Your website is built on an open source CMS platform—WordPress. (or Drupal) Thousands of developers are writing and testing updated code for the platform on a daily basis—that’s part of what makes it “open source”. This results in a number of release updates, sometimes weekly, that include new features, security updates, and bug fixes. Most important are the security updates. There is usually one critical security fix affecting the core technology every 1-2 months. There are also various updates to custom add-on plugins used in the CMS every month or so. If the security updates are not implemented the following things could/will happen:
Our maintenance update process takes the following steps to help insure those things don’t happen:
Benefits to keeping your site up to date: