Maintaining WordPress sites

The process of maintaining sites is another problematic area in WordPress development. Many sites are built by non-technical clients without a developer, and hence they are not aware of the regular tasks in order to maintain the site. Once an issue is occurred, these clients looks for developers to fix them without having the necessary processes and resources. So, as a developer, it's important to keep the site maintainable and transfer the knowledge on the maintenance process to the client, in case you are no longer working on that site. In this section, we are going to look at the primary tasks for properly maintaining a WordPress site and how to implement these tasks:

Backup files and databases

This is one of the must-do tasks in maintenance, ruled out by many non-technical site owners. WordPress powers over 25 percent of the web and hence the number of attacks on WordPress sites are equally high. So, we need regular backups of files and databases to be used...