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How to Backup Your Website in WordPress

Updated Dec 28, 2021

A backup is simply a copy of your site that you can reinstall (restore) should something go wrong. It’s recommended to backup your website before you make any changes to make sure that you can restore it whenever something happens.

In this article, we’ll guide you through how to back up your WordPress website.

1. Login to your WordPress website admin.

(if the website was created on our CMS, we’ll give you access to it, you may send us an email to eli@elivated.com or message us if you haven’t had access so we can set it up for you)

  1. From the Dashboard, hover to Settings

  2. Select the UpdraftPlus Backups

  3. Then, hit the Backup Nowbutton.

  4. Once it’s finished, you can make any edits without worrying about mistakes.

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