From the course: WordPress 5 Essential Training: Site Administration
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Keep WordPress up-to-date - WordPress Tutorial
From the course: WordPress 5 Essential Training: Site Administration
Keep WordPress up-to-date
- [Instructor] WordPress is a software application under constant development. That means one of your jobs as a site owner or an administrator is to keep WordPress itself and any plugins and themes you have installed updated at all times. The most important reasons for this are to get the latest security updates and to get the latest features. WordPress itself, also called WordPress Core, will auto-update any time a security patch is released. When a new major version of WordPress ships like 4.1 or 4.2 or 5.1 or 5.2, you will have to manually update the application unless your host provider does it for you or you use a service that keeps your installation up to date. That's because these major versions usually include some feature changes that you need to be aware of before you make that update. But like I said any security patches or anything else auto updates into your site without having to do anything. To show you how all this works I am using my locally installed demo site…
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