Undoubtedly, WordPress is the most popular for making blogs and websites on the internet. WordPress is packaged in such a way that it makes it very easy to customize your site by adding plugins, templates, themes, etc. It also protects your sites from spam. The WordPress community helps you in getting answers to any problems that you may have concerning your WordPress powered site.
Since people are mostly making use of WordPress for creating websites, hackers are trying their best to gain entry into the sites in order to hack them. Hence, it is very important to update your WordPress to the latest version. Another important option that you need to take into account is taking regular backup of your site. If your site gets hacked, you can simply reload the database and files and your site will be normal within a few minutes.
How often you should do a WordPress database backup?
Depending on the number of posts you add to your site and the comments you receive, you should do a WordPress database backup. Keep in mind that you if you take a backup of your site today and after a week something bad happen to your site, when you try to restore the backup, you will be able to retrieve all the lost data till the time you had taken backup; however, you will not be able to take retrieve the comments that your site received after the backup was done. Hence, it is advisable to take a backup every two or three days.
How to do a WordPress database backup?
There are several ways through which you can perform a backup of your site. However, two of the easier ways to do it is by using phpMyAdmin and using WordPRess plugins like WP-DB-Backup. WordPress backup plugins can help you schedule backups and the backup data can also be sent to your email.
