WordPress is one of the most popular platforms available for business, freelancers and individuals to create websites and blogs. It’s loved for its ease of use, great themes and useful plugins. In fact, WordPress powers an incredible 35% of all websites on the internet.
Not all of these sites are actively managed, though. Many have been forgotten about, others have gradually become redundant or are not visited anymore as they are too difficult to find. With the competing demands of running a business, many WordPress powered websites and blogs have fallen into disuse. This is often despite the user paying WordPress subscription fees.
With a constantly developing range of plugins, themes and updates it can be hard to keep your WordPress site up to date. But, not doing is a big mistake.
Why it’s important to keep your WordPress site updated
As WordPress is open-source software there are countless people working to improve aspects of its performance, security and ease of use. This means there are new features coming online all the time. It’s important to take advantage of any relevant updates to ensure you’re maximising the potential of your site.
WordPress Update Service
| We Manage |
| • Automatic Updates |
| • Plugin & Theme Management |
| • Posts, Pages & Links Management |
| • Comment Moderation |
| • User Management |
| We Monitor |
| • Broken Link Checker |
| • Google Analytics |
| We Maintain |
| • WordPress Maintenance |
| Tools |
| • Monthly Reporting |
WordPress Update Service Plus
| We Manage |
| • Automatic Updates |
| • Plugin & Theme Management |
| • Posts, Pages & Links Management |
| • Comment Moderation |
| • User Management |
| We Monitor |
| • Broken Link Checker |
| • Google Analytics |
| We Maintain |
| • WordPress Maintenance |
| Tools |
| • Monthly Reporting |
| Unlimited Text & Image Amends Completed Within 24hrs |
Security
The primary reason for updating your site is security. Having your website compromised by hackers is frustrating and can be costly. New security features are becoming available all time. These address security loopholes and anticipate potential problems. Updating your security ensures your site is not left vulnerable.
Fixing bugs
Despite the involved testing process for every new release of WordPress, it’s inevitable that some bugs will initially go undetected. Some present themselves only after the update has started being used by large numbers of WordPress subscribers. Fixes to these bugs are continually being developed and updating your WordPress means you can take advantage of them.
Improve the speed and efficiency of your site
The speed of your website helps to increase where it appears in Google rankings. It also improves the user experience encouraging visitors to spend longer exploring your site. Keeping WordPress updated ensures that your site is operating at maximum speed and doesn’t slip down the search engine results.
New features
With so many new WordPress features coming online all the time it can be easy to miss out. New tools and plugins make the site easier to use both for the owner and visitors.
Viable Design offer two great WordPress update packages
For a low monthly fee, Viable Design will ensure your WordPress site is fully up to date. As well as ensuring your site is secure, operating at maximum speed and makes use of the relevant latest tools, we can check links, monitor Google analytics, moderate comments and provide monthly reports.
If you are looking for website management for your site, why not contact us to find out how we can help?
Automate WordPress Updates With Our WordPress Update Service
Being one of the leading content management systems (CMS), WordPress comes with a multitude of plugins and themes. It is with this that Viable Design has launched their very own automated WordPress Update service.
Why Use WordPress Update?
Reduce the risk of being hacked
Automatically apply updates when they are released
Run the latest version of the WordPress core, your plugins and themes
By default, we enrol all of our own website designs on this service
You don’t have to be an existing client to qualify for our WordPress update service