How much effort to keep a WP site current

[Spacerat]

My question relates to the ongoing support of a hosted Wordpress site. In terms of hours, how much time needs to be budgeted for (per month) to update Wordpress etc with all the necessary patches etc...

Tx

 

[naeem]

there are plugins that can auto-update your plugins. Thing is, sometimes (rarely) a plugin update can break the site so best to do it manually.

I'd say less then an hour.

I suppose if you automate your backups and auto-plugin updates properly it should be fine and if the site breaks for some odd reason, just roll back.

 

[Webafrica Helper]

Yeah I came across a few WP sites that had WSOD issues due to plugins and themes. The error logs should direct you in the right direction. Just be sure to make your weekly backups or after changes are made and you should be fine

 

[UssOP]

Aah the infamous white screen

 

[sparticus]

At most about literally 30 mins a month for me.

 

[Anthro]

Previous webdev decided to modify core WP files, now upgrading breaks functionality lol - page has not been updated in .. 5 mayberr 10 patches

 

[envo]

A proper backup of the Wordpress site and MySQL DB including updating of plugins and re-testing functionality can take up to 3 hours depending on circumstances/how easy the upgrade went (didn't break functionality that should be working etc)

That's excluding time it takes to monitor up-time/404 errors/500 errors and if backups ran properly.

But if you're talking about purely clicking the "update" button and hoping for the best (crossing fingers nothing broke and sky diving without a backup), then 5 minutes.