I often need to make a quick backup of a wordpress site. After doing database export manually and downloading all files via ftp for hundred times I decided to automate this.
I came up with a simple php script that does database export and archives all files into one .zip file.
Downloading one archive file is much faster than downloading all the files raw and uncompressed.
Companies of any type benefit from having a news section on their website. It freshes up content and makes your website more appealing in the eyes of search engines. Even if the website is already pretty dynamic and has good amount of content it is alwasy good practice to provide your visitors and potential customers with brief updates of what is new with you.
You might find a number of php scripts vendors that will offer a news archive php management system but most of them will cost you from $20 to a couple of hunder bucks. That is way more than one is willing to spend for the purpose of having a news archive with php.
