Updating WordPress

  • Forum,
    My website was created by a pro designer / creator, however he is not longer available to provide support for general issues like this.
    The note from WordPress is “WordPress 5.4.1 is available please update now”, in fact it say there are 9 updates available. I am no tech master and my past experiences with tech “updates” is bad bad and bad.
    What be the likely result of updating? Not sure what Version I have it moved from Joomala to WordPress in 2016.
    I may be missing out on some advantageous functionality … but at the risk of the whole thing falling in to a heap of junk … I am not will to take the risk with some further information of what might happen and how to prevent it.
    Thanks
    BC

    • This topic was modified 4 years, 5 months ago by Jan Dembowski.
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  • Hi @bobinaust ,

    If you started website in 2016 and never updated it after that, then I will suggest not to update straight away on the live site. I will recommend to clone the current instance on a staging site or on a local server and then run the update that you have. You can check if there is anything broken.

    Since 2016, there have been huge updates released in WP regarding the editors etc. so there are high chances of things getting broken.

    Also, please ask your designer / creator that if any core changes are made by them to achieve the desired functionality. If yes, then ask what changes are they because once you update the WP, core changes are bound to lost.

    Please let me know if you get any query further.

    Let me know your response on this!

    It will definitely break your site if you update.
    Theme files, Plugin files also need to be updated.
    As @ketanvyawahare said, make a copy of your site, update there.
    My suggestion will be check your Theme Update and Plugin update first…. update them. Than Update the core WP.

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