Guide to Safeguarding Your WordPress Site: Backup Strategies, Tools, and Tips
At its core, a WordPress backup is a complete snapshot of your site’s data at a given point in time. This includes not just the content visible to your site’s visitors, such as posts, pages, and images, but also the website’s underlying structure: its database (which contains user comments, settings, and configuration), themes, plugins, and custom code. The primary role of these backups is to ensure that, should the worst occur—be it through hacking, a faulty update, or simple human error—there is a way to restore your site to its previous state without losing significant amounts of data or functionality.