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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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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Today, I’m going to be discussing on how to back up your wordpress blog with the use of a plug-in.

Requirements:

• Self Hosted wordpress (not on wordpress.com)
• the wordpress back up plug-in

This guide will do a back up of your wordpress database for you. This is similar to doing a database back up in cpanel but I think this is better. You would ask, why is it better? Well, hopefully after reading this guide you will know if why this is better. This is just an alternative. If you like to do a backup using cpanel, then you can do that too. =)

Now for the guide, this will be divided into two sections.

1. Manual wordpress database back ups
2. Automatic wordpress database back ups

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I have been browsing some sites and I found this nice plug-in for wordpress. As you can see, if you wordpress theme (layout) is widget ready, you can easily drag and drop widgets in it. Some of the widgets that you can include are “text widgets” and “rss widgets”. I tried to use a text widget to show the top commentators for this blog but it does not work (the php code is shown as text). So what I did was to manually edit the sidebar.php file, which is the code for the sidebar where the widgets resides.

A disadvantage to manually editing the file is that it only applies to that theme where you edited the file. If you change your theme, then that code you added will not show on the new theme. However, it all changed when I found this plug-in. It allows you to add PHP code to your widgets. It’s called the Samsarin PHP Widget plug-in.

Note that this is different from adding PHP code to your posts. Here are some pictures for you to see it in action.

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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. Read the rest of this entry »

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