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4 Important Reasons To Keep Up On WordPress Updates

April 5, 2013 by sophiezo Leave a Comment

Maintaining your WordPress website is important for many reasons. When WordPress makes changes and upgrades, it’s important to do them because problems may occur if you don’t. Here are several problems you may run into if you don’t keep up on the upgrades WordPress has for the sites or blogs you run through them.

1. Hackers and scammers feed on websites that aren’t current and updated. WordPress is on top of this and continually makes changes to the backend to make sure this doesn’t happen. They keep up on coding and other things that hackers and scammers feed on, which protects your site.

2. Things may stop functioning properly if you don’t keep up on the updates. You may find coding changes, plugins or widgets stop working, or designs change, and if you don’t do the updates, your site won’t work well. There’s nothing worse than finding out from a client or friend that your site isn’t working properly.

3. If you don’t upgrade, you may not see changes that were made to enable your site to work well. There may be updates to plugins or widgets that only work with the new versions or new ones that were created specifically for the new version of WordPress.

4. WordPress may have discovered an easier way to do things or they may choose to clean up the dashboard to make it easier to find things. These changes may save you time and money in the long run. If you choose not to do the upgrade, you’ll miss out on these changes and lose money as well.

While there are several steps you need to follow to do a WordPress update, it’s worth it in the long run. Whether the changes protect your site or make it easier to use, you’ll want to do each and every update. If you find you can’t take the time to do these or you don’t know how, you need to hire a Virtual Assistant to help you get the job done.

Filed Under: Blogging, Delegating, Internet Marketing, Marketing, Outsourcing, production, Time Management, Virtual Assistant, Virtual Services, WordPress Tagged With: Blog, Blogging, changes, coding, Outsourcing Delegating, plugins, Sophie Zollmann, SophieZo, SophieZoLLC, updates, widgets, WordPress

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We’ve been working with Sophie Zollmann for almost half a year now, building an online lifelong learning platform and community from the ground up (because in-person classes became impossible in light of the corona virus). Sophie has guided every technical aspect of this enterprise including the construction of landing-pages and websites, the management of mailing lists and revenue funnels, setting up Zoom meetings, etc., allowing us to focus exclusively on content production and marketing. This platform is now off the ground and succeeding beyond our wildest hopes.

We couldn’t have built it without Sophie’s support, which has always been prompt and timely, and her guidance, as she’s always pointed us to the most efficient and economical solutions to whatever technical issue we’ve faced. In the heat of the moment, I’m sure we’ve not always been easy to work with, but Sophie has also been generous and understanding to a fault. In sum, her support has been flawless and absolutely essential to the success of our online enterprise. We will be relying on her services again as we ramp up for our next phase of growth.

David Peritz
Founding Director
Minerva Academy of Lifelong Learning


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