How to Backup and Restore Your WordPress Website Safely

Having a WordPress website isn’t enough, you should know how to backup and restore your WordPress website. Backing up is always recommended whereas restoring the backup is required in case your website gets hacked.
You would also need this if you change your domain name or shifting from one web hosting to another.
These are the necessary concepts you should have an idea about. It’s no need to mention that many people face the fatal of being hacked.
I don’t think any of you would like that.
It’s always good to remain prepared. For which, you should know the procedure to backup and restore your WordPress website.
In this article, you will see the manual method which is easy to apply.
Start Backup Your Website From the cPanel
You can also back it up using the plugins like UpdraftPlus. But today, I am going to show you the manual way of backing up your website.
Step 1: — Login to your cPanel and search for the files’ section. Open the File Manager. After the cPanel has revamped, the file manager will open in a new tab.
You can do its settings from the top-right corner. Make sure you check to show the hidden files.
You have to open the PUBLIC_HTML directory because your website data is in this root directory.
Step 2: — Once you open it, you will see all the files and folders of your WordPress website. Select all using the button shown in the navigation menu.

Click on the “Compress” option.
It will show you a popup asking you to choose the file type. You have to select the ZIP file option. Scroll down and you will see the future location of this ZIP file.
By default, you will see public_html/cgi-bin.zip but you can change it so that you can recognize the backup file.

Write something like public_html/Mybackup.
You have already chosen the file extension above. Click on the “Compress File(s)” button and the compression will start.
Depending on the size of your website, it will compress the files and another popup will appear.
Click on the close button.
Step 3: — If you don’t see a file with the same name you have added for the backup, just refresh the page using the option given in the navigation menu.
