=== WPvivid — Backup, Migration & Staging ===
Contributors: wpvivid
Tags: duplicate, clone, migrate, staging, backup
Requires at least: 4.5
Tested up to: 7.0.2
Requires PHP: 5.3
Stable tag: 0.9.131
License: GPLv3 or later
License URI: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html

All-in-one WordPress backup, migration and staging plugin — schedule automatic backups, restore in one click, and migrate or clone sites safely.

== Description ==
WPvivid Backup & Migration Plugin offers backup, migration, and staging (create a staging site on a subdirectory to safely test WordPress, plugins, themes and website changes) as basic features.

== WPvivid Backup & Migration for MainWP ==
[WPvivid Backup & Migration for MainWP](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpvivid-backup-mainwp/) is now available to download.
WPvivid Backup & Migration for MainWP allows you to set up and control WPvivid Backup & Migration plugins for all child sites directly from your MainWP dashboard.

== WPvivid Backup & Migration Pro is Now Available ==
* Customize everything to backup
* Create staging sites and push staging sites to live
* Incremental backups
* Database backup encryption
* Auto backup WordPress, themes, and plugins
* WordPress multisite backup
* WordPress multisite staging
* Create a fresh WP install
* Advanced remote backups
* Advanced backup schedules
* Restore remote backups
* Migrate a site via remote storage
* Migrate a childsite (MU) to a single WordPress install
* White label WPvivid Backup & Migration Pro
* Control user access to WPvivid Backup & Migration Pro
* [More amazing features](https://wpvivid.com/backup-plugin-pro)

See a review video on WPvivid Backup & Migration Pro:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1aYbayFpfU&t=7s

[Get WPvivid Backup & Migration Pro](https://wpvivid.com/pricing)

== Core Features ==

= 1. Easy Backups =
Easily create a backup of your WordPress site. You can choose to backup the entire site(database+files), all files, or database only.
= 2. Auto Migration =
Clone and migrate your WordPress site to a new domain with a single click. WPvivid Backup & Migration Plugin supports site migration from dev environment to a new server, from dev environment to a new domain or from a live server to another.
= 3. Create A Staging Site =
Create a staging site on a subdirectory of your production site to safely test WordPress, plugins, themes and website changes. You can choose what to copy from the the live site to the staging site.
= 4. Scheduled Backups =
Set a schedule to run backups automatically on your website. You can set the backups to run every 12 hours, daily, weekly, fortnightly, monthly, choose backup items and destination.
= 5. Offsite Backup to Remote Storage =
Send your backups offsite to a remote location. WPvivid Backup & Migration Plugin supports the leading cloud storage providers: Dropbox, Google Drive, Amazon S3, Microsoft OneDrive, DigitalOcean Spaces, FTP and SFTP.
= 6. One-Click Restore =
Restore your WordPress site from a backup with a single click.
= 7. Cloud Storage Supported =
WPvivid Backup & Migration plugin supports Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, Amazon S3, DigitalOcean Spaces, SFTP, FTP. WPvivid Backup & Migration Pro also supports Wasabi, pCloud, Backblaze, WebDav and more.

== Minimum Requirements to use WPvivid Backup & Migration plugin ==
* Character Encoding UTF-8
* PHP version 5.3
* MySQL version 4.1
* WordPress 4.5

== Screenshots ==
1. Backing up a site
2. Backup list
3. WPvivid Backup & Migration plugin Dashboard
4. Configure remote backups
5. Migrate a WordPress site to a new domain
6. Upload a backup to restore or migrate

== Installation ==

= Install WPvivid Backup & Migration Plugin =

1.Go to your sites admin dashboard.
2.Navigate to Plugins Menu and search for WPvivid Backup & Migration.
3.Find WPvivid Backup & Migration and click Install Now.
4. Click Activate.

== External Services ==
This plugin can optionally connect to third-party storage providers — Google Drive, Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, Amazon S3, DigitalOcean Spaces, and FTP/SFTP servers — to store backup files. When remote storage is enabled, backup archives and required authentication tokens are sent to the selected service's API. Use of these services is subject to their own terms and privacy policies.

== Frequently Asked Questions ==
= What does WPvivid Backup & Migration Plugin do? =
As the name says, WPvivid Backup & Migration Plugin is an all in one free WP backup & migration plugin that enables you to easily clone and migrate a WordPress site to a new domain, to perform manual backups and schedule automatic backups of your WordPress site, to backup to cloud storage and restore backups directly from your sites admin dashboard.
= Does WPvivid Backup & Migration Plugin also migrate my site? Is it a free feature? =
Yes, WPvivid Backup & Migration Plugin supports migration of a WordPress site.
Yes, the migration feature is completely free.
= How many cloud options does WPvivid Backup & Migration Plugin support? Are they free to access? =
Out of the box WPvivid Backup & Migration Plugin supports Dropbox, Google Drive, Amazon S3, Microsoft OneDrive, DigitalOcean Spaces, FTP, and SFTP.
Yes, all the cloud access is free.
= Can I use WPvivid Backup & Migration Plugin to restore my site? =
Yes, you can use WPvivid Backup & Migration Plugin to restore a WordPress site from a backup. With no limits, no strings attached.
= Do you provide support for WPvivid Backup & Migration Plugin? Where? =
Yes, absolutely. Whenever you need help, start a thread on the [support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wpvivid-backuprestore/) for WPvivid Backup & Migration Plugin, or [contact us](https://wpvivid.com/contact-us).
= Do you have any get-started guides/docs? =
Yes, we do. Here are the guides for [migrating your site to a new host](https://wpvivid.com/get-started-transfer-site.html), [creating a manual backup](https://wpvivid.com/get-started-create-a-manual-backup.html), [restoring your site from a backup](https://wpvivid.com/get-started-restore-site.html), and more on [our docs page](https://wpvivid.com/documents).

== Changelog ==
= 0.9.131 =
- Fixed two vulnerabilities in the plugin code. Special thanks to Nir Yehoshua from Cipher Security Labs for reporting and assisting with the fixes.
= 0.9.130 =
- Fixed: A PHP deprecated warning could be logged after backups were successfully uploaded to Dropbox on PHP 8.2.
= 0.9.129 =
- Fixed a vulnerability in the plugin code.
= 0.9.128 =
- Added full compatibility and support for WordPress 7.0.
- Fixed: Creating a staging site with an independent database would fail if the live site's database credentials contained single quotes.
- Fixed some UI styling issues introduced in WordPress 7.0.
= 0.9.127 =
- Added upload and download chunk size options for Google Drive.
- Updated scheduled backup start time to a random time between 00:00:00 and 00:30:00 UTC.
- Fixed an issue with unused image scanning under PHP 8.5.
= 0.9.126 =
- Optimized the plugin code.
= 0.9.125 =
- Fixed: Backup uploads to remote storage could fail in certain server environments.
- Successfully tested with WordPress 6.9.4.
= 0.9.124 =
- Fixed a vulnerability in the plugin code.
- Fixed a UI display bug on cloud storage editing page.
= 0.9.123 =
- Improved: Automatically exclude WPvivid JSON file when uploading backup files to avoid upload failure.
- Fixed: SFTP uploads could fail in certain server environments.
- Fixed: Some used images would be incorrectly scanned as unused.
- Fixed: Typos in backup email reports.
= 0.9.122 =
- Added automatic exclusion of macOS .DS_Store files during backup and migration.
- Successfully tested with WorPress 6.9.
= 0.9.121 =
- Fixed a vulnerability in the plugin code.
= 0.9.120 =
- Successfully tested with PHP 8.4.13.
- Successfully tested with WordPress 6.8.3.
= 0.9.119 =
- Changed backup schedule's start time to a random time between 00:00:00 and 00:15:00 UTC to prevent possible server overload from the simultaneous backup of many sites.
= 0.9.118 =
- Fixed: Downloading backups could fail on servers where Output Buffering was enabled.
= 0.9.117 =
- Fixed a vulnerability in the plugin code.
- Fixed: Pages in some Elementor sites could not be properly migrated.
= 0.9.116 =
- Fixed: Backup to OneDrive might fail in some cases.
- Successfully tested with WordPress 6.8.1.
= 0.9.115 =
- Successfully tested with WordPress 6.8.
= 0.9.114 =
- Fixed: Restore could fail when restoring from a lower WordPress version in some cases.
- Fixed: Adding SFTP storage could fail in PHP 8.4 environment.
- Optimized the plugin UI.
= 0.9.113 =
- Added 4 backup performance modes for different scenarios.
- Fixed a vulnerability in the plugin code.
- Successfully tested with WordPress 6.7.2.
= 0.9.112 =
- Fixed: Backup status could not be properly caught on LocalWP sites with Nginx server.
- Optimized the plugin code.
= 0.9.111 =
- Fixed: Backups to SFTP would fail on sites of PHP 8.2.26-nmm1 and 8.3.14-nmm1.
- Optimized the plugin code.
= 0.9.110 =
- Added an option to include symlink folders in a backup.
- Fixed: Could not connect to SFTP on sites of PHP 8.2.26 and 8.3.14.
- Fixed: Quick Snapshot popup would appear upon each page loading.
- Successfully tested with WordPress 6.7.1.
= 0.9.109 =
- Fixed a warning that would appear with WordPress 6.7.0.
- Optimized the plugin code.
- Successfully tested with WordPress 6.7.0.
= 0.9.108 =
- Fixed a vulnerability in the plugin code.
- Fixed: WP Cerber plugin was excluded from a backup by default.
= 0.9.107 =
- Fixed: Backups to GoogleDrive could fail with an error of 'Will not follow more than 5 redirects' in some environments.
- Fixed some PHP warnings of 'Return type of WPvivid_Google_Collection' that would appear in some environments.
- Fixed a vulnerability in the plugin code.
= 0.9.106 =
- Fixed a vulnerability in the plugin code.
- Fixed: Could not send email report when the address contain '-'.
- Optimized the plugin code.
= 0.9.105 =
- Fixed: Uploading backups to OneDrive failed with a 401 error in some environments.
- Optimized the plugin code.
= 0.9.104 =
- Updated: Autoload of WPvivid options is set to 'No' by default.
- Fixed: Downloading backup files could fail in some environments.
- Fixed: Uploading backups to GoogleDrive could fail in some environments.
- Fixed some bugs in the plugin code.
- Optimized the plugin code.
= 0.9.103 =
- Fixed: Restore would fail when a backup contained mu-plugins/wp-stack-cache.php.
- Fixed some bugs in the plugin code.
- Refined and optimized the plugin code.
- Successfully tested with WordPress 6.6.
= 0.9.102 =
- Added: Cloud storage tokens are now encrypted in the database.
- Added: lotties folder (if any) will be included in backups by default.
- Fixed: Domain could not be replaced during migration in some cases.
- Fixed: Adding Digital Ocean Space would fail in some cases.
- Fixed: Images added via ACF plugin would be scanned as unused.
- Fixed some bugs in the plugin code.
- Optimized the plugin code.
= 0.9.101 =
- Fixed: Retention settings did not work for scheduled backups.
- Fixed: Scanning unused images would fail in some cases.

[See historical changelog entries](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wpvivid-backup/wpvivid-backuprestore/main/CHANGELOG_LEGACY.md).

== Upgrade Notice ==
= 0.9.131 =
- Fixed two vulnerabilities in the plugin code. Special thanks to Nir Yehoshua from Cipher Security Labs for reporting and assisting with the fixes.