Museder RestoreOne for WordPress Plugin Directory

Museder RestoreOne lets you create complete WordPress backups (database + wp-content) as a single archive, and restore them in a guided 3-step wizard.

It is designed for shared hosting environments and uses WordPress APIs for database backup/restore, with archive compression handled by ZipArchive or WordPress’ bundled PclZip.

Key features

One-click full-site backup

Export the database, meta.json, and wp-content/ into a single archive you can download or restore later.

Restore Center wizard

A clear 3-step flow: upload & analyze → review summary & options → start restore with real-time progress and logs.

Chunked uploads with validation

Bypass upload_max_filesize / post_max_size limits by uploading your archive in small chunks, with retries and integrity checks.

Shared-hosting friendly

Uses pure PHP + WordPress APIs for database backup/restore, and falls back from ZipArchive to PclZip compression when needed.

Schedules and logs

Create one or more automatic backup schedules (or run backups manually), then inspect, download, or clean up structured backup and restore logs.

Neo-glass admin UI

Modern Dashboard, Backups, Restore, Schedules, Logs and Settings screens with clear calls-to-action, status messages, and responsive layout.

Multisite

This release is not formally tested on WordPress Multisite. For predictable results, use RestoreOne on standard single-site installs (one site per admin context). If you run a network, treat use as experimental until you have verified backups and restores on a staging clone.

External services This plugin does not use external services.

The only programmatic outbound HTTP the base plugin performs by default is an optional, short non-blocking request to your own site’s wp-cron.php (same host / local loopback) to encourage scheduled tasks to run. No third-party API is called for backups or restores.

All admin JavaScript and CSS for RestoreOne are loaded from files shipped under this plugin’s assets/ directory (including vendored libraries under assets/vendor/). Optional add-ons, if you install them separately, may introduce their own network behavior; see each add-on’s readme. See the FAQ for more on the local wp-cron.php nudge.

Privacy What this plugin stores on your server

Backups — Complete-site archives are written under your WordPress uploads area (typically wp-content/uploads/museder-restoreone/backups/ or the path shown on the Backups screen). Each archive contains a database export (database.ndjson), meta.json, and a copy of wp-content/ from your site at backup time.

Logs — Text logs for backup, restore, and related operations are stored under wp-content/uploads/museder-restoreone/logs/ (see the Logs admin screen).

Restore reports — When you generate a restore report, files are stored under wp-content/uploads/museder-restoreone/reports/ (or the path configured for reports on your install).

Schedules and settings — Options and scheduled events are stored in your WordPress database like other plugins.

Diagnostics

Version / build heartbeat — After an upgrade, the plugin may write a one-line informational entry to the local Logs directory (same server, no remote host) noting the active plugin version and build id. This is for support troubleshooting only.

Exact folder names may vary with your uploads path or custom content directory; nothing is sent to a fixed external hostname by this plugin. The plugin resolves these locations using WordPress APIs (for example wp_upload_dir() and path helpers derived from your install) rather than hard-coded internal constants, so custom wp-content or uploads layouts can be reflected correctly where your host allows.

Third parties

The free plugin does not upload your backup contents, database, or logs to third-party APIs or clouds. That statement matches External services above and the FAQ entries on external data and local wp-cron loopback.

Optional add-ons (separate plugins or extensions, if you install and activate them) could send specific categories of data to remote storage or services only when you enable and configure those extensions; the base RestoreOne plugin does not do that on its own.

Retention and deletion

You can delete backup archives from the Backups screen, remove or download logs from Logs, and adjust retention-related options where provided.

Uninstall (uninstall.php) removes plugin-owned options, transients (including timeout rows), dynamic job-lock option rows, and scheduled cron hooks whose names start with museder_restoreone_. It does not delete backup ZIP archives, log files, restore reports, or other files under your uploads/storage tree; delete those manually from the Backups / Logs UI or your host if you no longer need them.

On Multisite, uninstall walks sites in batches (100 IDs per query) instead of loading the entire network at once. Very large networks should still use a maintenance window so uninstall is not interrupted by web-server timeouts.

Developer Development source of truth is the public GitHub repository: https://github.com/artherslin-source/museder-restoreone

Contributors and release maintainers should follow the Modification & Release SOP (docs/SOP-PLUGIN-DEVELOPMENT-AND-RELEASE.md in the repo). Summary:

Branching: work on fix/, feature/, or agent/ branches from current main; avoid long-lived dirty main.

WordPress.org Lite: fully functional, GPL, no license gates, trialware, or bundled Add-on/PRO code in the Lite package or SVN.

Security: every sensitive AJAX/REST/form handler needs capability checks, nonces, sanitize/validate input, and escaped output.

Release version sync (six fields, same version): museder-restoreone.php Version, MUSEDER_RESTOREONE_VERSION, MUSEDER_RESTOREONE_BUILD_ID, readme.txt Stable tag, new Changelog block, and new Upgrade Notice block (easy to forget — WP.org shows the notice to updaters).

Package Lite ZIP: use create-package.sh or tools/package-lite-windows.ps1 only; require BOUNDARY_CHECK=PASS. Do not use PowerShell Compress-Archive. Lite ZIP must not include docs/, tools/, .cursor/, .github/, logs/, or museder-restoreone-pro/.

GitHub release: after explicit approval, tag vX.Y.Z on main; GitHub Actions builds release artifacts.

WordPress.org SVN: commit Lite source files only (no zip); copy trunk to tags/X.Y.Z; fill docs/RELEASE-X.Y.Z-SVN-HANDOFF.md from the template before SVN commit.

Checklists: docs/RELEASE_CHECKLIST.md, docs/PACKAGING.md, docs/WORDPRESS_ORG_DEVELOPMENT_GUIDE.md, AGENTS.md.