December 2013

Getting started with WordPress is never easy. There is a lot to learn and a lot of potential to royally mess up your website. That is why one of the first things you should do is have a WordPress backup regularly on your website. Once you continue using WordPress you will find new reasons to love your back up plugin. These can be used for lots of different purposes, like taking created content and moving it to a live website or transferring content to another website. The two most common plugins to use in WordPress are BackupBuddy from iThemes and …

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Some people are looking to manage a website on a limited budget, so finding decent free WordPress plugins is always good. One such plugin is BackWPup from MarketPress. While there is a premium version of the plugin that gives you other features like multisite support, even the free version is pretty fully featured for your WordPress website. Here is how to make a WordPress backup using the free backup plugin BackWPup.

A long time ago, our team compared two of the most popular plugins available for creating WordPress backups, BackupBuddy and BackWPup. While we decided they were both great plugins, we never truly taught people how to make a WordPress backup using BackupBuddy or BackWPup. We start here, with a look at how to create a WordPress backup on BackupBuddy and how and why to migrate the data to another website.

Front-end editing in WordPress is picking up a lot of steam lately. The recent release of 3.8 brought us a fresh new admin interface and in my opinion, a better blogging experience. With all the new UI goodies, it has folks like me craving for more. Recent blogging competitors like Ghost and Medium, embrace a simple publishing interface. How can we take our WordPress blogging experience to the next level and leave all that technical clutter behind the scenes? Let’s dig into some front-end editing plugins.