WP BackItUp Community Edition for WordPress Plugin Directory
WP BackItUp Community Edition is a WordPress app, with a 4.6 average rating from 297 reviews, as of July 9, 2026.
WP BackItUp Community Edition is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by Chris Simmons. With a rating of 4.6★ from 297 reviews.
AppRanks data: WP BackItUp Community Edition ranks #0 in Backup on WordPress Plugin Directory, placing it in the top 1% of that category.
AppRanks verdict
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WP BackItUp Community Edition is a highly rated WordPress app with a growing review traction. It is listed in the Backup category on WordPress Plugin Directory, which AppRanks treats as the canonical taxonomy node for ranking and competitor comparison. 297 reviews put it in the early-traction tier — useful for early-stage stores willing to be on the leading edge. Early-traction review counts are sensitive to single launch periods or feature events, so a 30-day re-check before bigger commitments often resolves whether the trend is sustained. Paid-only pricing means evaluating fit on the marketplace listing or via the developer's documentation before installing. AppRanks tracks rating, review count, pricing tier, and category position daily — the figures on this page reflect the most recent scrape from the canonical WordPress Plugin Directory listing.
Pros
- +High average rating (4.6★) signals consistent merchant satisfaction
- +Published by Chris Simmons — established developer track record
Cons
- −Sparse visual evidence (0 screenshots) — harder to evaluate the UX before installing
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How WP BackItUp Community Edition works
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With the WPBackItUp Backup Plugin you’re protected against hackers, malware, host outages, and even your own mistakes. WPBackItUp creates a backup of every setting, post, comment, revision, plugin, theme, media file and upload with just a single click.
WPBackItUp generates a compressed backup of your entire website no matter how large a site you have. Your backup can be quickly and easily downloaded right from your WordPress dashboard.
The WPBackItUp backup plugin has been available to the WordPress community since 2012 and is used to back up more than 30,000 websites every day. It’s one of the most widely tested, reliable, and highly rated backup plugins available! And with our long history, you can feel confident that we are going to be around for many years to come.
The Simplest Way to Safeguard Your WordPress Site! Simply install WPBackItUp and within minutes you will have a complete backup of your entire site.
No complex configuration to deal with
No advanced knowledge of WordPress required
No FTP needed
No cPanel required
No MySQL knowledge necessary
Not even any PHPMyAdmin involved
Just a few clicks and you’ll have a complete backup that safeguards all of your valuable content.
Here are just a few of our incredible features.
Community Edition Features (free)
Easy to use, just one click and your backup is complete
Easy to setup because there is no setup required
Simple & easy to understand – not just for techies
Fast backup of your entire site
Unlimited backups so backup as much as you want
Large sites supported – lot’s of content, no problem
Download your backup – no matter how large your site we have you covered
Backup cancellation – cancel your backup at any time
Customize what you want to backup
Status notifications sent to you by email after every backup
Works in low memory & shared hosting environments
Works on all WordPress platforms (Linux, Windows and even Azure)
Complete backup, includes database, plugins, themes, uploads, media files, everything
Compressed backup (zip format) to save disk space
Customized backup retention so you only keep the backups you want
Tested and supported on WordPress 3.8 and above
Professional support so if you need us we are available
Premium Features (paid)
One click restore right from your WordPress dashboard
Automated backup schedule allows your backup to run whenever you want
Backup jobs run in background mode so you can keep working while your backup is running
Import your backup right from your dashboard, no matter how large
Single file backup makes moving your backups to another host easy
Restore your backup to a different version of WordPress
Migrate your site to different host, domain or table prefix
Clone your site for development, staging or testing
Priority support gets you right to the front of the line
Save your backups to DropBox with WPBackItUp Safe
Don’t Risk Losing Your Website Does the thought of losing your website keep you up at night? All that time, effort and money you’ve invested could be gone in an instant.
WordPress is an incredible product but there are many things that can go wrong. You could get hacked, your hosting company could go out of business, you could install a bad plugin or theme, the list is endless, and without a good backup, you could lose everything.
If this isn’t something that keeps you up at night, then it really should be. It was keeping us up at night so we decided to do something about it. In 2012 we created the WPBackItUp backup plugin and made it freely available to the WordPress community.
Since 2012 we have added many incredible features and have even created a premium version of our backup plugin, but our fundamental goal has remained the same. We want to make creating a WordPress backup as simple, effective and complete as possible. We don’t want anything to prevent you from regularly creating a backup of your WordPress site.
We offer the Community Edition of our backup plugin for free so that you will BackItUp and sleep better at night.
Community Edition Support We offer free support via the WordPress support forum but before posting a question please make sure you are running the current version of WPBackItUp. We frequently add features and fix issues so please make sure your version is up to date before posting an issue. We also ask that you review our online documentation and FAQ’s which are available on the WPBackItUp Support Portal before posting your questions.
Restoring Your Site Restoring your site can be very stressful and often times quite complex so we offer a few options to our Community Edition customers.
If you are a do it yourself kind of person then we provide detailed instructions on the WPBackItUp Support Portal. Here we walk you through the process to restore your database manually.
We also provide step by step instructions for manually restoring plugins, themes and media files.
But if you aren’t someone that wants to do it yourself, then check out our Premium Backup Plugin. With WPBackItUp premium you will have access to our one-click restore which takes care of all the hard work for you.
Premium Plugin WPBackItUp Premium provides a number of additional features not included in the Community Edition. You can purchase a No-Risk WPBackItUp Premium License anytime from the WPBackItUp site.
One Click Restore:
WPBackItUp premium allows you to restore your backup from the WordPress dashboard with just a single click.
Automated Backups:
WPBackItUp premium allows you to schedule your backup to run whenever you need them to.
Priority Support:
WPBackItUp is supported by a team of professional. If you are using WPBackItUp to safeguard your business website then priority support is available to our premium customers. Please see www.wpbackitup.com for details.
Automatically Restore/Clone/Duplicate/Migrate your Website:
Need to restore, clone, duplicate or migrate your website? We make that easy too!
The premium version of the WPBackItUp backup plugin allows you to restore your website from backup with a single click. All you do is select the backup you want to restore and click restore, right from your WordPress dashboard. It’s that easy, and your site is back up and running in minutes.
More questions? Please review our FAQ’s or ask them in the support forum.
Languages
WPBackItUp has been translated into the following languages:
Deutsch
Español
Français
Italiano
Tagalog
Russian
বাংলা (Bengali)
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Category rankings
As of Jul 9, 2026- Backup#0of 51Top 1%
- Back up#0of 2Top 1%
- Backups#0of 8Top 1%
- Database backup#0of 7Top 1%
- Multisite backup#0of 1Top 1%
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Keyword rankings
WP BackItUp Community Edition ranks for 3 keywords across WordPress Plugin Directory. Here are the top 3:
- Rank #913
- Rank #947
- Rank #952
Competitors & alternatives
WP BackItUp Community Editiondoesn't have curated competitor matchups yet. Other tracked backup apps on WordPress:
Where WP BackItUp Community Edition stands in the Backup category
WP BackItUp Community Edition ranks #0 of 51 apps in the Backup category, placing it in the top 1% of the listing.
Frequently asked questions
What is WP BackItUp Community Edition?
WP BackItUp Community Edition is an app for WordPress. It currently holds a 4.6-star rating from 297 merchant reviews, and AppRanks has been tracking its public marketplace data on a daily refresh cycle. It is listed under the Backup category on AppRanks, where you can see its current category position, review-velocity trend, and how it compares against the top alternatives in the same space. Developed by Chris Simmons.