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Saturday, March 13th, 2010 at 12:33 am

uses WordPress. In fact, it may be important, as open source applications like WordPress are more susceptible to hacker attacks. I can tell you from experience staff how important it really is.

It's been a while since I went to the home page of my website to discover it was not my home page again but rather had some pictures I'd rather not be associated with! I thought it was a mistake at first, but soon discovered she had been hacked. Fortunately, had a backup system in place and was able to recover quickly from my site. If I had not - I have had to rebuild my whole site again - not at all a pleasant thought.

To effectively protect your Web site is 1) Have a system of automatic backup in place, 2) Ensure the installation WordPress to make it much harder to hack, and 3) Maintain updated WordPress to have all the latest security patches.

The good news WordPress is easy to take all three steps. Some of the steps is performed quickly with a plug-in, while others are built directly into WordPress. You will protected in any situation, whether your site has been hacked, your hosting company vanishes, you make a mistake, or your database becomes corrupted.

In the first should a disaster and is the absolute minimum every WordPress user should do to protect themselves.

What you need to copy security

There are two main components of a website or blog WordPress, the database that contains all the content and settings and files that make WordPress including plugins and themes. You will be able to recreate your entire website / blog via these two elements.

Backup Database

Keep your database backup is even more critical as it changes constantly. Every word, image, comment, and the property on the site is stored in the database data, so it is continually updated and have to be a backup routine.

The easiest way to backup your database is to use the plugin WP-DB-Backup. This plugin automatically back up your database and email the file. You choose the frequency of backup and tables you want to back up (which again all of them).

It is also recommended creating a Gmail account and have your backups are sent. Thus, not clutter your regular e-mail with the backup and is unlikely to ever run out of storage space for backups (Probably not).

To backup your files, usually going to have to use an FTP program, which lets you view the files on both your own computer and the server (ie your hosting account) and easily move files from one to another. All you need do is set your FTP program, create a folder on your computer to store the backup files (create a new folder for each backup) and then download the folder of your website called "wp-content".

The "wp-content" folder is usually located in a "www", "htdocs" or "public_html" folder, but may vary depending WordPress via a URL www.mydomain.com/myblog/ , then the "wp-content" There is now also a plugin called "WordPress Automatic Backup" that automates the entire backup both your database and your files - and storage reliability of data provided by the service industry from Amazon S3. With this plugin, you can "set it and forget it" for the most part (you should check periodically things), but there are some drawbacks.

Above all, it is not free and requires some setup. The service is super cheap though for a typical WordPress website and rarely cost more than $ 1/month. Having the backup on a separate system adds another layer of security to your backup routine is beneficial.

It seems that some people are not able to get the plugin to work properly either, but is clearly better to have everything back up more information and download the plugin. You can verify it is working by checking your Amazon S3 account and ensuring the backup files are there.

Conclusion

Regardless of how you configure your system backup - make sure you have a trap! It's definitely worth hiring a professional to help you if you are not comfortable for its creation yourself, or simply do not have the time. Just make sure you get it done one way or another before a disaster occurs and you lose all the hard work.

About the Author

Philip Light is the founder of the
WordPress WebKit
, a one-stop resource for learning and using WordPress featuring WordPress Video Tutorials, Guides, and Professional Support Options - including setting up your backup system for you.

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