How to anonymise personal data in WordPress backups

Follow these steps to automatically anonymise any personal data found in your WordPress database tables such as names and email addresses.

If you haven’t already, purchase and install UpdraftPlus Premium.

Go to the WordPress ‘Settings’ menu and open ‘UpdraftPlus Backups’.

Click the blue ‘Backup Now’ button at the top of this page.

Click the more button (…) next to the ‘Include your database in the backup’ checkbox.

Then choose which data you would like to anonymise.

This will start the backup process with your anonymous data.