78
Total Upkeep – WordPress Backup Plugin plus Restore & Migrate by BoldGrid
A dependable safety net that earns plenty of praise and very little detail.
HealthyDeclining
78/100
Users appreciate the reliable backup and restore features despite many reviews lacking specific detail.
Active installs
~55,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 50k+
Rating
4.8★
439 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-14%
Declining
142 → 122 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORreview volume down 64% 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 · -14% in the last year
142/day a year ago→122/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayReview trustMostly organic
- 5.00★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.80★
- 32%One-shot reviewers — single-review accounts (common for popular plugins, but worth noting)
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-10-182025-02-092026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 439 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-05-31★★★★★5 StarsMartin Howard
- 2026-05-27★★★★★Excellent ProductLSHanford
- 2026-03-21★★★★★Very helpfulohsnyt
- 2026-03-12★★★★★Really good plugin to useChristian Boer
- 2026-03-08★★★★★Great utility.rcoblentz1-shot
- 2025-12-06★★★★★Worth having on your WordPress websiteteetrik
- 2025-11-27★★★★★Works seamlessly and effortlesslyAdrián Ortiz Arandes
- 2025-11-23★★★★★Total Upkeep – Keep It Up!damonkey
- 2025-10-26★★★★★useful pluginrichardtrombly1-shot
- 2025-09-28★★★★★Total Upkeep is an excellent backup and restore plugin!ibiswasinfo1-shot
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNAlternatives to Total Upkeep
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.
105
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
98
Prior 7-day baseline
91
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
7,081
Mean release-day peak (30d)
112
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+7.1%
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.
8%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
0.61
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
100%
5★ share in analyzed sample
32%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
-64%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
5.00 → 5.00★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered