Akeeba Backup for WordPress

Saturday, 16 April 2022 10:13 CDT

sjberry1963

Hey Guys!

I love backups! I backup 2-3 times every day when I'm working on a site, and before I start working on one. I'm compulsive about it. It's saved my ass a number of times, and it's because of this specific plugin. I've used you guys for a really long time and you've always done me right. Thank you!

Here's my situation, albeit a rather small thing, it's important in terms of convenience. No huge deal here.

I want a one-click button on the admin console of my site(s) - red button "Backup Now!"

Actually I have one, booth on all of my Joomla sites, and now on the new WordPress sites I'm building.

On Joomla, all I had to do was link to the profile and viola! It works!

Not so much on WordPress.

I get an Application Error (500)

I can go to the buttons on the Backup Interface and everything works perfectly, but there's something different about the link I need to put in that button.

Thanks for your help!

Sunday, 17 April 2022 09:00 CDT

nicholas

You can't actually create an one-click backup icon on WordPress. Not to get in too much technical detail, WordPress does not have an application-wide session management which means that anti-CSRF tokens and other security measures we can use anytime in Joomla will only work inside Akeeba Backup for WordPress. That's why the one-click backup icon needs to be generated inside the Akeeba Backup for WordPress plugin.

You can always link to the generic backup page (/wp-admin/admin.php?page=akeebabackupwp%2Fakeebabackupwp.php&view=backup) and let users select the backup profile they want to use. This link WILL work since without a backup profile ID in the URL there's no need to check the anti-CSRF token.

Akeeba Backup for Joomla used to be the same, checking for the anti-CSRF token if a profile= query string parameter was present in the URL, but we had to remote it to make custom admin menu items possible. We are using a different approach in Joomla, only checking the anti-CSRF token when autostart=1 is defined in the URL. It's less safe but we had to regrettably do that for custom Joomla admin menu items to be possible.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

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Monday, 25 April 2022 16:59 CDT

sjberry1963

Thank you very much for the explanation. It's not that big a deal.

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