Know Why to Update WordPress Plugins Continuously

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Know Why to Update WordPress Plugins Continuously WordPress is one of the biggest CMS platforms that have gained popularity in the recent years. Being a living reliable project, WordPress with all themes and plugins will fulfill all your demands. In order to use advanced specifications along with functionality or to avoid potential bugs, it is always necessary to keep on updating WordPress together with plugins and themes from time to time.

Reason to update WordPress Plugins at regular interval · New cool features: Every time you update WordPress plugins, you come across numerous different features and specifications that help you while working on this website. Using older version may put you in trouble while working; therefore, it is always recommended to use the latest version available. · Better performance: As speed is a major factor for any website, thus, with every updated version WordPress plugins comes up with better performance, high speed, or more efficiency so that users can be able to use it in a much better way. · Security: As WordPress is much vulnerable to be hacked by hackers, the target for data thieves, development of malicious code by the distributors, etc. The number of times WordPress faces these types of threats it shows update version to maintain its security. So if you are using the older version of WordPress plugins, then your software is not at all secured and is more prone to attacked by hackers.

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· Compatibility: Updated plugins should have better compatibility with existing WordPress. Otherwise, it may break through. Newly updated version also enhances better coding standards and practice. Thus it is always required to keep a backup of your old WordPress version. · Fixing bugs: Despite vigorous testing and checking of WordPress version, one or two risky bugs slip through. If you face any issues, you may need to seek help from the forum, but it’s of no use. For that reasons it is good to use the updated version every time. How to maintain an updated version of your WordPress website? Whenever any new version is available, try to update your WordPress plugins and the update process is quite an easy one. Just visit the ‘Dashboard’ page and click once on the update button. The page will install automatically. You can even turn on the automatic update option for a quick installation of the latest version. How often do you need to update? You need to update whenever it shows the availability of updated version. You may have to face trouble if you keep the updating process waiting. Moreover, if you don’t update at a correct time, your website may be prone to security risk and the old template will not function to store data properly in the database. Hackers also easily attack your website and also the themes and plugins get deactivated or infected with viruses. Backing up of WordPress At the time of updating WordPress, some of the files may get added, replaced, or even deleted automatically or manually. You may also face problems in updating like breaking down of WordPress. That’s why it is always recommended to keep a backup of your WordPress installation or to keep duplicated site files and database before choosing for update installation, so that if anything gets wrong, all these files can be restored again. How to know the availability of updates? It is always not possible to keep track of the availability of updates, for that, it is easier for you to receive an e-mail notification whenever a new update version for your WordPress is available. For more information, contact us: http://www.maven-infosoft.com/contact

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