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I use my website and a plugin and they’re both crucial for my work. They’ve worked fine for two years and I think my site and my plugin both update automatically. However I keep thinking “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it” and I’m worried an update some day will mess things up. Should I keep auto updating the website and the plugin or should I disable updates for one or both of these to ensure they keep working and that an update doesn’t break stuff?
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What? No.
Software is always improving. The WordPress platform keeps evolving and with that inevitably comes updates.
If you don’t want to get hacked simple create a static website. Or use WordPress on your local host and use a static converter to upload the site you’re working on.
Always update your WordPress core, theme and plugins as well as your Webhost version of PHP. if you don’t you’ll get hacked.
Well, I would prefer to keep all automatic updates enabled and better do a scheduled backup of the whole WordPress. Updated components will help to get rid of security risks.
In my experience with about 5 wordpress installations (using very different themes and plugins) this works quite well. Mostly a restoration of a backup was only necessary after a client wanted to fiddle in the backend himself 🙂
You should create a staging site on a subdomain, copy your site there and test the updates there. If something breaks, then your live site is still in tact while you sort out the issues on the staging site.
Yes. Set up a staging server, install and test all updates, then push to live when ready.
Disabling updates is fine… but do not forget to run them regularly. Personally, I disable them on all
my live websites because I’ve had things break on updates before. I run them manually every 10 days or so.