WordPress Backup Restore
What you’ll learn
Backup and Restore a WordPress Site
Automate the backup of the WordPress Database and important files and then be able to use those backups to restore a broken website
Get backups sent to cloud storage (e.g. DropBox) and/or email.
Understand the important parts of a WordPress site that need to be backed up, and those parts that do not need to be backed up.
Requirements
Students will need to have (or plan to get) a WordPress website that needs backing up.
Description
WordPress powers some of the most important websites on the planet. If you own a WordPress website, then you know how powerful and easy it is to use. Wordpress makes it easy for anyone, even a complete beginner, to build a high quality, professional website without needing to learn the technical aspects of web design.
The one problem I often get asked though, is how do you back it up? I mean you wake up one morning to find your website is returning some kind of error in the web browser. What do you do? How do you restore your website? For that matter, how do you back it up so that you have what you need to restore it?
Well now you can finally relax. This course will take you by the hand and teach you everything you need to know about backing up and restoring a WordPress website. I’ll show you how to manually backup and restore the site, and then show you a free plugin you can use to automate the backups on a schedule that suits you.
In this course, you’ll learn:
which parts of your WordPress install you need to backup, and how to access them. how to manually backup the important files using either FTP or the File Manager found in cPanel. I’ll even teach you how to setup FTP.how to manually restore the files using FTP or cPanel.how to manually backup the WordPress database.how to manually restore the WordPress database.about the different types of automated backups you can create.how to install a simple plugin that will automatically backup your WordPress database on a schedule you define, and send those backups to your email address.how to setup a free WordPress plugin to automate the backup of your entire Wordpress website, and upload those backups to Dropbox (or other online storage area), AUTOMAGICALLY.
By the end of this course, you will be confident that you will be able to restore a WordPress website in the event of a tragedy. You’ll know the importance of keeping regular backups over a period of time, and be confident handling those backups.
Never worry about your WordPress website again. After this course, you will be fully prepared for any problems that might occur in the future.
Overview
Section 1: Introduction
Lecture 1 Introduction
Lecture 2 WordPress Sites v Traditional HTML sites
Lecture 3 What You Need To Backup
Lecture 4 Roadmap – How to Use this Course
Section 2: Manual Backups
Lecture 5 The Files – Option 1 – FTP
Lecture 6 The Files – Option 2 – cPanel
Lecture 7 The Database
Section 3: Restoring the Manual Backups
Lecture 8 A Note About Restoring WordPress
Lecture 9 Restoring the Files – Option 1 – FTP
Lecture 10 Restoring the Files – Option 2 – cPanel
Lecture 11 Restoring the database
Lecture 12 Restoring with a new WordPress Installation
Section 4: Automated Backup & Restore
Lecture 13 Types of automated backups
Lecture 14 A free Database-Only Backup Plugin
Lecture 15 Full Backups with a Free WordPress Plugin
Section 5: A Backup Strategy
Lecture 16 Backup Strategies
Section 6: Resources
Lecture 17 Setting up FTP
Lecture 18 Bonus Lecture
This course is for anyone that owns a WordPress website, and wants to be able to safeguard the site by taking regular, automated backups.,Anyone that wants to know how to backup and restore a WordPress website.
Course Information:
Udemy | English | 1h 27m | 1.25 GB
Created by: Andrew Williams
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