WordPress is the most popular content management system (CMS) in the world with over 60% of the market. The WordPress ecosystem is large with over 59,000 plugins and 13,000 free themes which means that maintaining a WordPress website can be complex, time consuming and beyond the means of most businesses.
In this blog post, we will explore the importance of having a WordPress Care Plan for your WordPress website and how it can ensure that your website delivers for your business.
What is a WordPress Care Plan?
Before we look at the importance of a WordPress Care Plans, lets first look at what one is.
A WordPress Care Plan is a service that provides maintenance and support for a WordPress website including tasks such as regular updates, security checks, backups, performance optimization, and technical support to ensure the site runs smoothly and remains secure at all times; essentially taking the burden of website maintenance off the user’s hands by handling updates, security monitoring, and troubleshooting issues.
We have already written several blogs posts around these topics including The Importance of Updating WordPress Plugins and When Did You Last Backup Your Website.
Regular Updates
- Enhance functionality
- Address vulnerabilities
- Improve overall performance
- Ensure compatibility across themes and plugins
Without regular updates to your WordPress core / plugin and themes, your website is at risk from vulnerabilities that have been identified and being exploited by bad actors. You are also missing out on any enhancements that the various authors have made.
Security Monitoring
WordPress websites are constantly under attack. It has been reported that 1 out of every 25 has been hacked. Most of these attacks are automated and can be prevented with some simple security measures.
With our WordPress Care Plan, you can be assured that your website is being monitored for any vulnerabilities that have been identified and protected from attacks. We will also undertake a security audit to ensure that any vulnerabilities are addressed.
Regular Backups
A regular backup schedule is important so that if your website was inoperable for any reasons then it could be restored with minimal disruption to your business.
Some hosting companies provide website backups for their clients. However, we recommend separate offsite backups so that if there is any issues with your hosting provider, it removes the risk of corrupt or missing backups.
Technical Support
There are always those moments when you need some technical support. It could be as simple as a user that can’t login or more complex like a contact form not working.
A WordPress Care Plan gives you a level of security that you have a technical resource available should there be an issue.
Conclusion
Contact us today to have a no-obligation chat about how our WordPress Care Plan can help ensure that your website supports your business.
