Is your blog crashing and burning? Have you been backing up your websites on a regular basis?
Just a few weeks ago, my wordpress blog became unstable. I’m not sure if it was due to a new template that I had installed, a wordpress update, or plugins that made my site unstable. My wordpress blog became so unstable that I could not even publish a post properly. Something as fluid as posting a blog post was taking dozens of minutes. As silly as this sounds, my blog was getting plugged up and not working! I became so teary-eyed that I began to crash and burn with my blog! But then I got smart on a few things and vowed to follow this routine:
- Type all my blogs in Microsoft® Word, save them on a USB and harddrive.
- Copy and paste my blog post from Microsoft® Word into WordPress.
- Backup my WordPress posts from WordPress’ back end in Tools > Export.
- Use my website hosting’s Control Panel (a.ka. cPanel) to create backup files of my website. (My hosting account automatically does a daily system back up of my websites).
- Make sure I backup my websites before upgrading to a new version of WordPress.
- Research plugins before installing and activating them on my site.
