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”,...

WordPress 4.2 is out…

You may already have spotted that WordPress 4.2 is out. Follow that link to get the low-down. Safe to say, as we reported earlier, that this release is mostly about incremental improvements, rather than any dramatic leaps – except for users in certain foreign...

Estimated time until your backup completes…

Trying to predict the future timings of a backup on shared web hosting with certain web hosting companies I could mention reminded me of this cartoon from XKCD… Which is why UpdraftPlus does not estimate how long your backup will take to complete! Instead, it...

Two milestones in one day… and officially #1

Since yesterday, UpdraftPlus’s download counter at wordpress.org ticked over to two million. When we passed one million, we were the 51st plugin to do so; we’ve continued to accelerate, and are now the 30th plugin to reach 2,000,000. That’s a lot of...

Do you write plugins?

This is a bit of a minority interest… but if you provide plugins for others, then you might be interested in a new free plugin from our sister company. It’s the “Simba Plugin Updates Manager”, available for free from here in the wordpress.org...