PlugMatrix Protect
WordPress
Encrypted, verified backups of your WordPress database and files, restores that show what will change and roll back on their own if the site breaks, plugin updates that are tested before they stay, and checks that tell you when your site or its forms stop working.
How it works
Turn it on once. After that your site is backed up, its updates are tested, and you hear about problems before your customers do.
The screens below are illustrations of the product with sample data.
The plugin backs up your database and files on the schedule you choose, in your site’s timezone. Only what changed is uploaded, in small resumable pieces, so a backup carries on where it stopped instead of starting over. Every backup is encrypted for your website alone and checked before it counts, and daily, weekly and monthly copies are kept for as long as your plan allows.
Restore everything, only the database, one plugin or theme, or your uploads. Before anything changes you see what will be replaced. A restore point is taken first, the site is checked afterwards, and if it no longer loads the restore is rolled back on its own. You can still undo a restore that worked until you finalize it.
Update plugins and themes from your dashboard. A backup is taken first, then the update runs and your important pages, forms and checkout are checked again. An update that breaks the site is rolled back by itself, and a problem that was already there before the update is never blamed on it.
Protect checks that your site answers and that the pages that matter still show what they should: the contact form, the booking page, the checkout. A short outage is confirmed before anyone is woken up, and you are told when it is over. Business Health puts it all on one screen.
Failed logins lock out the attacker, never the administrator. Two-step login with an authenticator app, an activity log with alerts when an administrator is added or changed, checks of the WordPress core files and of PHP hidden in uploads, and hardening fixes you can undo.
When a plugin or theme takes the site down, a small recovery helper still answers. Turn on safe mode, switch off the plugin that broke it or go back to a default theme from your dashboard, then restore it from a backup. Every step is signed, limited to your site and written to the timeline.
Everything that keeps a WordPress site backed up, up to date and running.
Database and files, incremental and deduplicated, encrypted for each website.
Each backup is checked before it counts; a restore previews its changes and can be undone.
Safe mode, deactivate a plugin or switch to a default theme, even when WordPress is down.
Schedules in the site’s timezone, with daily, weekly and monthly copies kept.
Coming next
Each one joins your plan when it arrives, at no extra cost.
Why switch
Most sites stitch together a backup plugin, a security plugin and an uptime service. PlugMatrix Protect does all three, with the storage included and a place next to your other PlugMatrix products.
| Topic | The usual mix | PlugMatrix Protect |
|---|---|---|
| Price | A backup plugin, a security plugin and an uptime service, each billed on its own | From $12/mo, or included in All-in-One with every other PlugMatrix product |
| Storage | Bring your own cloud storage account, and pay for it separately | Encrypted storage included in every plan |
| Restores | Overwrite the site and hope it still works | A preview first, a restore point, checks afterwards and an automatic rollback |
| Updates | Update and find out from a customer | A backup first, checks after, and a rollback by itself if the update broke the site |
| When WordPress is down | FTP and a lot of guessing | Safe mode and turning off the broken plugin from your dashboard |
PlugMatrix Protect runs inside the PlugMatrix WordPress plugin. There is no install code for other websites.
Compatibility
What it works with, and what it doesn’t, so you know before you start.
WordPressPricing
From $12/mo, plus applicable tax. Bundle 2 products: save 5% on each. 3 or more: save 8% on each. All eight products on one tier: All-in-One saves 26–30% and adds more websites and team seats.
Protect for one website getting started.
Protect for growing teams running several websites.
Protect for high-volume businesses and multi-site operations.
Straight answers about how PlugMatrix Protect works.
Works with the rest of PlugMatrix: Live Chat, Forms, Reviews, Bookings, SEO, Invoices and Signatures
No. PlugMatrix Protect is made for WordPress: the PlugMatrix plugin backs up and restores your WordPress database and files from inside your site, so it needs WordPress. Our other products work on any website; this one does not.
Each backup is encrypted for your website alone before it is stored. Commands that restore or change your site are signed, only accepted by your own site, and written to its timeline.
Backups run in small steps and only upload what changed since the last one. You can pick a lighter resource profile for modest hosting, and pause scheduled backups at any time.
A restore point is taken before anything changes. If the site does not answer properly afterwards, the restore is rolled back on its own. Until you finalize a restore, you can undo it yourself.
Yes. Download a backup from your dashboard, and keep it wherever you like.
Your site keeps its local protections, and you can still restore from the backups that exist until your retention period ends.
It depends on your plan: from a daily backup kept for 30 days, up to hourly backups kept for a year. The plans below list each one.
Turn on PlugMatrix Protect for your WordPress site and the first backup starts on its own.
