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WordPress Backup – You Cannot Afford To Be Without It

Everyone who knows me will know how passionate I am about making sure all of my sites and information is always backed-up properly AND regularly.

 

VERY IMPORTANT – URGENT INFORMATION

Special LIVE training – FREE to you

Thursday, January 26th, 2012 at 2PM Eastern

I know a guy that got paid $100 for just 5  minutes “work” – when he was only 17 and 18…

1. 100 dollars would come in,
2. He’d go click, click, click, and
3. He was done…

He simply installed PHP scripts (basically WordPress plugins) and charged 100 dollars a time. He could do this because he knew and applied “this” one secret…

The technology didn’t previously exist for this but now he has released his Backup plugin and will be showing people live on Thursday how they too can earn $100 for 5 minutes work (and keep their own sites safe using the same process). All with a few clicks and no technical knowledge required.

REGISTER FOR THE LIVE EVENT HERE

 

In fact I can’t think of anyone who hasn’t had a big problem at some stage when their computer has crashed or maybe the power supply or mother board has failed and they’ve lost data they were working on. And regardless of how good WordPress is there are always ocassions when something goes wrong, maybe an incompatible plugin or an upgrade that doesn’t quite go to plan and the site sems to vanish.

It’s happened to me and it WILL happen to you one day. If it hasn’t happened to you yet count yourself very lucky. You are extremely fortunate as you can do something now to protect yourself BEFORE you get caught out.

After you recover from the sick feeling in your stomach you start to work out what you need to do to get your site live again. I promise you, this can take hours of searching around for the solution. If you’ve ever suffered from WordPress “white screen” you’ll know how difficult it is to find the solution. People everywhere tell you they’ve had the problem but very few have any answers.

But what if you knew you had a perfect back-up of your site that could be reinstated with a simple click or two?

Ever wanted to move from one server to another? I know a number of our members at Blogging Beginners have wanted to do this as they were unhappy with the service offered by their hosting company. With Backup Creator you can move your whole site – with all plugins and settings AND you don’t need to have any technical knowledge to do it.

I’m in the process of revamping and updating this site – Wizzersays – and this brilliant  WordPress Backup plugin will ensure I don’t have any problems – even if something goes wrong.

I’ve tried other back up solutions in the past but they mainly help with the wordpress databases and not the whole site.

Don’t leave it to chance, whether you follow this recommendation or not, please ensure you regularly back-up your sites – the feeling you get in the pit of your stomach when something goes wrong and you realise you don’t have a recent back-up is just plain horrible.

Upgrading To WordPress 2.7.1

When you log in to your WordPress admin area today at the top of the page you’ll see:

WordPress 2.7.1 is available! Please Update Now

Easy enough to deal with you’d think.

Just click the Please Update Now link and then the Upgrade Automatically button.

Or so you’d think.

I tried – saw it was unpacking.

Man, that thing must have been on a long holiday the amount of unpacking that seemed to be going on!

And then I strated to wonder. It clearly wasn’t doing anything.

After some deep thinking – yes I can do that sometimes – I realised that the WP Automatic Upgrade plugin I have installed and still activated must be causing a conflict.

Deactivating the old plugin did the trick and the WordPress 2.7 automatic upgrade that’s part of WordPress now did it’s job.

This time it was clearly just an overnight visit!


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Tiny MCE Advanced – WordPress Plugin

Tiny MCE Advanced is a great WordPress plugin that provides a much enhanced Visual control panel.

The following screen shot shows some of the buttons I use on a regular basis: -

tinymcecontrol

Just click on the image above and a full size image will open.

And there are more that can be added by dragging & dropping in the plugin control settings.

tinymce

What is really cool about this plugin is that it gives much greater control over your formatting – much like a word processing program.

For example I can change the standard font to Comic Sans for example just by highlighting and selecting the required font.

I can change it’s size and colour and add a smilie 8-) or 2 :oops:

And what about some quotations?

Insert a custom character or two:  € <

So if you’re fed up with having little control over your posts give this plugin a try.

You can download the Tiny MCE Advanced plugin here.

UPDATE 16th FEBRUARY 2009 – Randy has just uploaded a new video to Blogging Beginners members are covering this plugin in detail

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How To Put Video On Your Blog

The request received was for me to produce a video showing how to put video on your blog.

These blogging instructions are created for our members. The actual video is available inside the Blogging Beginners members area – current members can login via the link in the sidebar.

The video below is merely the item I used to demonstrate how to insert a video into a blog although if you are into music you may want to take a look at where I was in Blip.fm – it’s a good way to get to know people with similar tastes – it’s bit like Musical Twitter!

And this video is one I found on YouTube and is shown again purely as it forms part of the instruction video in Blogging Beginners.

Blogging Beginners Need New Onlywire

Onlywire has grown up and Blogging Beginners need to take note to get their posts bookmarked and backlinks campaign off to a flying start.

Watch my video about Onlywire, the WordPress plugin and how to get set up and started.

Blogging Beginners Member Site