Published under Downloads, Featured, Landing.
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Published under Featured, Plugins, SEO.
As I’m sure most of you do too, I’m now managing a good handful of sites which are running WordPress. I’ve now got a solid routine going when it comes to getting WordPress up and running and in this post, I thought I’d share it with you.
On every site I run, I’ve got a double backup combination of WordPress Backup to Dropbox and BackupBuddy for complete peace of mind. One, as the name suggests, sends a nightly backup to my Dropbox, and the other one sends me an email with the backup attached.
With some of the sites I’m running these days, losing even a day’s work would be absolutely catastrophic. For example, along with six of my friends, I’m writing a book this year and we’re using a little WordPress install I’ve got set up. Losing even one day would more or less ruin the entire project; whilst backups in duplicate might be a little overkill, it’s my way of ensuring I’ve got complete peace of mind. With your site, you might decide you only need weekly backups; whatever it is, a regular backup schedule is essential. It doesn’t really matter what tools you use, either. Just so long as you’ve got something, that’s all that really matters.
Carry on reading →Published under Featured, Hosting.
With the help of 252 WPShout readers, I’ve put together a comprehensive and independent review of the best UK WordPress hosting. These are the results.
| Host | Why they're good | Who they're good for | Monthly bandwidth | Storage | How much they cost |
| WPWebHost | This site is hosted with them! Prompt support and no downtime problems. | Small and medium sized blogs. | 500GB | 50GB | $6.95 |
| BlueHost | Reliable host with very few problems. | Those experiencing problems with current hosts, wishing to move. | Unlimited | Unlimited | $4.95 |
| Site5 | No problems with downtime, support handles WordPress. | Those in need of WordPress specific support. | Unlimited | Unlimited | $4.95 |
| Zybrite | Overwhelmingly positive reviews, with impressive support. | Small and medium sized sites. | 15GB | 3GB | $7.95 |
Last March I asked for people to review their hosts so I could find out which hosts were the best for hosting WordPress powered sites. A fantastic 252 people responded and I’ve now put together all of the answers into the promised comprehensive list.
There were a lot of hosts which only received one or two reviews and for those I can’t really offer a verdict as two reviews isn’t going to be representative.I’ve used the answers to the questionnaire to provide a simple fact based verdict on 12 hosts, giving them a verdict of Recommended, Consider or Avoid. Thank you again to everyone who submitted their answers.
Carry on reading →Published under Featured, Marketing.
As you may have seen in last week’s competition post, I recently created an email newsletter for WPShout. You may have also noticed I ended up using MailChimp instead of a built-into-WordPress solution. This post shows the how I did it.
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