This blog and most of my sites are now running under a content delivery network aka CDN. Basically, a CDN is a computer network all over the world used to deliver content, as the name implies . It speeds up the delivery of content because content is being delivered to visitors from the nearest server available to them.

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Like what I’ve said in my previous post, this topic deserves a separate post. This time, we will back-up our WordPress database automatically. Again, the same set and forget way. You’ll have your latest back-up copy of your database everyday if you want.

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When backing up a WordPress blog, you need to know that you have to back-up not only the WordPress database but also some WordPress files. Backing up WordPress database will be subject of another post. This time, I’ll show you how to back-up your WordPress files automatically on schedule. Set it and forget it kind of way.

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Another problem that I encountered on a group blog setup in WordPress is that users with Author and Contributor roles cannot embed Youtube videos. They can paste the Youtube embed code while composing a post, but when they preview and publish it, the Youtube video is gone! Right, Ambo?

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One of the problems I encountered when setting up a group blog in WordPress is that users under the Contributor role cannot upload an image. The option to upload image is simply non-existent when the user is composing a post. That’s a problem if you expect your contributors to upload images.

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