How To Backup A WordPress Website

by The RBD Team June 06, 2022

If you’re anything like most business owners out there, then at least once or twice you’ve been overcome with anxiety that you don’t know what to do if your website goes down.

Well fear no more because you’re about to learn how to backup your WordPress website so that you’ll never. worry. again.

This is a solution for those who want to manually backup the website on their own or don’t have a backup option in their hosting plan.

Step 1: Add New Plugin

From your Dashboard hover over Plugins and click Add New

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Step 2: Search for ‘All In One’

In the search bar (in the top right) type ‘all in one’ and press Enter

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Step 3: Install Plugin

Find the ‘All In One WP Migration’ plugin in the search results and click ‘Install Now’

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Step 4: Activate Plugin

Once the plugin has finished installing, click the ‘Activate’ button

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Step 5: Create your first backup

In the menu, find the ‘All-in-One WP Migration’ tab and hover over it, then select ‘Export’

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Step 6: Export the Backup

From the All in One Export dashboard, click on ‘Export to’ then ‘File’

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Step 7: Download your Backup

Once the export has been completed, simply click and ‘Download’ button and Voila!

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