If you want to edit the content of your website, without the need to get a professional involved every time, you’re going to need a Content Management System (CMS). This will allow you to update text, images and design to some extent, without having to learn ‘code’.

Of course, a CMS doesn’t make you a web developer or a designer. However, it does give you the ability to create and manage content with a little bit of knowledge. If you only use it to update ‘News’ regularly, fresh content is a step in the right direction. Updates help to improve your Search Engine Optimisation (SEO); obviously, we’re here to do the clever stuff where required.

We’ve been developing websites in Telford, Shropshire and nationwide, using WordPress as our CMS of choice for over ten years. We’ve done this for startups and small business websites through to large globally recognised corporate brand websites.

Your website should be working hard for you, so in addition to regular updates to content you will need to keep the Content Management System up-to-date too.

This is completely at your discretion, but we advise considering a Regular Service Schedule of the CMS and any third-party to keep everything backed up and working correctly.

WordPress and WP Plugin developers are continuously improving functionality, and more importantly security.

Updates are released indiscriminately; daily, weekly, monthly so the more frequently the better for improved security and ‘fail-safe’ if the worse happens. If only quarterly or half yearly, you should consider it a necessity along with hosting and regular content updates.