WPvivid Database Snapshots allows you to quickly create snapshots of your WordPress database, and restore the database from a snapshot in 1-click.

Why Use A Database Snapshot?

A database snapshot can usually be created in seconds, which is much faster than creating a backup for the database. If you need a quicker rollback solution for safely testing WordPress database-related changes, use a snapshot.

Note: A snapshot contains database only. If you need to back up the full site or files, you can use our WPvivid Backup Plugin.

How to Create Database Snapshots with WPvivid Database Snapshots

1. Install WPvivid Database Snapshots

Go to your WordPress admin dashboard > WPvivid Plugin > Dashboard > On the Addons/Tools section, click Install button of the Database Snapshots.

Note: If you don’t see the Install button, make sure you are using the latest version of WPvivid Pro, also, verify your WPvivid pro license on the Addons/Tools section again.

2. Create A Snapshot

Once installed, you can find WPvivid Snapshots from the left admin menu of your WordPress dashboard. Click on ‘WPvivid Snapshots‘ menu.

On Snapshots tab, click Create Now button. Before doing that, you can enter a comment for the snapshot for easier identification.

Once created, you’ll see a ‘creation successful message’ in a popup. And you’ll see the snapshots appearing in the snapshots list, where you can view and manage all snapshots.

You can also set up a retention policy for the snapshots from the Settings tab.

That’s it. Now a snapshot of your database is in place, you can restore the database from it whenever needed.

How to Restore A WordPress Database from A Snapshot

To restore your WordPress database from a snapshot:

1. Go to your WordPress admin dashboard > WPvivid Snapshots.

2. On the snapshots list > Click the Restore button of a snapshot.

3. Wait for the restore process to complete and a successful message to appear.

4. Check whether the website works as expected.

You have two options to serve your WebP images:

1. Use picture tag

The picture tag option works by replacing the <img> tags with <picture> tags, so that the browser will automatically choose the appropriate file format to display.

But it does not convert images that are set in (inline) CSS. You can switch to the rewrite rule option if images do not correctly display.

2. Use rewrite rule

With the rewrite rule option checked, our plugin will display your WebP images by automatically adding rewrite rules to your .htaccess file. Currently it supports Apache servers only.

If the live site uses a custom login url, for example, youdomain.com/custom, then being subjected to the WordPress login mechanism, you will need to enter your username and password every time you log in to the staging site.

If the live site uses the default /wp-login.php login url, then you only need to enter the username and password once when logging in to staging for the first time. For subsequent logins, you won’t need to enter the username and password.

As version of 2.0.13 Beta, WPvivid Image Optimization Pro plugin provides the ability to integrate a CDN service to your website with just one click.

Note: WPvivid Image Optimization Pro does not offer CDN service itself, so you should have a valid CDN service to move forward.

In this guide, we’ll see how to integrate a CDN service to your website with WPvivid Image Optimization Pro.

How to Integrate CDN in WordPress?

1. Install WPvivid Image Optimization Pro

Please follow this step-by-step guide to install WPvivid Image Optimization Pro on your WordPress website.

2. Enable CDN

Once installed, go to your WordPress admin dashboard > in the left admin menu, click WPvivid Plugins > click CDN Integration >  Enable CDN to deliver your content.

3. Configure CDN Settings

Next, you will need to configure CDN settings:

• Enter your CDN Url(without trailing ‘/’): e.g. http://examplecdn.com
• Choose to enable CDN for relative path or/and https connections
• Included Directories: Input directories so that assets under it will be pointed to your CDN url: e.g., wp-content, wp-includes(separate directories by comma).
• Exclude Extensions/Directories: Input file extensions and directories so the files/directories will be excluded from CDN rewriting: e.g., .php,.js, .css.

4. Save Changes

Once you are done with all settings, click Save Changes button to make the CDN integration take effect.

How to Verify If CDN Integration Has Been Effected?

To verify whether the CDN integration has been effected, simply right-click an image on your website and click Inspect, you would see the image is loaded by your CDN service provide now.

Currently it only supports importing posts or pages that are exported with WPvivid Backup plugin.

It supports two import methods:

1. Upload and import an export directly from your computer.
2. Scan an uploaded export to import: You can upload the exported files to /ImportandExport folder via FTP, then scan the files to import.

The /ImportandExport folder refers to /wp-content/wpvividbackups/ImportandExport, which is a folder created by our plugin for storing exported and imported post or page files on a site. The Import page also comes with an option for deleting all the exported files in the /ImportandExport folder.

Note: To properly display the imported content, please make sure the sites for exporting and importing posts have the same environment, e.g., same theme or pages built with the same page builder.

The posts or pages will be exported and downloaded as a zip file to your computer, which you can import to another WordPress site later.

How to Export Posts or Pages?

1. Install WPvivid Backup Plugin on the site that you want to export posts or pages from.

2. From the left admin menu, click WPvivid Backup > Export & Import.

3. Go to Export tab page, choose the post type you want to export and click on Next Step button.

Note: Currently only Post and Page are supported, the support for more post types are coming soon.

4. Next, choose category, author, start date and end date you want to export. Then click Show Posts button.

5. Now in the search results, select the posts or pages that you want to export and click Export and Download button to start the process. Before exporting the posts/pages, you also have the option to add a prefix to the export for easy identification.

Note: Try to select fewer items when you are facing a shortage of server resources (typically presented as a timeout error).

6. That’s it! Now you can check the exported file from your computer. You are ready to import it to another WordPress site.

With the unused images cleaner, you can launch a scan to your media folder(uploads) to look for images that are not used anywhere on your website, then isolate the unused(or orphan) images to delete or restore them.

If you are running a WordPress website handling a large number of images, you can benefit greatly from this feature. It helps free up your disk space hence optimize your website performance. Also, cleaning unused(or orphan) images before performing a backup or migration can effectively increase the process success rate.

How to Clean Unused Images in WordPress Media Library?

1. Scan Your Media Folder

First, install WPvivid Backup Pro on your website.

On your left admin menu, click WPvivid Plugin > Image Cleaner.

On the Scan Media tab that opens, click Scan button to run a scan to your media folder, which is …/wp-content/uploads.

Then the plugin will start analysing the folder and find unused images in it. It offers a progress bar where you can monitor the live progress of the scan.

Note:

1. Currently it only scans JPG and PNG images.

2. Please do not refresh the page while running a scan.

2. Isolate Unused Images

Once the scan is done, all the unused images in your media folder will be listed.

Now you have options to select specific or all images from the list and isolate them to a folder created by WPvivid Backup Pro, which is …/wp-content/WPvivid_Uploads/Isolate. You can choose to delete or restore the isolated images later.

It offers a search box where you enter an image path e.g. 2021/01/wpvivid-backup-plugin-restore.png or 2021/01/ to search specific images if you have many.

Choose an isolate method from the drop-down menu, click Apply to start isolating images.

3. Delete or Restore Unused Images

All the images you isolated is displayed on the Isolated Media tab, from there you can choose to delete or restore specific or all images.

Note: Once deleted, images will be lost permanently. The action cannot be undone, unless you have a backup in place.

You can also search specific images by entering an image path in the search box if you have many.

If you also want to delete corresponding image urls (that are not used anywhere on your website) from your database, before delete an image, go to WPvivid Settings > Media Cleaner Settings > Check the option ‘Delete Image URL‘ > Save Changes.

Step 1. Install WPvivid Plugins Pro

To install the WPvivid Image Optimization Pro plugin, you will need to first install WPvivid Plugins Pro on your website.

Follow this step-by-step tutorial on How to install WPvivid Plugins Pro in WordPress.

Step 2. Install WPvivid Image Optimization Pro

Once you have successfully installed/upgraded to WPvivid Plugins Pro, you’ll be taken to the WPvivid Plugins Installer page where you can choose the plugins you want to install and use on the site.

Simply tick the WPvivid ImgOptim Pro Addon and click Install Now button to start the installation process.

Note: The free version of the WPvivid Backup Plugin and WPvivid Image Optimization plugin will be installed by default when you choose to install the pro version of the plugins, that is because the free plugins contains all basic libraries needed by the pro plugins.

That’s it. Once the installation is done, you can navigate to the Image Optimization page from the dashboard to start using the plugin.

By converting to WebP, your images size will be significantly reduced, hence your website will be sped up, and the best part is that your image quality will be preserved.

Let’s see how to convert images to WebP with WPvivid Image Optimization Pro

How to Convert Images to WebP in WordPress?

To convert Images to WebP, you will need to enable ‘WebP Converting’ options in the plugin settings first.

On your WordPress admin dashboard > on the left admin menu, click WPvivid Plugins > Click Settings > Click Image Optimization:

1. Check the box for ‘Convert JPG and PNG to WebP’: With the option checked, the plugin will create a WebP version for each of your JPG and PNG image.
2. Check the box for ‘Enable WebP format on your site’: with the option checked, WebP images will be served on the site front-end.
3. Check the box for ‘Use picture tag’: The default option the plugin uses to display WebP images on your website. Switch to the ‘Use rewrite rule’ option if images do not correctly display.
4. Click ‘Save Changes’ button to make the settings take effect.

Once the options are enabled, go to the Image Optimization page > Choose ‘Smart Image Bulk Optimization’ option > Click on ‘Optimize Now’ button, then our plugin will automatically convert the website images to WebP and display WebP images on the site.

The WebP images are saved in the same directory where the original images are saved. You can check them via a FTP tool.

How to Check If WebP Images Have Been Effected?

1. For WebP converted with ‘picture tag’ option

Right click on an image of your website, and click ‘Inspect’. You will see the urls of the image in the <source type ended with a .webp suffix.

2. For WebP converted with ‘rewrite rule’ option

Right click on an image of your website, and click ‘Inspect’, click ‘Network’ > ‘Img’ > you will see the Type of the image is WebP.

How to Delete WebP Images?

To delete WebP images, go to the Image Optimization page > Optimized Images list > Select the WebP images you want to delete > Select ‘Delete selected WebP images’ option from the dropdown menu > Click ‘Apply’.

How to Exclude WebP Images from Backup

If you want to exclude WebP images when taking backups for your website, on the ‘Choose what to back up’ section when creating a manual backup or setting up a backup schedule > Expand the option ‘Exclude Additional Files/Folders’ > Select uploads from the dropdown menu > Enter ‘webp’ in the filed.

Once done, all webp images in the /uploads directory will be excluded from the backup.