WordPress it’s brilliant website platform that makes people’s life much easier. It’s a really easy to use and flexible system. Sometimes it can be a huge headache!
In the past 9 years I saw a lot of WordPress websites. Surprising large number of the websites are NOT updated regularly. No wonder why over 30000 websites are hacked every single day!
That’s a scary number! Personally I don’t want my website be among them. How about you?
The reason why so many people use WordPress and not something else
WordPress is the most popular content management system (CMS) in the World. It has almost 70% market share (CMS Market Share). Not surprisingly as it is really easy to use and extremely flexible.
The #1 choice of digital marketers, SEO experts, website builders, bloggers, businesses, etc.
There’s an amazing team behind WordPress that constantly working on to improve the system, fix issues and make it more secure.
They regularly release these updates to make the foundation of your website better and more secure.
A WordPress website is like a car
When I talked to many WordPress website owners and asked them “Do you update your website regularly?” they replied like…
- Do what???
- I didn’t know I need to do that.
- I don’t know how to do it.
- Why do I have to update my website?
- I updated a few times, but there were issues and I stopped doing it.
- Don’t have time to do that!
- The kid who built it didn’t say I need to do that.
- My developer was supposed to do that, but he disappeared months ago.
- … and so on.
I don’t judge them for this. A website is just like a car for most people. We don’t care how the car works, what’s under the hood, who created the screws in the rear left tyre. Most of us just want to jump into it and go.
A website is just like a car, most people want to have it, use it and not worry about how it works, what’s behind the beautiful design and who wrote that weird thingy on the 231st line of the code.
Understandably you want to enjoy the benefits of your website without any hassle. Am I right?
At 47 Links we believe it’s our responsibility to educate website owners. Just like a car, a website needs to be maintained as well.
Things are changing much faster in the universe of the Internet than in the physical World. It means your WordPress website has to maintained more regularly than your car.
WordPress websites need to be maintained regularly
The updates that the WordPress team release include crucial security updates as well.
If your website is not updated at least once a month you’re risking it every day to be among the over 30000 websites that are hacked!
“My website is small, cyber criminals have no reason to target me”, I heard this sentence soooo many times. Unfortunately it’s a huge misconception.
The fact, cyber criminals have automated programs scanning the web for vulnerable websites. These programs don’t care about if your website is small or massive, new or old, blog or online shop, personal or business, they use EVERY vulnerability to spread their malicious code.
The £1000+ headache
A few months ago, on a sunny Thursday evening I was talking to a lady on a networking event. She told me story about what happened with her website.
She told me a conversation between her and a new web development company. Her voice got frustrated even when she was telling me the story:
- Lady: Hi, I’m looking for Sam. {the guy had a different name, but will keep it confidential}
- Sam: Hi, it’s me. How can I help?
- Lady: I got you phone number from XYZ. We have a huge issue with our website. It was hacked and it has not been working for 2 weeks. How quickly you can fix it?
- Sam: Sorry to hear that. We gladly help you to fix your website ASAP. Unfortunately I can’t tell you how quickly as we haven’t see your website and how big the issue is yet. Our goal is to sort it out for you ASAP.
- Lady: Ok. But how much will it cost?
- Sam: Please let us see how big is the issue before I say anything about the timing and costs. Let me ask you a few questions.
- … {the guy asked questions from her, explained her what they need from her, what would happen, their hourly rate, etc.} …
They checked out the website and called her back.
- …
- Sam: … We looked at your website and can start working on it right away. As it’s impossible to tell in advance how much time it will exactly take to fix it, I only can give you a ballpark figure: £500-2000
- Lady: {HUGE silence}
- Sam: Sorry. Are you still there?
- Lady: That’s a lot!
- Sam: I can understand you feel it’s a lot of money. It’s a lot work to fix your website. Would you like us to carry out the work?
- Lady: {after a little thinking} Yes. Our website can’t be like this longer.
- …
One of the things they spotted quite quickly her website was out of date. It wasn’t updated since it had been built.
After a lot of hassle, headaches and stress on both sides they fixed her website.
She ended up paying over £1000 to get her website fixed. She was really frustrated. Would you be too?
And that wasn’t her only cost, she had to spend her valuable time with dealing with the hacked website instead of serving her clients and making money.
Her company’s credibility was also damaged as her website was spreading malicious code for days before it was shut down.
They lost potential clients as well because her website wasn’t available for about 2 weeks.
If your website gets hacked that is going to cause you a massive headache, a lot stress and losing money.
How to avoid the headaches and stress
Keeping your WordPress website up to date is one of the key principles to protect your website and avoid these headaches.
Other key principles are to use secure hosting provider, use strong passwords and keep them secure, keep your computer secure, etc.
We know how difficult and stressful it is to keep your WordPress website up to date.
Especially based on our experience, as the WordPress, the plugins and the themes are developed by different people sometimes there are technical issues/incompatibilities after the security updates.
2 months ago an update messed up our website. It took a few hours to fix it even with our strong technical experience.
Would you be excited if we would take away all the hassle, stress and headaches related to the security updates from you?
We do this for you through our WordPress security maintenance service.
Once a month we update your WordPress website to keep it safe and secure. After the updates we test your websites and fix the technical issues related to the security updates. We make the whole process stress-free for you.
Contact us NOW and book a FREE consultation to find out more (no strings attached): +447427635882 or info@47links.com