Is your Blog Crashing and Burning?

Posted by Sana Ahmed on Mar 6, 2010 in Tutorials, Websites, Wordpress | 0 comments

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:

1. Type all my blogs in Microsoft® Word, save them on a USB and harddrive.
2. Copy and paste my blog post from Microsoft® Word into WordPress.
3. Backup my WordPress posts from WordPress’ back end in Tools > Export.
4. 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).
5. Make sure I backup my websites before upgrading to a new version of WordPress.
6. Research plugins before installing and activating them on my site.