Backup Your Website Automatically

You can backup your website content on automatically using the WordPress Database Backup Plugin which you set to email you backup automatically at regular durations.

Setup Your Automatic WordPress Backup

1. Go to Plugins/Add New
2. Search for ‘wp db backup’
3. Install and activate this plugin
4. Go to Tools/Backup
5. Do an immediate backup to be sent to your email address
6. Then select how often your would like to backup your site
7. Select whether you’d like the backup files emailed and the email address
8. Tick the extra information you would like included in the backup such as photo galleries, e-commerce shop and email subscribers list.
9. Save your settings.

If anything goes wrong, your website host will be able to reload your files using the backup file you provide them.

Backing Up Your WordPress content

This creates an XML file for you to save to your computer. The file contains your posts, pages, comments, custom fields, categories, and tags. The only way to get the information from this file is import it into another WordPress website.

1. Login in to your WordPress admin
2. Select Mangage/Export
3. Click on the Download Export File Button
4. Save the file to your computer

It is also a good idea to make a copy of your wp-content folder once a month as this contains your theme, all your plugins and your image gallery.

Super Powered Backup Option

If you have a lot of content on your website, I would recommend signing up for VaultPress. This service is well worth the $15 a month you pay – they back up every single thing you add to your website and if something goes wrong, they get it back up and running for you in super quick time. I use VaultPress on this website and it has saved my bacon on one occasion.