Keep your WordPress website healthy with a maintenance plan

WordPress is a very nice and widely used CSM. It is relatively easy to use and with a few clicks, you can be online. With thousands of themes and plugins to choose from, you only have to create content. That is the story that is often being told. It is also the story that sells best. And it is true. It is just half the truth.
Your website needs maintenance!
To keep your WordPress website functioning well, you have to maintain it. Maintenance is not just publishing new content every once in a while. The maintenance this article is about is done “under the hood”. That is where all the work is done to make your content look great on the internet.
The WordPress software, the theme, the plugins, the database, they all need maintenance. And they need to be kept safe! And need to be backed up.
Why is maintenance necessary?
Not just the content of your website changes and grows. All the software changes too. It gets better, faster, safer. But not by itself! As the owner of your website, you need to get your hands “dirty” and work under the hood on a regular basis.
WordPress gets updated regularly, as you probably know. A new version, and in between versions also updates,
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