Matthew Reilly

Menu Backup & Restore protects every WordPress menu, both classic <code>nav_menu</code> menus and block-theme <code>wp_navigation</code> posts edited in the Site Editor, with automatic backups, one-click restoration, and powerful import/export capabilities. Transfer menus between sites seamlessly with intelligent per-item mapping that rewrites page, post, and category references for the target site.
<h4>Key Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Automatic backup of menus when they are updated</li>
<li>Works with both classic menus (<code>nav_menu</code>) and block-theme menus (<code>wp_navigation</code> posts edited in the Site Editor)</li>
<li>Site Editor inspector panel — back up, restore, rename, or apply a backup from another menu without leaving the editor, with a Navigation block selected</li>
<li>In-place restore replaces the existing menu directly, no duplicate menus, theme locations stay assigned</li>
<li>Import and export menus as JSON files for portability or locally saved backups</li>
<li>Multi-menu export and import — select multiple menus or backups to export in a single file</li>
<li>Transfer menus between sites with intelligent object mapping, can be used to update menus from development to production sites without full site migration</li>
<li>Manual mapping interface to override automatic matches and map menu items to specific pages, posts, or taxonomies during import</li>
<li>Preserves complete menu structure: hierarchy, theme locations, CSS classes, and third-party plugin data (post_meta) icons etc…</li>
<li>Bulk actions — select multiple backups to export or delete at once</li>
<li>Rename backups inline with a click</li>
<li>Configurable maximum number of backups to keep</li>
<li>See who saved and created the backup</li>
<li>Tab-based interface for better organisation</li>
<li>Simple and intuitive user interface</li>
<li>No database modifications required</li>
<li>Lightweight and fast</li>
</ul>
<h4>How It Works</h4>
<ol>
<li>The plugin automatically creates a backup whenever you update a menu</li>
<li>Backups are stored in the WordPress options table with complete menu structure (hierarchy, locations, CSS classes, custom post_meta)</li>
<li>Manage backups from the legacy Menus page (classic themes), the Appearance > Menu Backups page (block themes), or inline from the Site Editor inspector when editing a Navigation block — rename, export, delete, restore, or bulk-select</li>
<li>Restore any previous version with a single click, the existing menu is updated in-place, keeping theme locations intact</li>
<li>Export one or multiple menus as a single JSON file for portability or import to other sites</li>
<li>Configure the maximum number of backups to keep in the settings</li>
</ol>
<h4>Requirements</h4>
<ul>
<li>WordPress 5.0 or higher</li>
<li>PHP 7.2 or higher</li>
</ul>
<h4>What Users Have to Say on Reddit</h4>
“That’s a super useful idea! Menus are so easy to wipe out by accident, and restoring from a full backup always feels like overkill. Nice work!”
“Really appreciate it, This will come in handy alot!”
“Oh man, I’ve done this before too. Lost a big menu while trying to rearrange items and it was gone in a click. Ended up re-building from scratch. 
This plugin sounds like a lifesaver — surprised WordPress hasn’t built something like this in by default.”
“Kind of an automatic backup vs having to schedule one.”
“that’s a killer quality of life plugin wp’s missing so many of those “one click undo” features for common mistakes”
“Great idea! I do this more often than I care to admit. This needs to be in Core!”
“Dude I literally do this all the time and actually did it less than an hour ago. I hate how the WordPress menu isn’t stored normally. Thanks for this!”

Menu Backup & Restore + Import/Export

Protect WordPress menus with automatic backups, one-click restore, and import/export. Transfer menus between sites with ease.

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<h3>TL;DR:</h3>
<ul>
<li>🚀 Lightning fast backups </li>
<li>🪶 Lightweight – just over 1MB </li>
<li>⚡ Super-quick migration with only a few clicks </li>
<li>🎯 Incredibly easy to use – no tech skills required </li>
<li>☁️ Many free storage options: Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, pCloud, Amazon S3 & more </li>
<li>🔒 Exclusive own storage solution with 1GB of free space – unique on the market! </li>
</ul>
👉 <a href="https://demo.tastewp.com/bmi" rel="nofollow ugc">Try it out instantly on a live demo</a>
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Creating a backup of your site has never been easier!
Simply install the plugin, click on “Create backup now” – done.
Website migration is just as easy and FREE, with just two clicks!
Wide range of available cloud storage locations: Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, Amazon S3, Wasabi, pCloud, SFTP & FTP, and free cloud storage BackupBliss.
You can also schedule backups, e.g. define that a backup should be taken automatically every week (or every day/month).
Use a wide choice of configuration options:
<ul>
<li>Define exactly which files / databases should be in the backup, and which should not</li>
<li>Define where the backup will be stored (store locally and/or backup to cloud)</li>
<li>Define what name your backup should have, in which instances you should receive a notification email, and much more</li>
<li>Additional advanced features included in the premium: smart exclusion rules, Tar and GZip compression methods, full email notifications, automatic backups before updates, and more.</li>
</ul>
This plugin is all in one solution if you need to migrate your site to another host or just restore the local backup.
Note: This (free) version is limited to backups of 4GB in size, due to native WordPress ZIP limitations. For unlimited sizes and increased stability for larger sites, please have a look at the <a href="https://backupbliss.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Premium Plugin</a>. The code of this free plugin is licensed under <a href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html" rel="nofollow ugc">GPLv3</a>, however, we claim rights to other content. Please read the full <a href="https://backupbliss.com/terms" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Use</a> that touch other points as well and apply in entirety.
If any questions come up, please ask us in the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/backup-backup" rel="ugc">Support Forum</a> – we’re always happy to help!

Backup Migration

Our hosting does daily backups but it is always nice to have a tool that can quickly make a backup on demand. This plugin is what we need

Really easy backups

I have been using your plugin often and I am quite satisfied. Many thnaks guys. Indeed beautiful development you did.

Thanks
Shiv

Always awesome

It worked perfectly for me. Thank you very much for a great plugin.

Worked as promised.

Simple and Fast


...and it's very well built. Solid backup plugin!


Works Like a Charm...


This plugin was handy in my scenario because other similar plugins with big names in the market were not useful to me even migrating a site with a size less than 50 MB some had limits and others had migration available in the premium version.



The free version of this plugin helped me a lot. Thanks to the Developers. 


Best option in market


Well, I will only say that, this plugin is far more better then other plugins on the web. very fast and smooth migration. Highly recommend. Keep up the good work guys. :)  


Awesome Plugin!!!


Its good plugin for backup compared to others.


Its good plugin for backup


Seriously, this free plugin beats even the premium alternatives.Thanks, Inisev! 🏆



A tip for people moving away from WP Engine:By default, they place some files in the /wp-content/ directory might break the import process on the new server.This can be avoided by deleting anything under /wp-content/mu-plugins/ that you haven't inserted yourself.In my case, I also had to remove /wp-content/object-cache.php


simply the best 👌


I know it doesn't look the "WP" way, but I like the look of this plugin.Nice and easy to use. The only thing I would say is that if you run out of space it doesn't really say that. so check that if it doesn't backup.






Nice plugin, nice design

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