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WordPress Database Backup Plugin

WordPress is database driven blogging tool. All the information you see on this page is actually brought from WordPress database. WordPress database contain about 10 tables to hold different information regarding your blog site. Keeping backup of the database becomes very crucial to avoid data loss in case of any failure. WordPress lovers have developed this beautiful plugin which do the database backup job for your automatically. Download this plugin from WordPress official site, Download Database Plugin Now, and upload it to your WordPress Plugin directory.

 Don't forget to unzip the downloaded file if it is zipped, before uploading. Login as administrator and activate the plugin. There are a variety of options to choose from.

Configuring Database Backup Plugin

Configuration of this plugin is very easy, core table of WordPress is automatically selected for backup, additional tables which are created by extra plugin you have installed can be selected as shown in figure. This blog has extra plugin installed like wp_rating, wp_statpress, etc

Selecting Backup Options

There are two backup options as shown the figure below. Either you can save the backup files on server itself in some folder or you can email you backup file to any email you configure here.

Backup Schedules

Here you can configure, how often you want to make backup of your WordPress database and which email you want to send your backup information.

Free eBook: How to Develop Money-Making Niche Sites with WordPress

WordPress is one of the most popular blogging tool. In more technical terms it is blogging Content Management System (CMS). This blogging site is using WordPress too and there are thousand of other similar blog which runs on WordPress. If you are not sure why you should use WordPress read this article 'Six great reasons for choosing WordPress for a blog'. If you are a beginner and want to learn WordPress from start in very easy steps then here is free eBook for you on WordPress. The eBook is called 'How to Develop Money-Making Niche Sites With WordPress' by Caroline Middlebrook. By the way there is difference between sites and blogs, this book explain all those terms. This book will also teach you to incorporate Google AdSense to make some cash from your site.

The ebook is 43 pages long and these are the major sections:


Chapter 1: Getting and Installing WordPress
Chapter 2: Basic WordPress Administration
Chapter 3: Installing a New Theme
Chapter 4: Setting up Adsense On Your Site
Chapter 5: WordPress Plugins
Chapter 6: Creating Your Site Content
Chapter 7: Final Thoughts
Appendix 1: Uploading Using FTP
Appendix 2: External Resources

Download this eBook

WordPress 2.5.x: Widget size problem and its solution

There has been some complain regarding WordPress 2.5.x theme widget size. When you install WordPress 2.5.x and go to administrative area to further customize or add/remove widgets you might face widget size problem.  

Problem

When I try to customize it, widget size become big and all its useful buttons like remove and modify hide inside another layer. Please see the picture below. This is picture of widget when collapse(text widget)

 

This is same widget when it is expanded for editing. Most of its part is hidden behind main page layer (Like remove and modify buttons), which makes it difficult to edit as shown in figure below.

   

Solution

 Find: wp-admin/js/widjets.js

Find line 20 which looks like this: li.css( 'marginLeft', ( width - 250 ) * -1 );

Change the figure 1 on the end to a 0 so the line now looks like this; li.css( 'marginLeft', ( width - 250 ) * -0 );

I notice also in the file there is a comment which says “// it seems IE chokes on these animations because of the positioning/floating”