1. Web Maintenance with WordPress
Presented by Cybervise

2. 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.

3. 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Outdated information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Out-of-date WordPress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!

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

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

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

7. WordPress Updates
Leave this to the pros!

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WordPress installations were out-of-date 55% of the time (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

9. 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!

10. Backup Your Content
From the Dashboard - Tools >>Export

11. Carmen Krupar, Cybervise
Questions?
Thanks for coming!
Carmen Krupar, Cybervise