Wouldn’t you just hate it if one day you woke up and all your WordPress posts had vanished? You don’t have to worry. Take a minute to backup your blog (all your hard work, blood, sweat, and tears), following the simple step-by-step instructions at the Storyreading Ape’s blog. It could be a life-saver. 🙂
Because you never know what the day may bring
So Stay Safe – Not Sorry
AUTHORS
PROTECT YOUR WIP’s
BLOGGERS
PROTECT YOUR BLOGS
(For WordPress Users)
ADMIN
TOOLS
EXPORT
EXPORT (again)
Set it to ALL CONTENT then press
DOWNLOAD EXPORT FILE
chrismcmullen 
Thanks for re-blogging Chris 😀
I owe you another hundred, at least, but who’s counting? 🙂
Well I’M not Chris – I support my Hall of Fame Authors when and where possible 😀
Thanks for the reminder, guys – I do it periodically, but it should be done more frequently. It’s really easy.
Alicia
I was surprised. My file size was huge, yet it only took a moment. 🙂
I think they handle bigger blogs than mine – it only took a moment, too, but it is scary to think of losing all my ‘stuff.’
I have a Scrivener project where I create most blog posts before I post them, but I always change and tweak when I put them up, and I’d hate to lose that.
Great reminder! Thanks Chris!!
Let’s forward our thanks to Chris the Storyreading Ape. 🙂
Sure!! Thanks Chris The Story Reading Ape and thanks to Chris for reblogging! 🙂
Thank you! I am updating my theme this week and was concerned about losing content. This post arrived at the perfect time.
Chris the Storyreading Ape did share this at a great time. 🙂
Ok… call me daft, but where does it get exported to? And doesnt that mean you are removing all your data, or does it just replicate?
You’re just downloading a copy as back-up. The original remains on your blog. Just save the back-up file to your computer as you would any other file that you download.
Oh! I see! But thats a lot of content, must take up a lot of memory.
That’s what I was expecting, but my huge blog turned out to be quite reasonable and the download was surprisingly quick.
Then I will do it right away! I guess its a good habit to do it every month or so. In that case, will the new export just override the old one?
It will just save a new file for you.
Thank you oh wise one! ☺
Thanks to the both of you for this hunorous reminder. 🙂
You can’t back up too much, but you can back up not enough. 🙂
You’ve frightened the life out of me!
I hope you’re part cat so that you’ll still have 8 left. 🙂
Backing up never occurred to me. Feeling silly!
Just don’t back down on your back-up (or even back out). 🙂