There are two WordPress plugins of late that I wanted to note:
UpdraftPlus – Automated WordPress backups. You can save it locally or some place online. The paid version obviously has many more options. I backup my entire directory on a once a month schedule, and I set it to sideload* the zip file to my Google Drive. By default, it’s backed up to…your WordPress install. This didn’t make sense to me, if something happened to your install, or your hosting account. I host my blog and other sites at Bluehost, so having a backup not dependent on either my WordPress install or my hosting account was my goal. There’s a bit of configuration you would have to do with Google’s API offerings, if you’re saving to Drive, but the plugin support page walks you through that.
WP Dashboard Notes – Add a free form text area, among other similar things, to your WordPress dashboard (see screenshot). I wanted to have something like this to store quick post ideas or links. The UX of WordPress’ post isn’t really structured for this, since drafts can get lost in the list, or filtered out too easily. There was another plugin like this that I tried, that was only a plain text widget for the dashboard, but it conked out immediately with my version of WordPress (4.4).
*sideload – as opposed to uploading or downloading. It’s crossways, between two applications and servers. It’s usage is a little different, according to Wikipedia.
2 Comments
Hi,
Thank you for noting UpdraftPlus on your blog here. We do have a very wide range of storage locations compatible with our backup plugin inclusive of UpdraftPlus Vault, Dropbox, Google Drive, Amazon s3, Rackspace, Google Cloud and many more. As you mention, unfortunately without a remote location set up there is no alternative than to store them in the WordPress install and so we always recommend the use of at least one remote storage locations. For all features and compatible storage locations visit: https://updraftplus.com/updraftplus-full-feature-list/
Thanks for commenting. Yeah, I assume it’s either store it in WordPress…and this locally, I guess, if the user is smart enough to download it…or remote storage.