{"id":1081,"date":"2024-07-01T09:45:14","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T09:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webleaps.com\/blog\/?p=1081"},"modified":"2024-06-30T12:10:33","modified_gmt":"2024-06-30T12:10:33","slug":"how-important-are-wordpress-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webleaps.com\/blog\/wordpress\/how-important-are-wordpress-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"How important are WordPress Updates?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you know that if you have a WordPress website that it needs to be updated regularly? It may seem pretty obvious, but we have encountered many websites that were built and then never maintained. In the same way that your phone has software updates and app updates, including important security updates, your WordPress website has similar updates.<\/p>\n<p>From the WordPress core, to themes, to plugins, keeping these files up to date reduces errors, risks, and vulnerabilities that can lead to your site being hacked.<\/p>\n<p>At WebLeaps, WordPress websites that we host are always regularly updated for both feature updates as well as important security updates.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1082\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webleaps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/webleaps-6-29-20241-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.webleaps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/webleaps-6-29-20241-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.webleaps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/webleaps-6-29-20241-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.webleaps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/webleaps-6-29-20241-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.webleaps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/webleaps-6-29-20241-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.webleaps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/webleaps-6-29-20241-240x240.png 240w, https:\/\/www.webleaps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/webleaps-6-29-20241.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you know that if you have a WordPress website that it needs to be updated regularly? It may seem pretty obvious, but we have encountered many websites that were built and then never maintained. In the same way that your phone has software updates and app updates, including important security updates, your WordPress website [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1082,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[386],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webleaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webleaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webleaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webleaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webleaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.webleaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1083,"href":"https:\/\/www.webleaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions\/1083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webleaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webleaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webleaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webleaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}