Backing up your blog
Backing up your blog is an incredibly important thing to do. You don’t want to ever experience losing your data due to a web host server failure. Some higher-end web hosts automatically backup all your data, but most do not.
Also, if you are ever going to upgrade your version of WordPress, it is very important to backup your database and all your files first. That way you can proceed with upgrading with the peace of mind that even if you royally screw the pooch, you can always restore your blog to it’s previous state.
Luckily, as with many things WordPress, there is a plugin that basically will handle this for you. BackupWordPress is a pretty sweet plugin that automatically backs up your WP database, uploaded pictures, config-file, and all your files. It even will do regular, automatic backups and email you the zipped files of the backups.
The following video shows how to use this powerful plugin.
Download the plugin right here.
Related Posts: How to upload and install a Plugin and Upgrading WordPress
Questions? Instead of emailing for support, please leave your questions in the comments so that others can benefit from the clarification. Thanks!
Jared,
You support for this theme just gets better and better. I just spent an hour tweaking it with all of the “upgrades” that have come up in the blog (http://www.professionalphotographertheme.com/tips/).
Thanks again!
I went ahead and activated the Plugin and got this message when trying to manually back up the blog.
Forbidden
You don’t have permission to access /blog/wp-admin/admin.php on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Have you run into this problem?
@Rick: I haven’t. Since we did you install, I’ll try to get in and see what I can do. I’ll get back to you.