How to Setup Automatic WordPress Backup with CodeGuard

Key Takeaways

hello and welcome to WP beginner in this video I'll show you how to set up automatic WordPress backups with code guard code guard's a website backup service that allows you to automatically back things up to the cloud and to get started you just need to go to the code Guard website and click Start your free trial button enter all your information and then once you get in there and once you get in there we can get started once you've signed up for code car you can go into the dashboard setting and from here you want to select the use our WordPress plugin when it does that it'll give you some instructions on how to proceed so what we want to do is go back to our WordPress dashboard we want to go to plugins add new and just search for code guard we want to install and activate that after that's activated we need to go back to code guard to get our access key so I'm going to click generate access key and I'm going to copy this long piece go back to my website under the code guard here I'm going to click on that and I'm going to paste that in in and save it once you do that all you have to do is Click create backup and as you can see it's going through the whole process of creating everything that we need all right and once it's finished you can see the backup right here the size of it and the action that you want to take on it and from here you can either do a restore or delete and now your site is backed up if you like this video click on the like button and go ahead and leave us a comment there we'd love to hear from you and subscribe to our YouTube channel to get the latest videos