New Year's Resolutions For Your Wordpress Website
We’re still weeks away from 2016 but its never too soon to start planning. Today we’re looking at New Year's Resolutions you must address if you have a Wordpress site. These resolutions will help you keep your site current, protect you from being hacked and keep more visitors on your site for a longer time. These resolutions apply whether you are a B2B marketer, manufacturing marketer, small business, or simply writing a blog.
Three Wordpress Items to Address as part of Your New Year's Resolution
The three items we’re going to cover… updates, security and responsiveness …are items you must address, not items that you can get to at some point down the road.
1) Make Sure Wordpress, Your Theme and Plugins Are Up-to-Date
A typical Wordpress site will consist of the Wordpress code, a site theme, and multiple plugins that add functionality. Each of these is typically created by different developer who make changes, revisions and updates independent of each other. If you have 20 plugins, a theme, and of course Wordpress, you're looking at 22 or more possible update each month. We say more because some plugins will update on a weekly basis.
Ok, so it's agreed that there can be numerous updates available with a Wordpress site, but the real questions is "why do you have to update them?"