Updating WordPress manually , as well as updating its plugins , is a basic and essential task that I see daily that many people who have a website for their business developed with this content manager skip.
If you are one of those who ignores the issue of updates, I have bad news for you, my friend: you are playing with fire and you will probably end up getting burned.
One of the most common fears in the world of online business is waking up one day and seeing that your website doesn't display or function as it should, right?
Well, if you continue to ignore updating WordPress and its plugins, you can be sure that this fear of yours will become a reality sooner rather than later.
Today I am writing this article to make you aware of this problem (yes, it is a problem) that you are letting slide day after day and to make you start taking updates seriously.
And most importantly: that you lose your fear of them.
The first thing we are going to see is why I told you at cyprus telegram lead beginning about updating WordPress manually, discarding in one fell swoop the possibility of automating this task.
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Why update WordPress manually instead of automatically?
Why update WordPress?
Security
Troubleshoot compatibility issues between WordPress and your plugins
Bug fixes
Improvements when updating WordPress and its plugins
Types of updates in WordPress
Major Updates
Minor Updates
What to update first: plugins or WordPress?
Why update in this order?
How to safely update WordPress
Step 1: Make a backup
Step 2: Check what type of update is going to be performed
Step 3: Disable your caching plugin
Step 4: Update WordPress and Plugins
Conclusion
Why update WordPress manually instead of automatically?
There are plugins like Easy Updates Manager that allow you to perform updates to your WordPress automatically, so you don't have to do everything manually.
Similarly, WordPress itself allows you to activate automatic updates for each and every plugin you have installed on it.
However, as I mentioned before, I do not recommend updating WordPress automatically (nor its plugins) mainly for two reasons:
1. To avoid a certain update crashing your website and you not finding out about it right away but a few hours (or days) later, losing the traffic corresponding to that time to your platform.
Remember that, more often than not, the person you don't retain on their first visit probably won't come back. So this is no small feat.
2. To know exactly where a particular error is coming from after a certain update. Without manually updating WordPress, if any of the updates you install cause problems or incompatibilities, you won't know exactly where the root of all your problems lies from the start.
You will have to invest more time in detecting where the fault comes from. Time is the most precious asset we have and it also costs money.