WP Maintenance Tips
2 min readJun 15, 2021
Wordpress Websites are clearly the world leader for your business website. WordPress holds a 64% market share for content management systems on websites with a known CMS.
There are top 10 website maintenance tasks that you need to do right now.
- Check the speed and loading time of your website. Go Here
- https://developers.google.com/speed/pagesspeed/insights/
- Check the mobility of your website. Make sure it looks good on iPhones, iPads etc.
- Use a Backup of your website by using a WP Plugn in. Go Here
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/backwpup
- Monitor your WP Website’s security by installing this WP Plugin
- https://www.wordpress.org/plugins/sucuri-scanner/
- Be sure to bring your older content up to date by reviewing it and updating and repurposing it.
- Make sure your images and other media files, on the server, are optimized and the smallest files they can be. I use this WP Plug in Smushit. Get it here:
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-smushit/
- Check your site for comments, junk media files and spam. Then trash it if you find any immediately.
- Weekly make sure your Wordpress, Themes, Plugins and widgets are all up to date.
- De-activate and remove any unnecessary WP Plugins and themes you no longer use.
- Use your Web Hosting Resources to avoid any site downtime.
There are many more and the Plog Post where you can learn more and see the infographic with 50 tips can be found here There are top 10 website maintenance tasks that you need to do right now.
- Check the speed and loading time of your website. Go Here
- https://developers.google.com/speed/pagesspeed/insights/
- Check the mobility of your website. Make sure it looks good on iPhones, iPads etc.
- Use a Backup of your website by using a WP Plugn in. Go Here
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/backwpup
- Monitor your WP Website’s security by installing this WP Plugin
- https://www.wordpress.org/plugins/sucuri-scanner/
- Be sure to bring your older content up to date by reviewing it and updating and repurposing it.
- Make sure your images and other media files, on the server, are optimized and the smallest files they can be. I use this WP Plug in Smushit. Get it here:
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-smushit/
- Check your site for comments, junk media files and spam. Then trash it if you find any immediately.
- Weekly make sure your Wordpress, Themes, Plugins and widgets are all up to date.
- De-activate and remove any unnecessary WP Plugins and themes you no longer use.
- Use your Web Hosting Resources to avoid any site downtime.
There are many more and the Infographic with 50 tips can be found on my blog post https://carlenekelsey.biz/wordpress-maintenance-tips/
