Monday, January 12, 2009
The Most Important Files In Wordpress
When dealing with Wordpress at first it can be overwhelming, especially if you need to upgrade or get hacked on the server side of things and not the database side. Wordpress is getting more and more secure, especially when installed properly. I myself have not had problems for several versions. The are a few important files and folders that you need to be aware of and there importance to your Wordpress platform. The wp-content folder houses all of you plugins, uploads and themes in internal folders. This folder should be backed up in case you were to get hacked or have a server failure. The other main file that needs to be watched and protected is the wp-config.php file. This is the file that houses your database login info. Outside of those two important sections of Wordpress, pretty everything could be overwritten, deleted or reinstalled as they are merely files that make Wordpress work. This is evident in the manual way of upgrading your Wordpress version. You could delete the wp-includes and wp-admin folders and replace them with a fresh copy on every upgrade and you will not hurt your Wordpress install. All of this does not apply however if you heavily modify your Wordpress files to perform patched in functions, but of course if that applied to you, you probably stopped reading this post a while ago. Just pay close attention to the wp-content folder and the wp-config.php file and restoring a hacked or crashed Wordpress platform is a breeze.
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Help...Soggy. Sorry for asking the obvious once again but just can't find how to back up these 2 files? I know how to back up Bans store and my Wordpressblog within Cpanel but not wp-content or wp-config.php. Have played around with it, serached for the answer on various blogs and am still stuck!!
you can merely download via FTP to your own harddrive the wp-content folder and the wp-config.php file.
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