Restoring your back up from wordpress back up plug-in

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 [...]

Back up wordpress using a plug-in

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 [...]

Adding PHP Code to your widgets

UPDATE:: Please use another plug-in as this plug-in does not work anymore. Post Archived. 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 [...]

Backing up your blogger blog

This is now my third guide! Oh right! This is the fifth post on the “back up series”. This guide will be about making a back up of your blogger blog. Please do note that these guide will help you back up your Template/Layout and blog content (posts/labels) SEPARATELY. Requirements: Classic Blogger Blog Beta Blogger [...]

Back up your blog using wordpress admin panel

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 [...]

Back up your blog through Cpanel

I will now start with the technical details of doing some backups for your blog. This guide will be about generating a back up through the use of CPANEL. This guide is useful only if you are on a paid hosting. If you are on blogger or on free wordpress then you should check out [...]

How to back up your blog – Introduction

If you have read my previous on why you should back up your blog, then perhaps now you are wondering how do you back up your blog. This post does not have the technical details yet but this will serve as an introduction. There are two types of back up you can do for your [...]

A mix of good news and bad news

Hello everyone, I’m back from my blog hiatus since I have finished my initial thesis proposal defense yesterday. It was a hard fought battle while I was having a lot of problems. Although I was proud of myself, I persevered through it but it was without suffering a huge loss. The good news is… I [...]

Back up your blog often

Whether you are on free hosting or on paid hosting, you should always back up your blog often. Accidents can happen; you might wake up one day and find your blog gone. Why should I back up my blog? You might be hacked! Getting hacked is when someone gets to access your site without your [...]