How to Backup and Restore WordPress Database Manually

By techgist, October 15th, 2009 in How-To,Wordpress  |  3 Comments

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A successful blogger always cares about his database because it means great time to him. It is the most essential part of a blogger to run a periodical backup of the database. If you have not yet installed and activated the WordPress Database Backup Plug-in, we request you to read our other article Important things you must do after WordPress installation and install the back up plug-in. Even though the database backup plug-in is available it is always better to know how to manually backup and restore WordPress Database.

We provide here a quick guide to Backup and restore WordPress Database manually using phpMyAdmin.

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How to Change WordPress Admin Username

By techgist, October 15th, 2009 in How-To,Wordpress  |  1 Comments

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After the successful installation of WordPress, the most important thing you have to do is changing the temporary password created by WordPress but unfortunately you can not change the username. Hence, it is possible for a hacker who can easily use a brute force attack on the admin account and take control of your WordPress Admin Panel. So, we advice you to change the WordPress admin user name at the earliest in order to increase security.

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