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Website care: updates, plugins, and PHP versions
How small business sites get owned, and a maintenance rhythm that prevents most of it.
Most compromised small-business sites are not genius zero-days. They are outdated plugins, abandoned themes, and PHP versions nobody wanted to touch.
Monthly care
- Update CMS, plugins, and themes after a quick staging check
- Remove unused plugins entirely
- Keep PHP on a supported version your host still patches
- Confirm offsite backups restore
After a major CMS security release
Verify production actually updated. Auto-update is not a guarantee on every host.
Qutzl offers website care plans if you would rather not babysit updates. Contact us.