The first thing that you need to know about web applications is that it is never a Build It and Forget It technology.
Technology evolves. CMSs evolve too. Open Source development is continuous and the applications need to be upgraded often.
What happens with your web application code:
Your WP website is a web application that’s constantly evolving and dynamic
As a result of all this the core application, or CMS, on which your website is built, usually upgrades every month.
Plugins too need to be upgraded, though less often.
Load speed is a must for better ranking by Search Engines.
Best practices require that your website follow these rules:
The extent to which the above is done, or not done, is reflected in your page scores.
You can check the page scores for your website here: http://www.gtmetrix.com, right now.
If your website takes longer than 5 seconds to download, you have a speed optimization problem that could affect your profits seriously.
Page Speed affects your ranking on Google. This is in turn affects your traffic. Traffic in turn affects your profits.
Well, the worst-case-scenario is that you become the target of hackers, malware injections, code vulnerabilities, and other serious performance issues.
Your host may decide to switch your site off if it’s malware infected. Your business could suffer as a result.
What we have also noticed is that if you wait too long to upgrade, then chances are, that your theme may break on the upgrade and conflicts may occur with scripts used.
Often, you might have to write-off the old site and invest in a new one. All this dramatically increases your costs.
The choice you as a website owner has is simple:
At some time, you will be forced to upgrade if you wish to keep the site in good order. Especially if inquiries and leads flow to you from your website.
The recommended practice is to upgrade your WP website once every 3 months if you are serious about your business.
Well, we will manually upgrade all the core application first, and then all the attendant plugins which are used on your website.
The plugin list itself on most WordPress websites is considerable:
Forms, SEO, eStore, Caching & Performance Optimization, Backup, Admin Helpers, Galleries, JQuery scripts, SEO helpers, etc, all may need to be upgraded.
A few premium plugins such as Gravity Forms in WordPress, or Forms/ Caching, will be upgraded at no extra charge.
That would mean more saving from $39 to $120, at no extra charge to you.
Plus, we are happy to add automatic site promotion plugins at no extra costs.
Other premium plugins that are part of your website may have expired and you’d have to renew their license if you wish to continue with the site upgrade.
Usually commercial licenses are valid for just for one year from their date of purchase and we will have to check if any of these can be upgraded for free, or if we have it in our library.
We will also perform Google Page Speed tests on your web application and tweak the application for faster loading.
You will be able to notice a positive difference in page scores/ load times, after this upgrade effort.
Once all this is done in a production environment, we still take the site live and test it all over again.Select premium plugins such as Gravity Forms in WordPress, or Forms/ Caching, will be upgraded at no extra charge.
That would mean savings from $39 to $120, at no extra charge to you.
Plus, we are happy to add automatic site promotion plugins at no extra costs.
Other premium plugins that are part of your website may have expired and you’d have to renew their license if you wish to continue with the site upgrade.
Usually commercial licenses are valid for just for one year from their date of purchase and we will have to check if any of these can be upgraded for free, or if we have it in our library.
We will also perform Google Page Speed tests on your web application and tweak the application for faster loading.
You will notice a positive difference in page scores/ load times, after this upgrade effort.
Once all this done in a production environment, we still take the site live and test it all over again.
The safest method is to
It is therefore not an advisable strategy for site upgrades, especially between upgrade versions.
We discovered a few months ago that the auto site upgrade had made the Case Studies pages one of our websites on Pigtail Pundits disappear completely.
Two, WordPress auto site upgrade is only available for the core, not the plugins.
Often plugins are where the vulnerabilities occur in WordPress and there is no one-click upgrade for that.
Well, from our experience about 15 hours, depending on the problems we encounter during the upgrade and optimization, or $450.
But until 15 November 2019,, we’re happy to do it for a charge of just $249.
That’s 45% off from our normal rates to get your site in purring, Google-loving, hacker-malware-vulnerability-free condition.
Plus, to sweeten the deal, we are throwing in a few premium plugins for which we have Developer licenses. These include site promotion plugins and form plugins.
You can take advantage of this offer till 15 November 2019 only for your sites.
Yes, you can invite your friends too to take advantage of this offer and profit from it.
If you commit and pay before 15 November 2019, we shall give you schedule in advance and stick to it.
If you commit, you can be assured of the rates for site upgrades in November and December 2019 as well.
No, this offer does not include theme upgrades. There is a reason for this.
Most designers modify the WP theme directly. When this is so a theme upgrade will overwrite all the custom modifications that your designer has built for you. The site layout, look and feel will then go completely awry as a result of theme upgrades.
Theme upgrades are recommended only when your designer has strictly used a child theme for making modifications. But for reasons of time, and often ignorance of best practices, this is ignored by most designers.
It’s also possible that many different designers have worked on your site over time. Each has his/ her or her own way of working with the main and the child themes and now it’s a mix of modifications using inline, main theme, and child theme mods.
All this makes theme upgrades very messy and the possibility of ruining the site’s look and feel.
So it’s wise to keep the old theme as it is.
No. This offer will end 15 November 2019. The last time we had this offer was in 2016.
So do hurry. As we said you have 90 days to use up this offer. So you can buy your January 2020 upgrade today!
Yes, there are a few, so read this carefully
With over 700+ projects under our belt, and having built 100s of custom sites in WordPress, we know what it takes to upgrade your WordPress site.
After all, we have been building and repairing sites built on WordPress since 2005.
Our clients include many from India, USA, Canada, Australia, Singapore and New Zealand.
Send us your site address, and email id and we shall get back to you in 48 hours with the next steps.
We will run a few tests on your website, check its version and the plugins used before we start.
We need to do this before we start the upgrade and to give you the best experience
The WP Sing & Purr offer covers upgrades to WordPress core + plugins + site speed and security optimisation.
All enquiries on or before 15 November 2019 will be eligible for discounted rates subject to our site approval process below.