Building a Better WordPress Backup Tool 💽

By: Austin Ginder

Why build a WordPress backup tool?

• Open source
• Control and ownership
• Simple backup tool, not management
• Attract WordPress developers to Anchor Hosting
• Money 💰

My Backup tool wishlist

• Type in WordPress credentials and press a button OR install a connector WordPress plugin, like ManageWP's worker plugin.
• Open source with paid hosted version
• Realtime feedback
• Full site backup, both database and files, as a downloadable zip
• Super simple, no accounts required

Progress...OR how I might handle

✅ Login and plugin install with Chrome PHP

✅ Realtime with web sockets

✅ Fetch public files with Rclone and scripting

✅ Fetch private files with PHP zip + WP REST API

✅ New domain and tagline, for ease of use

🤷‍♂️ No accounts, maybe tie ownership to web access

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