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Hi, I hired someone to customize a theme. Now they say I can’t update WordPress or the plugins by myself as it will delete all their work. That’s why I need to hire them every 6 months to take care of it (USD 450).
Is that how it works?
No that’s not how it works. Sorry, but you hired an idiot. Let me guess – Fiverr?
Not necesary.
It would be necessary to check if the page uses child theme, and if the plugins that one uses are susceptible to damaging something on the website, there are few plugins that can damage something.
Could do You post a list of updates availables and a website URL
Codeable is the only place I hire devs these days. Fantastic.
Doesn’t make sense. They’re either lying or they did something dumb.
No, this is not “how it works”. There may be customers who don’t want to bother – and are therefore happy if you make them the offer “Hey, I’ll take care of updates and maintenance” for a fixed price per year.
However, many customers do this themselves without any problems and at no additional cost.
Every actual WordPress developer knows, you NEVER make changes to a theme or plugin directly, which is undoubtedly what this developer has done. It’s much easier to do it that way if you don’t understand WordPress properly, but the changes disappear on every update, so it’s simply not a solution at all.
Don’t use their services again.
Most likely they used nulled plugins which cannot be updated automatically
Locking a client into one’s services certainly seems standard practice among *some* web developers.
The way your developer tries to lock you in is most definitely *not* standard practice and is in fact a security risk; you do not want to have your plug-ins and themes updated merely whenever your developer happens to have the time, but when it has become necessary.