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Defective Plugin Takes Down Website

It happened again this morning. If you are reading this post it has probably happened to you.

The WordPress dashboard says there is a new version of one of your plugins. You click on that “update now” link. Within seconds, your website is a pile of smoking rubble.  When it happened to me this morning the above illustration was what I saw on the monitor instead of the website.

This is exactly why we perform all updates on a sandbox copy of the client’s website instead of the live website.

Because we did the update on the sandbox copy, the client’s live website never went down. And because we do our own nightly backups, it was easy to retrieve the previous version of the plugin and re-install it on the sandbox, getting the sandbox back up and running.

This is one of the benefits of hiring a professional company to manage, support, and secure your website.

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