Why essential is taking a Backup of WordPress?
I know its one of the important things that I do with my blogs in a very serious manner taking a proper backup of my entire site often many times why I do so means really is important
Yes it is
Backup is what help you if your site get sometimes not working or any related plugin issue or sometimes getting a serious error which can be prevented with backup and there are many ways we can take backup
Types of backup
There are two types of backup one is whole your WordPress blog or taking individual backup for the post, pages, database, and themes so it more often many hosting provides now provides weekly and monthly backup
but, what if there is a manual process which even you can take backup to your Google Drive as well which help to take backup & download large websites
Ways to backup
There are many ways you can do to take backup with different WordPress plugins but if you want to back up things like your post and page and comments can be exported without using any plugin
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How to Backup up Post, page, and comments
want to backup your post and pages and comments which is simple to do all you need to follow the setup which you can do it right away
First, you need to go to Tools
Now find Import and export
all you need to export your content
You can do as well with plugins but this was very simple to do anyone can perform
Backup database
Having a database is also the best thing you do however I didn’t do it often but its good to do which is again you can do it with the plugin or manually so here I will show how you can do it manually as well as plugin
First, you require to go to your cPanel
Find PHPMyAdmin
Identify first which WordPress site you want to take backup
Now go to export
and go
save it, done
Now, finally, we are our final step to backup entire things such as posts, pages, comments, and database with a plugin called “Updraft Plus“
Now, When it comes to backup to your entire site many hosting providers already offer you to do so but manual backup which I prefer most of my WordPress blog
First, you need to go “updraft”
Activate the Plugin
So, there is no backup till now
tap on “Backup Now”
it shows
The backup Process will start shortly
After it shows an existing backup
Now, you download it, and you also backup with various remote storage such as “Google Drive“
I hope, this helps to backup your WordPress Blog
What’re your thoughts let me know in the comment