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Getting Started with BackupBuddy Webinar – May 15th, 2012

By: Bes Zain

May 21st, 2012

Hi everyone. Bes Zain here, with a recap of our recent Getting Started with BackupBuddy Webinar from May 15th. We covered topics from doing backups, finding out and sharing your logs, to restoring some files on your site and restoring your entire site in case of any issues. We have started sending out BackupBuddy 3.0 [...]

By: Bes Zain

May 18th, 2012

Almost every major WordPress theme you install will come with a functions.php file. You can put all your custom functions and code in that file. Putting all custom coding in the theme’s functions.php allows you to put everything in one place, and to make your theme kind of like the central place to hold such [...]

By: Bes Zain

May 11th, 2012

If you’ve ever used a PluginBuddy plugin, you’ve probably generated at least one license in your lifetime. Licenses are what allow your PluginBuddy plugins to be automatically updated. That way, you can avoid manually downloading a plugin, manually uploading it, and manually updating it. A 5-10 minutes and dozens of clicks process gets changed, thanks [...]

By: Bes Zain

May 4th, 2012

BackupBuddy 3.0 is almost here – soon we’ll send the 3.0 Beta test version to many of you (who’ve requested it) so that you can help us test it. Test it, backup with it, import with it, restore with it, break it, and more: please try everything and anything you wish, and let us know what [...]

By: Bes Zain

April 26th, 2012

With BackupBuddy 3.0 on the horizon, it’s great to know that an even better tool for your sites is coming out soon. Since we’ve been getting a ton of user requests asking for more information about BackupBuddy 3.0, here it is! Check out some of the BackupBuddy 3.0 features to see how your backups are [...]

By: Bes Zain

April 18th, 2012

Hi everyone. Bes Zain here with the video recap of our awesome Getting Started with BackupBuddy Webinar from yesterday. We had a ton of questions, and we dived a lot into the question of web hosts also (great hosts vs bad hosts). You can see and hear the entire discussion in the video. Be sure [...]

By: Bes Zain

April 13th, 2012

With the test version BackupBuddy 3.0 (beta) coming out soon, I wanted to explain some of the many things that confuse a lot of people who may be new to WordPress or Multisites. WordPress has a detailed explanation of what a Multisite Network is. I recommend you read that in detail please. I see hundreds [...]

By: Bes Zain

April 2nd, 2012

Hi everyone. Bes Zain here with the awesome record-breaking webinar we did last week showing you some of the upcoming BackupBuddy 3.0 features. BackupBuddy 3.0 is the biggest update since, well, BackupBuddy was created. It also is the most powerful and feature-set backup solution out there for WordPress enabled sites. With hundreds of brand new [...]

By: Bes Zain

March 28th, 2012

Hi there! Bes Zain here, with the Frolic webinar replay from Monday. We did a 2nd webinar on Frolic, which was actually the fastest consecutive webinar we’ve done on any plugin other than BackupBuddy. Frolic is that much fun! Elise Alley and Dan Harzheim were there in chat (thank you!). Everyone who attended had a [...]

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March 23rd, 2012

Hi everyone. Bes Zain here! Backing up sites with BackupBuddy is just a small part of what BackupBuddy does. BackupBuddy allows you to make use of such backups later on. There are 2 big things you can do with BackupBuddy backups. You could move a site to another location, which is a process defined by [...]