Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026

UpdraftPlus: WP Backup & Migration Plugin

Name: UpdraftPlus: WP Backup & Migration Plugin
Rating: 4.8 (8706 reviews)
Author: David Anderson / Team Updraft

Sourceswordpress.org listing support forum author’s site donate

Active installs4,000,000+ rounded

Current authorDavid Anderson / Team Updraft

Owner changesNone while we have been watching

Last release13 days ago 26 Oct 2026

Support26 / 50 resolved, last 2 months

Releases on record376

Rating4.8 /5 · 8,706

Added to directory22 May 2012

Requires WP3.9

Requires PHPfalse

Version lag0 up to date

Tested up toWP 7.1.4 up to date

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Ownership

Held by David Anderson / Team Updraft 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
DavidAnderson	369	22 May 2012	23 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: 4,000,000+ active installs. In the top tier of the directory by install count.

205,367 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 32% 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 1,073,660/day31 Oct 2026

4.8

out of 5
8,706 ratings

5★8,195

4★166

3★54

2★44

1★247

104 ratings left in the last 81 days, averaging 4.8 out of 5 against a lifetime average of 4.8 (4 of them one or two stars). Recent ratings are in line with the lifetime figure.

Install band rose to 4,000,000+ on 28 Oct 2026, from 3,000,000+. Both figures are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable from them.

From recent reviews

What reviewers wrote on wordpress.org between 11 Jun 2026 and 04 Sep 2026: 107 reviews, counted by theme. Every count links to the reviews behind it.

Across this window reviewers describe UpdraftPlus mainly in practical terms rather than in praise for its own sake. 25 of 107 reviews call setup or day-to-day use easy, and 20 of 107 describe the plugin as reliable, several saying it has never failed them. 16 of 107 reviewers mention relying on it for multiple years, a few citing a decade or more of use. 14 of 107 reviews mention pairing backups with a specific remote destination such as Google Drive, Dropbox, S3, or FTP, while 12 of 107 mention using it to migrate or move a site, including restores after a changed URL. 11 of 107 reviews reference the free version's feature set or mention upgrading to Pro.

25 of 107 mention ease of setup or day-to-day use. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25]
20 of 107 describe the plugin as reliable, several saying it has never failed them. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20]
16 of 107 mention relying on the plugin for multiple years, some citing a decade or more. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16]
14 of 107 mention pairing backups with a specific remote destination such as Google Drive, Dropbox, S3, or FTP. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14]
12 of 107 mention using it to migrate or move a site, including restores after a changed URL. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]
11 of 107 reference the free version's feature set or mention upgrading to Pro. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]

Counted from the public review forum on 08 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	—	31,279	362,091	637,164	21,393	18,926	14,444	0	16,138	10,759	1,073,660	56,894	205,344	74,773
Ratings total	8,677	8,678	8,685	8,690	8,693	8,694	8,694	8,694	8,696	8,697	8,701	8,702	8,704	8,706
Active installs	4,000,000+	4,000,000+	4,000,000+	3,000,000+	3,000,000+	3,000,000+	3,000,000+	3,000,000+	3,000,000+	3,000,000+	4,000,000+	4,000,000+	4,000,000+	4,000,000+
Version	1.26.11	1.26.11	1.26.13	1.26.13	1.26.13	1.26.13	1.26.13	1.26.13	1.26.13	1.26.14	1.26.14	1.26.14	1.26.14	1.26.14
Support threads	33	33	41	42	43	43	44	44	43	45	48	48	50	50
Threads resolved	27	27	26	26	26	26	28	28	27	27	27	27	27	26

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 directory14 years ago 22 May 2012

Requires WP3.9

Requires PHPfalse

Version lagcurrent

Is anyone still maintaining this?

Last released 26 Oct 2026, 14 days ago.
Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
26 of 50 support threads answered in the last two months.
The same account maintains 15 other plugins, 15 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.

26 Oct 202614 days ago
Version 1.26.14 released
21 Oct 202619 days ago
Install band moved to 3,000,000+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
19 Oct 202621 days ago
Version 1.26.13 released
16 Oct 202624 days ago
Version 1.26.11 released
15 Oct 202625 days ago
Version 1.26.10 released
14 Oct 202626 days ago
Version 1.26.9 released
24 Sep 20262 months ago
Install band moved to 4,000,000+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
21 Sep 20262 months ago
Version 1.26.8 released
21 Aug 20263 months ago
Version 1.26.7 released
13 Aug 20263 months ago
Version 1.26.6 released
02 Aug 20263 months ago
Install band moved to 3,000,000+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
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.
05 Jun 20265 months ago
Version 1.26.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by DavidAnderson.
07 May 20266 months ago
Version 1.26.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by DavidAnderson.
23 Apr 20267 months ago
Version 1.26.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by DavidAnderson.
25 Mar 20268 months ago
Version 1.26.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by DavidAnderson.
19 Jan 202610 months ago
Version 1.26.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by DavidAnderson.
12 Nov 202512 months ago
Version 1.25.9 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by DavidAnderson.
06 Oct 202513 months ago
Version 1.25.8 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by DavidAnderson.
07 Aug 202515 months ago
Version 1.25.7 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by DavidAnderson.
27 May 202517 months ago
Version 1.25.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by DavidAnderson.
17 Apr 202519 months ago
Version 1.25.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by DavidAnderson.
03 Apr 202519 months ago
Version 1.25.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by DavidAnderson.
26 Feb 202520 months ago
Version 1.25.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by DavidAnderson.
22 May 201214 years ago
356 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 22 May 2012 and 11 Jan 2025. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
22 May 201214 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 Jun 2026 · Important security update for UpdraftPlus and UpdraftCentral usersTeamUpdraft
27 Jan 2023 · UpdraftPlus Acquires WP OvernightTeamUpdraft
18 Feb 2022 · WordPress force installs UpdraftPlus patch on 3 million sitesBleepingComputer
29 Jan 2018 · UpdraftPlus Acquires Easy Updates Manager PluginWP Tavern
14 Dec 2016 · UpdraftPlus Acquires WP-Optimize, Will Be Integrated Into UpdraftCentralWP Tavern

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 David Anderson / Team Updraft for all 91 days we have observed it.
It was last released 13 days ago (26 Oct 2026).
Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
WordPress.org reports 4,000,000+ active installs.
It carries 8,706 ratings, averaging 4.8 out of 5.
26 of 50 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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