{"id":128,"date":"2026-06-05T18:54:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T18:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apropostechsolutionscorp.ca\/blog\/?p=128"},"modified":"2026-06-13T03:40:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T03:40:53","slug":"wordpress-plugins-another-let-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apropostechsolutionscorp.ca\/blog\/2026\/06\/05\/wordpress-plugins-another-let-down\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress: Plugins: another let-down"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>WordPress: Plugins, continued&#8230;<\/h2>\n<p>\nThe following is my take.<\/p>\n<p>\nI start about WordPress plugins in <a href=\"https:\/\/apropostechsolutionscorp.ca\/blog\/2026\/06\/02\/wordpress-plugins-part-0\/\">my post from June 2, 2026<\/a>. I typically run a cache one, and sometimes that&#8217;s it.<\/p>\n<p>\nI thought about doing a post today about a plugin to make backups. Backups are important to safeguard content from errors, malfunctions, etc. Before doing any manual update, making a backup is likely a good idea. That&#8217;s what I do, anyway. \n<\/p>\n<p>\nSo, I had a plugin installed which I was going to use to do a backup, then report about it.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe plugin crashed: it just remained stuck at 0 percent completion. When I clicked the &#8220;Stop&#8221; button in its menu, I got a message back saying the process couldn&#8217;t be stopped.<\/p>\n<p>\nI logged into the server and stopped the plugin from there. Next, I deactivated, then deleted the plugin.<\/p>\n<p>\nI never keep plugins around that don&#8217;t stop when I click &#8220;Stop.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nA plugin isn&#8217;t needed to make a backup of a WordPress site; a backup can be created manually. However, some plugins, assuming they work, might make it more convenient.<\/p>\n<p>\nNot in this case, apparently:)\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apropostechsolutionscorp.ca\/blog\/\">-JS<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress: Plugins, continued&#8230; The following is my take. I start about WordPress plugins in my post from June 2, 2026. I typically run a cache one, and sometimes that&#8217;s it. I thought about doing a post today about a plugin to make backups. Backups are important to safeguard content from errors, malfunctions, etc. Before doing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,23],"tags":[36,37,24],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plugins","category-wordpress","tag-backups","tag-crash","tag-plugins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apropostechsolutionscorp.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apropostechsolutionscorp.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apropostechsolutionscorp.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apropostechsolutionscorp.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apropostechsolutionscorp.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/apropostechsolutionscorp.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144,"href":"https:\/\/apropostechsolutionscorp.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apropostechsolutionscorp.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apropostechsolutionscorp.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apropostechsolutionscorp.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}