=== WP STAGING PRO - Backup Duplicator & Migration ===

Author URL: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-staging
Plugin URL: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-staging
Contributors: WP-Staging, WPStagingBackup, ReneHermi, lucatume, lucasbustamante, alaasalama, fayyazfayzi
Donate link: https://wp-staging.com/#pricing
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
Tags: backup, restore, migration, staging, wordpress backup
Requires at least: 3.6+
Tested up to: 7.1
Stable tag: 6.13.1
Requires PHP: 7.0

Backup & Backup Restore. Migration & Staging – 1-Click Enterprise Backup Plugin, 100% Unit Tested. Keep Your Backups Safe and Secure.

== Description ==

<h3>Staging, Backup, Cloning & Migration of WordPress Sites</h3>
WP STAGING is a professional all in one <strong>backup, duplicator and staging plugin</strong>. Create an exact copy and backup of your website in seconds. Perfect for staging, backup, or development purposes.
(Cloning and backup time depends on the size of your website)
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This backup and staging tool creates a clone of your website into a subfolder or subdomain (Pro) of your main WordPress installation. The cloned site includes an entire copy of your database.
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For pushing & migrating plugins and themes to the live site, creating a backup and upload a backup to cloud providers, check out [WP STAGING | PRO](https://wp-staging.com/backup-wordpress "WP STAGING - Backup & Cloning")
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WP STAGING runs all the time-consumptive operations for database and file cloning and backup operations in the background. This tool does <strong>automatically a search & replacement</strong> of all links and paths.
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This staging and backup plugin can clone your website even if it runs on a weak shared hosting server.
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<strong>WP STAGING can prevent your website from breaking or going offline due to installing untested plugins!</strong>

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== WP STAGING FREE - BACKUP & STAGING FEATURES ==

* Clones the entire production site into a subdirectory like example.com/staging-site.
* Easy to use! Create a clone / backup site by clicking one button
* No Software as a Service - No account needed! All your data stays on your server. Your data belongs to you only.
* No server timeouts on huge websites or small and weak servers
* Very fast - Migration and clone / backup process takes only a few seconds or minutes, depending on the website's size and server I/O power.
* Use the clone as part of your backup strategy
* Only administrators can access the clone / backup website.
* SEO friendly: The clone website is unavailable to search engines due to a custom login prompt and the meta tag no-index.
* The admin bar on the staging / backup website is orange colored and shows when you work on the staging site.
* Extensive logging features
* Supports all popular web servers: Apache, Nginx, Microsoft IIS, LiteSpeed Server
* Every release passes thousands of unit and acceptance tests to make the plugin extremely robust, reliable and fast on an enterprise code quality level
* Fast and professional support team

== WP STAGING | PRO - BACKUP & STAGING FEATURES ==

The backup & cloning features below are Premium. You need WP STAGING | PRO to use those features. [More about WP STAGING | PRO](https://wp-staging.com/backup-wordpress)!

* Migration - Migrate and transfer WordPress to another host or domain
* High Performance - Backup and clone an entire website, even with millions of database rows faster and less resource-intensive than with other plugins
* Push staging website including all plugins, themes, and media files to the production website wth one click
* Clone the backup / clone site to a separate database
* Choose custom directory for backup & cloned site
* Select custom subdomain as destination for backup / clone site like dev.example.com
* Authentication - Define user roles for accessing the clone / backup site only. This can be clients or external developers.
* Multisite Support - Migrate, backup and clone WordPress multisites
* Backup Plans - Schedule recurring multiple backups by hours, time and interval
* Backup Transfer - Download and upload backups to another server for migration and website transfer
* Backup Retention - Select number of backups you want to keep on your server or cloud remote storage provider
* Backup Custom Names: Choose custom backup names to differentiate easily between different backup files
* High Performance Background Processor - Runs backup in the background very efficiently without slowing down your website
* Mail notifications - Be notified if a backup can not be created
* Backup of WordPress multisites
* Backup to Google Drive
* Backup to Amazon S3
* Backup to (s)FTP
* Backup to Dropbox
* Specify custom backup folder destination for backup cloud storage providers
* Priority Support for backup & cloning or if something does not work as expected for you.

== DOCUMENTATION ==

== Backup, Restore & Migration ==

<strong>How to Backup and Restore WordPress</strong>
[https://wp-staging.com/docs/how-to-backup-and-restore-your-wordpress-website/](https://wp-staging.com/docs/how-to-backup-and-restore-your-wordpress-website/ "Backup and Restore WordPress")

<strong>Backup & Transfer WordPress Site to Another Host</strong>
[https://wp-staging.com/docs/how-to-migrate-your-wordpress-site-to-a-new-host/](https://wp-staging.com/docs/how-to-migrate-your-wordpress-site-to-a-new-host/ "Backup and Transfer WordPress to new host")

<strong>All Backup Guides</strong>
[https://wp-staging.com/docs/category/backup-restore/](https://wp-staging.com/docs/category/backup-restore/ "All Backup Guides")

<strong>Working with Staging Sites </strong>
[https://wp-staging.com/docs/category/working-with-wp-staging/](https://wp-staging.com/docs/category/working-with-wp-staging/ "Working with Staging Sites")

<strong>FAQ for Backup & Cloning</strong>
[https://wp-staging.com/docs/category/frequently-asked-questions/](https://wp-staging.com/docs/category/frequently-asked-questions/ "Backup & Cloning FAQ")

<strong>Troubleshooting Backup & Cloning</strong>
[https://wp-staging.com/docs/category/troubleshooting/](https://wp-staging.com/docs/category/troubleshooting/ "Troubleshooting Backup & Cloning")

<strong>Change your workflow of updating themes and plugins:</strong>

1. Use WP STAGING to clone a production website for staging, testing, or backup purposes.
2. Create a backup of your website.
3. Customize the theme, configuration, update or install new plugins.
4. Test everything on your staging site and keep a backup of the original site.
5. If the staging site works 100%, start the migration and copy all updates to your production site!
6. If something does not work as expected, restore the previous backup.

<h3> Can´t I just use my local WordPress development system like xampp / lampp for testing and backup purposes? </h3>

You can always test your website locally, but if your local hardware and software environment is not a 100% exact clone of your production server, there is NO guarantee that every aspect of your local copy works on your production website exactly as you expect it.

There are noticeable differences like the PHP version or the server your website is running under. Still, even such non-obvious settings like the amount of RAM or the CPU performance can lead to unexpected results on your production website.

There are dozens of other reasons why a local test website will never mimic the production site server. That's why a successful local test or backup site is no guarantee that the site will run in the production environment as expected.

That is where WP STAGING shows its strengths... Site cloning, backup, and staging site creation simplified. WordPress cloning on an enterprise-ish level!


== Frequently Asked Questions ==

= Why should I use a Backup & Staging Website? =

Plugin updates and theme customizations should be tested on a staging / backup platform before applying them on the production website.
Usually, it's recommended having the staging / backup platform on an identical server like the production server. You can only catch all possible errors during testing with the same hardware and software environment for your test & backup website.

So, before you update a plugin or install a new one, it is highly recommended to check out the modifications on a clone / backup of your production website.
That ensures that any modifications work on your production website without throwing unexpected errors or preventing your site from loading, better known as the "WordPress blank page error."

Testing a plugin update before installing it in a production environment isn't done very often by most users because existing staging solutions are too complex and need a lot of time to create a
an up-to-date copy of your website.

You could be afraid of installing plugins updates because you follow "never touch a running system." You know that untested updates increase the risk of breaking your site.

That's is one of the main reasons WordPress installations are often outdated, not updated at all, and insecure because of this non-update behavior.

<strong> It's time to change this, so there is no easier way than using "WP STAGING" for cloning, backup, and migration of your WordPress website.</strong>

= How to install and set up a staging site / site backup? =
Install WP STAGING backup via the admin dashboard. Go to 'Plugins', click 'Add New' and search the plugins for 'WP STAGING'. Install the plugin with 'Install Now'.
After installation, go to WP STAGING > Staging Sites and create your first staging / backup site

= Is WP STAGING a backup plugin? =
Even though you can use WP STAGING for backup purposes, the free version is not a usual backup plugin per the general definition. WP STAGING creates a clone of your entire website, which you can immediately use for developing and testing.
You can even use it as some kind of backup in case something happens to your production site, but only the WP STAGING | PRO pro version allows you to download the backup to your local computer. There are many other popular backup plugins out there. Still, our goal is to bring the reliability and performance of a backup plugin to a new level.

So instead of offering our backup feature free of charge, we think it's time to provide a full-fledged premium backup solution with enterprise code quality affordable for everyone.

[Video: How we run automated tests on WP STAGING](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf9C9Pgu7Bs)

= What is the difference between WP STAGING backup and other backup plugins? =

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Note: WP STAGING | PRO provides more advanced backup functionality compared with the below-mentioned backup plugins. The speed and Performance of WP STAGING's backup feature often exceed even the most prominent and most well-established backup plugins.
We are now adding more advanced backup features to deliver what other existing backup plugins are still missing.
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You may have heard about other popular backup plugins like All in one Migration, BackWPUp, BackupWordPress, Simple Backup, WordPress Backup to Dropbox, or similar WordPress backup plugins and now wonder about the difference between WP STAGING and those backup tools.

Other backup plugins usually create a backup of your WordPress filesystem and a database backup that you can use to restore your website if it becomes corrupted or you want to go back in time to a previous state.

The backup files are compressed and can not be executed directly. WP STAGING, on the other hand, creates a full backup of the whole file system and the database in a working state that you can open like your original production website.

Even though WP STAGING's basic version comes with some backup capabilities, its main purpose is to create a clone of your website, which you can work on. It harmonies very well with all the mentioned backup plugins above. If you go with the WP STAGING | PRO version, you will get the backup functionality of the mentioned above backup plugins.

Note, that some free backup plugins are not able to support custom tables. (For instance, the free version of Updraft plus backup plugin). In that case, your backup plugin is not able to create a backup of your staging site when it is executed on the production site.
The reason is that the tables created by WP STAGING are custom tables beginning with another table prefix.
To bypass this limitation and to be able to create a backup of your staging site, you can set up your backup plugin on the staging site and create the backup from that location. That works well with every available WordPress backup plugin.

= I want to backup my local website and copy it to production and another host =
If you want to migrate your local website to an already existing production site, you can use our pro version WP STAGING | PRO or a tool like WP Migrate DB that copies only the database.
WP STAGING is intended to create a staging site with the latest data from your production site or create a backup of it.

= What are the benefits compared to a migration and backup plugin like Duplicator? =
We like the Duplicator plugin. Even though Duplicator is not as fast as WP STAGING for creating a backup,  it's still is a great tool for migrating from a development site to production one or from production site to development one. Overall it's a good tool to create a backup of your WordPress website.
The downside is that before you can even create an export or backup file with Duplicator, a lot of adjustments, manual interventions, and requirements are needed before you can start the backup process.
The backup plugin Duplicator also needs some skills to be able to create a backup and development/staging site. In contrast, WP STAGING does not need more than a click from you to create a backup or staging site.
Duplicator is best placed to be a tool for the first-time creation of your production site. That is something where it is convenient and powerful.

If you have created a local or web-hosted development site and you need to migrate that site the first time to your production domain, you do nothing wrong by using
the Duplicator plugin! If you need all your latest production data like posts, updated plugins, theme data, and styles in a testing environment or want to create a quick backup before testing out something, then we recommend using WP STAGING instead!

If speed, performance, and code quality are a matter for you as well, give WP STAGING a try.

= I can not log in to the staging / backup site =
If you are using a security plugin like Wordfence, iThemes Security, All In One WP Security & Firewall, or a plugin that hides the WordPress default login URL, make sure that you have installed the latest version of WP STAGING to access your cloned backup site.
Suppose you can still not log in to your staging / backup site. In that case, you can go to WP STAGING > settings and disable there the WP STAGING extra authentication. Your admin dashboard will still be protected and not accessible to public users.

= Can I activate permalinks on the staging / backup site? =

Permalinks are disabled on the staging / backup site after first time cloning / backup creation
[Read here](https://wp-staging.com/docs/activate-permalinks-staging-site/ "activate permalinks on staging site") how to activate permalinks on the staging site.

= How to use a Backup file to Migrate WordPress Backup to another Host or Domain
The pro version of WP STAGING can backup your whole WordPress website. (In the future, we are implementing a basic free version of our sophisticated backup feature into this free version as well)
With this backup function, you can backup and copy your entire WordPress website to another domain, new host, or new server very easily, and often faster and more reliable than with any other existing backup plugins.
Have a look at [https://wp-staging.com/docs/how-to-migrate-your-wordpress-site-to-a-new-host/](this article), that introduces the backup feature.

= Is There a Translation of WP STAGING in my Language? =

We have translated WP STAGING into five languages nearly completely:

English: [WP STAGING Backup & Duplicator WordPress Plugin. Backup & Migrate WordPress websites.](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-staging/)
French: [Plugin WordPress de sauvegarde et de duplication WP STAGING. Sauvegarder et migrer les sites Web WordPress.](https://fr.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-staging/)
German: [WP STAGING Backup & Duplicator WordPress Plugin. Migrate WordPress Webseiten.](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-staging/)
Spanish: [WP STAGING Complemento de copia de seguridad y duplicador de WordPress. Copia de seguridad y migración de sitios web de WordPress.](https://es.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-staging/)

The following languages have been partially translated. You can help us with the translation:

Croatian: [WP STAGING Backup & Duplicator WordPress dodatak. Izradite sigurnosnu kopiju i migrirajte WordPress web stranice.](https://hr.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-staging/)
Dutch: [WP STAGING Back-up & Duplicator WordPress-plug-in. Back-up en migratie van WordPress-websites.](https://nl.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-staging/)
Finnish: [WP STAGING Backup & Duplicator WordPress-laajennus. Varmuuskopioi ja siirrä WordPress-verkkosivustoja.](https://fi.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-staging/)
Greek: [WP STAGING Πρόσθετο WordPress Backup & Duplicator. Δημιουργία αντιγράφων ασφαλείας και μετεγκατάσταση ιστοσελίδων WordPress.](https://el.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-staging/)
Hungarian: [WP STAGING Backup & Duplicator WordPress beépülő modul. WordPress-webhelyek biztonsági mentése és migrálása.](https://hu.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-staging/)
Indonesian: [WP Staging Backup & Duplikator Plugin WordPress. Cadangkan & Migrasi situs web WordPress.](https://id.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-staging/)
Italian: [WP STAGING Plugin WordPress per backup e duplicatori. Backup e migrazione di siti Web WordPress.](https://it.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-staging/)
Persian: [WP STAGING پشتیبان گیری و افزونه وردپرس Duplicator. پشتیبان گیری و مهاجرت از وب سایت های وردپرسی.](https://fa.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-staging/)
Polish: [WP STAGING Wtyczka WordPress do tworzenia kopii zapasowych i powielania. Twórz kopie zapasowe i migruj witryny WordPress.](https://pl.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-staging/)
Portuguese (Brazil): [WP STAGING Backup & Duplicador Plugin WordPress. Backup e migração de sites WordPress.](https://br.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-staging/)
Russian: [Плагин WP STAGING Backup & Duplicator для WordPress. Резервное копирование и перенос сайтов WordPress.](https://ru.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-staging/)
Turkish: [WP STAGING Yedekleme ve Çoğaltıcı WordPress Eklentisi. WordPress web sitelerini yedekleyin ve taşıyın.](https://tr.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-staging/)
Vietnamese: [WP STAGING Backup & Duplicator WordPress Plugin. Sao lưu và di chuyển các trang web WordPress.](https://vi.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-staging/)

= Can I give you some feedback for WP STAGING Backup & Cloning? =
This plugin has been created in thousands of hours and works even with the smallest shared web hosting package.
We also use an enterprise-level approved testing coding environment to ensure that the cloning and backup process runs rock-solid on your system.
If you are a developer, you will probably like to hear that we use Codeception and PHPUnit for our backup software.

As there are infinite variations of possible server constellations, it still can happen that something does not work for you 100%. In that case,
please open a [support request](https://wp-staging.com/support/ "Support Request") and describe your issue.

== WP STAGING BACKUP & CLONING TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS & INFORMATION ==

* Works on latest version of WordPress
* Minimum Supported WordPress Version 3.8
* Cloning and Backup work on all webhosts
* No extra libraries required
* Backup & cloning supports huge websites
* Custom backup format is much faster and smaller than any tar or zip compression
* Backup & cloning works in low memory & shared hosting environments

== SUPPORT ==
[https://wp-staging.com/backup-wordpress](https://wp-staging.com/backup-wordpress "https://wp-staging.com/backup-wordpress")

== Installation ==
1. Download the backup & clone plugin "wp-staging-pro.zip" from your account or the email we've sent to you.
2. Upload and install the backup plugin via the WordPress plugin backend wp-admin > plugins > add new > uploads
3. Activate the backup plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress.
4. Go to: Start Plugins -> Staging

== Screenshots ==

1. Create new WordPress staging / backup site
2. Select name for staging / backup site
3. Select folders to include in staging / backup site
4. Cloning / backup processing
5. Listed staging / backup sites
5. Listed staging / backup sites
6. Open, edit & delete staging / backup sites
7. Login to staging / backup site
4. Demo of a staging / backup site

== Changelog ==

= 6.13.1 =
* New: Back up a staging site automatically before you update it, so an update that goes wrong can be undone. (Pro) #1873
* New: Repair a damaged backup from the command line. Everything still readable is written into new backup files you can restore. (Pro) #2255
* Enh: Describe the command line tool by what it does for Developer and Agency plans: pull a live site to your computer with one command. #6031
* Enh: Never delay an update on a staging site. A staging site is where updates are meant to be tried out. #6028
* Enh: Plugin updates now start the moment you click update. The recovery backup runs behind them and a panel in the corner reports it. #6028
* Enh: Rename the free plugin on WordPress.org so people searching for a backup plugin find it. #5205
* Enh: Run backups and cloud uploads through the same background engine, so a long job is less likely to be interrupted. #5950
* Enh: Switch Update Protection off in one click from that panel. A backup the updates are waiting on is cancelled with it. #6028
* Fix: A restore no longer breaks sites whose plugins link database tables to one another. #5244
* Fix: Block backups and restores on PHP versions we have not tested yet, starting with PHP 8.6. #5494
* Fix: Create and push a staging site faster on tables whose rows hold a lot of data. #5986
* Fix: Delete only the tables that belong to the staging site when it lives in its own database. #6088
* Fix: Delete the temporary plugin folders a restore leaves behind once they pile up, instead of letting them fill the disk. #1598
* Fix: Ignore tampered entries in the active plugin and login session lists while pushing. (Pro) #5411
* Fix: Keep cloud storage credentials out of System Info and the log files, and check the storage settings before they are saved. #6001
* Fix: Keep the licence section and other status messages visible when the Disable WP Notification plugin is active. #5880
* Fix: Keep the list of plugins a push has to restore even when no plugin is active on the staging site. (Pro) #5411
* Fix: Name the actual folder paths in the error a restore shows when it cannot move files, on every host. #5943
* Fix: Name the operation that is actually running when Remote Sync is blocked, instead of always saying a sync is already in progress. #5456
* Fix: Never delete a table of the live site during database cleanup, and handle table names that contain special characters. #6005
* Fix: Never delete a table of your live site when a staging site is deleted or its creation is cancelled. #6088
* Fix: Offer to carry on with a restore when the database refuses a table that has two automatic timestamp columns (MySQL error 1293), instead of stopping. #2063
* Fix: Replace the site address in every row of a table when creating or pushing a staging site, including when the database search and replace limit is set low. #5986
* Fix: Report a background job that failed on PHP 8, including a failure on the source site during a Remote Sync pull. #5967
* Fix: Report a finished backup as finished on PHP 7.0 to 7.3, so the staging site update waiting for it can carry on. #6118
* Fix: Save the FTP/SFTP settings when an SSH key is already stored. (Pro) #5920
* Fix: Show an unexpected server response as plain text, so markup inside it cannot run in the WordPress admin. #5990
* Fix: Show what is wrong with cloud storage settings in the page itself, where the message stays readable, instead of in a browser tooltip. (Pro) #5039
* Fix: Start a backup from the Remote Sync window without having to close it first. (Pro) #5063
* Fix: Stop a cancelled staging job writing an error into the browser console. #6011 #5613
* Fix: Stop a fatal error on the staging site when the login form cannot start up. #6079
* Fix: Stop an error when the progress window is closed while a job is still reporting into it. #6049
* Fix: Stop backup, restore and Remote Sync logs repeating every line, which duplicated entries and made the log files far larger than they should be. #5330
* Fix: Switch the database's foreign key checks back on after deleting tables, even when the previous setting could not be read. #6019
* Fix: Update the Start Upload button as soon as a cloud storage is selected. (Pro) #5950
* Fix: Use the correct table prefix when pushing with the Classic engine, keep the Desktop link inside its banner, and allow a backup to be cancelled only once preparation has finished. #6061
* Fix: WP Staging Free now says the daily backup runs at 12:00 midnight, not noon. #6018
* Fix: Wait as long as the cloud storage asks for when it limits the upload rate, instead of failing the upload. (Pro) #6038
* Fix: Write settings and user data safely to the database when pushing, so an unusual value cannot change the query it is written with. (Pro) #5411
* UX: Make WP Staging Desktop easy to find on the Staging screen. Developer and Agency plans get a link beside the local site action, every other plan a discovery card. The label under the local site button reads "CLI" where that link sits next to it. #6046
*  Tweak: Show the background option only when a backup is being created. #6085
* Dev: Add a rule that a fix for one operating system must not change behaviour on the others. #6069
* Dev: Add a skill that keeps the Free vs Pro marketing copy in step with what the plugin can do. #6016
* Dev: Add the Free vs Pro comparison document the website and the in-plugin upgrade table are built from. #5235
* Dev: Assert the polled listing count in the cloud storage integration tests. #6050
* Dev: Correct the licence matrix, which said the free plugin cannot schedule backups when it schedules one daily backup. #6083
* Dev: Document dispatching a single CI shard instead of re-running a whole test suite. #6034
* Dev: End the release procedure with a team note for Slack. #6060
* Dev: Give a pull request a subject label derived from its branch type when its issue has none. #6006
* Dev: Give the development nginx its own address on macOS instead of the bridge gateway. #5965
* Dev: Keep the release changelog intact when the prepare phase runs more than once. #6126
* Dev: Let the process log and update notification specs wait for the page they drive. #6120
* Dev: Let the work-on-issue skill open its own GitHub issue when the request arrives as prose, and provision a worktree with no dependencies or build. #6032
* Dev: Mark wp.org release notes resolved and keep entries that mention Pro as written. #6057
* Dev: Prevent a root-owned core cache from blocking worktree provisioning. #6055
* Dev: Remove the deprecated WpDefaultDirectories::getExcludedDirectories() method. #5478
* Dev: Run the Pro end-to-end suite once, after the review fixes, and keep the rule for that ordering in one place. #6015
* Dev: Run the Slack notification test without a web server. #6052
* Dev: Skip Jetpack in the wordpress.com test fixture on PHP versions it no longer supports. #6119
* Dev: Write down the Free and Pro boundary: Free previews a Pro feature, only Pro implements it. #6091

WP STAGING | PRO Backup & Cloning | Full Changelog:
[https://wp-staging.com/wp-staging-pro-changelog/](https://wp-staging.com/wp-staging-pro-changelog/)

== Upgrade Notice ==
Compatible up to WordPress 7.0.
Many improvements for reliability and bug fixes. Please update to the latest version!
