WordPress stores all of its
data in a database. Users can take an extra precaution and perform the backup
manually using WordPress plugins. WordPress plugins are small programs that
allow blog owners to perform functions on the blog without knowing how to
customize the code in PHP. You can use them for your backups.
Backup Buddy
Backup Buddy
is a premium WordPress plugin that helps users fully backup the entire blog
into the cloud, putting all of the data online. Since Rackspace
offers businesses as much space as needed for backups, hosted
WordPress owners can integrate Backup
Buddy with their Rackspace account for convenient and quick backups. So
the blog owner can back up the blog and then restore it from any computer that
has access to the Internet.
Disqus
Disqus is a comment system that allows blog owners to manage
comments. Comment functionality is standard with a WordPress installation, but
managing those comments can be a beast. To make life a little easier, Disqus
provides a way for users to log in and create a profile while
giving blog owners a way to hide and delete and send comments to
spam filters.
Social Toolbars
Social toolbars
allow users to interface with social media such as Facebook, Google+ and
LinkedIn. This means more interaction with other users, because as people share
content, the content is seen by more possible readers and customers.
WordPress SEO
Search engine optimization (SEO) helps the
website owner tweak code for titles, Meta data and H1 headers. Yoast
and All-in-One-SEO
offer plugins that help webmasters manage the basic code that helps search
engines decipher page content. Although these plugins can’t replace good
content, they can help the webmaster work with bots to rank pages
accordingly.
Gravity Forms
GravityForms make contact forms easy for new blog owners.
Gravity Forms insert into a page component on the WordPress blog. The only
configuration the owner needs to do is determine the required fields and the
email address to which the form information goes. Cloud information is sent to
the email address, and then the blog owner can store it to the cloud. This is
advantageous for blog owners who want to store contact information for opt-in
email newsletters.
Although these plugins are some of the best
for WordPress configurations in the cloud, there are still hundreds of
authorized plugins to choose from. Check the WordPress site
for authorized plugins that can be downloaded to help optimize and configure
the blog in the cloud.
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