15. Maintaining WordPress Sites

In This Chapter

• How to update WordPress, plugins, and themes

• Backing up and maintaining your database

• Backing up the rest of your WordPress files

Remember in Chapter 2, “What WordPress Is and How It Works,” that one of the main differences between WordPress.com and self-hosted WordPress.org sites is that when you self-host, you need to keep WordPress, your plugins, and your themes updated. If you got this far with easy installs of WordPress, plugins, and themes, you’re in good shape. There isn’t, believe it or not, anything new to learn, really. Just watch for the indicators that you have updates waiting, run the update, and you’re done. Updates, though, are only part of the responsibility of self-hosting ...

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