Tips of successfully updating your wordpress site

Updating wordpress site successfully requires abit of understanding on how wordpress is structured. This will help you consider all the factors when updating your wordpress site.

While you can update your wordpress site at the backend by a click of a button, it's good to be sure  of what you are doing to prevent loosing your website. It involves a couple of things:-

1. PHP version

You must make sure that the php version is compatible with your wordpress version. This can be checked on wordpress versions page on wordpress site and the minimum requirements to update a certain version of wordpress.

2. Themes installed

You must make sure your theme supports the version of the wordpress you are going to upgrade to.

3. Plugins installed.

You must make sure the plugins you are using supports the version you are upgrading to. These can be identified either from the plugin website or wordpress plugins page by searching for the specific plugins and checking the wordpress version it's compatible with.

After doing all the above you can now attempt updating your website version.

While its possible  to have a successful  update without crashing your website it's difficult to pin point a specific  reason as to why a site may break hence the reason why one should follow the following steps.

Steps of updating your wordpress website 

Steps 1: Before you update take a back up of your current website so that incase it breaks the website you can have something to revert to, Sino Soft web hosting has a free Jetbackup Solution.

See also: Code Guard

Step 2: Start by updating  wordpress then check if website is still up and running smoothly.

Step 3: Update the theme , if you have a paid theme and it's not within your support period you may need to subscribe again in order to have access to the update files.

Step 3: Update each plugin one by one and check if the website is still up and running smoothly.

If the all the above steps are followed then the chance of successful upgrade is high. Though incase of a failure you can easily revert back to your old website and seek technical support from a web developer.

Hope this article gives you an overview of how to successfully update your wordpress site.