WordPress Backup And Restore Fundamentals

Name: WordPress Backup And Restore Fundamentals
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Complete video guide on how to backup and restore your WordPress blog.

Created byCristian Gradisteanu

Last updated 11/2016

English

What you'll learn

By the end of this course you will be able to fully backup and restore your WordPress blog.
It will get into details of why do you need a backup, how can you create one, how can you fully restore your blog from a backup, etc.

Course content

3 sections • 24 lectures • 1h 3m total length

Course Introduction2:44
Introduction to the course.
Locally hosted WordPress1:12
Introduces the locally hosted WordPress site used during this course.
Why do you need a backup ?2:10
Some reasons of why do you want to backup.
What to backup ?2:17
What files or folders do you have to backup.

Manual WordPress backup2:02
How to manually backup your WordPress blog.
Backup WordPress using FTP3:31
How to backup your WordPress blog using FTP client.
Manual Database backup1:47
How to backup your database using phpMyAdmin web interface.
Manual Database delete1:26
Deleting our WordPress database.
Manual deleting WordPress blog1:52
Deleting our WordPress blog.
WordPress download and install2:54
Describes how to install a fresh copy of Wordpress.
Restoring the Database2:37
Describes how to restore the database using phpMyAdmin.

WordPress Plugins - What to look for2:23
What to take into consideration when choosing a WordPress plugin.
WordPress plugins discussed in this course0:35
Covers the WordPress plugins discussed in this course.
Installing and configuring BackUpWordpress plugin6:27
How to install and configure BackUpWordpress plugin.
Installing WordPress Backup to Dropbox plugin2:38
How to install WordPress Backup to Dropbox plugin.
Creating a Dropbox account3:54
How to create a new Dropbox account.
Plugin authorizing and creating first backup5:04
How to authorize the plugin to use Dropbox and description of its settings.
Post creating first backup and navigating Dropbox folders0:42
This is how the backup looks in our Dropbox account.
Plugin settings panel after first run0:15
Dropbox file versioning1:18
How to use Dropbox file versioning in order to recover older files.
Backing up to other cloud services11:37
Premium backup plugins and services2:59
Discuss about premiun solutions to WordPress backup plugins.
The end0:26
A few words in the end.
Bonus Lecture0:22

Requirements

I will assume that you are already a WordPress user, but no advanced WordPress knowledge is necessary.

Description

This course explains the necessary steps needed to successfully backup and restore your WordPress blog to a functional state. A backup of your blog is vital in many situations.
The course describes how to manually backup and restore your blog and how to automate this tasks by using plugins.

The course includes video tutorials and presentation slides.

Course duration is about 1 hour.

Who this course is for:

Students that are interested in becoming more proficient with WordPress.

WordPress Backup And Restore Fundamentals

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