*WAS* My Favorite WordPress Plugin

Edit (2018-11-29): I’m not a person who typically leaves negative reviews, but the latest update is leaving a very bad taste in my mouth.

No longer can you use the “Restore” feature in the “Backups” area:
“Restore” functionality has been moved to a paid extension”

As a fellow developer, I get it: they need to make money from their plugin, which is perfectly. What’s not fine is the way in which this is occurring — the sabotaging of a basic feature.

“Backups should be deleted and stored off the server”

There are reasons why someone may choose to keep backups on the server, even if for simple redundancy in having it there + somewhere local.

You know what this also prevents? Using FTP to directly upload your All-In-One backups rather than through your browser, which I’ve needed to do when the plugin fails for whatever reason during the upload process.

Mind you, I’ve purchased their multisite extension, as well as their unlimited upload extension in the past, so I’m not adverse towards paying for a good product. What I am adverse to, however, is this line on their website for the “Unlimited” extension:

Use on any number of websites that you own

As freelancers know, you don’t “own” a client’s websites even if you built it and manage it. What this line says is that you have to buy it at least twice: once for you, and once for any client you wish to use it for. This gets expensive fast if you’re lucky enough to have multiple clients. A much more acceptable pricing structure would be something in the same vein as Advanced Custom Fields.

Additionally, the two licenses that I mentioned earlier? They don’t even work with the newest version of All In One WP Migration.

Very disappointing.

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OLD Review:

As a web developer, I cannot stress how much I appreciate this plugin.

I’ve tried many plugins that attempt to do what All-In-One WP Migration does — and none of them even come close!

Whether you’re backing up a website, restoring a website, or simply moving a website from a staging environment to a production environment, this plugin does it all with ease. Heck, it even supports multisite environments if you get the addon (which I completely recommend!).

To top things off, they also provide absolutely phenomenal support!

• This topic was modified 6 years, 3 months ago by mikeh. Reason: Plugin Update