Trouble posting support requests?

If you had a problem posting a support request using our paid customers support request form over the last 24 hours, then we apologise – please try again now. It looks like our webserver was experiencing random failures on this particular page. We are still...

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas from Team UpdraftPlus to all our customers! To help you celebrate, here’s a beautiful version of “O Holy Night” from Il Divo: “The King of kings lay thus lowly manger; In all our trials born to be our friend. He knows our need,...

Number one

Earlier this morning, UpdraftPlus became the first backup plugin (and hence the first backup/restore plugin) to pass 1.6 million downloads from wordpress.org. This means that UpdraftPlus (free edition) recently over-hauled BackWpup (which had a 3-year head-start) to...

WordPress 4.1 is out

In case you’ve not yet seen – WordPress 4.1 is out. The current UpdraftPlus release is fully tested and compatible. A lot of WooCommerce shop owners are also becoming more aware of the implications of the upcoming EU VAT law for digital goods in2015, and...

EU VAT law changes, and free WooCommerce plugin

For online buyers and sellers of digital goods and services to the EU, 1st January 2015 will bring some big changes. Specifically, sellers will be obliged to charge VAT (IVA) at the rate of the country that the *buyer* is present in – not the rate of their own...

Now in Română / Romanian (ro_RO)

Thanks to the great efforts of Augustin-Mihai Mufturel and Teodor Muraru, UpdraftPlus is now available in Română, i.e. Romanian (locale: ro_RO). We’ve added their translation to the current release, 1.9.26. If you already installed it (it was released only...

Dropbox – big pricing drop

At UpdraftPlus, we really like Dropbox. Easy to use, a couple of gigabytes of free storage, easy sharing, reliable, and good documentation for us developers. UpdraftPlus supports more cloud storage options than any other backup plugin – but when someone says...

Use quality plugins!

Hunting for a WordPress plugin often means entering a jungle. There are tens of thousands out there… which to use? How to avoid getting burned? Is the plugin going to be supported? Will it be maintained and compatible with next year’s WordPress? Does it...