Now for the second guide to doing a back up to your blog, I am going to be tackling wordpress. This guide will be about making a back up of your blog using the wordpress admin panel.
Take note that this will only back up your posts/categories/comments/pages in wordpress. This will not back up your themes/widgets etc. ^_^
Requirements:
- WordPress Blog
For this guide, I’m going to let the pictures be the guide. If people will complain, then I will add write ups to the pictures. But I think the pictures are enough. They do say, pictures are worth a thousand words. hehe Well on to the guide.
Making the Back Up
Step 1: Go to Manage
Step 2: Go to Export
Step 3: Click on Download Export File
Step 4: Download your back up
Restoring the back up
Step 1: Go to Manage
Step 2: Go to Import
Step 3: Click on WordPress
Step 4: Browse your computer for your back up file and click Upload File and Import
Step 5 : Assign authors
Note: The question here is, who will be the author of the “uploaded” or “restored from back up” posts?
“To make it easier for you to edit and save the imported posts and drafts, you may want to change the author of the posts. For example, you may want to import all the entries as admin entries.” (WordPress Description)
Step 6 : Thank Allen for writing this. hihi
It’s a good way of backing up, but WP explicitly states that it is not supposed to be a backup tool. hehe
I tested it myself and I only got the categories, posts, and pages. The legendary blogroll was not included!
If you are using free wordpress, then this can be useful. But if you are free hosting, it’s better to use the cpanel technique which of course, I have also a written a guide to it. haha (shameless post promotion of mine)
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