{"id":1176,"date":"2018-04-05T02:27:31","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T10:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tinyfrog.com\/why-wordpress-sites-require-maintenance\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T23:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T07:55:08","slug":"why-wordpress-sites-require-maintenance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tinyfrog.com\/why-wordpress-sites-require-maintenance\/","title":{"rendered":"Why WordPress Sites Require Maintenance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jW0ur4UIxdw?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><br \/>\nHello, this is Mikel with Tiny Frog Technologies. If you have a WordPress site, you&#8217;re probably aware of the fact that security is an important factor. If your website is not properly secured and\/or maintained, you&#8217;ll have some issues or potentially have some site issues. In fact, there&#8217;s a saying in the WordPress world, if your website is not properly maintained and\/or secured, having issues is not a matter of IF, but a matter of WHEN. So, it&#8217;s very important to keep your website secure.<\/p>\n<h4>Maintenance Prevents Long-term Issues<\/h4>\n<p>The analogy I like to give is if you&#8217;re keeping your car tuned up properly, and getting your oil changed with the right frequency.\u00a0 If you skip a couple of oil changes, it&#8217;s probably not going to have an impact on your car. But if you go 2-3 years down the road and you&#8217;re driving 15,000-20,000 miles a year and you don&#8217;t get an oil change, you&#8217;ll probably have some long-term big issues that you could have avoided fairly easily by using basic preventative maintenance.<\/p>\n<p>Your website is no different. If you have a WordPress site, if you&#8217;re not properly updating it and backing it up, and if you go three, four, five, six, twelve months without dealing with that you&#8217;re probably going to have some issues. And those issues could be much bigger than if you were to deal with it more frequently. All in all, WordPress sites require maintenance.<\/p>\n<h4>WordPress Plugin Updates<\/h4>\n<p>We found it&#8217;s very important to update your plugins at least once a month. Getting your <a href=\"https:\/\/tinyfrog.com\/how-to-select-the-best-wordpress-plugins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">plugins<\/a> updated and maintained typically requires a web developer, so we do have a program and a plan that helps our clients with that.\u00a0 Once again the frequency is fairly important because you don&#8217;t want to have those long-term issues.<\/p>\n<p>Google statistically had said that website hacking went up over 35% from 2015 to 2016. It&#8217;s probably going to increase again this year, so if your website is not being properly maintained it&#8217;s probably fairly vulnerable.\u00a0 If you have a WordPress site, make sure it&#8217;s being properly maintained. Make sure those updates are done with a certain frequency. You&#8217;ll notice that those updates will come out fairly frequently if you have a number of plugins in your website.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions on <a href=\"https:\/\/tinyfrog.com\/wp-secure\/\">WordPress maintenance<\/a> and web security, feel free to contact us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff Hello, this is Mikel with Tiny Frog Technologies. If you have a WordPress site, you&#8217;re probably aware of the fact that security is an important factor. If your website is not properly secured and\/or maintained, you&#8217;ll have some issues or potentially have some site issues. 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