{"id":6301,"date":"2023-08-30T16:30:34","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T16:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inspiration.ie\/?p=6301"},"modified":"2023-11-09T16:25:53","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T16:25:53","slug":"stay-on-top-of-wordpress-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inspiration.ie\/stay-on-top-of-wordpress-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do Ye\u2026. Stay on top of WordPress Updates?\u00a0WP 6.3 hits the shelves.\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">From a technical perspective &#8211; you want to keep your website both safe and bang-up-to-date. But what happens when changes happen that you weren\u2019t aware were coming down the tracks? One of the queries we often get is \u201cShould I hit \u2018update\u2019 when I get notifications of upgrades for my website\u201d. And unless you know what you are doing \u2013 the answer is probably no!\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">WordPress updates are a good example. Bear in mind WordPress is extremely popular, with over 40% of the world\u2019s websites being powered by it. So if an update goes wrong, it can leave a lot of websites in disarray.\u00a0 In fact, a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/wptavern.com\/wordpress-6-4-roadmap-includes-typography-management-features-new-blocks-and-twenty-twenty-four-default-theme\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">major new update<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> has just come out. WordPress 6.3 brings easy-to-use features, like making your site look better and organising content more smoothly. Plus, you can quickly switch between different &#8220;looks&#8221; for your site.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">So, you might have been tempted to do the upgrade yourself. In which case you may well have discovered that this update had a few &#8220;surprises\u201d. One of them being that the presentation of many sites went skew-ways, leaving live sites looking badly designed and potentially damaging the professional reputation of certain businesses. But any update can be problematic because often a new version of WP or a plug-in that might be on your site can potentially be incompatible with other plug-ins or code on the site \u2013 and there\u2019s no way of knowing this in advance.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">What to do? You are probably in the business of managing or running a company, not doing tech support and sifting through code to find exactly what has broken and why. So, this really is a job for the experts \u2013 but luckily and typically its not a big one!\u00a0 <\/span><br \/>\n<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-a5m6co-text css-p8ym46-fontFamily css-11397xj-fontSize css-15qzf5r-display css-7bji7i-wordBreak\"><span class=\"\">Website Support and Maintenance<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">WordPress itself and all the common plug-ins that are typically used on WP sites e.g. the Cookie one, contact forms, distributor searches etc \u2013 are regularly updated to newer versions \u2013 either to add functionality or to block a hack.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">So, usually its best advice to do these updates. Hackers are digital troublemakers and we are often contacted with sites being infected by worms (as unpleasant as it sounds), having porn being published on their web pages, being taken down etc.\u00a0 Often this is facilitated and possible by the fact that the site hasn\u2019t been maintained. And it\u2019s a lot more hassle and cost to reverse these kinds of problems than it is to avoid them in the first place.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Inspiration&#8217;s Annual Maintenance and Support (AMS) service is like a shield for your website. Every month we check for hacks, upgrade plug-ins\/WP if an upgrade is available, take a back-up of the site and if there is a hack, we replace the hacked site with the last clean back-up \u2013 all within the fee. For most sites the fee is less than \u20ac1,000 per annum. And with plenty <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/about\/roadmap\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">more updates coming down the line<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, the risk of not maintaining your site increases year on year.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Take a look at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/inspiration.ie\/web-development\/website-maintenance\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">everything Inspiration can offer for AMS<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, and <\/span><a href=\"mailto:ask@inspiration.ie\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">ask@inspiration.ie<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> if you want to implement this service. 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