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How to Back Up your WordPress Site to Google Drive

Why should you worry about backing up your site? If you are self-hosted, you may be thinking your host server is backed up, and that may be true. Thankfully, backing up your site is simple and free with one WordPress plugin and Google Drive.

While it may seem unlikely that your hosting company would go under or their servers with your data would get hacked, the truth is that by not backing up your site, you are putting all of your content at risk. I feel better having more control over my own data. After all, I have put a lot of work into my websites.

You Respond to Blog Comments – Do Your Readers Notice?

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As bloggers, we know we need to respond to comments on our blog posts. This lets our readers know there is a real person behind the blog. But have you thought about whether or not your readers are seeing your responses to their blog comments?

Do your readers see your responses to their blog comments? If you aren't using a comment notification plugin, they may never know you responded.

WordPress does not automatically tell your readers when someone has responded to their comments. This means if you don’t have a comment notification plugin, your readers don’t know you have responded to their comments. [Read more…] about You Respond to Blog Comments – Do Your Readers Notice?