Creating a Manual Backup of WordPress When It’s Down or Locked

So your site is down and you can’t log in… and you just realized you don’t have a recent backup. Dammit. Before you launch into panic mode, though, it’s safe to say you’re not completely screwed. In an ideal world, you would have a working backup that you could use to restore your site, but we don’t exactly live in a perfect world. Sometimes, backups don’t work, get corrupted, or we simply forget (or neglect…) to make one in the first place.

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