How To Backup Your WordPress Website For FREE in Minutes | Two Simple Methods

Today, I share how to backup your WordPress website for free and in minutes. I breakdown two methods that you can use to backup your WordPress website.

The first method is using a WordPress plugin called UpdraftPlus. The second method is using your cPanel to backup your website.

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► Today we cover the following chapters in this WordPress backup tutorial:

0:00 Intro
01:11 WordPress dashboard
01:35 Plugin backup (method 1)
02:22 Manual backup with UpdraftPlus
03:01 Automatic backup with UpdraftPlus
06:08 Restore website
07:07 cPanel backup (method 2)
09:17 Outro

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[lily]

Thanks for this - very straight forward for a geriatric novice!!

[thingsthatclick]

Thank you for your video!!! So clear, informative and to the point!!

[pablowoods]

Thanks for this, I'd waded through several articles and videos looking for a clear, direct solution to this but most were hard work to get through and convoluted. Your vid was straight to the point and perfectly explained! cheers! subscribed

[CoreyHinde]

Thanks so much Stewart, people simply forget to do this stuff!

[ukhomecaredirectory]

Thank you very much, saved me a lot of time!! All completed.

[gsg]

This was so incredibly helpful. I followed along with you and created backups of my website through both of these methods. 💯🎯🔥

Your videos are always insightful. You recommend nice and reliable plugins and I can see that you put special emphasis on it.

Thank you so much for everything you do, Stewart. Much much appreciated! 🙂🫶🙌

[tarawatsn]

Excellent tutorial Stewart. You speak nice and clearly and slowly with very helpful instructions. Thanks so much!

[backyardfireworks]

Will this plugin back up my Woocommerce store as well?

[MandarinLeisure]

A really easy to understand tutorial, thank you Stewart. One question though (from a novice WordPress user), If my website crashes how do I get into it to be able to restore from the backup?

[marie]

Thank you, Stewart, for this tutorial, which even I, as a non-techie, understood. I do, however, have one question: what is the benefit of sending the back up to a remote place, like Google Drive? Is it necessary to do both ways of back up? Have a nice day! 😊

[bhanujamitra]

Thank you Stewart, this was really very helpful to a newbie like me :)

[walidnazmifordigitization]

Appreciate your dedication to support bummies - I took advantage too!

[vhercules]

Thanks a lot Stewart, does this plugin also backup woocommerce products/services?

[samlawrence]

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[davidprice]

Hi Stewart great video, silly question just wondering in this first example when you use updraft are you saving the backup to your computer or your hosts server? Also using cpanel I gather it is saving backup to your hosts server?

[bizwomenbuildingwomen]

Hello this is very helpful thank you!
How does this work when you have multiple wordpress sites in c-panel? Are all wordpress sites backed up?

[jacklynbarcena]

Hi Stewart,

Thanks for this guide! Very helpful! Just asking, I can't see backup wizard & back up in my CPanel. How can I have that?

[jordany]

Hey Stewart, Another great video! I have a question. I restored my website from a backup of 3 weeks ago. When I did it completely messed my site up. Is there anyway to reverse the back up and go back to what it looked like before? I did not have a backup stored from today. Hoping to just undo or reverse the backup I did just now.

[emerioprietojr]

In the first method using the plugin you can choose where to store backup files, in the Cpanel Method can you choose the storage area?

[nikostudywo]

is it available only for the Business Plan user?