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By Abhishek Ghosh August 9, 2012 5:01 pm Updated on August 9, 2012

Importance of WordPress Updates

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Importance of WordPress Updates, Plugins and Themes are very basic points to know. Unmaintained website is likely to face malicious code attacks than an updated. Apart from getting hacked, there are more important points any level of in this article Importance of WordPress Updates.

 

Importance of WordPress Updates : Points We Have Taken Automatically

 

This article, Importance of WordPress Updates applies only to Self Hosted WordPress not WordPress.com Blogs. Its taken that, you are not using a managed WordPress configuration where the WordPress is maintained by the service provider, do not confuse managed WordPress with managed Server. Managed Server means both the hardware and software of the server is maintained, except backup like light works, in managed server, your WordPress will not maintained.

In this article, Importance of WordPress Updates, it is taken that, you have full FTP access and have Administrative account on WordPress installation. Its taken that, you are using all legal softwares, be it free or premium.

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Importance of WordPress Updates

 

In page source, a meta clearly shows the version of WordPress, that can be removed but for any one interested with bad intention, it is very easy to understand the software running is WordPress, along with the version. We will not discuss in this article on Importance of WordPress Updates, that how this data can be found as it falls in the gray zone.

 

There is clear distinction between short and long planned security patches version offered by WordPress. Some updates are called major updates. This distinction is important. For major updates, it is always better to take a full backup and update WordPress manually after reading official post on the update.

 

The Importance of WordPress Updates is clear from a small fact – if you do not update your WordPress, which is verified by Google, the list will show you need to update. Google being a third party giving you alert, definitely adds more importance of WordPress updates.

The major Importance of WordPress Updates are :

 

  • Security of core files with newly modified files
  • After an upgrade of WordPress version, bigger plugins and themes also undergoes official update releases. You can not use the newer versions if you do not update WordPress core.
  • Widely known security loop holes of WordPress or the older plugins are closed by updated softwares.

 

So, you have understood the Importance of WordPress updates by now, still if you do not update WordPress only for the reason that your Theme will probably get modified, the easiest way is to use a child of your own so that the update will not disturb you theme.

 

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About Abhishek Ghosh

Abhishek Ghosh is a Businessman, Surgeon, Author and Blogger. You can keep touch with him on Twitter - @AbhishekCTRL.

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