The document outlines three essential steps for maintaining and cleansing a WordPress site, emphasizing the importance of backing up the website before initiating cleaning. It covers removing unnecessary elements, fixing 404 errors using plugins, cleaning the database, updating WordPress core, themes, and plugins, and tightening security measures. The guidance includes utilizing tools and expert advice to optimize performance and enhance security while keeping the website up-to-date.

1. 3 Steps to
Maintain &
Cleanse your
WordPress site

2. o Just like your room and wardrobe, even
your website needs cleaning and brushing
up every now and then.
o The idea is that once you have create
something, you have to prepare to
maintain it as well.
o I know that WordPress offers the most
user friendly websites but the need to
recreate a website that helps in making a
more elaborate effort to understand the
most definite set of instructions.

3. o But before we start! Backup your
website! Do not proceed with
cleaning without creating a backup
o I repeat ‘Create Back-up before you
initiate cleaning process!

4. Remove Unnecessary Elements
Upgrade
Secure it

5. Remove Unnecessary
Elements
o When you have a website since a
long time, there are possibilities
that much spam is accumulated.
o Also, you may find unwanted post
revision or unused metadata, 404
errors etc.

6. Remove Unnecessary
Elements
o They take up the space of your
server and bloat querying times.
o This kind of spam chunk can
affect your SEO ratings. You can
remove all these elements by
following the given steps.

7. Fix 404 Errors
o For this, get a plugin called
Broken Link Checker. Run the
diagnostics on your website to
look for dead URLs.
o When you use the plugin, you will
get an option to fix, remove or
redirect these URLs.

8. Fix 404 Errors
o Select the suited option and lead
them somewhere or simply
remove it. This will optimize your
website and also lead to better
user experience.

9. Cleaning up Database
o Integrate WordPress DBManager.
This will help you in cleaning and
do the necessary repairs to your
wordpress website.
o Many wordpress developers
generally use this to optimize the
databse. Then, backup your
database and set a schedule
according to your maintenance
plan.

10. Delete Spam
o Use a plugin like Akismet or WP
SpamShield Antispam that will
help you clean the spam of your
wordpress site. You can delete the
currently spammed comments
from your database by running
jquery through phpMyAdmin:
DELETE FROM wp_comments WHERE comment_approved = ‘spam’

11. Upgrade
o As WordPress has a large
community of WordPress
developers, the core of WordPress
always receives a lot of updates,
error patches and fixes. Once you
are set out to repair your website,
it is important that you
incorporate updating as a part of
it.

12. Upgrade
o When you stay updates, you have
better security and also new
features that make the
performance of your website
better. Here, it is not just
important to update your core but
also the plugins that you may
have integrated or the theme that
you may have used while
developing the website.

13. Upgrade
o When Ask WordPress
Development Specialist in order
to gain further understanding.

14. Technology Core
o Upgrade to the latest version of
WordPress technology. Ask
WordPress Development Expert to
help you migrate to WordPress
4.5 the current version for better
security and latest features.
o Visit the official website
www.wordpress.org for major
updates.

15. Website Themes
o It is high possibility that the
theme you selected long ago has
a new version and you have not
upgraded to it.
o In this case, you may be losing on
much like aspects of look and feel
and the perks of the newly
introduced version by the author
your WordPress theme.

16. Website Themes
o So here, all you need to do is
change the appearance
modification that you have done
to the theme and then save it in
child theme. After that, simply
upgrade as your theme author
directs you to upgrade.

17. Website Plugins
o This is something very important.
Today, due to the requirements of
a website, the use of plugins has
largely increased. So even
upgrading these plugins can be
major task.
o Use tools to know about the new
and latest upgrades of the plugins
that you are using. So you keep
updating them time and again.

18. Website Plugins
o When you are cleaning, make sure
you start with uninstalling all
those plugins or widgets that you
are no longer using.
o Then update the ones that you are
using one by one. Do not update
all your plugins at once.

19. Website Plugins
o I suggest Outsourcing
WordPress development for
such cleaning or maintenance
processes so you do not
encounter any problems.

20. Secure it
o When you are following this
process, the part of the plan must
also include tightening security.
o As it may be the case where you
have a wordpress website
which has been there for long and
no measure are taken seriously on
the security level.
o Here is what you can do.

21. Secure it
o Obviously you run security scans
through trusted security plugins.
o But once you are done with all of
that, remove and clean all the
malicious activities in the scan
results and make sure you block
the IP address of its origin.

22. Secure it
o You can change the settings of the
wp-config.php or function.php for
enhancing security. You can also
use tools or extra layers of
protection to tighten the security
of your website. Make sure you
choose tough passwords.
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