How to Take Complete WordPress Website Backup

It’s really great that you decide to take the backup of your WordPress website today. Now since you have landed here, let’s discuss in detail about the types of WordPress backup methods and how to take WordPress Backup.

Most of the WordPress users do not take a complete backup of their websites. In fact, they only take backup of WordPress folder and subfolders, themes and WordPress Database. This way they only able to minimize backup size however they tend to increase the steps to perform the restore process. Let us take a glance on different methods we can take WordPress backup.

Using WordPress Backup Plugin:

You can install plugins to take a complete backup of the WordPress Website. Here are the most popular backup plugins available.

    UltradraftPlus – The most popular WordPress backup plugin installed on more than 2 million websites. It’s free to use where users can take complete backup and store it to cloud and download on desktop folder.
    BackupBuddy – is the most installed Premium plugin used over 500K WordPress websites. You can schedule backup daily, weekly and monthly with an easy and user-friendly interface.
    VaultPress – This is one of the best premium backup plugins for the WordPress website, this plugin use to appear as a free plugin however now it comes with a Jetpack bundled pack from
Automattic’s paid subscription plans.

Manual backup of WordPress Website:

We can perform a manual backup of the complete website. In fact, if we know, how to take manual backup of WordPress website, we actually get to understand and do the hands-on of lot of integral processes like how to create the PHPMyAdmin database, etc. Today we will discuss how to create manual WordPress database backup.

Why and when to create WordPress Database Backup Manually

It is utmost important to setup and configure WordPress backup for your website as it allows you to restore the entire websites back to normal if some mishap occurs.

In case of theme or plugin error or a hacking attempt, most of the users lose the admin access for the WordPress website and hence Plugin backup system goes vain. Here you need a complete understanding of how to create a manual backup of WordPress database. We always recommend taking complete WordPress backup for such nightmares.

Let’s see how easy is to take manual WordPress database backup in a few steps. Let me mention that creating a backup through plugins is same as we perform it in the manual process.

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WordPress Database Manual Backup – Using PHPMyAdmin

Manual method uses PHPMyAdmin which is an open-source database managing tool. PHPMyAdmin uses MySQL as database from web interface and is native to every WordPress hosting. Follow the steps below to start manual backup.

    Log in to WordPress Hosting CPanel
    Search and locate for PHPMyAdmin under database segment
    On PHPMyAdmin window, select you WordPress Website Database
    Once your database is selected, click Export link on the top of menu bar.
    Scroll down and go to output section.
    Change Output of the export process by selecting ‘Save output to a file’ from ‘text’ option.
    Select zipped option for compression.
    Now scroll down till bottom and click ‘Go’ button.
    PhpMyAdmin will export the database as zip file.

That’s all, your manually WordPress database backup process is successfully completed.

If you find any difficulty at any point we recommend not to mess up with the database and get in touch with WordPress Help +1 (844) 589 2165 WordPress help. WordPress experts will guide you how to take backup or restore your website in no time.