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Top 4 easy ways to make a backup of WordPress website files and database in 2019

October 27, 2019 by admin Leave a Comment

When you have a website on WordPress it is often a good idea to backup your website files and database often. I have written a few different posts with different methods on how to backup your WordPress website files and database. You can do it manually or with a plugin. The plugin may be the easiest of the options if you want to do that on there. This is my list of the top 4 ways to make a backup of your WordPress website files and database.

Now you can read up on a few different ways to make a backup of your WordPress website.

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How to backup your WordPress website files manually through FTP like Filezilla

October 26, 2019 by admin Leave a Comment

If you have a WordPress website it is often a good idea to backup your website files from time to time. If you have a FTP program like Filezilla this is really easy to do. When you are using FTP you should be very careful when doing that as it is easy to make mistakes in FTP that may cause problems on your website or even to delete the website. That is one reason why it is good to have a backup. If you are not experienced with FTP or if you do not feel comfortable using FTP to make the backup you may want to use a backup plugin instead.

To make a backup of your website manually using a FTP program like Filezilla you open the FTP program and then log onto your server using your FTP username and password details. If you do not know that you can usually find it in your hosting. Then you navigate in FTP to your website folder. Then you can click on the folder that has your website files and click download to download the website files to a folder on your computer.

This is only the website files. For WordPress you may want to backup the database too.

How to redirect http to https in your WordPress website using your .htaccess file

October 26, 2019 by admin Leave a Comment

If you are using WordPress and have updated your website with a SSL to have https for the url instead of http you may want to have the website redirect http urls to https. That way it may help when people type in http urls to redirect them to the https url instead. You can put this code in your .htaccess file using FTP to do that.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

You should be very careful when you edit the htaccess file.