WordPress Backups
Backups protect your site against update failures, user mistakes, and unexpected outages.
What to include
A complete backup should include:
- Website files
- WordPress database
- Uploads/media
- Configuration files
Create a backup
- Open WP Toolkit or Hosting Panel backup tools.
- Select the WordPress installation.
- Create a full backup before major changes.
- Confirm the backup was created successfully.
Restore a backup
- Open the backup/restore section for the target website.
- Select the required restore point.
- Confirm restore scope (files, database, or full).
- Run restore and validate the site.
Backup policy recommendations
- Keep multiple restore points, not only the latest one.
- Create on-demand backups before plugin/theme/core updates.
- Periodically test restore on staging if possible.