How To Schedule Automatic WordPress Backups

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Making regular backups of their website is something everyone knows they should be doing. But are you actually doing it? I’m guessing probably not.

Bad things can strike your site (or sites) at any time. When that happens, it can take up lots of time restoring them to their former state. Or worse case, you could even risk losing your entire site completely.

The reason why I think most people don’t make backups is that it often feels like it is too much of a hassle. I know I’m like that myself. Especially since I own several sites, spanning across multiple web hosting accounts.

While I have been a loyal BackupBuddy user for years, I was only using it for performing sporadic manual backups, like when I wanted to move a site over to a different web host. So I would often have backups that were years old. Unfortunately, that turned out to be a big mistake.

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Best Genesis Framework Tutorials of 2014

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One of the reasons we love the Genesis framework so much is because of the enormous amount of customizability it offers. It is perfect for the DIY site owner who loves spending time tweaking their site’s design. But for newcomers, it can be a challenge to to get started, and there is certainly a bit of a learning curve involved.

Studiopress has always maintained a nice collection of Genesis tutorials and code snippets but since the beginning, many Genesis developers and bloggers have also been sharing their experiences in the form of tutorials for doing various customizations using Genesis. It’s one of my favorite things about being part of the Genesis community.

While there have been hundreds of excellent tutorials published since the Genesis framework was first released, I really wanted to come up with a list of Genesis tutorials published this year.

Not only for the tutorials themselves, but also to see which bloggers you should be following to get the most out of the Genesis theme framework.

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What’s New With Divi 2.0

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I did a review of Divi theme a couple of months ago, but since then we have since seen the release of Divi 2.0.

Divi 2.0 is a major release by the Elegant Themes team that really builds on top of what made the initial version so successful. It has added a bunch of new modules, page layouts and lots of other features that make it one of the most versatile WordPress themes you can use. It is also one of the best looking themes out there, and it really shows off the design skills of the Elegant Themes team.

I have been experimenting with this new version of Divi on a new site I am working on and I am really excited by some of the things it can do. So in this post, I wanted to share with you guys some of my favorite new features of Divi 2.0.

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How To Create Your First Dynamik Skin

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Dynamik Website Builder 1.6 was just released at the end of May, and the main highlight from it is first class support for Dynamik Skins. This is very exciting news for the Dynamik community. As users, we will likely see the proliferation of exciting new skins we can use on our sites. And it also gives developers the potential to create a new market for designing and selling premium Dynamik skins.

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Elegant Themes Review

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Designing a stunning, beautiful WordPress theme would be extremely difficult for someone like myself.

Sure, I would consider my HTML, CSS and PHP skills to be quite good, but there is more to a beautifully designed website than knowing how to code. You also need to have that eye for awesome design, which very few people actually have.

This is what makes Elegant Themes stand out. Eye-catching designs, that will really make your site pop.

Elegant Themes is a WordPress theme club started by developer and designer Nick Roach. It has seen some explosive growth in popularity over the years with over 240,000 members. And the team itself has grown to over 23 dedicated designers, developers and tech support.

One thing that makes Elegant Themes stand out from the rest of the WordPress themes are the designs. Browse around their theme collection and you can see how much effort was put into the design of each of the themes. These themes are beautiful, and not easily replicated by other competitors.

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