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Here’s another post in a series on WordPress Plugins…

As I’ve talked about before, plug-ins are available for every function you can imagine for your blog including updating, backing up and protecting your site.

Automatically Update Your WordPress Version

WordPress is constantly evolving. The WordPress developers work feverishly to make WordPress as user-friendly as possible as well as keeping it up-to-date with trends and changes in the Internet and search engines. As a result, a new version of WordPress is released every few months or more. This could be a big hassle, except – as you might have guessed, there is a plug-in to help you stay current.

WordPress Automatic Upgrade is exactly as it sounds. It will prompt you through 5 easy steps to updating your version of WordPress. Previously you had to download the software, upload it to your server and install the upgrade. This plug-in saves users lots of time and frustration!

WordPress upgrades often involve closing up security holes that hackers have unveiled to wreak their havoc. Keeping your WordPress version current is important to the security of your site.

Back Up Your Blog Automatically

Imagine the devastation of having months or years of posts on your blog and losing it all to a hacker or a server crash. No worries, there’s a WordPress plug-in to the rescue! The combination of these two plug-ins will protect you in the event of a blog disaster.

WordPress BackUp is an essential plug-in for all bloggers and blog administrators. This plug-in automatically backs up your theme, plug-ins and uploads file. You can schedule the frequency of the backups and have the files zipped and emailed to an address you designate. This plug-in should be considered a “required” plug-in for all bloggers.

WP-DBManager allows you to automatically schedule the back up your WordPress database. This plug-in can backup, repair, restore and fix your database. It too should be considered a “required” plug-in.

Don’t let this worry you too much. WordPress is a very stable platform so in general, these plug-ins serve to protect you in the event of a rare problem. However, having regular backups of your blog can save you many headaches and a lot of stress if the rare problem occurred.

So, are you enjoying this series on plugins?  Have you discovered anything valuable that you’re now using?  Any plugins I haven’t mentioned yet?  Leave your comments below.

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To Your Unending Success,

Mike Paul

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