If you've made the decision
to upgrade your existing
Akeeba Backup Core
to Akeeba Backup Professional
the installation process is fairly simple.
Once you've purchased your subscription
to Akeeba Backup Professional
log in at the akeebabackup.com web site.
Once you've logged in
click on downloads.
Here if we scroll down
you can find a Download link
to Akeeba Backup Professional.
Download that to your own computer
and then extract it.
We now need to transfer these files
to our web server
To do that I'm going to use an
FTP program.
Connect to your site
and navigate to the folder where you installed WordPress
select wp-content,
and then plugins.
Here you can see folders for all the
plugins that you have installed on your WordPress site.
It should be obvious which is the# one for Akeeba Backup.
Select that
- then select all the files from
your computer for Akeeba Backup for
WordPress Professional and upload them to this folder.
Make sure that you select to
overwrite the existing files.
When that is completed, if we go
back to our web site and
log in and go to the Akeeba Backup plugin
we can see that we
now have Akeeba Backup
for WordPress Professional installed.
Right at the top
we have a message about
entering our Download ID
This is required for updates
to the program
so let's go ahead and complete that.
Return to the akeebackup.com web site
and make sure that you are logged in.
Select My Subscriptions from the menu.
If you now scroll down
you will see your Download ID.
Simply select and copy it.
Return to your web site
and paste it in.
and click on Apply download id.
We can see that the message has now
disappeared and we have completed
the upgrade to Akeeba Backup Professional