by udadmin | Jul 23, 2015 | UpdraftPlus News
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...
by udadmin | Jul 22, 2015 | UpdraftPlus News
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...
by udadmin | Jun 23, 2015 | UpdraftPlus News
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”,...
by udadmin | Apr 25, 2015 | UpdraftPlus News
UpdraftPlus version 1.9.4, release almost exactly a year ago (23rd April 2014), introduced an all-new back-end for Google Drive. One of the reasons we did this, was because Google had previously announced that in April 2015, they would be shutting down one of their...
by udadmin | Apr 23, 2015 | UpdraftPlus News
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...
by udadmin | Apr 21, 2015 | UpdraftPlus News
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...
by udadmin | Apr 20, 2015 | UpdraftPlus News
All users can now decide to activate two factor security for logging in to updraftplus.com. What does this mean? It means that you can install a simple app installed on your phone (or tablet, or in your browser), that generates time-limited login codes. If you enable...
by udadmin | Apr 7, 2015 | UpdraftPlus News
If you’ve not yet tried out our sister company’s free “two factor” authentication plugin, available in the wordpress.org directory for everyone, then please do take a look. Since its recent release, it’s already gathered over 100 active...
by udadmin | Mar 19, 2015 | UpdraftPlus News
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...
by udadmin | Mar 13, 2015 | UpdraftPlus News
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...