The importance of WordPress updates

If you are not updating WordPress, your plugins, and your themes, your website is vulnerable to hacks. These hacks could not only take down your site, but your site can be used to send spam until your domain is blacklisted. Once blacklisted, most of your emails with your domain will get blocked.

It’s like running your car without oil changes. Everything seems fine, until a major catastrophe.

WordPress powers almost one out of every three websites. With that kind of popularity, WordPress websites are the main target for hackers. Most of the hacks on WordPress websites are “bots.” Bots are computer programs that scan for weak websites, and insert dangerous code, automatically. One hacker can effect millions of websites. They don’t need to target specific websites anymore, so we can’t just assume our website is too small for hackers to worry about.

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The GOOD news is you can prevent almost all hacks by updating WordPress and all of your plugins and themes as soon as they are released.

It’s not extremely difficult to update WordPress, plugins, and themes. Most of the time you can update and your website comes through it fine. So in the very least, go into your WordPress admin a few times per month and update. All it takes is time.

Sometimes an update with break your website. At that point you can contact us and we can help.

Alternatively, you can get one of our WordPress Support Packages.