How to Backup and Restore WordPress Site with or without Plugin
How to Backup and Restore WordPress Site with or without Plugin
Jetpack Plugin
Jetpack Backup Features
Never lose a word, image, post, page, or time worrying about your site. Use Jetpack_Backup to automatically create backups, and easily restore/migrate your site. If you change your hosting or plan Jetpack backup will not affect
If you want to use Jetpack_Backup with existing Jetpack plan that uses VaultPress for backups, we can manually convert your site from VaultPress to Jetpack_Backup.
Once backups complete you willl see a “Backup complete” in your activity log, either daily or according to your time
If jetpack.com lose contact with your site, and your backups stop working, and they send an email after the second failed backup attempt.
Jetpack backup the following data >> (a) WordPress database. (Any tables that start with table prefix and also have a unique key or primary key.). (b) All files in the directories o plugins, mu-plugins, uploads and themes
Jetpack does backup the following data >> (a) WordPress’ core files, as these can be download from WordPress.org. (b) Files outside the directories and folders listed above (c) Database tables that does not look like they belong to WordPress. (d) Database tables those rows have no unique identifier. (e) Cache files and backup directories. (f) Additional WordPress file installs. (In sub directories, for example.) (g) Any directory files containing a file named .donotbackup
What does real time mean >> (a) Jetpack Backup uses WordPress built-in “hooks” system that syncs those changes with our servers to generate a backup for your site. (b) WordPress core database tables (c) WooCommerce database tables (d) Any associated file changes (uploaded media, for example).
Question: Is Jetpack Professional Real Time Backup?
How to Download from Jetpack Backup
(a) Daily backups typically occur 24 hours from the previous backup and it does not support multisite. You can see all backup activity logs in below screen
(b) Click on Download Button that you want to download. After clicking on Download button you can see below highlighted process
Currently creating a downloadable backup of your site We’re creating a downloadable backup of your site at Saturday, August 21, 2021 10:56 AM. You’ll be notified once it’s complete. Away we go! Your download is being created.
(c) After completing backup, you can see below screenshot
(d) After completing backup, you will get email notification with below text
Your website backup is ready to download You recently requested a backup of your site xyz.com. Jetpack has prepared your files and you can download them now. This link will expire in 7 days.
(e) After clicking on Download button your browser will start to download
Transitioning from VaultPress to Jetpack Backup
(a) VaultPress features are available within Jetpack Backup and both offer the same backup, restore, and security functionality (b) FTP/SFTP/SSH credentials need to take backup but require to restore for both (c) Jetpack Backup was more efficient than VaultPress
Question: I installed VaultPress Backup, since I am using Jetpack professional, so can I remove VaultPress?
Scripts Optimization Techniques: —————————– Eliminate render-blocking resources Enable text compression Remove unused CSS Serve images in next-gen formats Reduce server response times (TTFB) Minify JavaScript Minify CSS
FAQ
Question: What is the difference between Remove unused CSS and Minify CSS
Answer: The difference is that CSS can be consolidated into simpler code and some of it can be condensed and removed, minifying CSS is a trick to do that where instead of it loading via the files it inserts that code into the page that needs the style directly. You can read more about that from something like this (dh)
Question: Whats are the technique to remove unused CSS and Java Script form WordPress website? Are there any plugins for this?
Answer: You can do it by hand via some guides out there, I don’t have any like single guide to do that, but if you are looking to go the plugin route Autoptimize has a CSS optimization option that helps minify CSS scripts. And I do believe Wp-Rocket has that feature, you can use it, but if you just want to minify CSS, autoptimize is a bit lighter
Tutorial
Subject
Link
9 Ways to Remove Unused CSS & JS in WordPress 2021
youtube.com/watch?v=Z7qIUiyBVNA
How to Remove Unused CSS in WordPress (The Right Way)
How to Optimize Images in WordPress Without Plugin & With Plugin
How to Optimize Images in WordPress Without Plugin
How to Optimize Images in WordPress With Plugin
1. How to Optimize Images in WordPress Without Plugin
The more the contents we are trying to display in homepage is affecting the Page size. So, we have to think like we will upload limited contents on a home page so that it will not affect the Page Load.
During uploading a big images in Revolution Slider or Product Images keep the actual dimension but we can decrease the image size.
Lossless Compression: This is process to Strip unused data & compress images without affecting image quality.
All Product Image / Slider Images / Banner Images should be in JPG format. It is much lighter than the PNG format.
Optimize & compress up to 50 images by using a plugin with one click.
By saving images like this we can save much storage in the Server and the site will be Optimized. We should keep the Big images like Slider Images, Big Banner Images within 150kb to 200kb Max (Always less value should be Compromised). The Product image size can be 50kb to 100kb Maximum (Always less value should be Compromised).
Incorrect Size Image Detection: Quickly locate images by using a plugin that are slowing down your site.
Automatic optimization using Cron
In homepage Carousels Sections should be limited. Each Section of Carousels should calling only 10-12 product images . e.g. If each tab loading 20 to 30 Product images. If we assume 30 images then 430 = 120 Images are loading in this Section.
Make your website faster by reducing the weight of images
Optimize images if they are not located in the media library.
Grid Style is better instead of Carousels, we can set a View More Button at the Right or Bottom side of Each Section which can lead to the Category Page.
Serves images from a global CDN for free
imagecompressor.com bh
(1). Example of Image Size
Woocommerce.com mentioned, Original images you upload should be at least 800 x 800px or higher for most themes. It depends on theme. I have mentioned some example below –
2. How to Optimize Images in WordPress With Plugin
kraken.io Plugin (bh)
How to enable lazy image loading & How to add lazy load to images
2.1. Install and configure Jetpack Boost
2.2. Install and configure Jetpack
Enable Lazy Image Loading
Enable site accelerator
Speed up image load times
Enable Lazy Loading for images
2.3. Install and configure Shotpixel
Sign up
Input API key
Configure
Convert all JPEG, PNG or GIF to WebP and AVIF
Convert the next generation images (WebP and AVIF) into the front-end pages by using the <picture> tag instead of <img>, independent from generating them through the plugin
Compatible with WP Retina 2x – all retina images are compressed automatically
CMYK to RGB conversion
Can run ShortPixel on multiple websites or on a multisite with a single API Key
Bulk optimize all images in Media Library with one click
Option to deactivate auto-optimizing on upload for images
Integration with CloudFlare, by API Key or a Token
Uploaded images can be automatically optimized in Media Library.
2..4. Install and Configure WebP Express
HTML, replacing image tags with picture tags
HTML, replacing image URLs so all points to webp
Cache Enabler, the same as above can be achieved, but with page caching
Much faster load time for images in browsers that supports webp
Better ranking in Google searches
Less bandwidth consumption
Install and configure Imagify Plugin
FAQ
Question: How can I measure the impact of Imagify on speed score?
Answer: We can use GTMetrix/Google PageSpeed to test the following metrics before and after the image optimization:
Total Page Size (GTMetrix), Optimize images (GTMetrix), Serve images in next-gen formats (PageSpeed Insights) and Efficiently encode images (PageSpeed Insights)
Questions: I am operating as ecommerce website developed by WordPress. I have imported 857 products. All product has one image. Sometimes I delete some products and sometimes I add some products. But I don’t delete image. So now I have 857 products. But in media library I found around 2463 images. Will unused image slow/affect my website?
Answer: Yes . These unused images will cause load on your website slow down the website functionality. As you keep on uploading the images, the website keeps on building up the CPU usage, cache and other processes, until it reaches its peak and breaks down. (S5)
Answer: Unsued images should not be affecting your site in terms of performance as those are not being used. They are, however, using the allocated disk. (dp)
Question: Which image format is better for website? E.g.JPG/PNG/WebP
Answer: WebP format is best as it dies not consume much resource but resolution is not that great! (S5) I’d say WebP. (dp)
Question: You are talking about wordpress.org/plugins/rocket-lazy-load. Will this plugin convert JPG/PNG to WebP format? I have jetpack so will Jetpack does not work as Lazy load since it has option.
Question: What is the best image conversion plugin?
My recommendation would be to follow the steps in an article like this one decwinser.com/article/webp-redirects-with-a-http-proxy-cache . We uses a HTTP Proxy Cache so I think you can do the conversion using the suggested plugin in that above article.
