by Romelch Otic | May 16, 2018 | UpdraftPlus growth
In mid-2011, our current Head Developer David Anderson came across Updraft, a free backup plugin first released back in 2010 by a guy called Paul Kehrer. Impressed with its ease of use and ability to restore files, David began using it, tweaking and updating it with...
by Romelch Otic | May 11, 2018 | Easy Updates Manager, Keyy, MetaSlider, Other WordPress news, UpdraftCentral, UpdraftPlus advantages, UpdraftPlus development news, UpdraftPlus growth, WP Optimize
GDPR is an important new data regulation coming into force soon across the whole of the EU. We’re working on fully complying ourselves with our own customer data, and have launched a Data and Privacy Centre here:...
by Romelch Otic | May 8, 2018 | UpdraftPlus growth
We’re recruiting a PHP WordPress plugin developer. JavaScript or particularly caching experience nice but not necessary. This is a permanent position to help develop either UpdraftCentral, UpdraftPlus and WP-Optimize further. So ideally it’s full time...
by Romelch Otic | May 3, 2018 | UpdraftPlus growth
At UpdraftPlus, we’ve always got a sharp eye out for the best people. Rather than having set vacancies and job descriptions for specific projects, we’re always looking for the top talent, sometimes filtering through 50 applicants for every person we hire....
by Romelch Otic | Apr 25, 2018 | UpdraftPlus development news, UpdraftPlus growth
New names. Today we changed our UpdraftPlus Premium product names and pricing for over 35 sites. The Personal and Business names remain unchanged. The new levels are: – Agency (from 11 to 35 sites). This is the same price as ‘Developer’ product...
by Romelch Otic | Mar 16, 2018 | UpdraftPlus growth
Love WordPress & marketing? We could have the perfect role. There are lots we do already to communicate and marketing the UpdraftPlus brand, but we have a full-time vacancy to manage this responsibility in future. The role will be adapted to the perfect...
by Romelch Otic | Mar 7, 2018 | Easy Updates Manager, UpdraftPlus growth
We are happy to announce that today we have release EUM version 7.0.1. The main change in this version is we dropped using Rest API for our settings page and back to using Admin ajax as with our previous versions (Except 7.0.0) The main reason for the change is that...
by Romelch Otic | Mar 5, 2018 | MetaSlider, UpdraftPlus advantages, UpdraftPlus development news, UpdraftPlus growth
Over the last year GoDaddy has identified the 100 themes and plugins most installed on GoDaddy servers. We were gratified to find UpdraftPlus there as the most popular backup plugin. It’s always nice to have recognition. Backups aren’t very glamorous;...
by Romelch Otic | Feb 2, 2018 | UpdraftPlus development news, UpdraftPlus growth
We’re not sure what to call UpdraftPlus’s actual birthday. If we’re going to be picky, 5 years ago was only the date when the UpdraftPlus.com brand was born. The backup plugin it was based on was around before; it was originally released 8 years ago...
by Romelch Otic | Jan 31, 2018 | Site news, updates, UpdraftPlus growth
UpdraftPlus confirmed today it had acquired Easy Updates Manager (EUM) plugin as part of its growing plugin portfolio. Alongside making regular backups, everyone knows the importance of updating to the latest release of WordPress, along with updates to whatever other...
