Learn How to Backup Your Website

Having a safety net is what sets the website amateurs apart from the website professionals.

You need a way to “roll back” the site, just in case a software update breaks a feature.

Death, taxes, and breaking the website. It happens.

A valid backup is the safety net we all need – even someone like me who’s been building websites for almost 20 years.

How can you backup your site? There’s tons of options and your perfect solution will depend on what your site and your organization needs.

I have a free plugin and configuration that I recommend as a starting point for anyone with a WordPress website. It’s the same basic plugin and configuration that I use on my own site and many client sites.

If you use WordPress, enter your name and email address below. You’ll receive a handy video tutorial to follow along, step-by-step!

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About Yesenia Sotelo

Yesenia Sotelo is a digital skills teacher and web developer.

She elevates ambitious nonprofit professionals by teaching them how to use the technology tools of modern marketing.

Yesenia can teach you how to use website analytics or improve your online marketing results.

Her SmartCause Method for building websites is especially designed for the way nonprofits collaborate, make decisions and grow.

She won the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN) for her work teaching digital skills to nonprofit professionals.