A WordPress maintenance plan should include five things at minimum: monitored updates applied on a staging copy, off-site backups that are tested by restoring them, uptime and error monitoring with someone who responds, security hardening with malware scanning, and a...
A working WordPress backup strategy has four parts: back up both files and database, run it on a frequency matched to how often your site changes, store copies off-site in a location separate from your hosting account, and test a restore on a schedule. Miss the last...
Here is why WordPress sites slow down: nothing breaks all at once. Plugins pile up, the database fills with records nobody deletes, images get uploaded at full camera resolution, the PHP version falls behind, and the caching that was set up at launch quietly stops...