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Manually update plugins and themes

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Manually update plugins and themes

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- [Instructor] One of the main challenges raised when discussing offline intranet sites during my interviews for this course was the task of keeping plugins and themes up to date. This is important, because most plugin and theme updates contain bug fixes, new features, and most importantly, security fixes, so keeping your plugins and themes up to date, even on an offline intranet site, is vital to keeping the site and its contents and its users secure. The challenge is, keeping everything up to date requires not only manually updating the plugins and themes anytime a new version comes up, but also keeping tabs on what plugins and themes are up to date, and what plugins and themes have new versions available. More than one person told me about sites with plugins and themes and even WordPress itself running several versions behind, and this causing serious problems. So how do you keep track of what plugins and themes need updating…

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