Marketing with WordPress and More

I posted how to do a full backup of WordPress here:

Easy Wordpress Backup

This is SO important that I should probably post about this every week!

Promise yourself that you’ll do a backup in the next few days and then regularly for ever after!

How often? If you post on your blog frequently, then a weekly full backup is wise.

I had a scare recently. My blog vanished! My hosting company is the highly respected Hostgator. They do backups of all sites once a week BUT something went SO wrong that they didn’t have a recent backup for me!

I back up frequently, so I had a copy that could be used instead. My backup was short a few posts so it wouldn’t have restored everything, but that was better than the alternative – starting from scratch. Fortunately I was able to correct the problem without resorting to my backup, but I was very glad that I had it on hand.

You’ll probably think you’re safe and it’s no big deal to be slack about backups UNTIL you lose your blog to hackers or other weird goings-on.

And while you’re at it, beef up your security to keep hackers out by doing two simple things that I guide you through here:

Change Your Wordpress Password and Admin User Name

Better safe than sorry, as they say!

To learn more about how to protect your WordPress blogs as much as possible from malicious hackers, I recommend this excellent ebook & video package by WP expert John Hoff:

WordPress Defender: 30 Ways to Secure Your Blog from Attack that Anyone Can Do

~  Lillea Woodlyns

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