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...

Now in the top 30…

According to PluginTable.Com, UpdraftPlus is now in the top-30 of all-time plugin downloads for WordPress plugins, with over 1.9 million downloads. Thanks again to everybody who’s made this possible. We’re not finished yet, God-willing… please keep...

“None compare”

We’re certainly pretty chuffed when we read reviews like this… “I’ve used most of the other plugins like BackWPUp, BackupBuddy, Duplicator, VaultPress, etc, and none compare to the free features found in UpdraftPlus out of the box, and the...