How To Automatically backup your WordPress blog to Dropbox

Taking regular backups of your blog is always advised to be on the safer side just in case some thing bad happens. As the blog continues to grow it’s good to back up your software and post database regularly. Usually these days most of the web hosting offer you to take backup of your site. Usually getting the latest backup from the web hosting can be a very lengthy and time-consuming process.

Dropbox is a leading and very popular cloud storage service. It allows you to share and store files over its servers. You can very easily automate the backup process of your blog using the Dropbox, just follow the simple steps to back up your blog.

So what are the things required:

Well to proceed following are the required ingredients:

• A Dropbox account, it’s free just visit www.dropbox.com and create a new account and install their software on your system. They provide up to GB of free storage.
• A hosted WordPress blog
• “WordPress Backup to Dropbox” a plugin from WordPress.org

So how to back up WordPress blog to Dropbox

Well install the plugin “WordPress Backup to Dropbox”.

• After the installation visit under Settings >> Backup to Dropbox to set up the backup. In order to use this plugin you will need to authorized it with your Dropbox account.

• Just login to your Dropbox account and click Authorize on the settings page of your blog.Clicking on the Authorize button will open a new window simply authenticate the plugin to use Dropbox.
•  Once you grant the access to the plug-in it continues to back up your WordPress installation.

After this just select a day, time and frequency of backup and voila that’s it you have successfully setup Dropbox to back up your WordPress blog. The plug-in is built to ensure that at the specified time a  backup of your site’s files and database is backed up to Dropbox. The plugin uses OAuth to keep your Dropbox account details safe. No credentials are stored for the plugin to gain access.

For further reading and details :

Visit the plug-in website http://wpb2d.com/

How to add facebook comments in wordpress

Implementing facebook Comments in your wordpress blog is the best option to indulge with the readers of your site more socially. Facebook Brings to your site.

1. Genuine Comments
2. As everybody has a Facebook Id, there would be a more chances of getting more comments.
3. Commentors would have the choose to post the same comment to their wall too.
4. Tracking of the commentors profile

So, Lets starts the tutorial of “How to integrate Facebook comments box in WordPress”

• Goto Facebook  Apps developers pages
• Create a new App

• Give App Display name app Namespace in small case
• Then Agree to terms and conditions
• Then click on Continue

A new page will open containing your App Id and App Secret Codes.Then fill the respective details.

• App Display name and Namespace both in small case
• Contact email
• App Domain in which website you are going to integrate Facebook comments
• Category as you wish
• Then in Select how your app integrates with Facebook “Select Website“
• Enter the website url and don’t forget to put “http://” in front of url
• Then save it.

Now Goto your  FTP access or WordPress dashboard 

• Upload Simple Facebook Comments For WordPress Plugin in directory /wp-content/plugins/ or use WordPress Dashboard to Install it.
• Active it.
• Goto Simple Facebook Comments For WordPress setting page

• Enter Comments moderator Facebook profile name
• Enter Facebook App Id which you got at the time of creating Facebook App
• Enter Comments Box Height and Width as your Wish
• Enter the number of comments you want to show when the page loads
• If you want to show Comments Box on Pages too leave the Disable Comments On pages “unticked“
• Then save it.

Now Facebook comments box is successfully integrated to your website without even interfering or replacing the Default WordPress comments Box.

How To Know Which Theme A WordPress Blog Is Using

Got inspired by the WordPress blog design, want to know which WordPress theme is that? Here’s how to know which WordPress theme is being on that blog/website.

Three Ways To Know Which Theme A WordPress Blog Is Using

Scroll Down To The Footer

Check the footer for theme name and address

Yeah, that’s the fastest way to know which WordPress theme used by a blog/website. Just scroll down to the website footer, and there you’ll find the text or link saying,Theme ABC by XYZ. Free as well as paid WordPress theme has the theme information. If footer is doesn’t say anything about the theme, then move on to a bit geeky method.

Check Source Code – Right Click And View Source

First method being the fastest, to know which WordPress Theme is used  by a blog, but you’ll rarely find the information there. Now the footer is blank, simply right-click and check the source code to hunt theme related URLs in the source code. Don’t panic, simply CTRL + F, and search for /wp-content/themes/

to find the theme related CSS file in the source code. Simply visit that link to know the details about the WordPress theme. Surest way for geeks to find the information about the WordPress theme. Not so geeky readers, can use the third method.

What WordPress Theme Is That

The above method is the manual way to check about the WordPress theme used by a blog. What WordPress Theme Is That, a web service which actually the other way round to extract the data from the WordPress Theme CSS files and serve the information in minutes. 

Check out What WordPress Theme Is That, feed in the URL of the blog to know about the WordPress theme.

What if, that method didn’t work out, might be the blog/website is using custom made WordPress theme.