5 Dangers Of Not Updating Your WordPress Plugin

5 Dangers Of Not Updating Your WordPress Plugin | LanreNews

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If you own a WordPress website in Nigeria or anywhere in the world, and always disregard updating your site’s plugin, then you need to read this.

Most website owners are careless about their site plugin performance. When reminded to update their WordPress plugins, these are their most common responses.

“My plugin is working fine”

“I don’t need a new update right now”

“I updated my plugin a few months back”

Software developers need to ensure that their apps work well on various types of web and cellular devices.

Considering the fact that they can now check the performance of their plugins on the web, they accumulate records and information from users; and consequently, launch new updates to restore and fix bugs that may have been detected.

Over 70% of WordPress installations have been reported by experts to be vulnerable and that website infections have gotten to an alarming rate of over 90%.

Updating your WordPress plugin is important as dangers of neglecting it can lead to regrettable consequences.

In order to keep you informed, here are 5 dangers of not updating your WordPress plugin.

  1. DATA LOSS
  2. YOUR WEBSITE COULD CRASH
  3. COMPACTIBILITY ISSUES
  4. SLOW PERFORMANCE AND SPEED
  5. DROP IN SEO RANKING

(1) DATA LOSS

When updated plugins are missing on your site, hackers can gain easy access to your site and steal sensitive information through brute force or SQL infection attacks which can lead to loss of vital information such as purchasers order, business mail etc.

This type of data loss can cripple your website and commercial enterprise for weeks or maybe months.

(2) YOUR WEBSITE COULD CRASH

A website crash is effectively the most exceedingly awful result of a hacked website with your landing page showing “webpage not found 404”.

A total website crash ordinarily connotes that a cyber criminal has dealt with your site and has rolled out numerous changes which could take you a while to recover.

This can cause your site to lose all its traffic and lead to trust issues among your clients.

(3) COMPATIBILITY ISSUES

Your WordPress site includes numerous segments. While the centre is created by the WordPress group, subjects and modules are created by a freelance engineer.  

Each of the three components that is the centre, the subject and modules progress through various forms as they are continuously improved.

At the point when the centre is refreshed, engineers of modules change their structure to suit the new update.

Therefore if you are running on an old WordPress application you may notice that certain modules and subjects are not good. This means that there is an impending malfunction.

(4) SLOW PERFORMANCE AND SPEED

This is very common when using an old version of WordPress. It could lead to problems like continuous web page redirection, slow web page, loading and navigation issues.

Out-of-date plugins can lead to an increase in response time of your site thereby causing your website visitors to lose interest.

(5) DROP IN SEO RANKING

Your website performance such as its speed and traffic boost the rankings on search engines like Google.

Slow loading speed on your site can cause a drop in your site traffic which could affect your SEO ranking negatively.

FINAL THOUGHTS

To keep your site safe, it is important to always update your plugins. Regularly updating your plugins holds numerous benefits for you and your website.

Your site will always perform at the optimum level hence improving your site visibility.

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