You don’t want to get caught with your pants down, right?

Backing up your own WordPress Blog is among one of those responsibilities that a majority of individuals remarkably overlook and simply plain dismiss.

Honestly, I don’t understand it.

Most likely it’s due to the fact they assume nothing terrible will happen to all of their work they’ve labored so hard to publish and put up on their website. Because of technology these days I believe folks have the thinking that website hosting services are so cutting-edge with redundancy plus data back-up that their hosting company is going to take proper care of their site.

Wrong.

You've already worked out the question 'why should you blog', so do not lose all the hard work that you've put in to it!

You've by now worked out the challenge why, so don't lose all the hard work that you've put in to it!

I’m certainly not implying that there aren’t reliable webhosts in existence who'll manage web-site back-ups to suit your needs as there are. But suppose an issue occurred to their back-ups? You’re doomed, bottom line. And when your data is gone…

It’s really easy to back-up your WordPress blog. And this won’t set you back any money! Read more…

Rather than present a writeup on WordPress plug-ins you would be able to examine to back-up your site I’m going to endorse the plug-in that I personally use on all my WordPress sites.

Of course, you are welcome to visit WordPress.org and check out different back-up plug ins. I just wished to demonstrate what I utilize mainly because I prefer it. It is certainly, your decision.

WordPress Database Backup

WordPress Database Backup is an effective wordpress plugin made by Austin Matzko. WordPress Database Backup builds a back-up of your WordPress tables (tables are your data…posts, etc…) and other data you can select within the same database.

The plugin is simple to use. You can down load it here at this link: http://austinmatzko.com/wordpress-plugins/wp-db-backup/ and utilize your FTP software program to upload it to your WordPress Plugin folder.

However as you most likely know nowadays, you can actually install plug ins right from your WordPress admin page.

Just login to your WordPress site, and then click the ‘Plugins’ link on the left sidebar then click on the ‘add new’ link close to the top of the page. Then type in ‘WordPress Database Backup’ and it ought to be the first result. If not, it’ll be near the top. Then just click install, and go set up the plugin.

Here’s a very important step that must not be overlooked. You actually must make a back-up of your blog! Trust me, people forget to do this step! Hey, it's as important as setting up your blog...so don't forget this.

Now, you can go in to your configuration options and schedule automated backup copies. In spite of this, I prefer to do a back-up manually and then save my back-up as a data file. Perhaps I’m just paranoid.

You’ll notice at the top where one can do a back-up. The plugin will then inform you as soon as it’s completed.

What I advise you do next is save the backup data file to a remote place like a CD-ROM, external disk drive if you have one or a provider such as Dropbox. I prefer Dropbox and simply put, Dropbox rules!

My personal advice is always to keep a few back-ups of your weblog. Basically, keep the previous five back-ups you carried out in order to be safe. Better safe than sorry…right?

That’s it. Now you can now relax knowing that your blog’s information is protected in the case of a disaster and your hosting company comes crashing down. Then you can certainly say, "Heh!! I’m backed up man!"