{"id":335234,"date":"2021-02-23T09:08:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T17:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/?p=335234"},"modified":"2021-02-23T12:10:38","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T20:10:38","slug":"whats-the-backup-plan-for-your-wordpress-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/whats-the-backup-plan-for-your-wordpress-site\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s the Backup Plan for Your WordPress Site?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Of all the reasons we love and use Jetpack for CSS-Tricks\u2014a poster child WordPress site<\/a>\u2014is that we can sleep easy at night knowing we have real-time backups running with Jetpack Backup<\/a>. That way, no matter what, everything that makes this site tick, from all the template files to every single word we’ve ever typed, is always a click away from being restored if we need it for any reason at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n There’s really no question whether or not you should be backing up your WordPress site. You absolutely should. It’s sort of like being prepared for an earthquake: you know it could happen at any time, so you want to make sure you’ve got all the tooling in place to keep things safe, not if<\/em>, but when<\/em> it happens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What’s your backup plan? For us, it’s logging into WordPress.com, locating which backup to use, and clicking a button to restore things to that point in time. That\u2019s all the files of course, like WordPress itself, the theme, and plugins, but also the entire database and all the media files.<\/p>\n\n\n\n