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WordPress 2.7 Cookbook

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WordPress 2.7 Cookbook

Overview of this book

About 120,000 blogs are created every day. Most of them quickly die, but a few stay, grow up, and then become well known and respected places on the Web. If you are seriously interested in being in the top league, you will need to learn all the tricks of the trade. WordPress 2.7 Cookbook focuses on providing solutions to common WordPress problems, to make sure that your blog will be one of the ones that stay. The author's experience with WordPress enables him to share insights on using WordPress effectively, in a clear and friendly way, giving practical hands-on solutions to WordPress problems, questions, and common tasks ñ from themes to widgets and from SEO to security. Are you feeling limited with WordPress, or are you wondering how popular blogs do a certain kind of thing that you can't? With this cookbook, you will learn many WordPress secrets and techniques, with step-by-step, useful recipes dedicated to achieving a particular goal or solve a particular problem. You'll learn the secret of expensive premium themes, how to optimize your blog for SEO and online profits, and how to supercharge WordPress with killer functions used by the most popular blogs over the Internet.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
WordPress 2.7 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
2
Finding and Installing Themes
Index

Creating backups of your WordPress files


As we have seen earlier, having backups of your WordPress database is really important, but what about the files? Core files aren't really a problem because you can download them when you want from www.wordpress.org. However, when you're writing posts, you often upload pictures, and maybe even modify your theme.

This is another reason why it is very important to create backups of your blog files. You have a better chance to avoid data loss if your blog is hacked some day, accidentally.

Getting ready

This recipe is very easy to achieve. You only need an FTP program and some space on your hard drive or USB device. The following screenshot shows the transferring of a file via FTP using the Cyberduck program on Mac OS X.

How to do it...

  1. On your computer, create a directory and name it as backup-myblog-20090106.

  2. Open your favorite FTP program, and connect to your blog's web host.

  3. Select all of your files, including the .htaccess file, and copy them into the...