Apr 28

Apr 28 How to Backup Wordpress Website for Free

In this tutorial, I will be showing you the best way to backup & save your Wordpress website. This is a totally free method that I recommend if you have a small website.

Unfortunately this method doesn’t work perfectly if you have a website bigger than 2GBs. However there is still a solution I will explain later.

Why Back Up your Wordpress Website?

It’s extremely important that you invest time in backing up your Wordpress website. There is a bunch of reasons you might do this.

Migrating your website
Updating your themes & plugins
Securing backups for safety

No matter what your reason, this is the best method for backing up your Wordpress website for free.

Steps to Backup your Wordpress Website

This actually isn’t an overly complicated tutorial, I think anyone can follow these instructions to backup their website.

1. Download & Activate the Duplicator Plugin

This plugin is used by almost all of developers in the Wordpress industry.

It’s extremely well documented & has plenty of paid upgrades to make your life easier. But the free version is totally useful too.

2. Create a New Package in Duplicator

This is essentially creating a backup of your Wordpress website.

What it captures is:

Your website files (the physical structure of your website)
Your database files (the memory/data on your website like login details)

This means that your Wordpress website can be deployed anywhere & it will still look the exact same & have all the data.

3. Download your Website Package Files

Duplicator will give you two files, an archive file which contains all of your website data.

Plus it will give you an installer file, this is used to install your website on a new server. Essentially it’s a code which explains how to unpackage & deploy the archive file

Make sure you save both of these files & give them a date - so you can tell when they’re from.