WordPress 4.3 is nearly here – UpdraftPlus is ready

For a few major WP releases now, I’ve felt a little under-whelmed. ‘Menus in the theme customizer’, ‘Site icon support’, ‘Encouraging users towards stronger passwords’, ‘Editing improvements’ and ‘New mobile list view’ are all nice, but not game-changing. However, this overlooks the fact that the power of WordPress is in its plugins, of which there are now over 39,000, downloaded over a billion times between them. You’re not limited to what’s in the core – it only takes one plugin to change your WordPress site dramatically, and that freedom for plugin authors to innovate has been a big factor in WordPress’s success.

UpdraftPlus is somewhere around number 30 out of those 39,000 plugins in terms of how many sites have it installed – it’s literally one in a thousand! And, it’s ready for WordPress 4.3 – it’s passed all testing in its current release, so if you’re running that (or indeed the one before), you should be fine. Do remember to take a backup before you update WordPress core! If you’ve not yet checked out UpdraftPlus Premium, including a free 1Gb of Updraft Vault storage (as well as all the other storage options – Dropbox, etc.), then now’s a great time to take a look. We broke our record for new downloads last week (having over 20,000 in one single day); we’re waiting to see if we can do the same with sales when WP 4.3 drops!