What would you do if WordPress crashed and your blog was lost?
Here is some EXCELLENT advice we should all be following! I know I will!
Tech Tips for Writers is an occasional post on overcoming Tech Dread. I’ll cover issues that friends, both real-time and virtual, have shared. Feel free to post a comment about a question you have. I’ll cover it in a future Tip.
Q: I’m paranoid of losing my writing projects and family pictures so I back them up to an external drive, a flash drive, and in the cloud. My blog, though–It’s become an important cog in my PLN. If it blew up, I’d be lost. What do I do about backing it up?
A: If you use WordPress, it’s easy, they provide a native tool for that. Here’s what you do:
- Go to Tools>Export
- Select the ‘Export‘ option
- It’ll back it up as an XML file (you don’t have to understand what that is. Just know it’s the file that will save you if WordPress crashes)
- Save that…
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Bitchin’ in the Kitchen 
What would I do? Absolutely nothing. I’ve had more blog sites die on me than relatives…. and I never felt even remotely sad about losing the posts. Nothing I write about is important enough to keep… or maybe I’m just too shallow to care!
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*Looks at relatives*
*Looks at Blog site*
… yeah I’m deffo saving the blog site..
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Ha! You’ve got me there….
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You guys have me over here laughing out loud to your comments. 😂
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That’s because you’re not related to us😂
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She’s right. It probably wouldn’t be funny if you had to host us every Thanksgiving. I hate pumpkin pie…
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Given that I over cook horribly and generally make 6-7 desserts.. the more the merrier!
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Thanks for sharing!
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It’s great advice so I was thrilled to 😊
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Oooh this is something I keep meaning to do too!
Well, no time like the present. I just followed this advice and did my first back up. Hopefully my site won’t die, but you’ll’ve saved me if it does!!
*britchy hug*
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Hurray!! Until I read this it hadn’t even occurred to me. I was beyond complacent so I was thrilled to share the post. It’s really great advice!
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