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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In this tutorial, I’ll be going over The Loop, and how WordPress uses it to display your posts and pages. Keep in mind, this is slightly more advanced than our previous tutorials. Hopefully you will find this ultimate guide easier to understand than what’s available in the WordPress documentation. Here’s what we will go over:

• A definition of The Loop.
• Basic flow of The Loop.
• Template tags used in The Loop
• What to do after The Loop
• Template file hierarchy

If you want to get a better understanding of how a WordPress theme really works behind the scenes, read on.

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For those of you domainers who have a lot of unused domain names earning nominal revenue at old-fashioned domain parking services or simply collecting dust and not doing anything, read on. Developed domains will almost always outperform one-click landers at parking sites. One of the easiest ways to do quickly develop a domain is to set up an automated WordPress blog. In this tutorial I’ll go over:

• Where to host your WordPress auto blogs
• How to install WordPress and configure it with SEO in mind
• A free WordPress plugin you can use to set up an auto blog
• How to use use RSS feeds to generate relevant content
• How to monetize your website with Adsense and other revenue streams

Now is the time to dump those stagnant parked pages and start developing your unused domains into dynamic and content-rich websites.

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