Update Your WordPress

Posted by Crispee | March 11, 2010 |

I have many ongoing clients whose websites I occasionally need to get into, and for WordPress sites—the #1 thing I see when I go in is a WordPress version that is many revisions out of date, and almost every plugin needing updating.

That numeral shows how many plugins are out of date.

This is a problem, but usually not the thing that is going to cause the site to not function or function better after updating. Most plugin updates are fairly minor but some are very important.

WordPress updates however should be done either immediately if it is an dot.dot release or wait a week or so if it is a major release (or wait for the .1 increment to come out.)  The increments are usually bug fixes or security patches. Look at the release notes or the blog post in your dashboard.