You heard it right. As of posting now, this blog has turned one month old. Hooray! Let me be the first to congratulate myself for reaching one month. I’m the first to congratulate myself =P

Allow me first to distribute to some party hats for this occasion…

*cough*cough* Ladies and gentlemen, lend me your ears..

It’s seems funny to think that what seemed to be a product of envy (yes, I envied my friend Wely since he has his own domain that’s why I got one too) resulted into something that I grew fond of. At that time when the domain was bought, I did not know what to do. I got my blog so what? I was so excited about the thought of having my own domain that I did not plan it out before buying. It took me a week before I realized what I’ll do with this blog.

In terms of blog growth, my blog is still small when compared to other’s blogs but I’m happy with it. However, I am very thankful to everyone who have visited this blog, read the entries, or wrote some comments. Without you, my precious reader (yes even you who’s reading now), my blog would have been stocking up on cobwebs. Thanks for the support the you have given. I will continue to try my best in writing articles and guides for you to read.

Now, let’s us look at the numbers on what has the blog achieved…

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I had written some guides on how to back up your blog. Most of them require you to do some work however if you feel very lazy, you can let a website do it for you. This is what I will be writing about now in this post.

Requirements:

• A blog

I just discovered BlogBackupOnline recently and I liked its simplicity. You just need to enter your blog address and it will do the back ups for you. Another good thing about it is that it can do full backups or daily backups. You can also use it to restore your blogs in case of accidents that may happen on your blog.
In this guide, I will be using my own blog as an example. If you want to read their documentation, you can read it here.

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At the time I wrote the “Back up wordpress using a plug-in” guide, I thought restoring the back up was just as easy as doing an import (Dashboard->Manage->Import->Wordpress) in wordpress. I was wrong. I did the import thing yesterday and I got nothing.

So I studied the back up file that was being sent to my email everyday. It has a file extension of sql which is different from the import file required by wordpress. Wordpress needs a file extention of xml. So in a nutshell, file.sql is different from file.xml so it won’t work. However, I found a way to make it work and let me restore the back ups.

Should I share it with you? (*thinks about it–maybe not! mwahahaha* … *slaps self*)

So basically, I’m going to write a guide about this. I would be happy if you have some knowledge on SQL (Structured query language). If you are going to ask me what’s SQL, my answer would be, database. (as you can see, I can’t even define it..^_^)

Requirements:

• SQL file from the wordpress database back up
• Access to your blog database (I’ll be using phpMyAdmin for this guide)
• wordpress wp-config file

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There are times where you feel your creative juices are flowing and you are filled with ideas. Each of these ideas can be converted into blog entries! Due to this, you now have lots of potential blog entries to share to your readers. You plan to write them all down and publish them on the same day. I suggest you refrain from doing this. Do not be a millionaire in one day and risk being poor the next day.

I have three reasons why you should not do this.

1. There will be days that you don’t have any ideas on what to write.
   It is not your fault and it happens to everyone. So instead of writing something half-baked or forcing yourself to write for the sake of writing, you can tap in from your reserves. Where do you get your reserves from? Well, remember those days where you had your creative juices overflowing? Instead of publishing them all at the same day, you can save some of them for times like these. Think of it as saving money (in this case, blog entries) for future use.

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I have just updated my blog to wordpress version 2.2.2.

A big thanks to Jaypee for making my upgrade process very easy. Also because of this, I was able to test out the Maintenance Plug-in for wordpress. hehe That is like hitting two birds with one stone.

So how do you upgrade?

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