.org in 2009. It has 400,000+ active installations and 25,337,964 downloads in total, and ranks #136 in the WordPress.org plugin directory. Over the past week it slipped 1 place. Users rate it 4.0 out of 5 across 1,323 reviews. Version 5.7.8 was released 9 days ago, so the plugin is actively maintained. It is tested up to WordPress 7.1.3 and requires WordPress 5.3 and PHP 7.4 or later. In the last two months, 16 of 17 support threads were marked resolved (94%). It is listed under backup, cloud backup, database backup, restore and wordpress backup. Plugins with a similar focus include Backuply, Total Upkeep and Duplicator.
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