Regularly backing up your website is one of the most important things you can do to guard against losing all your data. After all, no one plans to be hacked or for their server to crash. Fortunately, there are plenty of excellent, not to mention free, WordPress plugins available that will back up your posts, pages, product descriptions, and whatever …
How To Make Money Offering A WordPress Maintenance Service
How would you like an extra $100-$300+ per client every month? If your WordPress development, design or marketing business isn’t offering a WordPress site maintenance package you’re missing out on a huge opportunity. Give your clients peace of mind and spare them the horror they would suffer if left to their own devices, all while […] View original post at …
How to Manage Your WordPress Site and Content When You’re Locked Out
Getting hacked has become synonymous with starting fresh, losing your content and access to your website. Thing is, you can have it all and a bag of chips. Computer chips. Okay, maybe not a bag of computer chips, but you don’t have to scrap your entire site you worked so hard on after it’s been […] View original post at …
How to Restore WordPress When It’s Down or Locked with Snapshot Pro
Losing your WordPress site to a hacker or a silly mistake on your part and then not having a backup to restore it is – say it with me – the worst. Luckily, Snapshot Pro can get you back up and running, even when your site’s down or locked up. Snapshot Pro is a backup plugin that also […] View original post at …
Using the Wayback Machine to Archive (and Backup) Your WordPress Site
Sometimes, WordPress backups fail and restoring your many blog posts and pages can become a brutal challenge. Fortunately, archiving them using the Wayback (time) Machine can make them easily recoverable. Sure, you can’t actually go back in time, but using the Wayback Machine isn’t far off. It archives public web documents to preserve human culture for future […] View original post at …
Testing WordPress Website Backups to Avoid Future Disasters
If you’ve used WordPress for a while, you know keeping regular backups can save you from losing your website (you know, the site you’ve put all that time and effort – literally hours – into building). But have you tested your WordPress backups to see if they actually work? Sometimes, backups could be missing files or become corrupted. It may …
Creating a Manual Backup of WordPress When It’s Down or Locked
So your site is down and you can’t log in… and you just realized you don’t have a recent backup. Dammit. Before you launch into panic mode, though, it’s safe to say you’re not completely screwed. In an ideal world, you would have a working backup that you could use to restore your site, but we don’t exactly live in …