WEBVTT 00:00.280 --> 00:03.920 This lesson I want to show you how to back up your wordpress site. 00:03.930 --> 00:05.410 This is so important. 00:05.430 --> 00:10.400 I know from my own experience I've had issues with someone actually hacking my web site. 00:10.410 --> 00:14.660 They took it down completely and without a backup I would have been lost. 00:14.670 --> 00:19.290 I would have lost business and I wouldn't have known where to even begin. 00:19.290 --> 00:22.160 So luckily now I'm using a backup plug in. 00:22.170 --> 00:24.330 And there are some paid in free options. 00:24.330 --> 00:26.580 First let me just talk about the paid options. 00:26.580 --> 00:31.920 If you want to check them out yourself these come highly recommended from all kinds of sources. 00:31.940 --> 00:33.150 One is vault press. 00:33.150 --> 00:37.290 This is created by the same creators of the jet pack plug in. 00:37.290 --> 00:41.610 So this is one that a lot of people use and it's built in kind of with jet pack. 00:41.610 --> 00:43.130 The only thing is you have to pay for it. 00:43.140 --> 00:46.460 The other premium one I would highly recommend is backup. 00:46.470 --> 00:51.890 Buddy This is used by you can see here half a million WordPress sites since 2010. 00:51.930 --> 00:57.570 They do have different options for buying this plug in you can pay a yearly rate or even a lifetime 00:57.570 --> 00:57.930 rate. 00:57.930 --> 01:04.830 And if you do find yourself being serious with your web site and you seem like your business is growing 01:04.860 --> 01:10.460 and you want to invest in a high quality plug in for backing up I can highly recommend this one. 01:10.530 --> 01:13.890 But even when you're just starting out you want to make sure you have something. 01:13.890 --> 01:17.550 So like I always doing this course I want to give you a free option just to get started. 01:17.550 --> 01:22.980 And this is actually one of the ones I'm using for my own site it's called back up WordPress now to 01:22.980 --> 01:26.070 find this you might have to search for backup WordPress. 01:26.100 --> 01:33.280 All one word you can see that it has over 200000 downloads self and lots of great reviews. 01:33.480 --> 01:37.410 So let me just go ahead and install it and all walk you through it. 01:37.440 --> 01:44.560 Once you've installed it you'll find it under tools to go to Tools and then click backups. 01:44.690 --> 01:51.050 When you first see this page you will have no backups and you'll want to set it up to backup according 01:51.050 --> 01:52.030 to your schedule. 01:52.160 --> 01:54.020 So go to settings right here. 01:54.020 --> 02:01.340 Here you can choose to backup your database only or your files only or both your database and files 02:01.850 --> 02:07.930 so your files will include all of your images of the things that you upload to your Web site. 02:08.120 --> 02:14.270 So if you want a full complete backup I would suggest doing both the database and the files. 02:14.270 --> 02:18.290 You just never know what's going to happen and you don't want to lose anything. 02:18.290 --> 02:24.500 So if you do end up losing your web site you could literally download the backup file and startup again. 02:24.620 --> 02:26.330 Next you want to set your schedule. 02:26.330 --> 02:29.780 You can do it daily hourly only when you want to. 02:29.930 --> 02:36.740 Every week every two weeks every month I recommend scheduling it to however often you seem to be updating 02:36.740 --> 02:37.400 your Web site. 02:37.460 --> 02:43.520 If you're only posting a new blog post or making updates once a week or so I wouldn't recommend just 02:43.520 --> 02:45.350 scheduling it every week. 02:45.350 --> 02:49.610 There's no point in running it more often than that because it's just going to be the same files and 02:49.610 --> 02:51.280 it just takes up processing power. 02:51.290 --> 02:55.840 So that's what I typically do because I'm usually posting once a week or so. 02:55.850 --> 03:02.510 And even if the worst thing happens and I get hacked and I end up losing a blog post or even two that 03:02.510 --> 03:06.200 I hadn't written since I backed it up that's fine. 03:06.200 --> 03:12.740 If you do make major changes to your web site I suggest doing a manual backup and I'll show you how 03:12.740 --> 03:14.080 to do that in just a second. 03:14.150 --> 03:19.490 You can set the day and the time when you want it to backup and you can also set the number of backups 03:19.490 --> 03:20.960 to store on the server. 03:20.960 --> 03:25.790 So this backup plug in actually stores your backups to your own server. 03:25.800 --> 03:29.290 So this is wherever you are hosting your Web site. 03:29.300 --> 03:36.080 So for me I'm hosting with blue so it's going to actually back up this WordPress in my blue host database. 03:36.080 --> 03:43.070 There are other plug ins or a premium version of this plug in that will automatically back up your website 03:43.130 --> 03:45.920 to some cloud service such as Dropbox. 03:45.920 --> 03:51.590 This might be a good idea if you want to easily be able to access your backup that way. 03:51.590 --> 03:57.770 Otherwise you can plug in your email right here and whenever they do a backup they'll send you an email 03:57.770 --> 04:01.390 with a download link so you could just go back to that email. 04:01.400 --> 04:06.200 The last one from the backup that was most recent and download your backup that way. 04:06.350 --> 04:09.450 Or you can download your files from an FPP server. 04:09.470 --> 04:15.560 So going in the back end of your files which is a little bit more advanced but it's the other way to 04:15.560 --> 04:18.490 actually access all of the files of your web site. 04:18.500 --> 04:24.200 I was just mentioning if you do make a lot of changes and you just want to back up your website manually 04:24.440 --> 04:25.990 just click this run now. 04:26.000 --> 04:32.300 But after you've run some backups or after time where it's done multiple backups it will show all of 04:32.300 --> 04:36.590 your backup down here and you can download them straight from here. 04:36.630 --> 04:40.380 It will be under actions so that the backup WordPress plug in. 04:40.460 --> 04:46.580 I can personally highly suggest using this one and it's a very important one to install and active in 04:46.580 --> 04:47.420 get set up right. 04:47.420 --> 04:47.990 When you start.