by Joe Miles | Dec 12, 2016 | UpdraftPlus News
UpdraftPlus, the world’s most popular backup plugin, has today confirmed it has acquired WP Optimize, a plugin for cleaning up WordPress databases. The takeover will bring together a user base of well over 1 million WordPress sites, making it one of the largest...
by Team Updraft | Oct 11, 2016 | UpdraftPlus News
Today UpdraftPlus are celebrating another milestone – UpdraftPlus has now registered over 6 million downloads on WordPress.org. Thank you to all our UpdraftPlus users for your continued support and to everyone that has left a review, feedback, or simply have...
by udadmin | Sep 26, 2016 | UpdraftPlus News
We seem to be writing these milestone updates more and more frequently which is great news for our UpdraftPlus community. Over the weekend UpdraftPlus (free version) surpassed 900K active installs recorded on wordpress.org, boosting us to the #24 mark in the list of...
by udadmin | Jun 3, 2016 | UpdraftPlus News
It’s taken just 92 days to hit this new milestone – 8 days less than the last. In the last 24 hours the powers that be at WordPress.org has indicated that our UpdraftPlus community has grown by another 100,000. UpdraftPlus now actively backs up over 800,000 WordPress...
by Naomi Miles | May 5, 2016 | UpdraftPlus News
“What’s the most awful thing that’s ever happened to your website?” We asked UpdraftPlus users to tell us their stories, and we had some crackers. Someone found that their website had been hijacked by a Tunisian teenager, who was repurposing it as a Palpal phishing...
by Joe Miles | Feb 25, 2016 | UpdraftPlus News
We’ve passed another milestone. Another 100 days. Another 100 000 websites using UpdraftPlus to back up. This means we’re on course to backup 1 Million sites by the end of the year, including for some big names like the NBA, Princeton University and...
by udadmin | Feb 17, 2016 | UpdraftPlus News
A few days ago, UpdraftPlus passed four million downloads at wordpress.org. This took us 5 months to add another million, which makes it a month faster than the previous million, and 3 months faster than the one before that. And, the million before that took just over...
by udadmin | Feb 17, 2016 | UpdraftPlus News
A new release for UpdraftPlus has just been pushed out, and should show in your WP dashboard shortly. It mostly contains a number of small tweaks to fix a number of issues seen on a small number of sites. As ever, it is a recommended update for all. The full changelog...
by udadmin | Feb 12, 2016 | UpdraftPlus News
A new release of UpdraftPlus has just been made. It is exactly the same as yesterday’s – except with two small tweaks to defeat some faulty caches and webservers. A handful of customers (six so far) reported that the UpdraftPlus settings page in WordPress...
by udadmin | Nov 17, 2015 | UpdraftPlus News
The counter at wordpress.org has rolled round again in the last 24 hours… indicating that UpdraftPlus is now installed and active on 600,000+ websites. Adding those 100,000 net new active sites has taken 117 days – 8 days quicker than the 100,000 before...