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Backing up WordPress

The importance of backing up your site

We don’t have to worry about this while our sites are on the FIMS server, as Charlotte is taking care of backups for us. However, once you start working with your own server solutions, this will become an issue.

Essentially, there are three ways to approach this:

  1. Use a WordPress host that does this as part of the hosting price
  2. Do a manual backup
  3. Use a tool (plugin or service) that does it for you.

This article covers the basics, fairly well:

And this article does a good job of the manual process:

https://skillcrush.com/2015/04/23/backing-up-wordpress/

Finally, this may help you pick a plugin solution:

9 Best WP Backup Plugins Compared