Built a plugin to bulk-backup posts before trashing them — because I couldn't find one that did just that
Ran an Ahrefs content audit recently and got a list of ~60 posts/pages to prune. Wanted to back them up first — each one has its own categories, tags, valuable content, so losing one by accident would actually hurt.
Went looking on WordPress.org and every plugin was either:
- A full site/database migration tool (way more than I needed), or
- A "selective" backup plugin with no bulk URL upload, manual title re-entry on restore, and no screen to actually see what you'd backed up
Ended up building my own (I'm the dev, full disclosure): Undelly. Paste a list of URLs, it backs them all up as self-contained JSON records (title/content/slug/taxonomy/featured image), and there's a dedicated Manage Backups screen to download/restore/delete. There's also a setting to auto-backup anything trashed anywhere in wp-admin, so even WordPress's own 30-day Trash auto-empty won't silently wipe something you didn't mean to lose.
It's free: wordpress.org/plugins/undelly
Curious if others doing content pruning have run into the same gap, or if I missed an existing tool that already does this.
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