November 16th, 2006
Futurosity is offering up a comprehensive list of ways to backup your WP database. Nothing is more valuable to a blogger than their content, which, for those still new to WP, is stored in your database. So routine backups (based on how often you post) is the single most preventative maintenance a blogger can do. Your theme and plugin folder only need backing up when new changes are made. Recommended reading for those who haven’t implemented a backup plan.
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August 15th, 2006
Skippy reported in the WP forums that a security vulnerabilty had been found in the database back-up plugin. Subsequently, in the same thread, he posted back with a fix that had been “cooked up” by Ryan. At root the plugin could exploit a “directory traversal vulnerability”, if done by someone with admin privileges. Which, no one should be giving admin privileges to someone they don’t trust.
That said, an updated version can be downloaded here.
Kudos to Skippy for bringing this public as soon as he was aware, and kudos to the team for getting a quick fix to a popular plugin that’s bundled with the download.
Though many are capable of doing manual backups, the automatic backup is a handy feature, and one that can easily save some headache and time for those that have multiple blogs, or are just plain lazy like this blogger.
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June 25th, 2006
5ThirtyOne
A quick tutorial on how to create your own, custom database error page. Now if I could only get around to fixing my other templates, this would be a good idea 
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