With themes, plugins and WordPress, itself, constantly being updated, it’s hard to keep your sites updated, especially if you have several. But keeping on top of the changes to these backbone components of your site is critical to your: 1. Security: New fixes often remove vulnerabilities 2. Bug-free operation: All business software has bugs. In a WordPress site you use code written by many programmers who have little or no communication with each other. There are bound to be problems. Software updates are needed to correct them. But you also have another motivation. You want control of your... [...]

The more websites you have the more you need automation to keep from being overwhelmed by work. By the time you are managing five sites, it gets unwieldy, and soon thereafter, it gets impossible for one person to do the management. WordPress makes it a bit easier to actually automate your sites. The majority of the software on your various sites starts off identical. The same base WordPress code, the same All-in-One or Yoast plugin, and a selection of other plugins that you find helpful. About the only differences you would want are the graphics and the text. When a new version of WP or a theme... [...]