How to backup your WordPress blog

WordPress Blog Backup : 

Backing up your blog is very important. Also important to backup your blog regularly. Not only WordPress blog, for any blog backup is more important. We already discussed how to backup your Blogger blog, now we are going to explain how to backup your WordPress blog. It is easy to backup Blogger blog when compared to WordPress, because WordPress is PHP and MySQL based web application so we need to backup all its files and database.

How to backup your WordPress blog in five minutes:

There are many ways to backup your WordPress blog. One simple method is to use the import option in your WordPress dashboard. Through this option, you can download all blog content including posts, pages, comments, custom fields, terms, navigation menus, and custom posts. You can then save all of this blog content in an XML file on your computer.

Today, there are many plugins available to backup your WordPress blog. With the backWPup plugin, you can set up automatic backups as needed and have the backup file sent to your email. Here, I will show you how to configure the backWPup plugin on your WordPress site.

Follow below steps to backup your WordPress blog with backWPup plugin :

Step 1 : Go to WordPress Dashboard

Step 2 : Click on Plugins and search for backWPup

Step 3 : Add backWPup plugin and install .

Step 4 : Go to backWPup and Add New settings

Step 5 : Configure the settings as shown below.

Automatic backups : backup site automatically.

Frequency of backups : select any one from automatic backup will occur Drop down menu.

Want to backups :  select database and files.

no of backups :  give number .

Email backups :  enter mail id to which backup files will be mailed .

And then click on Save Changes.

Like this you can set up automatic backup for your WordPress blog. This is one of the simple methods.