by Joe Miles | Jun 8, 2017 | MetaSlider, Other WordPress news, UpdraftPlus growth
It’s been a busy couple of weeks at UpdraftPlus. As well as releasing Keyy, our new 2-factor Authentication plugin, we’ve also today confirming we’ve acquired MetaSlider. MetaSlider is the most popular WordPress slider plugin with 800k installs. It makes it the UK’s...
by Joe Miles | Jun 1, 2017 | Clef, Keyy, UpdraftPlus growth
UpdraftPlus today announced the launch of Keyy, a new 2-factor authentication plugin that provides easy and secure website logins: https://getkeyy.com. Keyy is openly inspired by Clef, a brilliant and highly successful plugin that was active on more than a million...
by Joe Miles | Mar 31, 2017 | Other WordPress news, UpdraftPlus growth, We recommend, WP Optimize
Our team confirmed today that WP-Optimize has passed the 600k install milestone. This is the first major milestone since UpdraftPlus acquired the plugin from Ruhani Rabin at the end of 2016. We’ve already released a lot of internal improvements and bug fixes in...
by Joe Miles | Jan 7, 2017 | UpdraftPlus growth
One million. That’s a lot of WordPress sites, too many to visualise but apparently the number of websites backed up with UpdraftPlus is something like the number of buildings in New York City. One million sites is WordPress.org’s final milestone. Of over 50,000...
by Joe Miles | Dec 12, 2016 | Other WordPress news, UpdraftCentral, UpdraftPlus growth, WP Optimize
UpdraftPlus, the world’s most popular backup plugin, has today confirmed it has acquired WP Optimize, a plugin for cleaning up WordPress databases. The takeover will bring together a user base of well over 1 million WordPress sites, making it one of the largest...
by Abigail Walters-Davies | Oct 11, 2016 | UpdraftPlus growth
Today UpdraftPlus are celebrating another milestone – UpdraftPlus has now registered over 6 million downloads on WordPress.org. Thank you to all our UpdraftPlus users for your continued support and to everyone that has left a review, feedback, or simply have...
by Abigail Walters-Davies | Sep 26, 2016 | UpdraftPlus growth
We seem to be writing these milestone updates more and more frequently which is great news for our UpdraftPlus community. Over the weekend UpdraftPlus (free version) surpassed 900K active installs recorded on wordpress.org, boosting us to the #24 mark in the list of...
by Abigail Walters-Davies | Jun 3, 2016 | UpdraftPlus growth
It’s taken just 92 days to hit this new milestone – 8 days less than the last. In the last 24 hours the powers that be at WordPress.org has indicated that our UpdraftPlus community has grown by another 100,000. UpdraftPlus now actively backs up over 800,000 WordPress...
by Joe Miles | Apr 19, 2016 | UpdraftPlus advantages, UpdraftPlus growth
Thank you to all our users who’ve rated us 5*. We can announce today we’ve just passed 2000 reviews! At 4.9 out of 5 stars, you’ve made us the world’s highest rated backup plugin. This has helped make us more popular. The more popular we...
by Joe Miles | Feb 25, 2016 | Site news, UpdraftPlus growth
We’ve passed another milestone. Another 100 days. Another 100 000 websites using UpdraftPlus to back up. This means we’re on course to backup 1 Million sites by the end of the year, including for some big names like the NBA, Princeton University and...
