Keeping WordPress up to Date – Managed Website Care Canberra Sydney

Keeping WordPress up to date is an important part of owing a WordPress website. Updating WordPress is relatively straight forward thing to do though having professional knowledge of the in and outs is beneficial as to minimise any issues or website downtime.

The main issues with not updating WordPress is vulnerabilities that have been exposed with WordPress as a CMS. The good thing, like most open source CMS websites is that WordPress releases regular updates to help keep WordPress secure as it can.

Over the years of working with business people around Australia e.g. Canberra, Sydney, Ulladulla & Nowra building WordPress websites BJ2DESIGN started to offer managed website hosting and WordPress care plans.

How to Update WordPress

Depending upon the amount of plugins both custom and premium it is always good to make a back up of your website before updating. Also depending upon when the WordPress website was last updated too is important.

Ideally then having the website on a test environment so as you update you can check for any site issues. Once all plugins have been updated then update the WordPress system and review. Once again when all is good and working well and without issue then proceed to update the live WordPress website.

WordPress Care Plans – Updating WordPress

A WordPress care plan is when BJ2DESIGN looks after the management / running of your WordPress website.

It includes such things as:

• Periodically backing up your website if your web host doesn’t offer this
• Keeping plugins up to date and testing these to make sure they do not break your website when updated
• Updating your WordPress website to the latest version (WordPress has updates every few months or so)

WordPress Management

If you are needing some WordPress help on keeping your website up to date and would like this side of things to be taken care of then you are more then welcome to call BJ2DESIGN on (02) 4474 5861 to discuss what you need and what can be provided for you.

Other areas of WordPress expertise include:

• WordPress training tutorials and/or classes
• Custom WordPress themes
• Custom WordPress Design
• Website Search Engine Optimisation – SEO