First there was God, and then came the internet. Our new religion has consumed us, and devoured us whole – every last megabyte. Content is the new Holy Grail, and links are our happy ever after, but what about legacy? What about the good of Mankind? Here we take a look at the shiny new plug-in from the guys at MyBlogGuest.com, to see if our prayers really have been answered. (more…)
Keeping your own website or blog takes time and effort but what happens if you lose even part of your information? Having to re-do content or scrape the Wayback Machine for indexed page records is time consuming and sketchy. Even after that there is no guarantee that you can retrieve all files.
Having recently experienced perils of cheap hosting on WordPress affiliate sites (cobbler’s children worst shod and all that), I found out the hard way that not practicing what you preach to clients with regards to backing up database files can result in a lot of extra work and effort and of course lost income!
Even hardcore professionals suffer from procrastination when it comes to boring tasks like backups so I thought that I would share my plugin findings in the hope that it saves you data, time and prevents you from ever having to re-make anything ever again - [*disclaimer* - in theory]
There are many many website owners out there who use WordPress. And rightfully so, it is a great platform. One of the things I personally like, as a non-developer, is that it is open source and others built stuff for me. Usually that means you just grab a plugin which looks cool and does something you always wanted your site to have or do. But in some cases that might not be such a good idea. Because plugins can cause troubles too.
I’ve had plugins instantly take down my sites or slowed them down very much, but it can go a lot further. A Google Webmasterforum thread shows that a plugin could potentially take your site out of Google. A Facebook Like Plugin did that to a site from a forum poster. (more…)
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