How Quickly Could You Recreate Your Blog?
May 16, 2008
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You’ve spent a long time getting your blog to look just the way you want. But one day you decide that you want to change the theme. Or your wp-content folder gets corrupted. Or something else goes wrong, and for whatever reason, your blog is borked. Badly.
Well, Mark Krynsky has a suggestion in this post - keep a text file of all the customization that you make to your theme, in case you need to recreate it at some point. To quote from Mark’s post:
I’m pretty good about keeping a text file that identifies every customization I make to my theme along with details and the actual code. These items include content from third party services like Google Analytics, code necessary for plugins, scripts for widgets etc. I highly recommend you do this as it can be a nightmare trying to remember where all these pieces are without them being documented.
I don’t know why I haven’t thought of doing this before, but rest assured that I’m going to be working on it and will have documentation done for all of my blogs done in the next few days. It’s something that I should have done sooner, simply due to the fact that I have a tendency to change themes on a whim, and putting some of the stuff into the new theme sometimes gets overlooked in the rush to get the blog back up and running. Things like Google Analytics come to mind.
So if this isn’t something you’re currently doing, maybe it’s a habit you should look at getting in to. Particularly if you run multiple blogs, all on a single host.
Thanks for the suggestion, Mark.
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May 16th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
How timely, I got borked a week or 2 ago LOL. The whole thing (newly finished) suddenly just went POOF…everything for some reason simply reverted back to its original state, as if nothing was done.
I had already had my notepad file about 3/4 done so it only took me a few hrs…maybe a day as I was first freaking out over what happened
Definitely a premo idea!
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May 16th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
I get daily DataBase backups, as well as all text files from my server emailed to my gMail account. It’s really the only way to protect yourself from countless threats out in the wild. I could recreate any of my blogs in under an hour, no sweat.
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May 17th, 2008 at 8:08 am
Good to hear, Dennis. Usually it only takes one disaster to get someone on board with performing regular backups.
May 17th, 2008 at 8:09 am
That’s an excellent idea, Top Rated. I think I’ll look at configuring the same thing to happen here on BloggingNotes.