Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026

BackWPup – WordPress Backup & Restore Plugin

Name: BackWPup – WordPress Backup & Restore Plugin
Rating: 4 (1323 reviews)
Author: WP Media

Sourceswordpress.org listing support forum author’s site

Active installs400,000+ rounded

Current authorWP Media

Owner changesNone while we have been watching

Last release25 days ago 14 Oct 2026

Support17 / 18 resolved, last 2 months

Releases on record184

Rating4.0 /5 · 1,323

Added to directory05 Jul 2009

Requires WP5.3

Requires PHP7.4

Version lag0 up to date

Tested up toWP 7.1.4 up to date

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Ownership

Held by WP Media throughout, with no change of ownership observed since daily tracking began on 02 Aug 2026.

Full observed history, including every field transition

Committing accounts

Read from the plugin’s public release log, so these predate this registry. A committing account is not an owner. Thirty accounts commit to WooCommerce and it has never changed hands.

Account	Releases	First	Last
danielhuesken	91	05 Jul 2009	20 Jun 2016
daveshine	3	01 Jul 2011	04 Aug 2011
nullbyte	8	01 May 2013	16 Aug 2023
Schmutte	1	28 Jun 2013	28 Jun 2013
Bueltge	1	17 Jan 2017	17 Jan 2017
cocreation	9	31 May 2017	12 Mar 2024
vanvox	12	17 Oct 2017	14 Jan 2020
wido	3	08 Oct 2018	23 Jan 2019
darioinpsyde	2	14 Jul 2020	06 Apr 2021
nareknovembit	2	11 Nov 2022	11 Nov 2022
backwpup	49	21 Jun 2024	21 Jul 2026

This registry did not observe a transfer; it read these names off a public log. Whether that reflects a change of ownership is not something the directory publishes.

Adoption

How widely the plugin is installed, and what the people running it think of it. WordPress.org rounds install figures to one significant digit, so they describe an order of magnitude rather than a headcount.

Very widely adopted: 400,000+ active installs. In the top tier of the directory by install count.

5,698 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 41% against the 7 days before. Downloads are counted exactly and without a ceiling, so they show movement the rounded install figure cannot.

11 Sep 2026peak 137,922/day31 Oct 2026

4.0

out of 5
1,323 ratings

5★918

4★54

3★28

2★27

1★296

Opinion is split: 69% rate it five stars and 22% rate it one. An average alone would not show that.

Daily record

Every field we record, one column per observation. Fields that never moved are named once rather than repeated across every column. A row of identical numbers would be padding.

Field	18 Oct	19 Oct	20 Oct	21 Oct	22 Oct	23 Oct	24 Oct	25 Oct	26 Oct	27 Oct	28 Oct	29 Oct	30 Oct	31 Oct
Downloads that day	—	3,565	6,244	6,696	13,000	22,968	10,644	5,620	4,077	6,050	5,756	4,344	9,415	4,625
Support threads	19	19	19	19	18	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	18
Threads resolved	17	17	17	17	17	16	16	16	15	15	15	15	16	17

Unchanged throughout: ratings total (1,323) · active installs (400,000+) · version (5.7.8)

91 days of observation, most recent 14 shown.

Maintenance

When it was last released, and how far its declared compatibility has drifted from current WordPress.

Added to directory17 years ago 05 Jul 2009

Requires WP5.3

Requires PHP7.4

Version lagcurrent

Is anyone still maintaining this?

Last released 14 Oct 2026, 25 days ago.
Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
17 of 18 support threads answered in the last two months.
The same account maintains 7 other plugins, 2 of which were updated in the last 90 days. the account is active.

A plugin that does one thing correctly may need no changes for years; a long gap is not, by itself, evidence of neglect.

History

Everything dated that this registry holds about the plugin, most recent first. Releases carry the author’s own release date; everything else is dated to when it was observed.

Entries marked from the release log predate this registry, and daily observation began 02 Aug 2026. They were read from the plugin’s public SVN history after the fact, not watched as they happened. Everything else was observed directly.

14 Oct 202625 days ago
Version 5.7.8 released
08 Oct 20261 month ago
Version 5.7.7 released
07 Sep 20262 months ago
Version 5.7.6 released
03 Sep 20262 months ago
Version 5.7.5 released
25 Aug 20262 months ago
Version 5.7.3 released
02 Aug 20263 months ago
First observed by PluginsPediaDaily snapshots of this plugin’s directory record begin here. Everything above this line is observed; anything before it comes from fields the API itself reports.
21 Jul 20264 months ago
Version 5.7.5 released
06 Jul 20264 months ago
Version 5.7.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by backwpup.
08 Jun 20265 months ago
Version 5.6.11 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by backwpup.
08 Jun 20265 months ago
Version 5.7.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by backwpup.
08 Jun 20265 months ago
Version 5.7.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by backwpup.
08 Jun 20265 months ago
Version 5.7.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by backwpup.
28 May 20265 months ago
Version 5.6.10 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by backwpup.
27 Apr 20266 months ago
Version 5.6.9 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by backwpup.
08 Apr 20267 months ago
Version 5.6.8 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by backwpup.
25 Mar 20267 months ago
Version 5.6.7 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by backwpup.
05 Mar 20268 months ago
Version 5.6.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by backwpup.
05 Feb 20269 months ago
Version 5.6.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by backwpup.
20 Jan 202610 months ago
Version 5.6.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by backwpup.
05 Jul 200917 years ago
167 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 05 Jul 2009 and 07 Jan 2026. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
05 Jul 200917 years ago
Added to the WordPress.org directoryReported by the plugin API as the date this plugin was added.

What we know, and what we don’t

Everything on this page in one place, including the gaps, so that nothing here is mistaken for a clean bill of health.

What we know

It has been held by WP Media for all 91 days we have observed it.
It was last released 25 days ago (14 Oct 2026).
Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
WordPress.org reports 400,000+ active installs.
It carries 1,323 ratings, averaging 4.0 out of 5.
17 of 18 support threads in the last two months are marked resolved.

Every record on this site, this one included, works under the same limits. We read what WordPress.org publishes about a plugin, never the plugin’s own code, so nothing here says whether a plugin is well built or safe. Install counts reach us already rounded; a change smaller than a band step doesn’t show. We don’t track security advisories yet. For anything older than our first observation we rely on the plugin’s public release log, where one exists. What this registry can and cannot see

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