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Notes from building Backvera — failure modes we ship around, architecture decisions, WordPress quirks worth knowing.

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WordPress

How to migrate a WordPress site manually: a step-by-step guide

Move a WordPress site to a new host or domain by hand: what to copy, the commands for each step, how to…

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Security

The UpdraftCentral breach: how stolen keys put backdoors on UpdraftPlus sites, and what to check

Over the weekend of 17-18 October an attacker got into teamupdraft.com. By the afternoon of 18 October, someone holding valid UpdraftCentral keys…

Security

Elementor Pro, Pods and Kirki: three critical CVEs, and why the next one is already on its way

Elementor Pro, Pods and Kirki all shipped fixes for unauthenticated site takeover in the space of a few months. All three were…

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WordPress

WordPress 7.1 “Mary Lou”: what actually changed, and what to test before you update

WordPress 7.1 brings responsive styles without CSS, hover and focus states in Global Styles, image processing that runs in the browser, and…

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wp2shell: The WordPress Core Pre-Auth RCE, What to Do and How to Recover Cleanly

A critical pre-authentication remote code execution bug (wp2shell, CVE-2026-63030 / CVE-2026-60137) affects stock WordPress installs. Here's how to patch, how to respond…

Three-step restore flow: dry run to preview, safety backup as a rollback point, then restore, with the live site staying online.
Product

Restores you can run on a Friday

If a restore needs a maintenance window, it is not a restore — it is a migration.

Timeline: WP-Cron runs a 3am backup at 7am when the first visitor arrives; Backvera runs it on time at 3am.
Engineering

Why WP-Cron is not your backup scheduler

WP-Cron only runs when someone visits your site.

Bar chart: full backups store about 10 GB over five days, while incremental stores a 2 GB baseline plus small daily changes, about 2.2 GB.
Engineering

What “incremental” actually means for WordPress backups

"Incremental" gets sprayed across the backup space like glitter. Here is what it actually means at the database and file layer.

Behind the scenes

Naming things: the etymology of Backvera

Back is backup. Vera is Latin for true. Backups you can trust.

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