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Most WordPress backup tools either feel too fragile when you actually need them, or too bloated with upsells and clutter. WXD Backup Lite is built around a narrower goal: reliable backups, safer restores, and cleaner migrations for real-world WordPress sites.
The focus is on recovery confidence and predictable workflows — not features for their own sake.
Full-site backups. Guided restores. Clean migrations.
WXD Backup Lite can create full-site or selective backups, schedule recurring jobs, enforce retention rules, lock important backups from deletion, and guide restores through a structured flow — including an automatic restore point created before every recovery attempt.
WooCommerce-friendly: Because WooCommerce stores everything in the WordPress database and filesystem, full-site backups automatically capture orders, products, customers, and store configuration. No extra setup required.
What’s included:
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<li>Full-site backup — database, plugins, themes, uploads, MU-plugins, and core files</li>
<li>Selective backup scope for targeted jobs</li>
<li>Portable .zip backup archives</li>
<li>Daily, weekly, or manual backup scheduling</li>
<li>Configurable retention with automatic cleanup of the oldest backups</li>
<li>Backup locking to protect important archives from auto-deletion</li>
<li>Guided one-click restore with scope selection, confirmation, and real-time progress</li>
<li>Automatic restore point created before every restore</li>
<li>Real-time restore event log and progress tracking</li>
<li>Post-restore validation flow</li>
<li>Site migration workflow with URL rewriting</li>
<li>wp-config.php normalization after migration</li>
<li>Import from an uploaded backup archive</li>
<li>Dashboard with backup stats, storage forecast, and server health check</li>
<li>Activity log with export support</li>
<li>Concurrent restore lock and restore-safety protections</li>
<li>Nonce and capability protection on all AJAX actions</li>
</ul>
Note: This plugin does not support WordPress Multisite. It is designed for single-site installs only.
Privacy: No data leaves your server. WXD Backup Lite makes no external API calls, does not phone home, and requires no account or license key. Backup archives are stored locally in the <code>wsbl-backups</code> subfolder of your WordPress uploads directory.

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Action Scheduler is a scalable, traceable job queue for background processing large sets of actions in WordPress. It’s specially designed to be distributed in WordPress plugins.
Action Scheduler works by triggering an action hook to run at some time in the future. Each hook can be scheduled with unique data, to allow callbacks to perform operations on that data. The hook can also be scheduled to run on one or more occasions.
Think of it like an extension to <code>do_action()</code> which adds the ability to delay and repeat a hook.
<h3>Battle-Tested Background Processing</h3>
Every month, Action Scheduler processes millions of payments for <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/woocommerce-subscriptions/" rel="nofollow ugc">Subscriptions</a>, webhooks for <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce/" rel="ugc">WooCommerce</a>, as well as emails and other events for a range of other plugins.
It’s been seen on live sites processing queues in excess of 50,000 jobs and doing resource intensive operations, like processing payments and creating orders, at a sustained rate of over 10,000 / hour without negatively impacting normal site operations.
This is all on infrastructure and WordPress sites outside the control of the plugin author.
If your plugin needs background processing, especially of large sets of tasks, Action Scheduler can help.
<h3>Learn More</h3>
To learn more about how Action Scheduler works, and how to use it in your plugin, check out the docs on <a href="https://actionscheduler.org" rel="nofollow ugc">ActionScheduler.org</a>.
There you will find:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://actionscheduler.org/usage/" rel="nofollow ugc">Usage guide</a>: instructions on installing and using Action Scheduler</li>
<li><a href="https://actionscheduler.org/wp-cli/" rel="nofollow ugc">WP CLI guide</a>: instructions on running Action Scheduler at scale via WP CLI</li>
<li><a href="https://actionscheduler.org/api/" rel="nofollow ugc">API Reference</a>: complete reference guide for all API functions</li>
<li><a href="https://actionscheduler.org/admin/" rel="nofollow ugc">Administration Guide</a>: guide to managing scheduled actions via the administration screen</li>
<li><a href="https://actionscheduler.org/perf/" rel="nofollow ugc">Guide to Background Processing at Scale</a>: instructions for running Action Scheduler at scale via the default WP Cron queue runner</li>
</ul>
<h3>Credits</h3>
Action Scheduler is developed and maintained by <a href="http://automattic.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Automattic</a> with significant early development completed by <a href="https://flightless.us/" rel="nofollow ugc">Flightless</a>.
Collaboration is cool. We’d love to work with you to improve Action Scheduler. <a href="https://github.com/woocommerce/action-scheduler/pulls" rel="nofollow ugc">Pull Requests</a> welcome.

Action Scheduler

Great to have this functonality in a plugin

Looks like good and useful

How Action Scheduler only has two reviews is beyond me, though I guess I more typically use it as a library within whatever I'm developing rather than as an actual plugin. 

Regardless, Action Scheduler is awesome and an absolutely vital contribution to the WordPress community. It's really the only good way to reliably get intensive, bulk recurring actions happening with useful reporting on if scheduled events are happening and such. WAY better than trying to leverage WP's native "wp-cron" task scheduling system.

Documentation is good too. What more could you ask?

Should be in core


Developers refuse to support their own plugin.  I have no use for something that does not work, and something the developers will not support.



Cannot and will not recommend to anyone... sadly will not make much of a difference because it's in use in every site that utilizes WooCommerce, but, whatever...


Refuses to Support


A must-use if you want to schedule any type of task, no more wp_schedule headaches.


Great time savior plugin

Action Scheduler - Job Queue for WordPress

WXD Backup Lite vs Action Scheduler