WordPress Maintenance Basics
Maintaining your website is crucial to the success of your business and falling behind can be costly and stressful.
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As developers, it can be difficult to understand why clients don’t seem to value website maintenance – and it’s true – a lot of clients are lazy or just plain cheap. That said, if you’re a developer, I would challenge you to take a second and put yourself in the shoes of a business owner. First of all, most clients don’t understand why their website needs regular maintenance, so you need to explain to them why it’s so important.
Why you can’t afford to fall behind on WordPress maintenance
Restoring a hacked website can be expensive
Sadly, a lot of website owners don’t keep up with updates, and it often costs them in the end! There are all kinds of negative implications when a website gets hacked, from the loss of customers’ trust in the brand, to dropping in SEO rankings – not to mention having to pay a developer big bucks to restore the site.
Outdated plugins cause conflicts
Any plugin worth installing on your WordPress website will receive regular updates.
How to make your life easier when it comes to maintaining your website
I’ll say it, I’m a WordPress developer with several years of experience and keeping up with maintenance can be hard, especially for someone who’s not a web expert. First of all, who has time for that? Secondly, it can be scary; plugin updates can cause conflicts that break the site. ….
Not to worry, though! Even if you don’t have the budget to hire a developer or an agency to keep up with regular maintenance, there are several ways to make your life easier that will allow you to sleep more soundly at night, knowing your website is in good shape.
Don’t use a cheap host
Regularly scheduled backups are a MUST
they really are
Enable automatic updates as much as possible
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Uptime Monitoring
ManageWP
Pay the experts to take care of maintenance for you
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