Shawn33

MickeyRoush – thank you so much for the informative links…I have some reading to do ?? Thanks as well for the warning about Bulletproof and Better WP Security. I had a feeling that might be the case but needed some confirmation from someone with experience.

Jan Dembowski – Thanks for the advice as well! My backup strategy has been to do a database backup via wp-db manager before any theme/plugin updates – then do a full, home directory, and database backup via cpanel once a week which I store in 3 locations.

Does that sound like a pretty good strategy?

Know how to restore from scratch and practice restoring your backup somewhere else. Don’t practice on your live WordPress install ?? if you can do that successfully you are really prepared for the Bad Thing?.

I didn’t know restoring could present problems. I always thought you could just use cpanel’s restore interface or contact the hosting provider in the event of a catastrophic failure that requires a full restore.

Is there more to it than that?

Thanks for the advice esmi, you’ve been a big help!

Thanks so much for the response, I really appreciate it!

Depends upon what the issue is. Many problems can be resolved without resorting to a backup restore.

If something were to happen after an update that could not be fixed by simply deactivating a plugin or any options that someone without coding experience could execute, would I need to restore the database, the old plugin version, or the wp-content files, and in what order, to get things back up and running quickly?

Hope that made sense…

I’ve never had an issue like that but I’ve heard of updates crashing sites. Not sure if that is even something that happens very often realistically though.

Thanks again