Comments on: Blog 9-1-1: What To Do When WordPress Breaks

By: Vik

Vik — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 02:14:24 +0000

I switched to blogger the first time it bOrkEd on me.

By: Daniel Harrison

Daniel Harrison — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 13:33:37 +0000

It depends on how technically able you are. I personally have a backup script that runs every night at 12am backing up all of my sites. It backs up the files and the MySQL database. It’s nothing special, using lftp and a shell script.

If you’re not technically inclined and you’re willing to pay a little bit, there are software packages that can do backups for you.

By: Jaypee

Jaypee — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 06:23:04 +0000

Good read! I use the WP DBManager plugin for manual and scheduled backups of my blog.

By: david

david — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 17:28:57 +0000

This is very good advice. I still haven’t gotten around to setting up a local backup, but I think I may finally do it.

By: dotservant.com website hosting

dotservant.com website hosting — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 07:44:31 +0000

I have to agree, a working backup copy of your entire website is very important, you never know when things can go wrong and it is time consuming to debug from file to file trying to locate the little bug, this hours of downtime can cause you dearly, a good backup can get you back up again asap serving your website visitors again, and you can then go back into digging the bug again.

By: Webomatica

Webomatica — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 23:46:53 +0000

Great reminder post. I'd like to recommend WordPress Database Backup that does a MySql dump periodically with an option to email it to an address. Brainless automation helps make backups way easier.

By: Terinea Weblog

Terinea Weblog — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 23:02:29 +0000

Try activating the default theme is a good way of tracking down bugs that maybe in your WordPress theme.

Also, with some knowledge you can create a batch FTP script to download your WordPress files on daily basis.

Good post.

Jamie

By: Jimson Lee

Jimson Lee — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:44:31 +0000

I highly recommend partnering with another Blogger and doing reciprocal hosting. Most web hosting companies give unlimited domains.

Simply backup (export) your XML file on WordPress AFTER EVERY POST, and upload it (import) to the other server. You don’t even need FTP access once it’s all setup.

Make sure you all have the same version of WordPress 2.3.1

You can always setup a temp domain, such as www1.domain.com, and as long as you have full DNS control, just make the switch. Easy.

The only quirk I’ve seen is the Categories get messed up. It creates multiple categories of the same name.

This is true with WordPress 2.1 and 2.2 to 2.3.x

Of course, make sure you let readers know it’s the temp or DR (disaster recovery) site. If they add comments to the temp site, you’ll have to import them to the real one.

Sorry for being long, I’ve seem my share of headaches. Fortunately, not mine!

By: April Groves

April Groves — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 20:36:26 +0000

Gayla – I have one of those too – except for I call mine “Chris”

Odd, this seems to have been quite the issue over the new year. A real estate blogger friend of mine had issues too…

By: Gayla McCord

Gayla McCord — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 19:23:26 +0000

Yeah, a happy ending. Thanks to having my wonderful panic button named Char!