Duplicator – Backups & Migration Plugin – Cloud Backups, Scheduled Backups, & More
WordPress Backup & Migration Plugin Duplicator provides a simple way to move WordPress sites, create reliable backups, or clone a site for staging. With Duplicator, you can easily migrate, transfer, or clone your WordPress site between domains or hosts with no downtime. Create full backups of your website, or package your entire site to download and install elsewhere with only a few steps. At Duplicator, reliability, security, and ease of use are our top priorities. Duplicator is built on the same engine as Duplicator Pro: backups of any size, encrypted archives, 1-click restore and cloud storage are all part of the free plugin. Our easy migration wizard makes Duplicator the most beginner-friendly backup and migration plugin on the market. You don’t have to hire a developer. Create a backup and migrate sites in just a few minutes. Duplicator Pro This plugin is the Lite version of Duplicator Pro, which comes with scheduled backups, cloud storage integrations, multisite support, staging sites and more. Get Duplicator Pro for the complete migration and backup solution. Easy Site Migration, Backup, and Cloning Duplicator streamlines site migrations by packaging your website files and database into a single file, known as a “backup”. Download and re-install your “backup” on any new WordPress location or server without dealing with complicated setups. Launch at your new destination without installing WordPress. Duplicator is the only migration and backup plugin that works on an empty site. See why experts love Duplicator: “Duplicator provides an easy to use tool to make backups of your site, or to transfer it to another location.” Richard McAdams – Expert Web Developer Backups Without Size Limits Duplicator’s chunked backup engine splits the work into small steps, so backups of any size complete even on shared hosting with strict server timeouts. Pick the archive engine that fits your server (DupArchive, ZipArchive or shell zip) and the database engine you prefer (mysqldump or chunked PHP). Backups build in the background while you keep working, and Duplicator runs on managed hosts such as WordPress.com, WP Engine and GoDaddy Managed. AutoTune: Backup Settings That Configure Themselves Not sure which settings your server needs? AutoTune runs real test backups and finds the configuration that works on your host, automatically. Before every backup Duplicator checks your server configuration, and when something goes wrong it explains the problem in plain language and offers a one-click fix. Secure WordPress Backups Duplicator offers WordPress backups with military-grade encryption. Protect any backup with a password and AES-256 archive encryption, and see the security status of every backup at a glance. Automatically backup your entire WordPress site to secure cloud storage. 1-Click Restore Restore any backup with a single click from your WordPress dashboard: no FTP, no manual installer upload. Duplicator makes 1-click restores easy and stress-free. Quickly restore your entire website in minutes just like a time machine. Duplicator Cloud Storage Keep your backups off-site with Duplicator Cloud, our own secure cloud storage built for WordPress backups. Connect your account, send backups to the cloud and restore them from the cloud when you need them. You can also keep backups in several local folders with automatic retention of the most recent ones. Duplicator Pro adds Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, Amazon S3, FTP/SFTP and any S3-compatible provider. Fast WordPress Migrations Duplicator makes WordPress website migrations fast and stress-free. Quickly move to a new host, domain, or server. No downtime, no data loss, and no coding required. WordPress Multisite Backups Duplicator offers automatic WordPress Multisite backups with easy 1-click restore. Safely backup your entire Multisite network to secure cloud storage. WooCommerce Backups Duplicator offers reliable WooCommerce backups with military-grade encryption. Easily and automatically back up your entire online store to secure cloud storage. Pre-configured WordPress Installs Never start from scratch with Duplicator’s smart pre-configured WordPress installs. Save time and hassle duplicating ready-made sites with 1-click. WordPress Recovery Points with Quick Rollbacks Duplicator offers hourly recovery points and 1-click rollbacks for WordPress sites. Quickly and automatically recover from failed WordPress updates or disasters. Partial WordPress Backup Plugin Duplicator makes partial backups for WordPress quick and easy. Save storage and restore sites faster with database-only, media-only, or completely custom backups. Server to Server WordPress Migration Import Tool Duplicator makes server-to-server WordPress migrations fast and hassle-free. Quickly import your website to a new server in minutes. No downtime, no data loss. Smart WordPress Migration Wizard Duplicator’s smart WordPress migration wizard makes transferring your website to a new host or server effortless. Advanced installer options, custom search and replace rules and security key regeneration are all included. No downtime, no data loss, and no code required. Drag & Drop Import WordPress Website Tool Migrating WordPress sites has never been easier with Duplicator’s drag & drop import tools. Quickly transfer your site to a new host or server in minutes, no code required. Clone WordPress Website Plugin Duplicator clones your entire WordPress website with 1-click, no code needed. Perfect for staging sites, sandbox, or site migration. WordPress Staging Site Duplicator Pro lets you create a WordPress staging site directly from your WordPress dashboard. Safely test plugin updates, theme changes, and new features on a staging environment before pushing changes to your live site. No manual setup, no separate hosting, and no risk to your production site. AI Ready Backups Duplicator exposes its backup abilities through the WordPress Abilities API, so AI assistants can list your backups, create a new one and check its status on your behalf. Every action respects your WordPress permissions. Duplicator Pro Features Duplicator Pro takes Duplicator to the next level with features you’ll love, such as: WordPress staging sites – create a staging copy of your site to safely test changes before going live Drag and Drop installs – just drag the backup file to the destination site! Server to server import – import a backup directly from a URL or from cloud storage, no download needed Scheduled backups – daily, weekly, monthly or hourly, each with its own template and storage destinations Backup templates to save and reuse your backup configurations Cloud Storage to Dropbox Backups, Google Drive Backups, Microsoft OneDrive Backups, Amazon S3 Backups and FTP/SFTP Backups Any S3-compatible provider: Backblaze B2, Wasabi, Cloudflare R2, DigitalOcean Spaces, Google Cloud Storage, Vultr, DreamObjects and more Unlimited storage destinations – send every backup to several locations at once Quick Connect to Duplicator Cloud with your license key Custom Backups and Cloning: want just plugins, or just themes, just the media? No problem! Recovery Points added for very fast emergency site restores Multisite support – back up and migrate an entire WordPress network, install a subsite as a standalone site or import a site into a network Subsite filtering – back up only the subsites you need Installer branding – white-label the installer with your own look and feel Multi-threaded, chunked engine to support larger websites & databases Support for managed and shared hosts such as WordPress.com, WPEngine, GoDaddy Managed, and more WP-CLI commands for backups and automation Custom plugin hooks for developers Advanced permissions – control which roles and users can create, restore, transfer or configure backups Email notifications when a scheduled backup fails Automatic updates and professional support … and much more! Supported Backup Cloud Storage Integrations The free plugin stores backups locally and on Duplicator Cloud. Duplicator Pro adds any Amazon S3 compatible storage provider plus these first-party integrations. Duplicator Cloud Backups Localhost Backups FTP/ SFTP Backups Dropbox Backups Google Drive Backups Microsoft OneDrive Backups Amazon S3 Backups Cloudflare R2 Backups Wasabi Backups Dream Objects Backups Vultr Backups Digital Ocean Spaces Backups Google Cloud Storage Backups Backblaze B2 Storage Backups Linode Object Storage Backups You can easily see why Duplicator is the best WordPress backup and migration plugin on the market! Want to unlock these features? Upgrade to our Pro version Branding Guidelines Duplicator® is a registered trademark of Snap Creek LLC. When writing about the backup & migration plugin by Duplicator, please make sure to uppercase the initial first letter. Duplicator (correct) duplicator (incorrect)
Make Me Static, Static Site Generator, Git, Pages and Live Stats
Welcome to the Make Me Static Plugin for WordPress. This plugin is a static site generator and aims to create and maintain a static copy of your WordPress website within a Git repository. This version includes automatic access to a free Git solution and Page provider platform. (so no setup or credentials are necessary) Alternatively the static site can be generated and stored in a GitLab Git Repository that can be used as a source for a static page platform such as CloudFlare Pages. The plugin provides customised sitemap and change tracking which connects to an external crawling service which does all the heavy lifting. We have made great efforts in this version to minimise the configuration required to get going, if you have any problems (with anything) please let is know and we’ll do our best to help. Check out this YouTube video for an introduction to static front-ends and a walk-through of converting a pre-existing WordPress site into a WordPress site with a static front-end. How the service works The plugin connects to a directory service on the Internet at one of the directory URL’s listed below. This in turn will point the plugin to a ‘crawler’ that has been allocated to your site. When you ask the plugin to make a static copy of your site, it will instruct the crawler to visit all the pages on your site to determine which have changed since it’s last visit. Any changed pages will be copied to a Git repository, which in turn can publish pages directly to a page hosting service. The default option is to use a Git account hosted by MadPenguin, and to publish the site on MadPenguin’s page hosting platform. As a result the default options do not require any specific Git or Page hosting configuration to get going. If on the other hand you choose to use a hosted Git service such as GitLab, you will need to enter some credentials for your online account, and from there configure your GitLab account to publish to a page hosting service. Once you have successfully published a static copy of your site, all you need to do is point your domain at the address of the page hosting service, and asssuming your domain matches the one you entered when setting up your profile within the plugin, you should be up and running. The service retains a metadata database for the site which includes file names, sizes and modification times, together with any credentials that have been added when creating a profile. (Sensitive credentials and other information is encrypted at rest). The external service is responsible for all scanning and processing activities to mitigate strain on the WordPress server. The only private data transferred to the external service is the information you enter when creating a profile. All other information is obtained via an anonymous external scan, hence publically available. If you have selected the default Git option, then the service will also retain a static copy of the site. Useful references The service product page Terms and Conditions of Service Privacy Policy Getting Started Service Status Support Forum Make me static directory service URL’s; https://mms-directory-1.madpenguin.uk https://mms-directory-2.madpenguin.uk https://mms-directory-3.madpenguin.uk Other URL’s used to load code; https://assets.makemestatic.com, source for stage-2 crawler UI https://status.makemestatic.com, endpoints that indicate the currently deployed version of a site https://weblogs.makemestatic.com, source for dynamically loaded weblogs data / websockets https://mms-crawler-*.madpenguin.uk, location of the actual crawlers (via websocket) Note that this in an integrated solution, the 3rd party crawling service is owned and operated by the plugin authors on a combination of cloud hosted and on premesis equipment. Live Web Statistics (experimental) If you opt to use the integrated Pages platform, this also provides a live WebStats option that uses the following URL; https://weblogs.makemestatic.com This allows live webstats to be seamlessly delivered into your control panel and updated in real-time via a websocket connection. Do not use this URL directly! This URL is only referenced once you click on the webstats icon next to your profile. How Does it work? The WordPress site is scanned by the MMS service under direction from the WordPress plugin. This off-loads the scanning process to specialised software which aims to minimise the loading on the WordPress server while scans are in progress. There are three types of scan that can be performed; An “update”, which literally only looks at entries with changed sitemap timestamps (this is very quick and great for typo’s and any changes that only affect a single page) A “synchronise”, typically this will scan every asset on the WordPress site and compare a checksum of each asset against it’s database to see if it’s changed since the last scan. Any changes are then transferred to the connected Git repository. A “Git verification”, this is like a “synchronise”, but also scans the Git repository for assets that are no longer referenced by the site (and removes them). As the site is scanned “from the outside” there should be no risk of the plugins actions exposing any data that isn’t already public. By the same token the external service has no ability to modify WordPress so the security footprint of the plugin is tiny. Feature bullet points The plugin provides a way to produce a static copy of your website in a git repository The result is compatible with both Github pages and CloudFlare pages for automatic publication Multiple profiles are supported for (A+B_…) testing Various scan rates are supported from one page per 5s to 7 cores flat out Scheduled updates are supported and automated scanning Currently “Gitlab” is supported with plans for GitHub and on-prem Gitlab Support push services (WebPushr) to automatically notify subscribers on scan completion Issue tracker for each profile to diagnose problems Handles current and historical issues Ability to acknowlede or delete issues when resolved GUI access to the internal asset database Search as you type filtering Pinning (force assets to be scanned regardless of perceived change) Selective / manual queueing of assets for testing Ability to include manual / static assets in the scan (in the WP tree but unmanaged by WP) Ability to exclude specific files and folders Setup Wizard is included for a guided profile creation The Technology The Plugin presents as a WordPress Admin / plugin page Backend connections are made over websockets using PKI The crawler respects Robots.txt, (make sure the “MMSbot” agent is allowed on your site) MMS Javascript runs in an isolated module and CSS “plays nice” with WordPress Global CSS and theming is partitioned and user editable (if you feel the need …) All of the front-end JS code and PHP is either GPL2 or MIT licensed Backend-code is all based on the Orbit Framework (the framework and DB are all MIT licensed) Orbit is a ‘real time’ framework, so the admin panel is 100% reactive. Progress bar updates are typically “per percent” granularity All statuses, totals, etc, are updated as they happen Unless you’ve hit a bug, there is no mileage in reloading the MMS plugin page If you change your license information, it will change in real-time If the crawler allocated to your site changes (perhaps due to a license upgrade) then the appropriate version of the crawler UI will be uploaded “into” the page from the new crawler.
