Healthy Sites like Updates

Your site is important. It has visitors, customers, and all sorts of people who use it on a daily basis. We at AppThemes know that, and we care about your site. Here are some tips on how to keep your site safe and secure, as well as loaded with all the newest features and fixes.

Update Often

The easiest and most important way to keep your site safe and secure is update your themes, your plugins, and even your WordPress Installation. Not sure how to do that? We’ll help you out:

• Updating WordPress
  WordPress is the core of your site, the building blocks on which everything else is formed. You wouldn’t live in a house that has cracks in its foundation would you? Neither would we. By updating WordPress, you get new features, fixes to various problems, as well as a more secure and safe version of WordPress!
• Updating Themes
  If WordPress is the foundation of your site, themes are the building. Your theme controls how your site looks and (when using AppThemes) works. Keeping your themes up to date is just as important as updating WordPress itself.
• Updating Plugins
  Plugins are awesome! They let you modify your site in awesome ways and let you make your site do whatever you want it to do. But with all this functionality, bugs, security flaws, and other nasty things can find their way into your site. Keeping your plugins up to date plugs all those holes and keeps you with the best and most awesome site possible.

Keep Informed

The second step to making sure your site is safe and secure it to be aware of what is happening. As users and developers discover problems, it is important to know about them and decide if they affect your site. Here are some ways to keep informed:

• AppThemes Support Forums
  For AppThemes Customers, you can look in our Support Forums for help concerning our themes, plugins and more. You can find bugs, fixes, as well as tutorials on how to do cool stuff with your themes and plugins. Check it out.
• WordPress Plugin Repository
  If you downloaded plugins from the official WordPress Plugin Repository, you can check on a plugins information page for info about known bugs. You can also look in that plugin’s specific support forum and see if anyone is experiencing the same problem.
• WordPress Theme Repository
  Not using an AppTheme theme? If you downloaded a theme from the official WordPress Theme Repository, you can check on the theme’s page and support forum for known bugs and fixes. You can even submit your own bug!