When your website is live, and your design and development are complete, you need to keep a backup of your site. You might ask, “Why does my site need to be backed up?” Well, in case your hosting crashes or something goes wrong on your end, your design could become haphazard. If you’re unable to fix it, you would need an expert to help. However, if you have a previous design backup file, you can simply restore it.

Website backups are also crucial for protection against hackers. If someone hacks your site, they could remove all your content and post a notice on your website. If you don’t have backup files, you won’t be able to restore your site. In that case, you’d have to start from scratch, which is very painful.

Another reason to back up your website is to protect your uploaded content. If you’ve been uploading a large amount of content over time, and your website is lost for any reason, you’ll be very upset if you don’t have a backup.

However, keeping site backup files offers many conveniences. Now, I want to share with you how you can easily back up your site.

Here, I’m talking about WordPress website backups. There are multiple ways to back up your site, but I want to share with you the most commonly used and simple system that you can easily apply. You can use WordPress plugins for backups, such as All-in-One WP Migration or Backup, Migration, Backup, Staging – WPvivid, and so on. I have used these two plugins to back up my website; they are free and very reliable. The settings for these two plugins are similar, and now I’ll show you one of them.

First of all, log in to your WP dashboard. Then, select the “Plugins” menu on the left, click on “Add New,” and search for WPvivid in the search bar. Select the first option, then install and activate it.

Now, you will see a menu on the left: WPvivid Backup > Backup & Restore. From here, you can take a backup and also restore your file. To back up, click on the “Backup” button and wait for the download. Once the download is complete, save it for future use.

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