Back the 'F' UP!!!
Published on January 2, 2015
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Hey guys! Not sure if this should be a 'training' post or just a comment somewhere... But I learnt this the hard way today and want to share this with you guys to hopefully save you some time and effort!
As I was working on a new post today for my site, I wanted to ad a new photo. When I opened my media library, I saw I had A LOT of photo's and decided to delete some of them! BIG MISTAKE! Once I realized maybe it's a good idea to check with fellow WA'ers before deleting all my pics, I had already deleted most of my them! My heart stopped beating when I logged into WA and read that deleting photo's in your media file that you have used on your site, will also mess things up on your site...
When I clicked on the deleted photo's on my site, they would just give an empty 'photo not available' sign. Luckily, I had my photo's all backed up and could just load them back on and re-posted them on each of my pages and posts...
This took ages though, so PLEASE folks BACK THE FILES UP!! This little blooper also made me realize the importance of actually backing up your entire site! Follow my advice and back up each page and post you spent hours on! It will make things so much easier when you do need it later on for some reason! I recommend backing your files up in both formats (visual and text). This makes it a bit easier when you have affiliate banners etc in your pages!
Hope this saves you a bit of time! ;)
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