Thanks – an important addition to the article!

I have to admit I didn’t realise that moving and renaming the HTACCESS file may not solve the problem – it always has for me!

Thanks again,

Cheers,

Martin.

Some things to add which hopefully will help others:

1. After installing WP-DBManager you might get a big red message within your WP dashboard warning you about a potential security risk with your DB Backup folder. You need to move the htaccess.txt file from the plugin folder to the backup-db folder and rename it as .htaccess to lock it down. (Full info is on the plugin author’s forum)
2. Once you’ve fixed the above, the warning message might not go away. To get rid of it you need to edit the plugin to remove or comment out the warning. Again, instructions are on the forum. Basically comment out the line add_action(‘admin_notices’, ‘dbmanager_admin_notices’);

As long as you only copy (not ‘move’) the file back to your PC it won’t cause any immediate problems on your site.

If you tried to restore the wrong file, that would cause a problem, for sure.

But if you keep it simple by transferring your entire WordPress directory, as I’ve set out above, then the risk of transferring the wrong file is hugely reduced. Restoration is also easy because you can just restore the entire WordPress directory.

That’s also one of the reasons I make sure that the file and folder structure on my site is exactly the same as the file and folder structure on my PC. That’s another way to ensure you transfer the right files to the right places.

It also keeps transfers simple: if you’re in doubt about a file to transfer then transfer the entire folder.

Cheers,

Martin.

But if you download and install FileZilla I think you’ll find that the download time for your system files improves dramatically over what you must be experiencing by using FTP on FireFox.

I’ve never used FTP on FireFox but I cannot believe it’s meant for anything more than transferring a few files at a time.

Cheers,

Martin.