Your currently in the lead given your the first commenter!! The banner spot seems quite temping too.

Vince.

My affiliate link is http://aweber.com/?323836 and I’d give you the best banner spot on my blog (top right) for the rest of the summer.

I have updated to WP 3 on a few of my sites but haven’t yet explored the new features.

In case this helps anyone, I did have a conflict with the popular NextGEN gallery plugin – it prevented me from upgrading to WP3.

I searched around on Forums and found someone experienced problems upgrading other stuff with NextGEN so when I deactivated it, I was able to upgrade to WP3 and then reactivated it. So far so good.

Didn’t realise there was a 1-Click Plugin Update feature but yes, that would be cool as it sometimes seems you’re forever clicking on plugin updates when you manage several sites!

And I have been waiting for a simpler multi-blog feature. The previous one was complex to set up!

Because Internet Marketing coach David Cavanagh has had his sites hacked before, he is against using Fantastico because he feels they have a lot of vulnerabilities in their set up. So I’ve mainly used Expert WordPress, an online service which helps you do a WP install with preselected plugins ideal for SEO purposes.

For backups, I have a plugin (I don’t know if it’s standard, or part of the Expert WordPress install): “WordPress Database Backup” by Austin Matzko.

And if you have one of those standard installs where admin is your user name, that’s some of a hacker’s guesswork done already. I’ve been taught some way to change it directly in the MySQL database but it’s a lot simpler to add a new admin user, then log back in as the new user and carefully delete the first admin user.

I say carefully because you need to ensure that your posts and pages are attributed to your new username rather than trashed. I accidentally trashed my posts once doing this, but fortunately, I was able to recover it from the Trash!

Thanks fort the kind words – I’m just glad all of your blogs are back online !

A quick way to backup your database is to login to WordPress and click Tools > Export.

This will backup all of your pages, posts and comments.
(It won’t backup your images or Theme but you can keep a copy of them on your local machine or download them Via FTP every once in a while).

There are plugins around that can run the export function and email you your database once a week or once a month.

Aaron.
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I hope that this helps.
Happy Blogging!!!
Kathy Sammons

if u have a time, can u comment too in my articles. thanks
im stiil waiting for ur come.

I’m totally on board with Kevin, plus, this is just awesome information my friend. It took me forever to learn how to do this, wish I would have ran into this info before.

David Wood
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