Posted on April 25, 2007 | Tags: WordPress, Blog, General
Well as the title states, I’ve lost quite a lot of this sites content. My site is powered by WordPress and for some reason one night last week there was a database error, OK no problem I thought, I’ll just reload the latest backup I have. It turns out the latest backup I have is from over 2 months ago, and roughly 6 weeks ago I made a lot of structural changes to the pages (but didn’t create a backup immediately, that’ll teach me!), including the free templates page, which is quite popular and where most of this sites 15,000+ unique visitors per month end up going. I’d had them (the free templates) organised into their own seperate pages instead of “blog” posts announcing them but thats all lost now until I get round to rewriting all of the content for them, oh well, it happens I guess.
For now though, if you want any of my free templates then I suggest you head on over to Open Designs and find your way to my user profile page. Not all of the free templates are listed on Open Designs yet, thats my fault for not uploading them all, so if you want any of the ones not listed then you can find them in the download directory on this site.
Anyway, sorry again if you’re trying to access any links from portfolio or free templates pages, I’ll do my best to get this sorted as soon as possible!
On a side note I’m always testing out Google Adsense on this site, something which I have not really used before on my personal site, but we’ll see how it goes. Any extra money to cover the hosting costs / hours of my personal time spent creating my free website templates can’t be a bad thing. So they’ll be showing up on various pages over the next couple of weeks and I’ll have a test run of about 2 months before deciding on whether to keep them up or not. Comments about them / ideas where to put them which aren’t too obtrusive are also more than welcome!
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you should use the Wordpress Database backup plugin it will email you a DB backup every week if you configure it.
http://www.ilfilosofo.com/blog/wp-db-backup
Thanks Arpit, I didn’t realise the WordPress database backup plugin was still being actively developed as I know Skippy isn’t maintaining it anymore, so thanks for that link!
You probably already know this, but Google has some good article on how to optimize Adsense on your site:
https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=17954
For Blogs:
https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=43869
No probs Glad to help. So whats with the Default wordpress theme
Thanks for reminding. Just backed up my DB.
@Nate - Cheers for the second link, never seen that one before! Some useful info and leads to other handy links there.
@Arpit - When the database failed I ended up doing a fresh install of WordPress, and completely forgot to set the active theme to mine! Totally my fault haha
@Joe - Check the link Arpit gave above, it’s a great version of the DB backup plugin, and like Arpit mentioned, it can be setup to use the WP cron job and email you a copy of the backed up DB every week, thats what I’ve done now and its perfect!
so sorry for you :’( I hate those kind of things either. I wish you’ll fix up everything soon
Aw geez that sucks. I guess I should start keep backups of my own works on wordpress… thanks for the warning!
I recently had the same thing happen with one of my blogs. I’ve since ditched wordpress and scripted a blog with PHP / MySQL. At first I didn’t think much of the idea, but as I was building I realized I now have an immense amount of freedom to add or take away features as I saw fit.
That doesn’t change the fact that could still loose all my data, but nightly backups of my entire server help cut down on such things.
Glad to see the site is back up, nice theme.
Since I saw this site offline due to the WordPress corruption you had, I’ve been backing up ever since, so I guess I owe you a huge thanks.
Thanks!
It’s very beautifully.