76
BlogVault Backup & Staging
Reliable site insurance that costs a premium but saves your skin.
HealthyDeclining
76/100
Excellent support and reliable backups earn high praise despite the premium cost and reports of deletion issues.
Active installs
~85,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 80k+
Rating
4.5★
326 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-18%
Declining
289 → 236 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORreview volume down 50% vs prior 6mo
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Declining · -18% in the last year
289/day a year ago→236/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayBlogVault is a well-regarded backup, staging, and site-management plugin with a strong reputation for reliability and responsive support, though it is a paid service and at least one user reports difficulty removing it after a developer installed it.
What people like
- +Highly responsive and genuinely helpful customer support, including hands-on assistance with complex issues like hacked sites×7
- +Reliable backup integrity with few or no failed restores or migrations×3
- +Supports WP Multisite staging as part of standard paid packages
- +Useful for managing large numbers of sites, with tools for backups, monitoring, and staging in one platform×3
- +Solves disk-space problems by moving backups off the server
Common complaints
- −Paid service that is not cheap×2
- −Plugin cannot be deleted by the site owner after a developer installs it
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.85★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.50★
- 19%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2024-06-142025-06-092026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 326 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-05-26★★★★★Great Software and Serviceheatherlsi
- 2026-04-09★★★★★The Best!darrenbowyer
- 2026-03-05★★★★★Top Notchdeecos
- 2026-03-02★★★★★Best of allwcrestani
- 2026-02-16★★★★★Blog Vault to the rescuestevebrett
- 2026-01-30★★★★★GA4 connection WP RemoteRobbert – ROS WEB
- 2026-01-26★★★★★BlogVault – a pleasure to deal with!trefusis1-shot
- 2026-01-15★★★★★Excellent advice and support!gemini245
- 2026-01-12★★★★★Excellent HelpdeskJosh
- 2025-12-10★★★★★Foundation of Site Careslomeli79
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNAlternatives to BlogVault Backup & Staging
Top Backups plugins, ranked by score.For developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
199
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
226
Prior 7-day baseline
468
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
15,099
Mean release-day peak (30d)
534
Latest day · 2026-06-03(tail)
-11.9%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
9%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
0.63
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
96%
5★ share in analyzed sample
19%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
-50%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.83 → 4.85★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered