It's important to always make a backup of your blog posts EVERY time you post to save you from potential trouble in the future. As the saying goes "Shit DOES happen" and you have to be prepared for it. Your blog might get deleted or your host could go down or any number of technical difficulties.
I learned my lesson the hard way with a free hosted blog site where all the blogs there got hacked and everyone lost what they wrote. I had 6 months worth of blogposts there that were lost! While many people spent hours putting together the pieces of their broken sites, if we had made backups then it all would have been fixed in less than a minute!
So, here is how to backup your blogposts for the 2 most common ones, Wordpress and Blogspot:
- In WP you simply go to the left side of your dashboard and look under "tools" where it says import and export. Click on "export" and then download for ALL authors (to make sure you get everything) and save it to your computer. What you are downloading is what is called an XML file containing all your blogpost content, as well as the comments made by others for each post. Then, if you ever need to rebuild your blog, or if you decide to transfer to another host, it will be an easy move!
If you ever need to use the file to recover your website or restart again on a new host account, then simply click "import" wherever your fresh new blog is installed and pick "Wordpress" from the list. Then browse to where your XML file was saved and, like magic, your empty blog will be filled with all your old posts intact!!
You'll also notice there are many other blogging platforms listed under the import section. That's because you can transfer your posts from many other sites into your WP blog, including taking what you have written at blogger.com and importing it to a WP blog!
So, how do we get all the posts from Blogger/Blogspot?
- When logged in, go to "settings" and under the basic section you'll see import/export. To save all your blog posts as a backup file to your computer, just click "export" and then "download blog". You're done!
The "import" function works basically like described above. Just click browse and find your XML file and follow the directions.
Creating blog backups should never be a scary thing. It literally only takes 10 seconds just to grab the export after each post, so do it EVERY time you write something!! That goes with ANY website you have. Be sure to save website mysql database zips to your comp on a regular basis too. Don't wait until it's too late!!
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