ProductShift – Backup & Migration for WooCommerce

ProductShift – Backup & Migration for WooCommerce creates portable ZIP backups for WooCommerce product catalogs and WordPress media, then restores them in small resumable batches.

The plugin is designed for store owners who need to move products between WordPress sites, recover catalog data after a site problem, or keep downloadable backup copies of product and media data.

Product backups include

• Product name, slug, status and catalog visibility.
• Full and short descriptions.
• SKU, regular price and sale price.
• Sale dates, stock, backorders and stock status.
• Virtual and downloadable product settings.
• Weight and dimensions.
• Categories, subcategories and their original hierarchy, descriptions, ordering/meta and category thumbnails.
• Registered third-party product taxonomies (for example brand/vendor taxonomies) and their term hierarchy/meta when the same taxonomy exists on the destination site.
• Product attributes, global attribute definitions, attribute terms, term metadata and default attributes.
• Featured images, product galleries, variation images and Media Library images embedded in product descriptions.
• Variable product variations including ordering, sale dates, stock, tax, shipping class and downloadable data.
• Shipping classes, low-stock values, grouped-product children, external-product URL/button data, upsells and cross-sells.
• Local downloadable product/variation files are packaged into the archive and restored to the destination uploads directory.
• Portable public and private third-party custom product/variation metadata, while WooCommerce core fields are restored through CRUD APIs.
• Product menu order and creation/modified timestamps for closer catalog ordering fidelity.
• Registered third-party WooCommerce product types are restored on a best-effort basis when the same extension/product class is active on the destination site.

Media backups include

• Original Media Library files.
• Title, caption and description.
• ALT text.
• WordPress attachment metadata, attachment custom metadata, dates and original product-parent association when it can be remapped.

Restore features

• Dry-run restore preview before any store data changes.
• Create/update/skip impact counts and SKU conflict preview.
• Automatic rollback point before confirmed updates.
• Recovery Center with Undo Last Restore.
• Resumable AJAX restore jobs.
• Live percentage and stage progress.
• Restore media before products so image IDs can be remapped safely.
• SKU conflict modes: update, skip or create new.
• Per-item errors are captured instead of stopping the whole restore.
• Cancel stops the active restore flow and does not restart automatically.
• Successful restores show a completion summary and close automatically.
• Compatible with backup archives created by earlier Woo Product & Media Backup builds using the wpmb archive format.

Backup management

• Full product backup and incremental changed-product backup.
• Incremental baseline tracking.
• Optional WebDAV off-site backup copy through WP-Cron.
• Developer remote-storage action for custom S3, Google Drive or other adapters.
• Recent backup history in the WordPress admin.
• Download or delete saved server-side backup copies.
• Configurable retention count.
• Optional daily or weekly product backups using WP-Cron.
• System status checks for WordPress, PHP, WooCommerce, ZIP support, memory and disk space.

Security

Restore ZIP paths are validated before extraction. Symbolic links and unsafe relative paths are rejected. Restore actions require an authorized WordPress user and a valid nonce. New archives include SHA-256 checksums for JSON data and media records so corruption can be detected during restore.

ProductShift – Backup & Migration for WooCommerce does not include analytics, advertising or telemetry. Remote network requests occur only when an administrator explicitly enables Remote Storage. The built-in WebDAV option sends the backup ZIP to the administrator-configured WebDAV URL using the configured credentials. Remote Storage is disabled by default.

Important: Scheduled backups use WP-Cron. WP-Cron runs when WordPress receives traffic, so exact execution time can vary on low-traffic sites.