How to connect and back up a WordPress site

See WordPress health in seops and send UpdraftPlus backups to Cloudflare R2.

1. Create an application password

   In WordPress admin go to Users → Profile, scroll to Application Passwords, name it seops, click Add New Application Password. Copy the password.

2. Enter the username in seops

   In seops open Settings › Project settings and find the Connections · backups and WordPress card. Fill WordPress username, Save. There is no password field: the application password is added to the panel's Cloudflare Worker as a Secret whose name is shown under the username (for example WP_APP_PASSWORD_EXAMPLE_COM); the panel admin does this.

3. Create an R2 API token

   Cloudflare → R2 → Manage API tokens → Create API token. Permission Object Read & Write, scoped to one bucket for backups. Copy Access Key ID, Secret Access Key and the endpoint.

   R2 API tokens ↗

4. Install UpdraftPlus

   WordPress → Plugins → Add New → search UpdraftPlus → Install Now → Activate.

5. Set R2 as remote storage

   Settings → UpdraftPlus Backups → Settings. Remote storage S3-Compatible (Generic); paste keys and endpoint; location your-bucket/example.com. Schedule files weekly, database daily. Save Changes, then Backup Now to test.

6. Check the backup in seops

   There is nothing to pick in seops: it reads the site's folder in the panel's backup bucket. The latest UpdraftPlus file shows in the WordPress column under Settings › Infrastructure › Connections, and seops warns when it is older than the schedule.