been away for a while, am back.

This thread is for newbie Wordpress users. If you encounter problems, issues or difficulties please post them here. Myself and other wordpress users will try to assist with possible answers or solutions.

My next post is; Latest plugins that can give you "WOW" functions in your wordpress website.

Stay tuned....

Today's plugin is; UpdraftPlus.

This plugin will help you create backups of your wordpress website in your dropbox account. So you whatever happens you know your website contents are safe. For those of you that dont understand, backup is the process of taking a copy of your Original Data and restoring when your Original data is lost. Backing up your website to remote storage like Dropbox, Google Drive makes it more secure and you can access your files from any location even if you are not with your personal laptop. This plugin has options to backup your website to Google Drive, Amazon S3, Email etc.

STEPS TO USING THE PLUGIN
1. Download and Install the UpdraftPlus plugin.
2. Then open the plugin from Settings->UpdraftPlus Backups.
3. In the section Copying Your Backup To Remote Storage Select Dropbox from the drop down menu.
4. Then Select Authenticate with Dropbox , It asks for API access for your Dropbox account, allow it.
5. Then select Backup Now to backup immediately. When it finishes the backup process, the backup will be uploaded to Dropbox immediately.
6. You have option to take number of backups per day and retain number of backups.
7. You have option to choose what to backup such as plugins, uploads, themes etc.

You can get the plugin here;
http://wordpress.org/plugins/updraftplus/

Cheers.