How to back up your WordPress website daily (and why)

If your author site is a self-hosted WordPress one, then Nate Hoffelder has an important message for you.

(Well, actually, his message is important to all of us, but his tips apply specifically for self-hosted WordPress ones.)

You should be backing up your website daily to mitigate any number of crises — a hack, your own mistakes, and a crash caused by bad code, for example.

Hoffelder explains how to back up a self-hosted WordPress website daily in a post at The Digital Reader.

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