Backup Your Blogroll – It’s Easy !!

Thanks for your feedback on my previous post, about backing up your wordpress blog. Most of them, were extra tips. Here they are….

1 Niyaz “The problem is that we cannot backup other files like images using this method.”

2 xylene was trying to remember something… “there was some site which will convert our blog into pdf. Any idea which one?”

( I think its this one http://www.expresspdf.com/ConvertHtmlToPdf.aspx )

3 Suda “Good for newbies, but I think when I read WP FAQ first, they ha warned us that its not the way to backup everything and it puts too much load on server if people start using it madly

Suda, and his tip : Backup your Blogroll.

I found a way to backup and import *blogroll* from one blog to another or just backup. May be you already know this.
go to http://yourblog.wordpress.com/wp-links-opml.php where *yourblog* is your own blog URL.

For example in dinu’s case, his blogroll can be exported as OPML file using link http://www.offlineblog.net/wp-links-opml.php

P.S> Dinu, if you think this is a useful tip and people are gonna miss this comment being on old post, you can add it in your TIPS as usual, all people eagerly read them :)

I am using HTTRACK Website Copier from ages and its really effective. I think I will write a post/tutorial for it soon. It won’t help in moving data to new site but its the best way we can backup a website i.e. downloading it as it is to local machine. :D

Also that PDF conversion site is superb, it converts page with all images included. Not the page as it looks though, it takes just content in PDF but its worth the trouble.

So, Thanks a lot guys.

30 thoughts on “Backup Your Blogroll – It’s Easy !!”

  4. s4n705h

    the help tip is of good use. I just knew how to backup the site but the blogroll thing is good. if i am planning to move to a new domain name. thanks for the info.

  6. arvind

    well., i dont think i need a back up of blogroll as of now . :P
    that pdf thing is cool ..i can have a PDF version of my site :)

  8. dinu

    @ Arvind

    Okay, take pdf for now.. may be sometime later you will need blogroll backup too … you can always come back and search for it :)

    @ Suda

    You are welcome :)

  9. Smallstar

    @dinu: glad to know it! Eheh :) )

    about the blogroll… I like adding in it everyone that has commented in my blog… And many of my added bloggers are really nice! P.s. You are one of them! ;) :P

  11. Anshul

    I was using HTTrack when I was leeching my 3Mbps cable connection by exploiting some bug, I used to mirror all porn sites then…. ;)

  18. Hasit

    thank you, dinu for the gr8 tip. i am backing up my blogroll now. and i dont think the pdf version of site is of any use. we keep updating. so wats the use of the pdf version?

  19. dinu

    @ Smallstar

    thanks

    @ | Balu |

    Will let you know if I find a better site.

    @xylene

    :) np

    @ Hasit

    Hmm I am unsure about it.. may be you can keep that as another backup .. or publish as an eBook, or print.. etc etc ..

  20. Nikhil

    Very interesting! Backing up a blogroll… Hmmm… Saves a lot of time, but only if you’re planning to move blogs! Why would anyone wanna do that? :O

  22. Poonam

    hey, express pdf converts web page to odf. So take pdf format of my complete blog, I need to add link of each web page (og my blog) to generate pdf. Isn’t there any other service that converts my entire blog to pdf, not repeating my sidebar widgets?

    And those were useful tips for backing up my blogroll. :)

  28. Musicalchaos

    yup… I knew about this beforehand too… :) but the Pdf thingy, I believe can be usefull.. the only glitch is that it converts one page at a time. now DAT can be a pain…

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