How to back up WordPress sites through GoogleDrive

Whether you are a beginner or expert in WordPress, you should know the importance of backup. In addition, backup is not enough once. periodic backup is required to prevent data loss caused by hosting failures, hacker attacks, and plug-ins. This tutorial is

Whether you are a beginner or expert in WordPress, you should know the importance of backup. In addition, backup is not enough once. periodic backup is required to prevent data loss caused by hosting failures, hacker attacks, and plug-ins.

This tutorial teaches you how to use Google Drive to back up WordPress sites. First, let's take a look at the Google Drive product. Google Drive is a cloud storage service provided by Google. every user has 5 GB free space, which is sufficient for small and medium-sized blogs. If you need to upgrade, the price: 25 GB is $2.45/month, and 100 GB is $4.99/month.

In this tutorial, I will tell you how to use the WordPress plug-in "Google Drive for WordPress" for backup. Then we will tell you how to restore the backup.

1. install the plug-in

Download the plug-in and install it on the control panel ,:

After activating the plug-in, you will see a new menu called "configure Google Drive"

2. configure the plug-in to connect to your Google Drive

Open "Google Api Console" in the new tag for authorization.

Click "Create project", create a name, such as "backup of Tongtian Tower", upload a Logo, and click "next.

Next, create a user id. click next and select "Web Application" in the Application type ".

"Authorized Redirect URIs" is automatically generated by the plug-in and can be found on the plug-in page. the format is as follows:

"Http://yoursite.com/wp-admin/admin.php? Page = configure_google & action = auth ".

"Authorized JavaScript Origins" is your website address.

Click Create account to get "Client ID" and "Client secret", as shown in: