Description

Allows you to optimise database, repair database, backup database, restore database, delete backup database , drop/empty tables and run selected queries. Supports automatic scheduling of backing up, optimising and repairing of database.

General Usage

Activate WP-DBManager Plugin
The script will automatically create a folder called backup-db in the wp-content folder if that folder is writable. If it is not created, please create the folder and ensure that the folder is writable
Open Folder: wp-content/backup-db
If you are on Apache, move the htaccess.txt file from Folder: wp-content/plugins/wp-dbmanager to Folder: wp-content/backup-db/.htaccess if it is not there already
If you are on IIS, move the Web.config.txt file from Folder: wp-content/plugins/wp-dbmanager to Folder: wp-content/backup-db/Web.config if it is not there already
Move index.php file from Folder: wp-content/plugins/wp-dbmanager to Folder: wp-content/backup-db/index.php if it is not there already
Go to WP-Admin -> Database -> DB Options to configure the database options

Build Status

Development

https://github.com/lesterchan/wp-dbmanager

Translations

http://dev.wp-plugins.org/browser/wp-dbmanager/i18n/

Credits

Plugin icon by Freepik from Flaticon

Donations

I spent most of my free time creating, updating, maintaining and supporting these plugins. If you really love my plugins and could spare me a couple of bucks, I would really appreciate it. If not, feel free to use it without any obligations.

Disclaimer

Note that this plugin passes your datababase password via –password in the command line of mysqldump. This is convenient but as a trade off, it is insecure.
On some systems, your password becomes visible to system status programs such as ps that may be invoked by other users to display command lines. MySQL clients typically overwrite the command-line password argument with zeros during their initialization sequence. However, there is still a brief interval during which the value is visible. Also, on some systems this overwriting strategy is ineffective and the password remains visible to ps. Source: End-User Guidelines for Password Security
If this is a concern to you, I recommend another database backup plugin called WP-DB-Backup
To know about the difference between WP-DBManager and WP-DB-backup, checkout What is the difference between WP-DBManager and WP-DB-Backup? in the FAQ section.

Screenshots

Admin – Backup DB
Admin – Empty/Drop Tables In DB
Admin – DB Information
Admin – Manage DB
Admin – Optimize DB
Admin – DB Options
Admin – DB Options
Admin – Repair DB
Admin – Run Query in DB

FAQ

My database is not backed up / My backup file is 0Kb

Ensure that your host allows you to access mysqldump. You can try to narrow the problem by Debugging via SSH:

In wp-dbmanager.php
Find check_backup_files(); on line 246
Add below it echo $command;
Go to WP-Admin -> Database -> Backup
Click Backup
It should print some debugging statements
Copy that line than run it in SSH
If you need help on SSH contact your host or google for more info

What is the difference between WP-DBManager and WP-DB-Backup?

WP-DBManager uses mysqldump application to generate the backup and mysql application to restore them via shell.
WP-DB-Backup uses PHP to generate the backup. In some cases WP-DB-Backup will work better for you because it requires less permissions. Not all host allows you to access mysqldump/mysql directly via shell.
WP-DBManager allows you to have automatic optimizing and repairing of the database on top of backing up the database.

Why do I get the message “Warning: Your backup folder MIGHT be visible to the public!”?

Ensure that you have renamed htaccess.txt to .htaccess and placed it in your backup folder (defaults to wp-content/backup-db/)
If you are 100% sure you did that and have verfied that the folder no longer is accessible to the public by visiting the URL http://yousite.com/wp-content/backup-db/, you can safely disable the notice by going to WP-Admin -> Database -> DB Options and set Hide Admin Notices to Yes.

Reviews

modes200 May 20, 2025

Great plugin. I have used to clean up all submissions in elementor

robaxxx November 5, 2022

I use this along with a Windows program called Backup4All on my server to create regular backups of my WP instances to Amazon S3. It’s also easy to do an instant db backup and then zip up the site folder with the db inside on the server if I’m doing something risky. I wanted something that was simple, affordable and logical and found this one best after testing many others. Thanks heaps!

jamesoutland October 2, 2022

1st, I was able to target the files I wanted to clean. I would like to add just be careful what you remove. Then I was able to reinstall a program and it worked. Not sure the tecnical reasons why it worked but it did. Thank you!

ntalam August 29, 2022 1 reply

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nonick08 July 19, 2022 1 reply

From version 2.80.7 the menu is visible again without activated theme and plugin editor. old Since version 2.80.6 only works with activated theme and plugin editor.

girirajnet June 14, 2021 2 replies

I have been using this plugin for years and its working fine so far. I’m wondering why it’s not getting any updates?! It updated a year back, but it’s supporting the recent version of WordPress 5.7.2 (soon 5.8), and it’s working fine. My worry is due to compatibility issue it may give problem while restore, and it may be data risk. Hope the plugin author will update the plugin and make it compatible with current version of WordPress. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the author. Its really simple and easy backup restore and with a lot of options, especially no confusion in the settings. The plugin is worth more than 5 star. Thank You Giri

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Contributors & Developers

“WP-DBManager” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Lester Chan

“WP-DBManager” has been translated into 11 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.

Translate “WP-DBManager” into your language.

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Changelog

Version 2.80.10

FIXED: Don’t throw fatal error if unknown .sql files are inside the database backup folder.

Version 2.80.9

FIXED: Handle folder permissions properly

Version 2.80.8

FIXED: Miss out database-backup.php.

Version 2.80.7

FIXED: Changed ‘edit_files’ capability to ‘install_plugins’ instead.

Version 2.80.6

FIXED: Remove ‘manage_database’ and use ‘edit_files’ to check for capability instead.

Version 2.80.5

FIXED: Changed utf8 to utf8mb4 for backing up

Version 2.80.4

FIXED: Clear WP-DBManager cron jobs on uninstall

Version 2.80.3

FIXED: Poly fill array_key_first() for PHP < 7.3

Version 2.80.2

FIXED: Newer backup is being replaced instead of older backup

Version 2.80.1

FIXED: 1970 date issues.
FIXED: Sorting order of backup files.

Version 2.80

NEW: Prefix MD5 checksum to the database backup file to prevent user from guessing the filename.

Version 2.79.2

FIXED: Arbitrary file delete bug by sanitizing filename. Props RIPS Technologies.

Version 2.79.1

FIXED: Added default utf8 charset

Version 2.79

FIXED: Proper check for disabled functions

Version 2.78.1

NEW: Bump WordPress 4.7
FIXED: Undefined index: repair and repair_period

Version 2.78

FIXED: escapeshellcmd on Windows. Props Gregory Karpinsky.
FIXED: Move wp_mkdir_p() up before if check. Props Scott Allen.

Version 2.77

FIXED: Blank screen downloading backup
FIXED: Remove MySQL Version check to display tables stats

Version 2.76

NEW: Add wp_dbmanager_before_escapeshellcmd action just before escapeshellcmd()
FIXED: Missing / for Windows

Version 2.75

FIXED: When activating the plugin, copy index.php to the backup folder
FIXED: If you are on Apache, .htaccess will be copied to the backup folder, if you are on IIS, Web.config will be copied to the backup folder
FIXED: When choosing 1 Month(s) for Backup/Optimize/Repair, the next date calculation is wrong

Version 2.74

FIXED: escapeshellarg() already escape $, no need to double escape it

Version 2.73

FIXED: Unable to backup/restore database if user database password has certain special characters in them

Version 2.72

FIXED: Use escapeshellcmd() to escape shell commands. Props Larry W. Cashdollari.
FIXED: Do not allow LOAD_FILE to be run. Props Larry W. Cashdollari.
FIXED: Uses dbmanager_is_valid_path() to check for mysql and mysqldump path. Fixes arbitrary command injection using backup path. Props Larry W. Cashdollari.
FIXED: Uses realpath() to check for backup path. Fixes arbitrary command injection using backup path. Props Larry W. Cashdollari.

Version 2.71

NEW: Bump to 4.0

Version 2.70

New: Uses WordPress 3.9 Dashicons
NEW: Allow you to hide admin notices in the DB Options page
NEW: Allow Multisite Network Activate
NEW: Uses WordPress uninstall.php file to uninstall the plugin
NEW: Uses wp_mail() to send email instead of PHP mail()
NEW: New From E-mail, From Name & Subject template
FIXED: Issues with email from field if site title contains , (comma)
FIXED: Notices

Version 2.65

FIXED: Set default character set to UTF-8. Props Karsonito

Version 2.64

FIXED: Use intval() instead of is_int() when checking for port number. Props Webby Scots

Version 2.63 (03-05-2011)

NEW: Added Auto Repair Functionality
NEW: Added nonce To All Forms For Added Security