Dear users. I have 5 month I’m working with my site http://www.storypickers.com
I never made a back up, but know that i want to update the theme, i need to do a back up.
About the host I have it at the HostGator.
I want to make a full back up, for all my posts, plugins, and all things.
I’m kind of new in this webmaster thing, so I need an easy solution for making this.
Any help will be appreciated.
Waiting for your reply, wish to you all the best!
Hello adriatikxhelo8,
Always make a full backup of your current installation – https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups and then do a clean update, meaning that we recommend that you delete the old version of the theme before uploading the new one – https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-the-theme-2/ update also the plugins that come bundled with the theme files from the /plugins folder.
Hope this helps and let us know how it goes!
Thank you for the message!
Hello again. What do you mean by “always make a full back up of your current installation”?
It means that everytime I make a post, or install a plugin I need to make a full backup.
Making a full backup requires time?
Hello adriatikxhelo8,
It is important and necessary to make a backup when you do an important update like this, for a greater degree of safety.
Thank you for the message!
You can make backups several ways, and good to spend the time to learn — only YOU can manage your site content, backups, and security.
a) learn to download/backup the mysql dbase from your hosting panel for safe backup of content
b) learn to use FTP to download all the folders from your website, primarily things like images, plugins, theme, wp-config.php and htaccess files
c) learn to use the “export” settings in the WordPress admin panel
d) you can export some THEME settings from theme panel by copy/pasting some elements into a text file you save to your hard drive.
e) your hosting provder might have a one click backup/download option.
f) if you hire somebody or use a servvice, I can recommend the DUPLICATOR plugin which is a bit complex, but makes full snapshot which you can even move to another hosting provider if needed (advanced use and you’d likely need to hire somebody to implement for you).
There are also some paid services which install a plugin and then render a full snapshot of your content and dbase via php and then give you a download link to save that.
