Best 3 WordPress Backup Plugins to backup your blog

Hello guys, in this era of exponential growth of internet technology hackers are becoming a headache for all internet users and also for bloggers. If you are running a blog and wants it be protected from hackers it is very essential to take backups at regular intervals of your blog, but taking backup of blog is not enough! You must backup your files (images, themes,, plugins, etc.) as well. If your blog gets hacked some day and you are satisfied by regaining your posts and comments alone and if you also consider spending hours in gathering and uploading images, plugins, and themes for your blog you can just backup your database. But for intelligent people who don’t want to waste their priceless time backing up your database through best wordpress backup plugin as well as files are essential.

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There are best two ways to take backup of wordpress blog:-

• Manual.
  
  
• Automatic.

Manual backups are one of the solutions of protecting your blog, but it is next to impossible for anyone to take timely backups daily. It also requires a lot of time therefore effective not efficient.

There is a way to back up your blog easily, quickly and automatically then look for some useful free plugins.

There are lots of best wordpress backup plugins available online allowing you to backup Wordpress blog easily. According to me I found best 3 wordpress backup plugins because I used and rated them as the best WordPress backup plugins!

XCloner

It backups your blog database as well as your files therefore quite efficient. It is up to your choice to take full or partial backup. You can customize this plugin to take backup of your blog at particular time intervals and backup file can be compressed to save disk space.  XCloner can be viewed as a complete free backup solution for word press and one of the best wordpress backup plugin.

BackWPUp

This plugin is just awesome because it not only take backup of blog database it also includes your files, include any file or folder, exclude any file or folder, export Word press XML, etc. Apart from its regular functionality it can even check, optimize and repair your database. It also helps in saving disk space by making compressed backups in zip, tar, tar.gz or tar.bz2 formats.

              Backups made from this plugin can be stored in a folder, FTP server, Amazon S3, Google Storage,Dropbox, Rackspace Cloud,google drive etc. and it comes free of cost that’s most impressive feature and make it reach in my best wordpress backup plugin list.

WP DB Backup

Its name defines itself it just backs up your Word Press database. It saves backup to your server, email the backup to you or to anyone you intended to share or you can also download the backup from browser as soon as the backup is complete. This plugin is very effective if you just want to backup your database therefore in my opinion it is still the best wordpress backup plugin but first two are more preferable than this plugin.

Conclusion

Finally, at last whatever plugin you use I discussed the best of them. These best wordpress backup plugin will let you blog safely and securely. Even when you are hacked they served you whenever you wanted them to be.   

Deepak Sharma is a technical blogger who loves to write about games, tips and tricks,best useful software , android programming.If you like the author than you can find more interesting stuff by stay connected with him on Facebook , Twitter, Google plus and LinkedIn. Edited an SEO by  Shubham Kedia

How to transfer your Blogger account to WordPress blogging platform?

Why am I writing this post?

After using Blogger for a certain period, when you realise that it has various limitations, you might like to switch your blog to some other blogging platforms such as WordPress, Tumblr etc. Then this post might serve your purpose.

You can refer our post (Advantages and Disadvantages of Blogger) to know about the limitations of a Blogger blogging platform.

If you are thinking of shifting your platform from Blogger to WordPress, then the steps discussed below will be helpful for you to easily switch your blogging platform.

These are the simple steps to be followed: -

        ·         Open your Blogger dashboard by logging into your Blogger account.

        ·         Go to Settings. Then click Other option in the settings.

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      ·         Then, scroll the cursor upwards. As you scroll up, a Blog Tools box appears which shows 3 options – Import, Export and Delete blog.

       ·         Click on Export blog. A dialog box appears which shows 2 options - Close and Download Blog.

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       ·         Click on Download Blog. Then, an XML file gets downloaded on your system.

       ·         Next, go to Wordpress.com.

       ·         Make a New account in WordPress platform by filling all the necessary details.

       ·         Then, choose the Create a New Blog option.

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       ·         Select an address and title for your blog.

       ·         After this, click on Create a Blog button.

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       ·         Then, open your WordPress dashboard of your newly created blog. Thus, a webpage appears in     which many options are given on left hand side of the webpage.

      ·         Take your cursor to the Tools option. Then a dialog box appears in which 4 choices are given to you - Available tools, Import, Export and Delete blog.

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       ·         Click on Import option. Thus, a list of Blogging platforms appears in front of you.

·                      Choose Blogger as your Platform from which you are going to import the data.

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      ·         Next, click on Choose Files and upload the XML file that you had downloaded previously from your Blogger blog.

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Thus, by following these steps, your Blogger blog will be successfully transferred to the WordPress blogging platform.

If you have any queries related to this post, you can comment below....

Author - Pallav Jain 

Import Your Google Doc Files into WordPress in just 4 Easy Steps

If you want to transfer your bulky Google doc files on WordPress, then Docs to WordPress is most suitable  plugin for you. This  plugin  helps  you  to work  in  Google  docs  and  then send  those  files  to WordPress  through  an automated  script  when  you  are  done.There  is  an  option  to  set   the  frequency   of  imports   and  move   the  files in Google docs  so  that  it  isn't  recopied  to  WordPress multiple  number  of  times.

For whom is this plugin suitable ??

 If  you  use  WordPress  very  rarely  or  once  in  every blue noon which can only be seen in month of May then this plugin is not suitable for you. People who needs  Google docs very frequently and need  uniform data formatting into WordPress or want the writers for your blog far from your splasher then it will spare you  headaches, hustle and time.

How this Plugin works??

Don’t worry friends this plugin is not a complex one like others you have seen on WordPress it is a bit different one and more powerful. Unlike other WordPress plugins,Doc to WordPress is a  crone  job. It simply means this script will repeat after a set of intervals and performs a  class full  task every time it is set to run.

This script tells how often you want to import Google docs into WordPress and how it can take care of the rest.

There are 4 basic steps involved for using this plugin…

Step 1 àInstallation

·         Users have to use two plugins to make this work and for you can search for Docs to WordPress.

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After you are done with this step i.e after installation and activation you have the core plugin in your hands.

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Understanding the Plugin!

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The real magic happens here in the plugin editor.Select the docs-to-WordPress/extend-cron.php file to modify.

Read this very carefully as most of the important stuff  is performed here.

Step 2 à Insert Your Google Username and Password

This is my second important concern with this Plugin.If you are not having a new dedicated Gmail account for WordPress your username and password goes in an insecure location.

Solution is that you must create a new Gmail account to make yours credentials safe and sound.

You can also prevent this risk by taking necessary actions with your WordPress security and by keeping your password strong and frequently changing it.

After all that steps here is how you have to insert your username and password.

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·         DOCSTOWP_USER,DOCSTOWP_PASS is your Google username and password.

·         DO NOT CHANGE THAT PART OF THE CODE.

·         You need to either modify your wp-config.php if you got one or create it if you do not really have one. If you do not have wp-config.php then looks for file called wp-config-sample.php.

·         If you still do not know what you’re doing then ask someone who does.This wp-config.php file is a key to your WordPress you configure it wrong then you are compromising your WordPress security so be careful.

Step 3 -> Configure the Origin and Destination of your Google Doc files

Once again you’re gonna use wp-config.php you will need to define which folder in Google docs your files are present for upload and you must define where you want to store them after the script is done.

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In order to configure the original and destination folders for Google docs,you will need to know the id numbers of the folders.In Google go to each of the folders and just take the number from the URL bar following #folders/folder.0.!

This is your folders ID.You just have to define these numbers in your wp-config.php file .When you are done with all the configurations in wp-config.php then the file should have the section that looks a little familiar  the below mentioned lines:

define( ‘DOCSTOWP_USER’, ‘myname@gmail.com’ );

define( ‘DOCSTOWP_PASS’, ‘mypassword’ );

define( ‘DOCSTOWP_ORIGIN’, ’458974512′ );

define( ‘DOCSTOWP_DESTINATION’, ’19276349′ );

Once you are done with all the manipulations all you need to do make this plugin work is set the default time to run the cron script to your liking.The default time is 1 minute,which is generally sufficient for most of users.It is clearly marked in the configuration file in your Wordpress plugins.

Author- Deepak Sharma