There is a little plug in for your Word Press blog that allows you to set it up so that a complete back

up of your blog is emailed to you EVERY NIGHT.

You can have this back up file emailed to a Gmail account and have a rule set so it automatically goes

into a separate folder so you never even think about it coming in or see it coming in.

How To Back Up Your Word Press Blog

 Get this plug in called the Word Press Database Backup:
http://www.ilfilosofo.com/blog/wp-db-backup

or you can install it directly from your Word press Dashboard.
Install it, choose to email every day, and give it an email address.

How To Restore Your Blog

    1.  Go to your cpanel for your site, scroll down until you find MyPhpAdmin.

     2.  Find the database that your blog is installed on.  The backup files that are sent

to you from WP-DB-Backup will have the same name as the database that you need to recover.

     3.  Click on the tab that says import at the top of the new screen that just opened.

     4.  Click on choose file and find the backup file that you are going to use to restore your blog.

Complete details are here:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Restoring_Your_Database_From_Backup

If you take couple of minutes to do this now, you can relax knowing that your work will be protected.

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your business.

Now that you have your blog set up it’s time to make it look spiffy.

Log in to WordPress dashboard and click on Appearance, click on

Add New Themes from the pull down menu.

Select the options you want, color and how many columns you would

like on your blog, then click on Find Themes.

Once you find a theme that looks good, just click on the Install Link.

You will get a pop-up window with the theme you picked,

click on Install Now.

Now click on the Themes link under the Appearance Menu.

Just click on the picture of the new theme.  Once you see the pop-up

window with the preview, just click on the right corner that says Activate.

Once you get done activating your theme your blog should look like the

theme that you picked.  Take some time and familiarize yourself with

all the buttons that are on your blog.  Have fun blogging.

Talk soon.

Jeanette

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Now that you have your domain name picked out and hosting set up, it’s time to set up your WordPress blog.

The reason we are using WordPress is because it’s on your domain and your hosting account so now it belongs

to you. I also recommend that you purchase your domain from one company and your hosting from another.

You will be pretty safe if one of them would get shut down.

Ok,  so now you have a hosting company with a cpanel, so log in to your cpanel and look for a blue smiley face

(Fantastical), click on that icon and you are able to upload your WordPress with one click.

Now you name your blog, something that is relevant to the purpose of you blogging.

Installing plugins is next, by having plugins your blog will be much more efficient.

Just log in to your blog dashboard and click on plug in menu on the left side, drop down will open then you

click on add new, add name of the plugin and click install, once installed just click the link to activate it.

1. Google HML Sitemaps – helps Google to find your site

2. Post Plugin Library – this plug in is necessary if you want Popular Posts Plugin and Related Posts Plugins to work.

3. Askimet – spam blocker

4. CommentLuv – promotes commenting on your site, people that comment will get a link back to their latest blog post.

5. Google Analyticator – this plug in keeps track of your traffic and once you set up your account with Google Analytics

this plug in will activate automatically, no need to install codes.

6. Platinum SEO Pack – this will help you with the search engines, they will notice you fast.

7. Popular Posts – this puts a side bar widget on your blog that lists your most popular posts.

8. Sociable – this plugin puts icons at the bottom of your post so people can promote your site to their favorite Web 2.0 site.

9. WP To Twitter – this links your blog to Twitter, every time you make a post it sends a link to Twitter.

10. Yet Another Related Posts – it puts a list of related posts at the bottom of each individual post.

Once you install all the plugins you will want to make your blog look pretty, my next post will be on how to install themes

for your blog.

One tit bit for this blog post, I came across a cool site http://mylivesignature.com on that website you can create a

signature that looks like a handwritten signature. If you always wandered how they did that, well take a look

 at that site and get your own signature, and it’s free.

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