{"id":67783,"date":"2011-12-27T08:00:29","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T13:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpmu.org\/?p=67783"},"modified":"2012-11-20T15:00:34","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T20:00:34","slug":"wordpress-settings-backup-tip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wordpress-settings-backup-tip\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress Settings Backup Tip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"lightbox[67783]\" class=\"blog-thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wordpress-settings-backup-tip\/backup-button-big\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-67785\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-67785\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/backup-button-big.jpg\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"632\" height=\"431\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThere are all sorts of nice tools out there for keeping your WordPress site backed up. But there\u2019s a little manual tip you may want to implement when you\u2019re doing something major like upgrading your site or moving it, or even after you\u2019ve made a number of changes in certain areas.<\/p>\n<p>And the tip is this: <strong>Take screenshots of different backend settings<\/strong> in case something goes wrong and you need to reconfigure things.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"lightbox[67783]\" class=\"blog-thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wordpress-settings-backup-tip\/perma-link-screenshots\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-67784\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-67784\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/perma-link-screenshots.jpg\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"624\" height=\"299\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Especially with some more complicated plugins, you may have spent a fair amount of time thinking through things and getting them set up, and so you don\u2019t want to do that again. As well, if you change certain settings in WordPress or in some plugins, it may affect how search engines treat you, so you will want to keep everything the same as you had it before.<\/p>\n<p>This tip actually saved me once when I was having issues with a site and needed to perform some drastic measures on it that I knew might wipe out my settings. It turns out that it did wipe out my settings, but I had my trusty screenshots, and so getting set up again was a breeze (or at least much easier than it would have been otherwise).<\/p>\n\n<p>Photo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigstockphoto.com\/image-2991945\/stock-photo-backup-button\" target=\"_blank\">Backup Button<\/a> from BigStock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don\u2019t lose all your blog\u2019s settings if something goes wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84404,"featured_media":67786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"blog_reading_time":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_tutorials_categories":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[10810,829],"tutorials_categories":[],"class_list":["post-67783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tutorials","tag-wordpress-security","tag-backup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216255,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67783\/revisions\/216255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67783"},{"taxonomy":"tutorials_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tutorials_categories?post=67783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}