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If you are running a website for personal or professional purposes, then chances are you probably chose WordPress because of its top ratings as well as its ease in design and  how to backup your website. WordPress has become such a standard platform for building a website that it now runs almost one-third of the sites that are on the Internet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you are one of those website owners, then chances are you have encountered some problems along the way in either setting up your site or maintaining it. Let\u2019s look at some of those common problems and some of the fixes that you can use for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Performance<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

If you are running your own website, then you know that your site is judged by how quickly it loads. That\u2019s why performance usually comes in as the biggest concern among website owners. WordPress has thousands of templates, plugins, and widgets that you can add to your site to give it a truly professional look.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, many people take these professional designs and add to it\u2026and add to it\u2026and then add some more to it. What happens? Your page slows down significantly. One way to fix this is to talk to your hosting provider to see if they can give you assistance with common optimizations such as deleting unused plugins. Plugins don\u2019t always mesh well, so be sure that they aren\u2019t the culprits in slowing down your site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hosting Provider<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Another big problem is actually not part of WordPress\u2019s platform, but it does go hand-in-hand with it: your website hosting provider. If you are having slow performance then you may need to look at finding a new provider. If you want optimum performance on your site, you do not want to choose one of those cut-rate web host providers that offer “huge savings.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ultimately, you get what you pay for. Choose a provider that can offer you a variety of server options, not just putting your site on a shared server with dozens of other sites that will slow down your site when they have a traffic spike. Also, you need to find a provider that can provide 99%+ uptime for your site. Also look for 24\/7 support that will give you assistance if your site crashes at three o\u2019clock in the morning, for example.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Security Issues<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Security is a scary proposition for many people. Remember that WordPress has security features built in, but they are pretty much standard. It is imperative that you download and install a security plugin that will monitor site downtime, block the IPs of users who try to attack you, and that can stop brute force attacks from occurring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additionally, part of security is knowing how to backup your website. WordPress does not have anything built into the main platform that allows for automatic backups. Therefore, download a backup plugin immediately and begin scheduling regular backups to your website. This way, if hackers do compromise your website, you can be sure to be able to restore your site from your last saved point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Learning How to Backup Your Website<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

WordPress is an amazing design tool and platform for crafting top-quality websites for personal or professional use. But when it comes to performance, security, and how to backup your website, it can leave some things up to you to make sure that it works properly. That\u2019s why it is so important to use good quality plugins and widgets on your site and test them out to ensure that you do not wind up slowing down your performance in the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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