{"id":7170,"date":"2022-04-09T00:13:30","date_gmt":"2022-04-09T00:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gmedia.la\/?p=7170"},"modified":"2022-04-09T00:14:27","modified_gmt":"2022-04-09T00:14:27","slug":"tips-for-woocommerce-maintenance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gmedia.la\/en\/tips-for-woocommerce-maintenance\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips for WooCommerce Maintenance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">WooCommerce has grown exponentially and, today, it is the most popular eCommerce platform. It is highly customizable and versatile, which has added up to more than 5000 million installations across the globe.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The WooCommerce team maintains the platform with updates for the plugin every now and then. But this is just the beginning. The maintenance stage for your store will require some information. Here\u2019s our guide to help you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><b>Before starting WooCommerce Maintenance<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some tips before going into the waters of maintaining your WooCommerce site are:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Make a list of everything you would need to change, including product descriptions and images.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Make sure you have all the latest information at hand, such as the descriptions, pictures, prices, etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Back up the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmedia.la\/how-to-improve-customer-experience-in-your-ecommerce\/\">eCommerce<\/a> website in order to keep the data safe.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><b>Getting started with the maintenance\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are critical steps during the maintenance:<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1. Enable maintenance mode<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To do this, just put your site into \u201cMaintenance mode\u201d. You can choose whether the whole website will be restricted or only selected pages that you will maintain.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2. Run the updates<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are two ways here: you can either run automated updates or manual updates. When using automated updates, you would not have to worry about securing the information and extra workload as everything runs in the background.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you decide to run manual updates, the steps to follow are:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Update WordPress core.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Renovate the WooCommerce plugin and later the store theme.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">3. Update the website information<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Make sure to update the details on your website such as product information, product inventory, categories, images, and descriptions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">4. Improve the server\u2019s security<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once you have secured the product&#8217;s data and updated everything, you must store sensitive information about the customers and, of course, your products. To secure everything, you need a security plugin that can detect and remove malware on your website and keep you informed in case there is a security breach.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">5. Configure the daily backups<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daily backups are crucial to keep the data safe and to reduce any risk of losing content. Having a daily backup is great to avoid losing data like sales orders and customer information, aspects that you most likely acquire every day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">6. Test the site<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To make sure the maintenance process worked fine, you should test the site with the following steps:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Check that the updates are working properly.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Make sure the front page looks polished and there are no visual errors.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Run a test order and use a WooCommerce maintenance tool to evaluate if everything is loading correctly.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Login with a customer account to test your eCommerce site and ensure it works as it should.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The final step is to switch your WooCommerce out of maintenance mode.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do you want a great team for your WooCommerce maintenance? We are your team. 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