Important Dates to
Maintain your WordPress Website

You still have responsibilities for your website after it’s online and alive.

Annually:
- First, and foremost, track your domain name renewal.
  - Set up auto-renew if possible.
  - If this lapses then a competitor may snatch the name away from you.
  - A reminder is even more important if you renew your domains in 5- to 10-year intervals. (Renewing your domain for multiple years is a good idea.)
Annually, quarterly, or monthly:
- Pay your web hosting bill. This is usually done automatically.
As Needed:
- When your credit card expires, be sure to update the renewal days for domain registrar and web hosting copanies.
- Or, if you close that card, be sure to add a replacement card.
Weekly:
- Change something on your website to encourage search engines to revisit and review your work.
- Suggestions:
  - Add a blog under your “about” tab
  - Change a sentence or two on your home page
- Visit your site and run through all the pages and links.
- Review Google Analytics to learn about visitors and page views.
Daily:
- Install WordPress updates for plugins and themes.
  - Depending on the size, content and revenue generation you may want to create guidelines for making changes. Best practices for a site that generates revenue includes making a backup before updating anything.

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