If you’re about to make a modification to your Wordpress theme files that you aren’t sure about, it’s a good idea to backup your theme, especially if your theme is custom-made (i.e. you can’t just re-download it if something goes wrong), or if you have many other theme modifications you want to preserve.
Here are two ways to do it:
The Quick Method
You can easily backup a single theme file by going to the Theme Editor under Design, clicking the file, and then copying-and-pasting the contents of the theme file you’re editing into a Notepad document. Read more detailed steps here.
The Complete Method
These steps will help you backup your entire theme:
- Download an FTP program (such as FileZilla) if you don’t have one already.
- While you’re waiting for that, go to your WordPress admin, and then click on “Design” (or “Presentation”).
- Under the “Current Theme” header, note the file path that comes after “All of this theme’s files are located in.”
- Once your FTP program is downloaded, installed, and ready to go, connect to your website by entering in your FTP hostname, username, and password (these should be different from your WordPress username and password). If you don’t know what they are, ask your web host for help.
- Once you’ve connected to your website, browse to the folder that contains your WordPress installation (again, ask your web host if you need help finding it), and then browse to the folder you noted in step 3.
- Tell the FTP program to download the entire theme folder to a location on your computer.
- Once that’s done, check to make sure the FTP program says the files transferred correctly.
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How mad would you be if you made a tiny change to your site that made the entire layout not function correctly? It happens to people all the time! By fiddling, you can create a tiny mistake in the code that will throw off the whole site. Normally it happens while people are installing a plugin, trying to add a widget, or adding custom graphics.
Taking 20 seconds to make a backup before messing with a file can prevent the problem. Before I make any change to a theme file, I make sure that I have it backed up. That way, I can fiddle as much as I want! If something gets messed up, I go back to the way it was before I fiddled!. It’s the easiest thing in the world to do. Here are the steps:
- Login to your WordPress admin.
- Go to ‘Presentation’.
- Go to ‘Theme Editor’.
- Look at the right side of the screen, where you will find all of your theme files.
- Find the file you want to backup. If you are going to fiddle with your header file, you’re going to locate the header file. If you’re installing a widget in your sidebar, find the sidebar file, etc.
- Click on the file you want to backup. WordPress will then load the code for the file into the edit box, which is the huge box that will then have all the HTML funny looking symbols in it.
- Highlight the entire code with your mouse. To make sure that all the code is highlighted, you could just click your mouse in there and then hold ‘Ctrl’ and hit ‘a’. ‘Ctrl A’ highlights everything.
- Copy the code with your mouse. Right click your mouse and select ‘copy’ to do this.
- Open up Notepad on your computer. You can find Notepad by going to ‘Start’ in the lower, left-hand corner of your screen, then ‘All Programs’, and finally ‘Accessories’. Click Notepad.
- Paste the code you copied previously into Notepad.
- Save the file to a location where you can find it later.
That’s it! Now if anything gets messed up while you’re fiddling you can simply paste the original, backed-up copy of the code back into the code editor box!
I bet you can learn to do it in twenty seconds or less. Who can do it the fastest without messing up?
Source : Court’s Internet Marketing School
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