Matthew Reilly

Menu Backup & Restore protects your WordPress menus with automatic backups, one-click restoration, and powerful import/export capabilities. Transfer menus between sites seamlessly with intelligent object mapping that ensures your menu structure remains intact.
<h4>Key Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Automatic backup of menus when they are updated</li>
<li>Easy restoration of previous menu versions</li>
<li>Import and export menus as JSON files for portability or locally saved backups</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, and CSS classes for each menu item</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 organization</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)</li>
<li>You can view and manage backups from the Menus page</li>
<li>Restore any previous version with a single click, preserving all menu settings</li>
<li>Export backups as JSON files 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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Trinity Backup is a powerful, fast, and reliable WordPress backup, migration, and restore plugin. It is built to work smoothly on any hosting — including shared hosting with strict PHP limits, timeouts, and low memory.
Whether you need to create a full site backup, migrate WordPress to a new domain, clone a staging site to production, or schedule automatic daily backups — Trinity Backup handles it all without breaking a sweat.
<h3>Why Choose Trinity Backup?</h3>
Most backup plugins fail on large sites because of PHP timeouts, memory limits, and upload restrictions. Trinity Backup solves all of that:
<ul>
<li>Zero timeouts — Processes everything in safe, resumable AJAX chunks. Even if the browser is closed, you can continue where you left off.</li>
<li>Ultra-low memory usage — Uses streaming archive technology instead of loading files into RAM. Works on hosts with 64 MB memory limits.</li>
<li>Any site size — Designed for sites with thousands of posts, large media libraries, and massive databases.</li>
<li>Resumable operations — Automatically resumes after interruptions, browser refreshes, or temporary server issues.</li>
<li>Single-file archives — Each backup is one <code>.trinity</code> file that contains your entire site: database, plugins, themes, uploads, and all wp-content.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Full Site Backup & Export</h3>
Create a complete backup of your WordPress site with one click. The exported <code>.trinity</code> archive contains everything needed to fully restore or migrate your site:
<ul>
<li>Database export — All tables including posts, pages, users, options, WooCommerce orders, custom post types, and any custom tables.</li>
<li>Files export — All files in wp-content: plugins, themes, uploads, mu-plugins, and custom directories.</li>
<li>Selective backup — Choose exactly what to include or exclude: media uploads, plugins, themes, database, spam comments.</li>
<li>Auto-download — Automatically downloads the backup file to your computer after creation.</li>
<li>Real-time progress — Visual progress bar and detailed log showing every step of the backup process.</li>
</ul>
<h3>One-Click Migration & Restore</h3>
Move your WordPress site to a new host, new domain, or new server with zero hassle:
<ul>
<li>Automatic URL replacement — Intelligently replaces all old URLs with new ones across the entire database, including serialized data in options, widgets, and page builders.</li>
<li>Serialized data safe — Properly handles serialized PHP data (used by most themes and plugins) so nothing breaks after migration.</li>
<li>Drag & drop import — Simply drag your <code>.trinity</code> file into the import area or click to browse. No FTP, no phpMyAdmin, no command line needed.</li>
<li>Cross-host compatible — Works across any hosting provider: cPanel, Plesk, LocalWP, Flywheel, SiteGround, Bluehost, GoDaddy, Cloudways, AWS, and more.</li>
<li>Local ↔ Live — Perfect for moving sites between local development environments (LocalWP, MAMP, XAMPP, Laragon) and live servers.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Backup Management Dashboard</h3>
A clean, modern dashboard to manage all your backups:
<ul>
<li>Backup list — View all existing backups with filename, size, creation date, and who created them.</li>
<li>Bulk actions — Delete individual backups, delete all backups at once, or clean up incomplete temporary files.</li>
<li>Refresh — Instantly refresh the backup list without reloading the page.</li>
<li>Responsive design — Clean, card-based layout that works great on any screen size.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Dark Mode & Light Mode</h3>
Trinity Backup includes a beautiful, modern UI with full theme support:
<ul>
<li>Light theme — Clean white design that matches the default WordPress admin.</li>
<li>Dark theme — Eye-friendly dark appearance for comfortable use in low-light environments.</li>
<li>Auto theme — Automatically follows your operating system’s light/dark preference.</li>
<li>Instant switching — Change theme with one click, no page reload needed. Your preference is saved per user.</li>
</ul>
<h3>AES-256-GCM Encryption (Pro)</h3>
Protect your backups with military-grade encryption:
<ul>
<li>AES-256-GCM — The same encryption standard used by banks. Your backup data is fully encrypted at rest.</li>
<li>Password protection — Set a password when creating a backup. The same password is required for import.</li>
<li>Secure key derivation — Uses proper cryptographic key derivation to turn your password into an encryption key.</li>
<li>Streaming encryption — Files are encrypted in chunks during backup, keeping memory usage low even for encrypted backups.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Scheduled Backups (Pro)</h3>
Automate your backup routine with flexible scheduling powered by WordPress Cron:
<ul>
<li>Multiple frequencies — Hourly, every 2/4/6/12 hours, daily, or weekly.</li>
<li>Custom time selection — Choose the exact hour when daily or weekly backups should run.</li>
<li>Backup retention — Automatically delete old scheduled backups. Keep the last 1–10 backups and save disk space.</li>
<li>Next run display — See exactly when the next scheduled backup will run.</li>
<li>Reliable execution — Uses WordPress Cron with automatic rescheduling if a run is missed.</li>
<li>Exclude content — Customize what each scheduled backup includes: skip media, plugins, themes, database, or spam comments.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Pre-Update Backups (Pro)</h3>
Never lose your site to a bad update again. Trinity Backup can automatically create a full backup before any WordPress update:
<ul>
<li>Plugin updates — Automatic backup before installing plugin updates, including bulk updates.</li>
<li>Theme updates — Automatic backup before theme updates.</li>
<li>Core updates — Automatic backup before WordPress core updates.</li>
<li>Block failed backups — Optionally prevent the update from proceeding if the pre-update backup fails. Recommended for maximum safety.</li>
<li>Single backup per batch — Bulk updates create only one backup per update run, saving disk space and time.</li>
<li>Selective content — Exclude media, themes, plugins, database, or spam comments from pre-update backups.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Email Notifications (Pro)</h3>
Stay informed about every backup operation without checking the dashboard:
<ul>
<li>Success & failure alerts — Get notified when backups complete successfully or when they fail.</li>
<li>Multiple recipients — Send notifications to multiple email addresses (comma-separated).</li>
<li>Event filtering — Choose which events to be notified about: manual backups, scheduled backups, pre-update backups, and imports/restores.</li>
<li>Failure-only mode — Option to only receive emails when something goes wrong — no noise when everything is OK.</li>
<li>Test email — Send a test email to verify your configuration works with a single click.</li>
<li>HTML emails — Professional, well-formatted HTML email notifications with backup details.</li>
</ul>
<h3>WP-CLI Support (Pro)</h3>
Full command-line interface for developers, agencies, and automated deployment pipelines:
<ul>
<li>wp trinity export — Create backups from the command line with all export options (exclude media, plugins, themes, database, spam).</li>
<li>wp trinity import — Restore from a <code>.trinity</code> archive file by specifying the path.</li>
<li>wp trinity list — List all existing backups with size and date.</li>
<li>wp trinity delete — Delete a specific backup by ID.</li>
<li>wp trinity schedule — Configure scheduled backups (frequency, time, retention) from the terminal.</li>
<li>Encrypted CLI backups — Pass <code>--password=secret</code> to create encrypted backups via CLI.</li>
<li>CI/CD ready — Integrate Trinity Backup into your GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Bitbucket Pipelines, or custom deployment scripts.</li>
</ul>
<h3>White Label (Pro)</h3>
Fully rebrand the plugin for client sites or your own SaaS product:
<ul>
<li>Custom plugin name — Replace “Trinity Backup” with your own brand name in the admin menu, page header, and plugins list.</li>
<li>Custom description — Set a custom subtitle/description displayed on the plugin page.</li>
<li>Custom author — Replace the author name and URL on the plugins list page.</li>
<li>Custom menu icon — Use any Dashicon class or a custom image URL as the admin menu icon.</li>
<li>Hide branding — Remove the Trinity Backup logo from the page header.</li>
<li>Hide submenus — Selectively hide “Account” and “Contact Us” submenu items.</li>
<li>Hide plugin actions — Hide “View details” on the plugins page, or keep only the “Deactivate” link.</li>
<li>Access control — Restrict White Label settings access to a specific administrator. Other admins won’t even see the settings section.</li>
<li>Persistent settings — All White Label settings survive plugin updates.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Flexible Export Options</h3>
Fine-tune every backup with granular exclusion options:
<ul>
<li>Exclude media uploads — Skip the wp-content/uploads folder to create smaller backups.</li>
<li>Exclude plugins — Skip the plugins directory if you only need themes and content.</li>
<li>Exclude themes — Skip the themes directory.</li>
<li>Exclude database — Create a files-only backup without the database.</li>
<li>Exclude spam comments — Keep your backups clean by skipping spam comment data.</li>
<li>Keep email domain — Optionally preserve email addresses during migration instead of replacing them.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Import & Restore Features</h3>
Reliable site restoration with smart conflict handling:
<ul>
<li>URL replacement — Automatic, safe URL replacement across the entire database including serialized data.</li>
<li>Drag & drop upload — Modern drag-and-drop file upload area. No page reloads needed.</li>
<li>Import progress — Real-time progress bar and detailed log during import.</li>
<li>Confirmation dialog — Safety confirmation before starting a destructive import operation.</li>
<li>Encrypted archive import — Seamlessly import password-protected backup archives.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Technical Highlights</h3>
<ul>
<li>PHP 8.0+ — Built with modern PHP, strict types, and clean architecture.</li>
<li>No external dependencies — No cloud accounts, no third-party services, no API keys required.</li>
<li>No file size limits — Handles sites of any size without hitting PHP upload_max_filesize limits.</li>
<li>WordPress Multisite aware — Compatible with WordPress Multisite installations.</li>
<li>Translation ready — Fully translatable with standard WordPress i18n functions.</li>
<li>Clean uninstall — Removes all options and data when the plugin is deleted.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Use Cases</h3>
<ul>
<li>Regular website backups — Protect your blog, business site, or portfolio with automatic daily or weekly backups.</li>
<li>WordPress migration — Move your site from one host to another, or from a local dev environment to a live server.</li>
<li>Site cloning — Duplicate a WordPress site for staging, development, or client review.</li>
<li>Pre-update safety net — Automatically back up before plugin, theme, or WordPress core updates.</li>
<li>Developer workflow — Use WP-CLI to integrate backups into your development and deployment scripts.</li>
<li>Agency white label — Rebrand the plugin for client sites with your agency name and logo.</li>
<li>WooCommerce backup — Safely back up WooCommerce stores including orders, products, and customer data.</li>
<li>Disaster recovery — Restore a broken site from a backup archive in minutes.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Supported Hosting Providers</h3>
Trinity Backup works on virtually any hosting provider, including:
<ul>
<li>SiteGround, Bluehost, HostGator, GoDaddy, DreamHost</li>
<li>Cloudways, DigitalOcean, Linode, Vultr, AWS Lightsail</li>
<li>WP Engine, Flywheel, Kinsta, Pantheon</li>
<li>cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin</li>
<li>LocalWP, MAMP, XAMPP, Laragon, Docker</li>
</ul>

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I've been running Trinity Backup on several of my sites for a few weeks now and I'm genuinely impressed. Backups are created reliably and the whole process is completely transparent — you just set it up and forget about it. Had one question for the support team and they got back to me quickly with a clear and helpful answer. Really satisfied with both the plugin itself and the level of support behind it.


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Backup, migrate, clone, and restore WordPress sites of any size. Scheduled, pre-update backups, email notifications, WP-CLI, white label, encryption.

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