How to backup your WordPress site

There’s work with either method. Using the manual backup, you complete the work in two parts. Both involve the actual backup. You will backup the database and your files. Backing up the database ensures you get the entire site copied because the database includes your blog posts and data generated on the site. That means the separate files you will download the following:

You will use the phpMyAdmin dashboard to create the manual backup of your WordPress database. Simply follow the steps in numerical order.

Congratulations. You have backed up your WordPress blog. Maybe you would like this process to occur automatically in the future. You can manage that by installing a plugin.

BackWPup doesn’t come already installed. It is one of the plugins you can click in control panel to install.

Now, you’re ready to backup your WordPress blog. You’ll tell it how to handle your backup, then you can choose whatever schedule on which you’d like to automate its backups. Set it to backup after your regular post uploads, if you publish on a schedule.

Now, you’ve got two options to backup your WordPress blog. Choose the one that seems easiest for you. If you post infrequently, a manual backup works well. If you frequently update, automating works better.

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