Category · recomputed daily
backup plugins
366 plugins in the directory carry the backup tag. This page leads with what has moved in the last 90 days, because a ranked list of the biggest ones is available anywhere.
366
plugins
17,482,300+
combined reach
208
released in 90 days
20%
quiet 18 months+
17
movements in 90 days
What moved
Ownership changes, closures and long-silent plugins that shipped again, over a rolling 90-day window recomputed daily. Events older than 90 days drop off as new ones arrive. The part of this category that a directory listing cannot show. Nothing here says anything about intent. Showing the 15 most recent of 17.
| Date | Plugin | Installs | What happened |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 Oct 2026 | ProductShift – Backup & Migration for WooCommerce | fewer than 10 | changed hands |
| 20 Oct 2026 | All in one demo Import/Export | 10+ | released after a long silence |
| 08 Oct 2026 | Geckada | 10+ | changed hands |
| 04 Oct 2026 | Permalink History | 20+ | changed hands |
| 02 Oct 2026 | STN – Save To Nextcloud | 60+ | released after a long silence |
| 30 Sep 2026 | Autoupdate Plugins & Themes | 10+ | released after a long silence |
| 28 Sep 2026 | BackupBeacon | fewer than 10 | changed hands |
| 25 Sep 2026 | Aruba Migration Tool | 600+ | reopened |
| 22 Sep 2026 | WebFacing™ – Email Accounts management for cPanel® | 100+ | reopened |
| 22 Sep 2026 | WebTotem Backups | 10+ | reopened |
| 21 Sep 2026 | WebFacing™ – Email Accounts management for cPanel® | 100+ | released after a long silence |
| 21 Sep 2026 | Plugin Grabber | 10+ | released after a long silence |
| 18 Sep 2026 | WebFacing™ – Email Accounts management for cPanel® | 100+ | closed |
| 15 Sep 2026 | WebTotem Backups | 10+ | released after a long silence |
| 05 Sep 2026 | Aruba Migration Tool | 600+ | closed |
Most installed
The 50 most installed plugins carrying this tag, ordered by install band, which WordPress.org rounds to one significant digit. Ordering is adoption only. Nothing here is a recommendation, and no link on this page earns anything. The full directory, all categories together, is in the master list.
| Plugin | Installs | Rating | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-in-One WP Migration and Backup Trusted by 60M+ sites: The gold standard for WordPress migration and backup. Migrate, backup, and restore your WordPress site with one click. | 5,000,000+ | 4.5★ | 11 days ago |
| UpdraftPlus: WP Backup & Migration Plugin Backup, restore or migrate your WordPress website to another host or domain. Schedule backups or run manually. Migrate in minutes. | 4,000,000+ | 4.8★ | 12 days ago |
| Jetpack – AI Agents & MCP, Security, Backup & Analytics Connect ChatGPT, Claude, or another AI agent to your site. Plus backup, malware scan, firewall, stats, CDN, and SEO tools in one plugin. | 3,000,000+ | 3.7★ | 11 days ago |
| Duplicator – Backups & Migration Plugin – Cloud Backups, Scheduled Backups, & More The best WordPress backup and migration plugin. Quickly and easily backup ,migrate, copy, move, or clone your site from one location to another. | 1,000,000+ | 4.9★ | 11 days ago |
| ManageWP Worker A better way to manage dozens of WordPress websites. | 1,000,000+ | 4.6★ | 3 months ago |
| WPvivid — Backup, Migration & Staging All-in-one WordPress backup, migration and staging plugin — schedule automatic backups, restore in one click, and migrate or clone sites safely. | 900,000+ | 4.9★ | 8 days ago |
| Backuply – Backup, Restore, Migrate and Clone Backup, restores, and migration with Backuply are fairly simple with a wide range of storage options from Local Backups, FTP to cloud options like AWS … | 600,000+ | 4.5★ | 16 days ago |
| BackWPup – WordPress Backup & Restore Plugin Back up, restore, and protect your WordPress website with automated backups, cloud storage, one-click recovery, and AI-assisted backup management. | 400,000+ | 4.0★ | 24 days ago |
| JetBackup – Backup, Restore & Migrate Backup, restore, and migrate WordPress sites fast. Supports TAR, remote backups, multi schedules, and full multisite compatibility. | 200,000+ | 4.5★ | 20 days ago |
| InfiniteWP Client Install this plugin on unlimited sites and manage them all from a central dashboard. This plugin communicates with your InfiniteWP Admin Panel. | 200,000+ | 4.4★ | 3 months ago |
| Widget Importer & Exporter Import and export your widgets. | 200,000+ | 4.7★ | 23 days ago |
| WP STAGING – Backups & Restore, Migration & Clone Plugin – Cloud Backups, Scheduled Backups WordPress backup plugin: backups, restore & migration in minutes. Clone or duplicate your site, test updates on a staging copy. 100% unit-tested. | 100,000+ | 4.8★ | 10 days ago |
| WP Umbrella: Security Backup Restore & Monitoring Everything you need to sell WordPress maintenance and manage multiple sites effortlessly: backup, update, uptime monitoring, and security. | 90,000+ | 4.8★ | 9 days ago |
| Backup Migration Backup, migrate, and create staging sites with free cloud storage and support. | 80,000+ | 4.9★ | 3 months ago |
| BackUpWordPress Simple automated backups of your WordPress-powered website. | 80,000+ | 4.7★ | 2.5 years ago · quiet |
| BlogVault Backup & Staging Secure incremental backups with staging, migration, and one-click restore for WordPress. Offsite storage and easy recovery. | 80,000+ | 4.6★ | 8 days ago |
| Database Backup for WordPress Database Backup for WordPress is your one-stop database backup solution for WordPress. | 60,000+ | 4.5★ | 7 months ago |
| WP Duplicate Page Duplicate pages, posts, and custom post types with one click. Create templates, preserve content states, and speed up workflows. | 60,000+ | 4.2★ | 2 months ago |
| WP-DBManager Manages your WordPress database. | 50,000+ | 4.4★ | 3 months ago |
| Total Upkeep – WordPress Backup Plugin plus Restore & Migrate by BoldGrid Automated backups, remote backup to Amazon S3 and Google Drive, stop website crashes before they happen and more. Total Upkeep is the backup solution … | 40,000+ | 4.8★ | 3 months ago |
| InstaWP Connect – 1-click WP Staging & Migration Create a staging WordPress site from production (live site). Ideal for testing updates, version change or re-write. Sync back only the changes. | 40,000+ | 4.5★ | 11 days ago |
| Modular DS: Monitor, update, and backup multiple websites Manage all your WordPress sites from one place. Automate updates, backups, uptime monitoring, security, reports, and more. | 40,000+ | 5.0★ | 25 days ago |
| Clone 100% FREE clone and migration | 40,000+ | 4.1★ | 12 months ago |
| Kadence Central – Site Management, Backups, Security, and Reporting Manage multiple WordPress sites from one dashboard. | 30,000+ | 4.2★ | 3 months ago |
| The WP Remote WordPress Plugin Manage updates, backups, and more across all your WordPress sites with WP Remote. | 30,000+ | 4.6★ | 8 days ago |
| Jetpack VaultPress Backup Save each change and get back online fast with one-click restores. The most proven WordPress backup plugin with over 270 million backups. | 20,000+ | 4.5★ | 3 months ago |
| WP Database Backup – Unlimited Database & Files Backup by Backup for WP Create & Restore Database Backup easily on single click. Manual or automated backups (backup to Dropbox, Google drive, Amazon s3,FTP,Email). | 20,000+ | 4.5★ | 2 months ago |
| Doubly – Cross Domain Copy Paste for WordPress Easily move, duplicate, backup and copy paste content and designs between your WordPress websites in seconds. | 10,000+ | 4.4★ | 10 months ago |
| Prime Mover – Backup and Migration The simplest all-around plugin to migrate WordPress and do backups. These support multisite backup/migration or cloning a WP site/multisite subsite. | 10,000+ | 5.0★ | 20 days ago |
| Softaculous Softaculous provides a single-login centralized panel where you can manage tons of your WordPress websites efficiently, unitedly as well as singularly … | 10,000+ | — | 4 months ago |
| Backup and Staging by WP Time Capsule Backup and Staging by WP Time Capsule is an automated incremental backup plugin that backs up your website changes as per your schedule to Dropbox, Go … | 10,000+ | 4.0★ | 15 days ago |
| WPvivid Backup for MainWP Set up and control WPvivid Backup Free and Pro for all child sites directly from your MainWP Dashboard. | 10,000+ | 4.6★ | 3 months ago |
| Backup, Restore and Migrate your sites with XCloner XCloner is a backup plugin that allows you to safely back up and restore your WordPress sites. You can send site backups to SFTP, Dropbox, Amazon, Goo … | 10,000+ | 4.2★ | 10 days ago |
| Print My Blog – Print, PDF, & eBook Converter WordPress Plugin Make printing your blog easy and impressive. For you & your visitors. One post or thousands. | 8,000+ | 4.8★ | 25 days ago |
| Customizer Backup & Reset Reset theme customizations made via WordPress Customizer with backup, export, and import features. | 7,000+ | 4.2★ | 3 months ago |
| Zippy Incredibly easy solution to archive pages and posts as zip file and unpack them back even on the other website! | 7,000+ | 4.6★ | 13 months ago |
| FastDup – Fastest WordPress Migration & Duplicator FastDup - Fastest WordPress Migration & Duplicator | 5,000+ | 4.6★ | 2 months ago |
| Exclude Image Thumbnails From UpdraftPlus Backups An UpdraftPlus extension that excludes image size thumbnails, generated by WordPress, from Updraft backups. | 4,000+ | 5.0★ | 21 months ago · quiet |
| WP-Stateless – Google Cloud Storage Upload and serve your WordPress media files from Google Cloud Storage. | 4,000+ | 3.9★ | 2 months ago |
| Everest Backup – WordPress Cloud Backup, Migration, Restore & Cloning Plugin Everest Backup is a modern tool that will take care of your website's backups, restoration, migration, and cloning. | 3,000+ | 4.4★ | 3 months ago |
| Export Media as ZIP Export images from your WordPress media library as a ZIP file — filter by year and image size before downloading. | 3,000+ | 3.7★ | 29 days ago |
| Remote Website Management by Watchful A web developers toolbox for remotely managing and monitoring tens, hundreds, or thousands of WordPress websites at once. | 3,000+ | 5.0★ | 24 days ago |
| QNAP NAS Backup Backup, migrate restore your WordPress website with QNAP NAS. | 2,000+ | 3.1★ | 10 days ago |
| Export Themes Export any installed theme as a .zip file you can upload to another WordPress site. | 2,000+ | 4.9★ | 2 months ago |
| InstaMigrate Secure REST API endpoints for WordPress site migration — database export/import, file transfer, and search-replace. | 1,000+ | — | 9 days ago |
| pCloud WP Backup The pCloud WP Backup plugin will help you backup everything on your blog with one click and store it in the cloud in the most secure way. | 1,000+ | 2.8★ | 1 month ago |
| PlugVersions – Easily roll back to previous versions of your plugins. Retains up to three versions when you update a plugin. It works with premium and custom plugins too. | 1,000+ | 4.4★ | 1 month ago |
| iControlWP Manage all your WordPress sites in one place - updates, uptime, backups & security. | 1,000+ | 4.8★ | 11 days ago |
| Backup Bolt Super simple one click backup your site and download the backup in compressed zip format. Choose between custom or full WordPress backup. | 800+ | 4.7★ | 22 days ago |
| Glow: maintenance & support management for agencies All-in-one WordPress maintenance, support and client management platform for agencies. | 800+ | 5.0★ | 11 days ago |
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