How often you backup your wordpress blog? For me, I always backup my wordpress database everytime I made a new post. Today, I’ll share on how to backup and restore back your wordpress blog. So, here’s step by step tutorial =)

Backup Your WordPress

Step 1

On the left side, there is “Tools” menu. Expend the box and click on the “Export“.
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Step 2

Click on the “Download Export File“. A new Box will appear.
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Hit ok and save your file. Now you have backup your WordPress blog.
The file you’ve saved contains your posts, pages, comments, custom fields, categories, and tags. All the images in your blog are not save along the backup file.

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Restore Your WordPress

Step 1
Under the “Tools” menu on your left sidebar, click on the the “Import“.
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Step 2
Click on “WordPress“.
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Step 3
Browse the file that you have saved before and hit on “Upload file and import” button.
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Step 4
Click on “submit” button. Done =)
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I hope this tutorial will help new bloggers out there. If anything missing here, please let me know =)

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