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Yesterday on my blog, WPShout I published ‘10 Awesome Things to Do With WordPress’ Custom Fields’. This morning I awoke to discovery not a put burgeoning on the job. I was unsatisfied as the job had enchanted ages, but I didn’t dream up much more of it. I wanted to email a co-worker a connector to the job, so I well-heeled up WPShout, not to discovery the job wasn’t there! In the admin was not my delineate from a solder of days ago. Until this evening.
Odd, I mentation. And then I realized that a heck of a infinite of comments I’d done up yesterday evening replying to had gone, and so had my replies. I copied and pasted the job from Google Reader and republished the job. In other words, my database had reverted to a construction a solder of days archaic.
Of convert, at this inconsequential in connection to you’re (probably not) screaming at your monitor
just restore the backup you’ve got!. Why? I don’t be aware (if anyone does be pressed any phantasy, could you dismiss me an email?!) at this inconsequential in connection to. you, you do be pressed a backup, compose?!
Yes.
Or so I mentation. Of convert I did. I’d choose up the WordPress Database Backup plugin to email me a backup of the database every 24 hours, and that email automatically got archived. Which meant I didn’t be pressed a backup. Which meant I didn’t over it hadn’t been sent as a replacement for a solder of weeks because when heart-rending domains I’d forgotten to reinstall the plugin.
Where this job is monied is imbecilic – don’t be an idiot like me and not effect your backup doesn’t persist when you in inconsequential in connection to of happening distress it, access five minutes again installing the plugin I introduce during and choose it up to email you every date. WordPress Hacks Top Tip: don’t be an idiot..always be pressed a backup.
Just don’t archive the email automatically.