How To Make a WordPress Privacy Policy

Ever since Adsense updated their terms and conditions, requiring publishers to display a privacy policy on their website(s), webmasters and bloggers alike have been scrambling to comply with the new TOS. Fortunately for WordPress users, there is a quick and easy way to generate an Adsense-compliant privacy policy with just a few clicks.

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Jun

2011

FeedWordPress is not compatible with WP 2.5.1

This is just a quick message to anyone using FeedWordPress, the subject of my previous article: Put your dormant domains to use with WordPress. It is not compatible with WordPress 2.5.1. The feed syndication will still work, but you won’t be able to edit any settings in the backend since a necessary WordPress function has been removed since version 2.5. I’ll be sure to post again when an update from the developer has been released.

15

Jun

2011

The Importance of Backing Up Your WordPress Site

This should really go without saying, but backing up your any website (not just a WordPress site) on a regular basis is extremely important. Although a lot of web hosts may offer free backups, it is still your responsibility to keep recent backups yourself, preferably hosted on a local hard drive. So many things can go wrong, I’m not going to get into specifics. In this tutorial I’ll go over several methods of backing up your WordPress sites.

  • The difference of a database backup and a “full” backup
  • How to manually backup your WordPress database
  • How to manually backup your WordPress files
  • How to backup your WordPress site with WordPress plugins

If you want to have peace of mind and start taking backups regularly, read on to learn how.

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15

Jun

2011