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Monitoring site health

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Monitoring site health

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- [Instructor] An essential part of site administration is being aware of the health of the site. And as of WordPress 5.2, there is a dedicated Site Health panel in WordPress Admin, giving you a full breakdown of the health of both the site itself and the server environment it lives in. That panel is found under Tools, and Site Health. From here, you get the current status of your site, giving the site a score from zero to 100, in my case, (mumbles) 60%, and providing lists of critical issues, recommended improvements, and also past tests. Each of these sections can be further broken down so you can see exactly what is being flagged. So for example, on this demo site I have set up here, I have some critical issues. You can see WP_AUTO_UPDATE_CORE has been disabled on the site. I think this is because this particular site is using an external management tool to manage updates, but if you see this, you probably need to do…

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