How to Back Up Your WordPress Site The Complete Guide for Business Owners in 2026
QUICK ANSWER A complete WordPress backup includes both your site files (themes, plugins, media, configuration files) and your MySQL database (posts, pages, settings, user data). You can create backups using a dedicated plugin like UpdraftPlus, your hosting provider’s built-in tools, manually through cPanel or FTP with phpMyAdmin, or via command line with SSH and WP-CLI. […]