Part IV/ WP-DBManager/ Always Backup Your Blog
Table of contents for 3/Useful Sites
- Embed HD Video/ Daily Motion
- Fireshot / Excellent Add-on For Firefox
- Skelliewag/ Nomadic Growth: Moving to Greener Pastures
- Part I/ Installing NextGen Gallery/ Simple Instructions From A to Z
- Part II/ Installing NextGen Gallery/ Simple Instructions From A to Z
- Part III/ Installing NextGen Gallery/ First Unzip Her
- Part IV/ WP-DBManager/ Always Backup Your Blog
- Part V/ Installing NextGen Gallery
- New Plugin/ Keyword Love/ Encourage Comments
Safety is a cheap and effective insurance policy. ~Author Unknown
Prepare and prevent, don’t repair and repent. ~Author Unknown
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This is the next in my series of posts for folks who have never blogged before and have some basic questions and a need for explanations that hopefully leave out no pertinent details. Our ultimate goal is to install and make functional a very cool plugin called NextGen Gallery.
The steps we have been taking here are baby blogging steps but I wish I had found something like them last summer when all of my blogging efforts began. Maybe there are some others who are just beginning and missed learning about it all beforehand.
We have covered unzipping and uploading files. And now we are going to begin uploading plugins.
Before we upload NextGen Gallery we are going to add Plugin Central as I noted earlier. This will make all of our plugin chores much easier.
And prior to this we are going to upload one other little beauty. It is called Wordpress Database Manager (WP-DBManager) and I use it prior to uploading anything into my blog. Also it has a setting for automatic backup of the database and I receive a backup file in my email once per day.
Because of the complexities of plugin installation it is imperative to back things up before making changes. And getting in the habit of doing this early is the best way to avoid sad circumstances later on. I am assuming that this plugin plays well with your setup of course. It did with mine.
So here is the download location.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-dbmanager/
Go here and download the file into your computer. Unzip it as we discussed in the earlier post. Put it in your plugin file. Open Total Commander and locate the file. Upload it to your blog. Go to Admin/plugins and activate it.
It’s a very easy process once you have done it a few times. Now click on Dashboard in the very top/left hand corner of your window right below the tool bar in your Wordpress blog. You should see the name of your blog just below it and a few other things just below the name of your blog starting with Write and Manage. To the right of them will be the terms Design and Comments. And then you should see some others based on your individual setup. Database is what we are looking for and click on it when you find it.
Now you will see just below Database a line of terms starting with Database and ending with Uninstall WP-DBManager. The second term is Backup DB. And we should do this as we prepare to install a second plugin called Plugin Central.
But we have run out of time and space once again. Next time we will install Plugin Central. Hopefully I have not left out anything so far.
Bye Bye for now.
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