
In my WordPress developer career, I’ve been asked many times about the best practices for safely updating WordPress core, plugins, and themes, especially when it comes to a site that can’t afford to have any downtime.
There are several update strategies to consider. I’ll go over them here. It’s really all up to the client’s risk tolerance vs. their willingness to pay for extra maintenance work.
But, with my WordPress update strategies, you should be able to perform updates the safe way without too much extra effort.
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