WordPress Tutorial: How to Back Up and Restore a WordPress Website

Worried about losing your WordPress website's precious content due to accidental edits or technical glitches? Fear not! By learning how to back up and restore a WordPress website, you can ensure a quick recovery and avoid the hassle of rebuilding from scratch. This guide will walk you through the built-in backup and restore process, along with highlighting the advantages of a more robust solution like CodeGuard.

In this article, we will discuss:

• Back up and Restore a WordPress Website
  • WordPress Website on a WordPress Package
  • WordPress Website on a Shared Hosting Package
• Review

Back up and Restore a WordPress Website

Backing up your website and database is vital, especially when you make changes to your site. In case you overwrite files that you need and accidentally delete important files or your website, backups help you in a way that you don't need to start from scratch to have your site up and running. We automatically back up your WordPress website and database nightly. These backups are stored on a rolling 14-day basis, and you can select whichever version you want to restore.

WordPress Website on a WordPress Package

Follow the steps below to restore the WordPress website from Backups to its previous state.

1. Log in to your Account Manager via https://www.networksolutions.com/my-account/login.
2. Click WordPress on the left navigation.
   
   
    
3. If you have multiple WordPress packages, select the package you want to fix, then click the Manage button.
4. On the right side of your WordPress Control Panel, under the Security section, click Backups.
   
   
    
5. A Backups pop-up will show. Check the box beside your website address, select a backup date you want to restore, then click the Restore Backup button.
   
   

WordPress Website on a Shared Hosting Package

If you have WordPress installed in your hosting package, then you can follow the instructions below.

1. Log in to your Account Manager via https://www.networksolutions.com/my-account/login.
2. On the left side of the page, select Hosting.
   
   
    
3. If you have multiple Hosting packages, select the package where your WordPress is installed, then click the Manage button.
4. In the Hosting Control Panel, navigate to the Configurations section, then click Website Backups.
   
   
    
5. Select the daily snapshot you wanted to restore, then click Restore to Snapshot.
   
   

For a better backup solution, we recommend CodeGuard. Unlike the built-in backup solution we have, CodeGuard allows you to back up your site anytime you want and allows you to download a local copy of the website and database backup that you can access anytime. See Backup and Restore - What is CodeGuard? for more information.