Keep Your Blog Safe: Back Up Your WordPress Installation

[thecancerus]

Notice: This is a discussion thread for comments about the SitePoint article, Keep Your Blog Safe: Back Up Your WordPress Installation.
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you can automate most of these steps by using wpSimpleBackup plugin for WordPress. It also provides an easy and quick way to restore and migrate the blog.

[newblogger82]

I really like this article and as a new blogger, it has given me some good tips.

[indiamod]

My wordpress website is here: http://indiamod.com/

Can anyone give me the correct steps to use google analytics? I am using it...but it does not give the correct stat.

[Mittineague]

I wouldn't say that doing frequent backups will "keep your blog safe" but it is most important if disaster strikes. For example:

You ugrade to a new release version and find most of your beloved must-have plugins are now broken. With a backup you can roll back to the prevous version and keep the blog live while you look for alternative plugins.

Your blog gets hacked and polluted with SPAM comments. With a backup you can fix the problem and restore your comments back to before they were polluted.

In any case, frequent regular backups are very very important.