Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026

Duplicator – Backups & Migration Plugin – Cloud Backups, Scheduled Backups, & More

Name: Duplicator – Backups & Migration Plugin – Cloud Backups, Scheduled Backups, & More
Rating: 4.9 (4940 reviews)
Author: Syed Balkhi

Sourceswordpress.org listing support forum author’s site

Active installs1,000,000+ rounded

Current authorSyed Balkhi

Owner changesNone while we have been watching

Last release13 days ago 27 Oct 2026

Support18 / 18 resolved, last 2 months

Releases on record136

Rating4.9 /5 · 4,940

Added to directory07 Jun 2011

Requires WP6.2

Requires PHP7.4

Version lag0 up to date

Tested up toWP 7.1.4 up to date

PluginsPedia reports published data and observable changes. It does not rate plugin quality or safety, infer intent, or make recommendations. These are observations rather than a verdict. How this works

Ownership

Held by Syed Balkhi 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
cory@lamle.org	92	17 Aug 2013	31 Oct 2022
bobriley	6	10 Aug 2016	02 Oct 2020
seedprod	12	21 Dec 2022	04 Jun 2024
andreamk	18	16 Nov 2023	22 May 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: 1,000,000+ active installs. In the top tier of the directory by install count.

67,644 downloads a day over the last 7 days, rising 195% against the 7 days before. Downloads are counted exactly and without a ceiling, so they show movement the rounded install figure cannot.

12 Sep 2026peak 343,449/day31 Oct 2026

4.9

out of 5
4,940 ratings

5★4,695

4★63

3★21

2★22

1★139

18 ratings left in the last 81 days, averaging 4.8 out of 5 against a lifetime average of 4.9 (1 of them one or two stars). Recent ratings are in line with the lifetime figure.

From recent reviews

What reviewers wrote on wordpress.org between 19 Jun 2026 and 07 Sep 2026: 31 reviews, counted by theme. Every count links to the reviews behind it.

Reviewers writing about Duplicator over the past three months mostly describe using it to move sites between hosts, with 10 of 31 reviews mentioning migrating or transferring a site to a new server or provider. Backup and restore come up almost as often, cited in 8 of 31 reviews, while 5 of 31 call the setup or process easy or quick. Three reviewers single out the support team's speed and helpfulness. One review, out of the 31, reports the plugin sending marketing emails disguised as weekly summaries without consent.

10 of 31 mention migrating or moving a site to a new host or server. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]
8 of 31 mention backing up or restoring a site. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]
5 of 31 describe the setup or process as easy or quick. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
3 of 31 praise the support team's responsiveness. [1] [2] [3]
1 of 31 report receiving unsolicited marketing emails from the plugin. [1]

Counted from the public review forum on 09 Sep 2026. The reviews are their authors’ own words and their own claims; the counts are ours.

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	—	11,299	19,824	25,161	33,807	33,780	23,045	9,880	9,254	0	30,141	314,371	88,572	21,292
Version	5.0.6	5.0.6	5.0.6	5.0.6	5.0.6	5.0.6	5.0.6	5.0.6	5.0.6	5.0.6	5.1.0	5.1.0	5.1.0	5.1.0
Support threads	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	19	19	19	18	18	18
Threads resolved	19	19	20	20	20	20	20	20	19	19	19	18	18	18

Unchanged throughout: ratings total (4,940) · active installs (1,000,000+)

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 directory15 years ago 07 Jun 2011

Requires WP6.2

Requires PHP7.4

Version lagcurrent

Is anyone still maintaining this?

Last released 27 Oct 2026, 13 days ago.
Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
18 of 18 support threads answered in the last two months.
The same account maintains 99 other plugins, 47 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.

27 Oct 202613 days ago
Version 5.1.0 released
14 Oct 202626 days ago
Version 5.0.6 released
29 Sep 20261 month ago
Version 5.0.5 released
18 Sep 20262 months ago
Version 5.0.4 released
17 Sep 20262 months ago
Version 5.0.3 released
10 Sep 20262 months ago
Version 5.0.2 released
08 Sep 20262 months ago
Version 5.0.0 released
27 Aug 20262 months ago
Version 1.5.17 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.
22 May 20266 months ago
Version 1.5.16.1 released
18 Mar 20268 months ago
Version 1.5.15 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by andreamk.
18 Mar 20268 months ago
Version 1.5.16 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by andreamk.
10 Dec 202511 months ago
Version 1.5.14 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by andreamk.
12 Sep 202514 months ago
Version 1.5.13.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by andreamk.
03 Sep 202514 months ago
Version 1.5.13.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by andreamk.
12 Aug 202515 months ago
Version 1.5.13.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by andreamk.
15 Jul 202516 months ago
Version 1.5.13 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by andreamk.
27 May 202517 months ago
Version 1.5.12 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by andreamk.
21 Nov 20241.5 years ago
Version 1.5.11.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by andreamk.
09 Oct 20242 years ago
Version 1.5.11.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by andreamk.
24 Sep 20242 years ago
Version 1.5.11 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by andreamk.
06 Aug 20242 years ago
Version 1.5.10.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by andreamk.
17 Aug 201313 years ago
115 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 17 Aug 2013 and 18 Jul 2024. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
07 Jun 201115 years ago
Added to the WordPress.org directoryReported by the plugin API as the date this plugin was added.

Media coverage

Writing about this plugin elsewhere, collected by this registry. The links go to the sources; what they claim is theirs.

05 Jan 2023 · Duplicator is Joining the Awesome Motive FamilyDuplicator
05 Jan 2023 · Awesome Motive Acquires Duplicator PluginWP Tavern
19 Feb 2020 · Duplicator 1.3.24 & 1.3.26 – Unauthenticated Arbitrary File DownloadWPScan

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 Syed Balkhi for all 91 days we have observed it.
It was last released 13 days ago (27 Oct 2026).
Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
WordPress.org reports 1,000,000+ active installs.
It carries 4,940 ratings, averaging 4.9 out of 5.
18 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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