WP VIVID Review, Features & Comparison | The Most Underrated Backup Plugin

I planned to write WP Vivid Review since the day I switched from Duplicator to WP VIVID. But I was still exploring the plugin and its feature, and I didn't had any idea about all the amazing features. Now after using it for more than 6 months, Let me introduce to you the most UNDERRATED, My Favourite and The Best WordPress Backup Plugin of 2022 available at an affordable price.

Don't worry if you use duplicator, it's not bad, it was my favourite before I tried WP Vivid and I will explain why I switched so let's start with the Introduction.

We will also compare its features and pricing with UpdraftPlus and Duplicator Pro in the last section of the blog.

WP Vivid – A Complete Backup, Migration & Staging Plugin

WP Vivid is a Backup and Migration plugin for WordPress available for FREE and Pro both. That's not all, it offers Staging, Site to Site Cloning, Migration without downloading backup, image optimization and more and more. And all of these features come under only one and an affordable price.

Main Features of WP Vivid

Site to Site (My Favourite Feature):- As a Freelance developer, Migration is something I face 3-4 times a week and when migrating a big site, Downloading a Complete backup and Uploading it to the destination is not an option. There are other migration options as well like Migration Via upload and Migration Via Remote Storage.

In WP Vivid, you can start migration in 2-3 Clicks from source to destination and the best part is, This feature is available in the Free Version of the Plugin ?. And that was the main reason I was looking for something alternative to Duplicator with a migration feature without downloading and uploading.

Manual Backups:- Create backups manually anytime you want with a few clicks and either save to disk or upload it directly to your remote storage.

Scheduled Backups:- Scheduling Backup should be an essential feature of any backup plugin and hence they have it, you can schedule your backups with multiple time and frequency rules.

Incremental Backups:- One of my favourite features of WP Vivid is Incremental backup, in this type of backup, only the files that are changed in that period of time will get backed up and this will save CPU resources and disk storage.

Incremental Backups are essential when your website size is heavy or you make a lot of changes or there are multiple users working on the same website and someone breaks the site. In these cases, you can't keep a full site backup of a site after every hour, so just enable this feature and save the backup of the files and database which are Added, Changed or Modified.

One-Click Restore:- Restore your back with one click from your desk storage or remote storage. You can also download backups from remote storage to your computer and then use them as a migration copies.

Backup with Rules:- If you keep user-submitted files or unwanted data on a website and don't want to keep it in your backup, You can simply Include or exclude individual files, folders, and file types (by extension) and database tables from a backup. Since the plugin comes with multiple types of backups, you can apply these rules globally with a single click.

Cloud Storage (Off-Site Backups):- Again a very essential feature in any backup plugin is to store backups outside the site on any different cloud storage to recover them if the whole hosting server got hacked or crashed or corrupted. On-site backups are also not recommended for big websites as it consumes a lot of disk storage.

Here are some supported Cloud Storages Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, Amazon S3, DigitalOcean Spaces, SFTP, FTP, Wasabi, pCloud, Backblaze and more that are coming soon.

Auto-Backup Before Update:- Getting the site broken after a big and major update in theme and page builder is very common and this is where this feature is helpful. Every time you update your theme or plugin it takes a snapshot of the current version and stores it as an incremental backup and allows you to roll back to the previous version plugin with one click in case something goes broken due to updates.

Flexible Backup Retention Rules:- It's in your hand to decide whether you want to keep a backup for 1 month or 1 year or just 1 week, this feature helps to save storage by removing older backups automatically after adding a new.

Multisite Support:- Backing up multisite and migrating multisite becomes easy with WPvivd Multisite Backup and Migration Feature. You can also Migrate a child site (MU) to a single WordPress install.

Multi-Email Notification:- Get notified of the status of a backup or any issues in multiple emails, just add them on the setting of WP vivid and it's done.

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Exclusive Features of WP Vivid Pro

There are some exclusive features which are available as addons in WP Vivid and the best part is, you can add them only if you want so no more bloat scripts and code

One-Click Staging:- Yes you heard it right, WP Vivid is a backup plugin but it has this exclusive feature to create staging of your website in one click without worrying about subdomain as it creates staging directly in a sub-directory of your site.

Again you can Push your staging to live with one click once you have completed all the changes on staging without any issue. If you got some issues, just delete staging with a single click.

Roles & Capabilities:- Useful for big websites with multiple user roles working on the same site. It helps you to decide which feature of this plugin will be available to which role of the user.

White Label & MainWP Addon:- Very Important feature for WordPress Agencies offering WordPress Maintenance services to their client. They can set the name and change the log to their own and make it look like your custom backup and migration plugin.

For WordPress Agencies using MainWP for managing multiple websites, there is an addon by WP Vivid for MainWP which will enable you to manage all your site backups from the MainWP panel. It's an awesome feature for those who manage multiple websites.

This makes WP Vivid the Best Backup Solution for WordPress Developers and Agencies where they can White Lable plugin name and logo, Control Roles and manage backup from MAinWP dashboard.

Image Optimization and Cleaner:- I was also shocked when I heard it comes with an Image Optimization add-on which you can enable if you want to reduce your image file size without losing quality. You can also clean unused images using the Unused Image Cleaner add-on.

Export Selected Data:- You can export your Posts, Pages, Images and Comments to another site without completely migrating the whole site. this is helpful when you redesign or recreate your website and don't want to lose this stuff.

Url Replacing Tool:- This tool allows you to do a quick domain/URL replacing in the database, with no need to perform a database migration.

Extra Features of WP Vivid

I know you are feeling like how much more features it has, well too much, everything you can expect from a backup plugin is available in WP Vivid with even more extra features.

WP Vivid Pricing (20% Exclusive Discount)

WP Vivid offers tons of extra features with the lowest pricing among all WordPress backup plugins. Their pricing starts at $49/Year for 2 Sites and goes up to $149/Year for Unlimited Sites.

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They also have a Lifetime Subscription Plan, which starts at only $99 for 2 sites and $299 for Unlimited sites Lifetime.

WPVivid vs UpdraftPlus Quick Comparison

Well, if you have not heard of WP Vivid, you definitely know about UpdraftPlus, it's among the most popular backup plugins for WordPress and is recommended by the community. Today we will compare if UpdraftPlus is even close to competing with WP vivid.

Personally, I hate Updraft due to their Outdated and bloated UI as well as their pricing to feature ratio. Check the table below to compare all features available in both plugins and their starting prices.

Also Read:- UpdraftPlus vs WP Vivid Detailed Comparison

Features	Updraft Pro	WP Vivid Pro
Backup extra files and databases	✅	✅
(Upload/Remote) Migration & Restore	✅	✅
Basic email reporting	✅	✅
Advanced reporting features	✅	✅
Automatic backup when updating WP/plugins/themes	✅	✅
Send backups to multiple remote destinations	✅	✅
Database encryption	✅	✅
Restore backups from other plugins	✅	❌
Scheduled backups	✅	✅
Fix backup time	✅	✅
Network/Multisite support	✅	✅
Lock settings access	✅	✅
Browse backup contents in WordPress	✅	✅
Download individual files from backup in WordPress	✅	✅
Personal support	✅	✅
Run from WP-CLI	✅	❌
White Lable	❌	✅
Staging	❌	✅
Import/Export Selected Data	❌	✅
Site to Site Migration	❌	✅
MainWP Support	✅	✅
Image Optimization/Cleaner	❌	✅
URL Replacement	❌	✅
One-Click Fresh WP Install	❌	✅
Multisite to Single Site Migration	❌	✅
Pricing	$70/Yr	$49/Yr

From the above table, you can clearly see that WP Vivid is a Clear Winner with more than 2x Features at 40% Less Cost.

WP Vivid vs Duplicator Quick Comparison

Duplicator was my favourite backup plugin for more than 3 years because it is an awesome backup plugin with better and secure backups but it has very limited features compared to WP Vivid. The reason I switched to WP Vivid was mainly due to Site to Site Migration, this feature is really helpful and is fast in migrating a website without any downtime.

Here is side by side feature comparison of WP Vivid with Duplicator and their Pricing as well

Features	WP Vivid Pro	Duplicator Pro
Manual backups	Yes	Yes
Scheduling	Yes	Yes
Remote Storage	Yes	Yes
Reporting and Monitoring	Yes	Yes
Multisite Network	Yes	Yes
Migration (Upload and Remote)	Yes	Yes
Backup with Rules	Yes	Yes
Auto Backup before Update	Yes	No
White Lable	Yes	No
Role Manager	Yes	No
Staging	Yes	No
Export/ Import Selected Data	Yes	No
Site to Site Migration	Yes	No
MainWP Support	Yes	No
Incremental Backup	Yes	No
Image Optimization	Yes	No
Image Cleaner	Yes	No
URL Replacement	Yes	No
Database Encryption	Yes	Yes
One-Click Fresh WP Install	Yes	No
Pricing (Starts From)	$49 (2 Sites)	$69 (3 Sites)
Comparison Result	20/20	9/20

WP Vivid is a Clear winner here as well with 2X More Features than Duplicator Pro.

Also Read:- Updraft and Duplicator Discount Coupons

Watch the video of WPvivid vs Updraft vs Duplicator Backup Plugin Comparison and Review

WordPress Experts Review on WP VIVID

Above WP Vivid Review was my personal Experience and Opinion but let's have a look at what WordPress Influencers and Experts are saying.

WP Vivid is the easiest backup plugin out there.

Paul from WP Tuts

WP Vivid is an all-in-one Backup, Restore, Migration and Staging Solution combined.

Bjorn from WP Learning Labs

Most Underrated Backup Plugin of 2022

Rahul Singh ? BloggerTutor