Updates?
Do you need to worry about keeping your WordPress website updated?
It’s crucial to keep your WordPress website updated. WordPress, along with its themes and plugins, is open source and regularly updated by a community of programmers. These updates are important for fixing security vulnerabilities, adding new functionality, and cleaning up the code base. Just like you wouldn’t do online banking on an outdated computer or phone, keeping your website updated is essential for maintaining security. Your website needs updates for the WordPress core, its theme, and all the plugins you use. It’s important to check for updates daily to ensure that your website has the latest security and performance systems in place.
A little history of WordPress
WordPress is open-source software that allows you to create a beautiful website, blog, or app.
Since its first release on May 27, 2003, by Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little, WordPress has continuously evolved to address the needs of the millions of web publishers around the world. WordPress’s direction directly depends on the needs of its users. The WordPress Community includes Hundreds of thousands of developers, content creators, and site owners who gather at monthly meetups in 363 cities worldwide.
Trusted by the Best: 30% of the web uses WordPress, from hobby blogs to the biggest news sites online.
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Worry Free Website Maintenance!
We provide complete website maintenance services, allowing us to focus on your website’s health and you to focus on what matters most: running your business! Our maintenance plans start as low as $50/month.
Maintenance Services:
- Backups
- Security Scanning: Malware, Vulnerabilities, Web Trust
- Performance: Scan and report your website load time with PageSpeed Grade and YSlow Grade
- Database Optimization: remove revisions, drafts, comments, and more
- Uptime: Monitor and report any downtime your website experiences.
- Monitor your SEO search rankings * Extra $5/month
- Analytics: detailed website traffic and visitor reports.
- Detailed Client Reports: Monthly reports show everything we have done to update, optimize, and maintain your website.
If you update your website regularly (with content), your database will grow larger over time. A large database can greatly affect your website’s performance, as it takes longer for your server to retrieve information from database tables. This is why database optimization is so important.
By removing unnecessary data, you can improve the efficiency of your database and make your web pages load quickly.
Conclusion
Our clients love the detailed reports we provide at the end of each month; they give a snapshot of the previous month with actionable and valuable data. We recommend they save these reports so they can go back and check stats like Google Analytics to see the growth or decline of user traffic on their website. Having someone continuously monitoring your site is good; we see things as they happen and can also make recommendations about products or services that can help your website. For example, if your website loads slowly, we can provide some solutions to help speed it up, like image optimization. If that doesn’t speed things up enough, we can set your website up on a CDN that caches your website on many different servers spread across the US and the world, increasing your load time by 50%. These are just a few reasons why having a professional maintain your website is a great idea. Please don’t give the bad guys a reason to visit your website. Make sure it’s kept up to date, and stay safe.
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