Back Up Your Product Feeds
Create a Backup
- In your WordPress dashboard, go to WP Product Feed Manager > Settings.
- Scroll to the bottom of the page to find the Backup Manager.
- Click Add new backup.
- Enter a name for your backup in the field that appears.
- Click Backup current feeds.
Your backup now appears in the backup table. WP Product Feed Manager saves a backup of every product feed you have created.
Note: Backups are stored in
wp-content/uploads/wppfm-backupson your server. They remain there until you delete them. You can also retrieve backup files via FTP to transfer them to a different server or domain.
Manage Your Backups
Each backup in the table has four action links:
- Restore: replaces your current feeds with the feeds from this backup.
- Duplicate: creates a copy of this backup.
- Export: downloads the backup as a .sql file to your computer.
- Delete: permanently removes this backup from the server.
Warning: Restoring a backup replaces all your current product feeds. Make sure you create a new backup of your current feeds before restoring an older one, if you want to keep them.
After Restoring a Backup
Restoring a backup brings back your feed configurations, but does not automatically generate the feed files. After a restore, you need to:
- Make sure the channel used by each feed is installed in WP Product Feed Manager. If a channel is missing, install it before continuing.
- Manually regenerate each product feed to produce the feed file.
Note: If a feed’s channel is not installed, the feed cannot be regenerated until the channel is added.