Tutorial on How to Back Up Your WordPress Blog

Backing Up WordPress Content
1. Navigate in your Web browser to the dashboard page for your WordPress website. Enter your user name and password to continue if prompted.
2. Open the 'Tools' section of the dashboard menu, and then click the 'Export' link. This displays the WordPress content exporting tool.

3. Click the 'All Content' radio button under 'Choose what to export' to back up all of the content of your WordPress website.
4. Click the 'Download Export File' button. The Web browser displays a file download window. Save this file to the location of your choice. To restore the content of your website or migrate content to a new website, open the 'Tools' section of the dashboard and click the 'Import' link. This file contains only the text content that you have added to your website. To back up uploaded files such as images, continue to the next section.
Backing Up WordPress Uploads
5. Connect to your Web server by entering the address 'ftp://username:password@ftp.mywebsite.com' in a Windows Explorer window. Substitute your user name, password and website address using the information that your Web hosting provider sent when you opened your account.
6. Open the 'public_html' folder.
7. Open the 'wp-content' folder.
8. Drag the 'uploads' folder to your desktop to download it from the Web server. This folder contains all of the images and other files that you have uploaded to your website. If you have changed the default upload folder in WordPress, download that folder instead.