A friend pointed out to me a few days ago that if I were to have a data hiccup or have my system crash that I could lose everything I've ever written - and what everyone else has added as comments - from my Wordpress blog. Definitely not good. Is there some easy way to back up my blog so that I can insulate myself from this danger?...

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As a contributing author to a weblog about South Africa's upcoming World Cup 2010 (see The South Africa Project) I was rather surprised the other day when I went to log in to our Wordpress blog, just to see the following warning in my Web browser: What does it mean? How can we get this sort of warning from our own site, without ever opening up anything or getting any indication that we'd be hacked...

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I've been using Movable Type almost as long as you have, Dave, and just noticed that the way you name your blog entry archives is pretty different to how Movable Type 4 does it by default. I'm setting up a new blog for my sister and would like to see if I can mirror your archive filename format. My question is: how do you change the template file naming scheme in MT4?...

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I've been using Wordpress for a while now and it's very easy, which is cool, but I want to branch out and start including photographs and other graphics in my postings. I tried dragging and dropping images onto the edit window and it was a fail. How do I add graphic pictures to my blog entries, Dave?...

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I have heard you talk more than once about how you write blog entries and schedule them for future publication so that you can space things out and work ahead, rather than having to create a new blog entry every day. Nice, but how do I do that in Wordpress?...

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A person named Kavita posted a comment elsewhere on my blog that stated: "my site is activated from google adsense i m unable to paste code in website i tried many times but i failed can u help plz?" It's a much bigger problem than a bad cut and paste, however, and something critical for people running AdSense to realize......

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I have a wordpress site. My challenge? I wish to have my home page display only my latest 5 entries, yet want to have categories for my blog (when clicked upon) display all of the previous posts for that category, not just 5. I am not a programmer so I don't know or understand much about coding. However, I have been told that this is not possible. Is that really the case? Is the program...

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I just purchased Growing Your Business with Google and can't wait to start reading it. Here's my questions. What are the major differences between Blogger and WordPress and why would I want to use one rather than the other?...

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Dave, I host my images on my own server, but I hate using some of the more primitive tools to work with it, especially FTP. So, tell me, is there a way to add images to my blog entries if I'm using Wordpress without using the file transfer protocol software?...

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