Team UpdraftPlus

It’s taken us a long while to publish this page, but here it is: Team UpdraftPlus! Before getting there, we wanted to rebuild the website, work on SEO, some significant pages, etc., alongside the continual work on improving and supporting UpdraftPlus itself....

Three million downloads from wordpress.org

As of yesterday, UpdraftPlus has passed three million downloads at wordpress.org – slightly under 6 months since we passed two million. The million before that took just over 8 months, so we’re still accelerating. Download numbers are slightly artificial,...

Google Chrome 45 and WordPress

If you use Google Chrome as your browser, then you probably don’t know what version you’ve got installed – Chrome automatically updates itself, and doesn’t make a fuss about it. And that’s fine – we’ve all got better things to...

Amazon S3 Server-Side Encryption

The next release of UpdraftPlus Premium will add a new capability for Amazon S3 users – specifically, the ability to use S3’s “Server Side Encryption” feature, which is described by Amazon here. UpdraftPlus Premium already has the capability to...

Capacity upgraded!

As UpdraftPlus keeps growing, and as we anticipate even faster growth after the launch of UpdraftPlus Vault, we’ve been working on a server upgrade. In case you noticed 5 minutes of down-time earlier today – that was it! So far, our servers have been...

WordPress 4.2.3 is out – security release

In case you’ve not spotted it, WordPress 4.2.3, has been released – and it contains two important security fixes, stopping privileged but non-admin users from upgrading to admin level without permission, and stopping any logged-in user from creating draft...

Trusted by half a million sites

As of today, WordPress.Org is now reporting 500,000+ active installs for UpdraftPlus (up from 400,000+; WordPress.Org only reports installs to 1 significant figure). That places UpdraftPlus in an elite group of only 28 WordPress plugins. We’ve added the extra...

Sneak preview: UpdraftVault

What’s been going on inside UpdraftPlus labs lately? This has… That’s a screenshot of the (extremely simple) setup for connecting your WordPress site to our new product: backup storage for your site. Also known as “UpdraftVault”,...