Your WordPress website should always be updated to the latest version. Not only does it allow your website to take advantage of the latest features, it improves compatibility with emerging softwares, contains bug fixes, and increases your security.
    
When updating WordPress we follow a system that helps to ensure your content is safe and your website can be retrieved if some extraordinary, unprecedented technological glitch raises its ugly head during the process. The steps involved with updating are all part of the WP Maintenance packages.

Step 1: Your website is backed up to a secure off-site location.

Your website database, theme and plugins are all backed up and available should they need to be restored at any stage during the update of your website. Depending on the size of your database, this can be a time consuming exercise.

Step 2: Your plugins are all updated.

Often when WordPress updates become available, plugins also require an update to ensure compatibility with the latest version of WordPress. The syntax of upgrading plugins prior to upgrading WordPress is something many people overlook to their own detriment. 🙁 It’s important to understand that some old plugins may not be compatible with the new WordPress Core upgrade and they can ‘screw up’ the look and performance of your website and upgrading them later may not fix the issues.

Step 3: Your version of WordPress is brought up-to-date.

Step 4: Your website is checked for compatibility issues.

We check out your website, visiting pages and the recent posts to double-check that everything is working correctly. If anything looks a bit odd as a direct result of the upgrades, then we can tweak to fix.

Oh! And amongst those steps any caching system set up on your site will be deactivated prior to upgrades and then reactivated after everything is as it should be. This ensures the latest version of your website is cached across the world wide web.