Create a Monthly Maintenance Plan for Your WordPress Site
Posted by Jake Cohen

 

 

Creating a monthly maintenance plan for your WordPress sites requires organizing the tasks you perform on a daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly basis into a few main categories; Backups, WordPress Core Updates, Plugin Maintenance, Theme Maintenance, Overall Site Health and Content Health.

WordPress Backups
WordPress backups should be performed on a regular basis. Daily is optimal. Weekly is good, but monthly is the longest you should wait to back up a site.

 

WordPress updates
Updates are difficult to fit into a predefined schedule, especially WordPress core updates. WordPress core updates have happened infrequently in the past. However, they have been getting more and more frequent in the past couple of years, so it may be a good idea for you to designate one day out of the month to check for and apply WordPress updates to all of the sites you manage.

Plugins Updates
WordPress suggests checking for and applying updates to plugins every 3 to 6 months. However, as a WordPress developer, you likely realize how poor this advice can be for WordPress sites that must function properly on a daily basis.

Theme Maintenance
Your schedule and tasks for theme updates should look nearly identical to the schedule and tasks you perform for plugin updates. This means you should check for new theme updates using the same schedule you use to check for plugin updates, assuming you’re using a theme from a third-party developer.

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