Hey Guys,

I always get nervous when I have to upgrade Wordpress. As many people know, the back-end of this blog is Wordpress. A great blogging system! Anyway, today I had to upgrade because there was a serous security risk and I dont want my blog being hacked. Maybe people just go it alone when it comes to upgrading, but thats what you shouldn’t do!

I follow this guide every time and hasn’t failed until today (my problem) .

You must make a back-up of everything on your website, this is extremely important if you want to keep your blog. I recommend a plugin called BackUpWordPress, when you install the plugin, you can configure it to take back-ups of your website daily/weekly/monthly. For me this plugin takes a MySQL Database back-up every 24 hours, and a full blown website back-up every week!

It will create the back-up on your website, and you can then download it, the file will be compressed, so it wont take up much space!

Today, as I said I was upgrading my blog, took about 40minutes, as I encountered a problem, for some reason comment.php was deleted, and no-where to be seen! I searched about the internet, and came to the conclusion that I just had to drag my back-up copy of comment.php into the right folder. This might have been common sense, but when you are scared that your whole blog could be destroyed I wasn’t really thinking right!

The moral of the blog post is; Back-up your blog!

WizzKid