Just as you keep the operating system updated on your computer, it’s essential to keep your WordPress website updated. Security issues and vulnerabilities arise regularly, and they’re resolved through a combination of WordPress core updates and updates from independent plugin developers. Leaving them unattended can result in nefarious characters exploiting vulnerabilities in your website and causing problems for your business and your customers.
Depending on the complexity of your website, managing all the updates for your plugins and themes can seem like a full-time job. Utilizing our managed WordPress updates allows you to focus on your business while we focus on your website staying safe, secure, and operational.
Keep your website up to date with weekly updates.
Updates are often necessary patches critical for security.
Stay informed of the updates made to your website.
WordPress, at its core, is a blogging platform. But through the use of plugins, WordPress’s functionality is endlessly expanded. Plugins can turn your WordPress site from a simple blog into a fully-fledged e-commerce shop.
As your website becomes more complex, it requires more attention in managing all the plugin updates. When your website has features such as credit card and payment processing, it’s even more important to make sure updates are regularly and correctly applied to your plugins.
Like plugins, themes are updated frequently by their authors. Oftentimes this is to fix performance or display issues with the theme. If your WordPress theme has a display issue that remains unresolved, this can cause your site to look unprofessional and less trustworthy to potential customers.
As with plugins, WordPress themes can fall victim to security vulnerabilities, so it’s critical to keep them updated in this regard too.
We provide a comprehensive managed update services that keeps your core WordPress installation, all of your themes, and all of your plugins updated on a weekly basis. Before each weekly update, we make a complete backup of your website. If we have any issues, we can restore your site immediately.
WordPress plugins are a way to extend the functionality of your WordPress website, similar to how apps on your phone allow you phone to do a lot more than just make phone calls. For example, WooCommerce is a plugin that allows you to create an e-commerce store on your WordPress website.
Premium WordPress themes and plugins require licencing from the company or individual they were purchased from. If these licences are expired, updates can’t be applied and you could leave your website open to vulnerabilities.
Yes, this can happen from time to time. After every update, we do a thorough visual inspection of your website to make sure there aren’t any issues that arose from the update. In the case of any problems, we can roll back to a previous version of your website. That's another reason why having a reliable daily backup strategy is so important.