Quick Tip:Backup Your Blog Content

This is a quick post(a reminder) just to remind you backing up your content!
Do you really need to remind us about this?
I don’t know about you but I didn’t remember to backup my blog till the end of the second month of blogging.

How To Backup Your Blog Content?

Backing up your blog content is an easy work, especially if you are a WordPress user. As the WordPress Team provide you a step-by-step tutorial of how to backup your DB.

You can also do this by using the wp-db-backup Plugin, this plugin was un-bundled from the newest wordpress release, I think the reason is WXR file that the new WP version can create.

What is the WordPress eXtended RSS (WXR) file?

It`s an XML(more) file that contains your posts, comments, custom fields, and categories.
It`s first found to move your content to another blog, but hey…it can be used as backup obviously.
To create a WXR file just enter your admin panel, Click on the Manage Tab -> Export.
And importing the file is also an easy work and the steps of doing this can be found in the XML file itself:

1. Log into that blog as an administrator.
2. Go to Manage: Import in the blog’s admin panels.
3. Choose “WordPress” from the list.
4. Upload this file using the form provided on that page.
5. You will first be asked to map the authors in this export file to users on the blog. For each author, you may choose to map to an existing user on the blog or to create a new user.
6. WordPress will then import each of the posts, comments, and categories contained in this file into your blog.

And that`s it, guys.

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