Web Maintenance with WordPress Presented by Cybervise

Website Maintenance & SEO One broken link or error message is a symptom of an unmaintained site and should receive the lowest rating. - Google Frequency - Depends on Purpose YMYL Sites - High Frequency Clear contact responsible for website Function well for users as web browsers change Evidence of Maintenance - links work, images load, content should be added and updated over time. Often a business or organization is responsible for the content of a website, not an individual person. The IBM Corporation is responsible for the content on ibm.com. The Cleveland Clinic is responsible for the content on clevelandclinic.org. An individual is not responsible for the content on these websites, even though many individuals contributed to creating and maintaining the content. In these cases, we will view the business or organization as responsible for the content on every single page, as well as maintenance of the website. High quality large news websites are frequently updated, often adding news articles many times a day. High quality medical advice websites keep all of their informational pages current. Other websites, such as websites for small businesses, may be updated less frequently since addresses and store hours rarely change. How frequently a website should be updated depends on its purpose. However, all High quality websites are well cared for, maintained, and updated appropriately.

How to combat? Maintenance! “Abandoned” Outdated information Hacked/Malware Out-of-date WordPress Comments/Forums unmoderated Links to/from Abandoned sites How to combat? Maintenance!

“Modern Browsers” To administrate a WordPress site you must use: Google Chrome Firefox (Mozilla) Safari (Mac Users)

Maintenance = Security WordPress Maintenance WordPress Files Theme Files Plugins (Weekly) User IDs - Bloggers & “Admin” (Monthly) Comment Moderation (Weekly) Maintenance = Security

User Levels Subscriber - lowest level Administrator - highest level Editor Author Contributor

WordPress Updates Leave this to the pros!

WordPress Security WordPress installations were out-of-date 55% of the time (www.sucuri.net) Top three plugin vulnerabilities contributing to 22% of WordPress site hacks (www.sucuri.net) Programming Hours to clean up website after Malware attack.

Disaster Recovery Two Parts - Template files & Your Database Check with your Webhost - how often do you backup? Do you login with “Admin” password = “password123”? Cybervise - If we built, we have a copy on our server. Admins - You can backup your content!

Backup Your Content From the Dashboard - Tools >>Export

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