Any Wordpress users? Q on backup

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Do we have any WP admins in the TP house?

I'm creating a Website for a non-profit organisation. (Or rather, I'm fixing an existing Website that's rather broken!) As part of the revamp, I will add a backup system for them. Seems there are a bunch of options, paid and free. I found this comparison: https://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/7-best-wordpress-backup-plugins-compared-pros-and-cons/

Does anyone here have any experience or recommendations?

If it makes any difference, this not for a data-heavy website (under 1GB at present), and there are perhaps 5 posts a day, with flurries of busier activity around conference dates.
 
goldtop said:
Do we have any WP admins in the TP house?

I'm creating a Website for a non-profit organisation. (Or rather, I'm fixing an existing Website that's rather broken!) As part of the revamp, I will add a backup system for them. Seems there are a bunch of options, paid and free. I found this comparison: https://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/7-best-wordpress-backup-plugins-compared-pros-and-cons/

Does anyone here have any experience or recommendations?

If it makes any difference, this not for a data-heavy website (under 1GB at present), and there are perhaps 5 posts a day, with flurries of busier activity around conference dates.
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If the WordPress is Corrupted, it maybe better to back up the posts, and do a fresh install. It depend what broke it, maybe a theme or a plugin.
 
You may have to disable plugins one by one, to see if that fixes the problem. Or if you have activated a 3rd party theme, you may have to disable that, and activate the default theme. But, there are so many more things it could be. In what way is it broken?
 
Thanks for the input.

I've done all of the plugin stuff. The biggest hurdle is fixed - a weird configuration within wpconfig.php. That broke all publishing and Elementor editing. Not sure if someone hand-tuned that, or cut-n-pasted something they'd seen online. Then the site has been migrated from one host to another, leaving a lot of backlinks. It's running OK now, and there's just a lot of little oddities to sort out.

So it's mostly a long slog. I'm looking forwards now, hence the interest in a proper backup regime.

Oh, and some means of defeating the very persistent Russian spambots that have already identified the Contact form page...
 
goldtop said:
Does anyone here have any experience or recommendations?
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Keep WordPress and all plugins up to date. If you find out about an update, you may already too late to stop your site being defaced or otherwise compromised. I took over a school website running on WordPress and the best thing I did was move to a less heavily attacked platform. It gets regularly attacked because its so popular... Its popular because its so easy to use...

Not intending to be the voice of doom, but be ready.
 
Yup - I will hand-off to an in-house admin later, and with instructions re that. On this site, at least there are no comment forms to waste time on policing.

I did already get one very realistic looking email claiming to be from the WP installation itself and asking me to click a link with a huge URL.

But, for now, it's specifically backup plugin recommendations that I'm looking for. Updraftplus seems to be the default choice.
 
goldtop said:
Yup - I will hand-off to an in-house admin later, and with instructions re that. On this site, at least there are no comment forms to waste time on policing.

I did already get one very realistic looking email claiming to be from the WP installation itself and asking me to click a link with a huge URL.

But, for now, it's specifically backup plugin recommendations that I'm looking for. Updraftplus seems to be the default choice.
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Updraftplus
 
I would always keep a copy of the WordPress on my computer using XAMPP, and you can run WordPress on your desktop. That way if things get really bad with the live version of WordPress, you can simply dump it, and replace it with the fresh version from your PC.
 
WordPress can be really good, and search engines love it. Trouble is, it is the 3rd party themes and plugins that you have to keep an eye on. Some themes can have hidden code in them, and these can be links to iffy sites etc. This could even harm your search ranking, and even highlight your WordPress site as being unsafe.
 
OK - I will do a manual backup first, and then an Updraftplus backup.

On themes, I've weaned the plugins down to those with huge usage and where the developers have an income stream from pro/premium versions. Elementor, GeneratePress.

I'll look at keeping a local copy of the site on this laptop, too. Not sure. Maybe there's a foolproof way of editing it here and uploading it later. Seems a significant complication, though.
 
goldtop said:
OK - I will do a manual backup first, and then an Updraftplus backup.

On themes, I've weaned the plugins down to those with huge usage and where the developers have an income stream from pro/premium versions. Elementor, GeneratePress.

I'll look at keeping a local copy of the site on this laptop, too. Not sure. Maybe there's a foolproof way of editing it here and uploading it later. Seems a significant complication, though.
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If you know what you are looking for. You can see the code of the site/ wp-admin/theme-editor.php

All the CSS code can be edited via that part of the site, but only edit the code, if you know what you are doing. Otherwise the whole website, could end up being corrupted. I tend to edit things and get the look I want, then upload when I am happy. I always keep an unedited separate version of the site, just in case things go wrong later on, then there is always an original version to fall back on.
 
Well, my backup plugin choice has stalled due to Fasthosts' FTP access timing out. I can't even get the FTP client to tell me the size - that also times out. As does Filezilla.

From a different page on the main control panel, I'm told it's about 350MB. I presume this particular site - which is very low traffic - has been shunted off onto an old 80386 box in a remote basement cupboard!
 
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