{"id":204,"date":"2018-09-21T15:18:44","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T15:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hostingahead.com\/blog\/?p=204"},"modified":"2024-06-03T11:52:07","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T11:52:07","slug":"importance-of-updating-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostingahead.com\/blog\/importance-of-updating-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"The importance of updating WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We see that millions of wordpress websites hacked often and all these are mainly becase of simply ignoring the updates.\u00a0 We strongly advise you to update your WordPress and all plugins to the latest version as soon as it is available.<\/p>\n<p>Best practices to keep a wordpress website secure<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Start with latest version<\/li>\n<li>Install only required plugins<\/li>\n<li>Delete all unused plugins<\/li>\n<li>Delete all unused themes<\/li>\n<li>Use htaccess rules to block spiders and attacks<\/li>\n<li>Use security plugin and rename wp-admin<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostingahead.com\/contact?subject=Wordpress%20update&amp;message=Please%20explain%20your%20requirements\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Consult with a hosting expert <\/a><\/h1>\n<p><strong>Please see the release notes of various versions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Version 4.9.8<\/strong> addressed 46 bugs.For more information, see <a href=\"https:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/Version_4.9.8\">the release notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Version 4.9.7<\/strong> addressed some security issues and fixed 17 bugs. For more information, see <a href=\"https:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/Version_4.9.7\">the release notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Version 4.9.6<\/strong> addressed 18 bugs. For more information, see <a href=\"https:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/Version_4.9.6\">the release notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Version 4.9.5<\/strong> addressed some security issues and fixed 28 bugs. For more information, see <a href=\"https:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/Version_4.9.5\">the release notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Version 4.9.4<\/strong> addressed 1 bug. For more information, see <a href=\"https:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/Version_4.9.4\">the release notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Version 4.9.3<\/strong> addressed 34 bugs. For more information, see <a href=\"https:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/Version_4.9.3\">the release notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Version 4.9.2<\/strong> addressed some security issues and fixed 22 bugs. For more information, see <a href=\"https:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/Version_4.9.2\">the release notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Version 4.9.1<\/strong> addressed some security issues and fixed 11 bugs. For more information, see <a href=\"https:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/Version_4.9.1\">the release notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Latest details can be found here <a href=\"https:\/\/wpscan.com\/wordpresses\/\">https:\/\/wpscan.com\/wordpresses\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We see that millions of wordpress websites hacked often and all these are mainly becase of simply ignoring the updates.\u00a0 We strongly advise you to update your WordPress and all plugins to the latest version as soon as it is available. Best practices to keep a wordpress website secure Start with latest version Install only &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101012,"featured_media":210,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9,40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostingahead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostingahead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostingahead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostingahead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101012"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostingahead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostingahead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":397,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostingahead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions\/397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostingahead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostingahead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostingahead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostingahead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}