Michael De Wildt

I have finally released WordPress Backup to Dropbox version 0.9! In addition to various bug fixes, the major changes are an exclude files and directories widget, an unlink account button and Indonesian language support.

Exclude Files and Directories

This brand new widget gives you more flexibility of what you want backed up. All you have to do is check which files yo do not want to be backed up and the plugin wil take care of the rest.

In the image above the user has chosen to exclude the images directory and two files within the css directory. As you can see, when the contents of a directory ar partially included, the checkbox is marked as with a circle.

Note: Unfortunately this widget is not available for Internet Explorer 7 users. Please update your browser to use it.

Unlink Account

Many people use the plugin on multiple blogs pointing to the same dropbox account and, in the past it was difficult to change the account that you where linked to. Now you can easily unlink you account by pressing the ‘Unlink Account’ button.

More Languages

Thanks to Bejana from bejana.com the plugin is now available in Bahasa Indonesian.

If you want it in your language please use the POT file, translate it and get in contact with me.

Thanks

Thanks to everyone for their feedback and bug reports.

Please keep them coming because the only way I can make the plugin better is knowing about the issues.

So I have finally had the time to make some changes to the 0.9 release of Backup to Dropbox that will, hopefully, fix some major bugs in the plugin.

Here is what has been fixed!

Added ‘desktop.ini’ to the ignored file list

This is another file that is on the Dropbox ignore list. I have not managed to find a definitive list in the Dropbox documentation that lists all of these!

Issue #28 – repeated ‘Backup appears to have gone away’ messages to do with the suhosin.memory_limit being exceeded

This one has baffled me for some time now! Many users where getting repeated messages stating that the ‘Backup has gone away – Resuming’. This was because the script was being killed by the Suhosin patch. So in order to overcome this I have made some changes to detect the Suhosin memory limit and exclude any files that could potentially breach this limit. A warning will be displayed for any file that is excluded.

Issue #31 Recognize alternate wp-content location via wp-config.php constants

This was a quick change to honour the WP_PLUGIN_URL constant set in the wp-config file.

HTTP Time out when saving settings

This issue was affecting one or two users who had a large amount of files in their installation. I have made some changes to the exclude dialog so it will only send through what has actually changed that will reduce that data sent to the server.

Well thats it! You can download WordPress Backup to Dropbox 0.9 Beta 2 here.

I hope this release works well! As usual please let me know if you run into any issues.