How to backup your WordPress Blog

I post this, not because there are not a million other web sites that tell how to do this, but because they all tell me to go to “manage” and I do not see a “manage” function in WordPress. Here is how to backup your WordPress content:

1) Go to the ADMIN Panel – http://www.YOURBLOG.com/wp-admin

2) Select TOOLS on the lower left. Use the down arrow to expand the TOOLS section.

3) Select EXPORT

4) Select ALL AUTHORS

5) Select DOWNLOAD EXPORT

6) Save the xml file to your computer.

This backs up posts, comments, essentially the written content. To backup plugin information and other data store in the SQL database, you should do a database backup. This can be done through your Hosting Control Panel.

Here are backup instructions, including how to backup the database. Sure, I am not afraid to send you to another site. It is 3 AM and I am done writing!

WordPress Backups

http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups