WordPress Maintenance
What is Web Site Maintenance
Website maintenance is the process of keeping a website up and running securely and efficiently. Some basic site maintenance tasks include:
- Backing up your website
- Keeping your site secure
- Monitoring your site for down time
- Testing site speed and performance
- Analyzing reader traffic
- Optimizing pages for search engines
WordPress Maintenance
WordPress maintenance consists of the above list with some extra steps that are needed due to WordPress being a CMS. These extra steps include:
- Keeping your WordPress version up to date
- Keeping all themes and plugins up to date
- Regularly optimizing the database
Basic Maintenance
- Updating existing web content
- Adding new web content
- New post creation
- New page creation
- Weekly backup of your database
- Weekly report of any plugin or theme upgrades that need to be done
Advanced Maintenance
All basic maintenance chores as well as:
- Daily backup of database
- Weekly backup of all themes and plugins
- Set up and monitoring of security plugin
- Weekly upgrades to themes, plugins, and any core WordPress updates