{"id":18614,"date":"2020-02-04T13:19:19","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T18:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/?p=18614"},"modified":"2020-10-09T14:28:42","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T18:28:42","slug":"plugin-editor-backup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/total-upkeep\/plugin-editor-backup\/","title":{"rendered":"Using the Plugin Editor File Backup Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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<\/iframe><\/p>\nWordPress gives you the ability to edit your site’s plugins directly from the Dashboard. This can be very handy for quick testing, but can also lead to unexpected site behavior if you make a mistake. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/wordpress-backup-plugin\/\">Total Upkeep Premium plugin<\/a> gives you the ability to easily save a backup copy of any WordPress file you’re changing before you save the changes, and easily revert your changes if you need to.<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In your WordPress dashboard, navigate to Plugins -> Plugin Editor<\/strong><\/span> \n<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Select the plugin you need to edit at the top-right of the screen and click Select<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the bottom of the screen, you will see new options allowing you to either Save a copy before updating<\/strong> or to Find a version to restore<\/strong>.<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/plugin-editor-tools.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18615\" src=\"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/plugin-editor-tools.png\" alt=\"Save a copy of a plugin file before editing\" width=\"1248\" height=\"735\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/plugin-editor-tools.png 1248w, https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/plugin-editor-tools-300x177.png 300w, https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/plugin-editor-tools-1024x603.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/plugin-editor-tools-768x452.png 768w, https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/plugin-editor-tools-610x359.png 610w, https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/plugin-editor-tools-250x147.png 250w, https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/plugin-editor-tools-550x324.png 550w, https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/plugin-editor-tools-800x471.png 800w, https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/plugin-editor-tools-306x180.png 306w, https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/plugin-editor-tools-509x300.png 509w, https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/plugin-editor-tools-849x500.png 849w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1248px) 100vw, 1248px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WordPress gives you the ability to edit your site’s plugins directly from the Dashboard. This can be very handy for quick testing, but can also lead to unexpected site behavior if you make a mistake. The Total Upkeep Premium plugin gives you the ability to easily save a backup copy of any WordPress file you’re […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1294,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","footnotes":""},"categories":[763,453],"tags":[215,54],"class_list":["post-18614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tools","category-total-upkeep","tag-backups","tag-restore","feature-type-premium","experience-level-advanced"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18614"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20519,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18614\/revisions\/20519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}