Just like your phone and your computer’s operating system, your website requires maintenance. Every month it seems my phone and computer require a major software update. Your WordPress website needs the same care and attention so it can be online all the time to showcase your products & services.
Hackers target WordPress more than any other online platform. WordPress has a 60% website market share of content management systems and 52,000+ available plugins that can be hacked. It is just too big of a target for hackers to ignore.
When a WordPress website is hacked, it isn’t even humans behind a computer doing the work. Most of the time it is an autonomous computer script that finds the vulnerability in an outdated WordPress plugin, theme, or even WordPress itself.
The top 3 goals of hackers are to steal sensitive information, install software that infects visitors with a virus, or send spam through your website.
When a website is hacked, it must be cleaned or restored from a backup. Unfortunately, most cut-rate hosts limit backups to 30 days or put the responsibility of backups on you. This includes GoDaddy, Bluehost, and Hostgator.
Shockingly, 70% of all WordPress websites are vulnerable right now. Read this article for more stats about WordPress vulnerabilities. If you are a significant data nerd, check out Sucuri’s annual report with a complete breakdown of all hacked websites in 2017. (Not) fun fact: 83% of them were WordPress.
Many people don’t know what a care plan is, let alone what it contains. Here is what we at Thrive provide as part of our basic care plan.
Maintaining a website is more complicated than one would think at a close glance. Updating a site directly from the WordPress admin doesn’t store a record of what was done. If an update to a plugin created an issue down the road, it would be difficult to know what changed and how to revert without restoring an ancient backup and losing content changes, sales orders, form submissions, etc.
Care Plans are one of our core services. There’s no panic when there’s a plugin conflict during an update or a tricky issue to debug. We’ve seen it all. Over the years, we’ve received calls from people with broken websites and incomplete backups. Often, the cost of a whole year of a Care Plan is needed to fix the issue when there is no complete backup. Just like a car, it costs more to fix it than it does to maintain it properly. Regular oil changes help keep your car running smoothly, and regular website care helps keep your website purring at optimum performance.
Why not focus on your business and let us help you with what we know best? Would you change the pipes in your bathroom or call a plumber? Then why try to maintain your website if that isn’t your trade? By securing an experienced WordPress company to care for and support your site properly you are saving potential lost revenue and customers.
Secure a Care Plan for your website! Contact us to learn how we can keep your site in proper working order.
We are certified as Care Plan experts through WP Elevation, the world's most accredited WordPress training company.
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