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Restora
Backups that finish on any hosting, and restores you can trust: the whole site in one zip or in separate parts.
Restora ranks #32,392 among WordPress.org plugins with 10+ active installations, is #2,295 of 5,310 in the Utilities & Tools category, a 1/5 rating from 0 reviews, and was last updated Oct 28, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.
Compatible with WP 7.1
v1.3.8
Current Version v1.3.8
Updated 4 days ago
Last Update on 28 Oct, 2026
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- Version
- 1.3.8
- Last Updated
- Oct 28, 2026
- Requires WP
- 6.0+
- Tested Up To
- 7.1
- PHP Version
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Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about Restora
In wp-content/restora-<random key>/. Its name cannot be guessed, and on Apache and IIS the files Restora puts in it deny web access. nginx ignores those files: Restora checks once a day whether the folder can be reached from the web and, if it can, shows the line to add to the nginx configuration.
They stay where they are. Install Restora again and it finds them.
Cache folders, WordPress upgrade leftovers and the backup folders of other backup plugins. You can add your own paths and patterns in the settings; developers can also use the restora_exclude filter. From the database, the tables of the site are backed up: WordPress's own, plus any other tables you choose in the settings. Views, triggers, stored procedures and events are not; WordPress does not use them, but some custom code does.
It is undone. Before a file is replaced, its current version is set aside, and the database is only switched over at the very end. If the restore cannot finish (the disk fills up, a folder cannot be written, the window is closed), every file goes back to how it was and the database is left untouched. Before anything is written, Restora also checks that the folders are writable and that there is enough free space.
A Restora backup is a normal zip, so nothing is locked in. The files are in it as they were on the site, and the database is plain SQL under .restora/ inside the archive: unpack the files over the site with FTP or the host's file manager, import the SQL with phpMyAdmin, and the site is back. The step-by-step guide is at https://restora.perforks.com/docs#restore-by-hand. Restora Pro adds an emergency recovery page that does all this for you, even when WordPress itself does not load, and copies of your backups on S3 or SFTP for the day the whole server is gone.
Only administrators (network administrators on a multisite network): every screen, button and download checks that capability and a nonce, and the backup folder itself has a random name and is closed to the web, so a backup can only be fetched through Restora by someone logged in with that right. The restora_capability filter narrows the circle further, to a custom capability you give to the people you choose. The WP-CLI commands run only for someone with shell access to the server as the site's own user, who could reach the files anyway; define( 'RESTORA_DISABLE_CLI', true ) in wp-config.php switches them off on a server where that shell is shared. Restora Pro's remote access is read-and-run only: another site with the access key can list, start and download backups, never delete or restore; the key is stored hashed and locks after a few wrong attempts.
No. They start through WP-Cron and then keep themselves going. On a site with very few visits they may start late; a server cron job calling wp-cron.php makes the timing exact.
No. Everything it writes stays in its own randomly named folder in wp-content. While a restore runs, its settings file waits there too (readable by the site only, and without the database credentials, which are read from wp-config.php) and is removed when the restore ends.
Yes. Backups encrypted by Restora Pro can be restored here with their password, even without Pro. A lost password cannot be recovered: that is what the encryption is for.
Yes. Under Settings, turn on "Before updates": just before WordPress updates a plugin, a theme or itself, Restora backs up the database, or the database with the plugins and themes folders if you choose so. Media is never included, because the update waits for the backup. One backup covers all the updates of the next ten minutes, the newest few are kept, and a backup that fails never stops the update.
