Important Things 1999

Today, tested WordPress database recover backuped by “WordPress Database Backup”

1. I have set up WordPress Database Backup to backup WordPress database daily and email to my gmail account

2. download the last database backup file .sql.gz from gmail

3. open phpMyAdmin, choose import, and select .gz file downloaded

4. apply.

Succeed!

My backup plan:

1. Plugin using auto-update, and download plugins and other directories to local by FTP

2. WordPress Database backuped by “WordPress Database Backup“, and email to Gmail daily.

3. local files backup to Mozy.com daily.

I have installed lightbox plugin in my WordPress, but every images need input ref=lightbox, it bozes me.

Maybe there is a plugin can solve my issue, it’s Flexible Upload.

The following description is from WordPress.org.

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The first plugin should be install–Plugin Manager, if you want to install more WordPress extend features.

Download from: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/plugin-manager/

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Usage

Using lightbox2, just add string rel=”lightbox” in <a href=…>…</a> tag, such as,

<a href=”http://www.laotudou.com/…../49aa1eb70105kfto.jpg”  rel=”lightbox”><img src=”http://www.laotudou.com/……/49aa1eb70105kfto_thumb.jpg” /></a>

or, add rel=”lightbox[nnn]“

nnn can be any number, but it should be same in a group of images.

Optional: Use the title attribute if you want to show a caption.

Sample

http://www.laotudou.com/peiyang-university-the-first-univerity-of-chinese.html

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WordPress Database Backup: http://www.ilfilosofo.com/blog/wp-db-backup

Thank Austin Matzko, who writes so useful plugin for WordPress.

I used to backup WordPress(MySQL) using phpMyAdmin, it requires manual dump database or tables, no automation, neither shedule. And there is size limitation of dump file.

“WordPress Database Backup” can use my Gmail to store db-backup files, because it’ll send WordPress db-dump as attachment in a daily email. The function of scheduled backup, such as once per day, reduces my daily works on phpMyAdmin.

“WordPress Database Backup” is the most useful plugin which every WordPress’r should plug in.

This is the URL:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-db-backup/

Click download on the Top-Right corner.

or

WordPress Database Backup: http://www.ilfilosofo.com/blog/wp-db-backup

1. Activate “Akismet”, in Plugins click “Akismet Configuration”, input WordPress API key, which you can get after registered wordpress.com, and received email from wordpress.com

More of WordPress API: http://wordpress.com/api-keys/

2. WordPress.com Stats

statistic chart of your WordPress website.

Download stat from: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stats/

upload stat.php to your directory:  /wp-content/plugins/

Activate stat

Enter API Key, and add your blog to WordPress.com

3. Popular Posts

“WordPress.com Popular Posts”

After installation of Stats(API Key & 2), you can make this plugin working now.

Download: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpresscom-popular-posts/

unzip, and upload them, including sub-directory.

Activate

Design–>Widget–>add to sidebar

If you want to know how many people visit your website during past 30 days, you’d better install StatPress, which provide rich function about statistics of visitors.

1. Download this Plugin from: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/statpress/

2. unzip, upload by ftp to your plugins directory

3. Activate

4. Click StatPress in you main tab to view the result of analysis

5. dafault setting is OK. You don’t need change anything. If you want, you can update this plugin online by clicking StatPressUpdate.

To design and modify WordPress themes, Themes swither is the best plugin you should install.

Download from: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/theme-switcher-reloaded/

Unzip, and upload, activate, Design–>Widgets, add to sidebar

If you’re browsing your WordPress website, please Refresh you browser.

Thank Ady Romantika designed such wonderful plugin.

“Random Posts” is installed as a plugin, after activation, it can be managed in Widget.

It’s so simple and very cool!

All you want to do is “download–>Upload–>Active–>Widget:Add to sidebar–>select random posts number”.

You can find “Random Posts” from:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/random-posts-widget/

Follow the installation notes you will succeed.