The safest Backup plugins for WordPress

A backup plugin is your safety net — the last thing you want is for it to be abandoned when you need a restore. The most popular WordPress backup plugins, ranked by safety.

Ranked by Plugin Risk Score — i.e. by maintenance and safety signals, not features. Scores are live from the WordPress.org Plugin API and change over time.

1. 1 UpdraftPlus: WP Backup & Migration Plugin updraftplus 100%
2. 2 BackWPup – WordPress Backup & Restore Plugin backwpup 100%
3. 3 Duplicator – Backups & Migration Plugin – Cloud Backups, Scheduled Backups, & More duplicator 100%
4. 4 All-in-One WP Migration and Backup all-in-one-wp-migration 100%
5. 5 WPvivid — Backup, Migration & Staging wpvivid-backuprestore 87%

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