WordPress Maintenance Checklist with 15 Expert Tasks

WordPress, like all software, breaks – quietly, sometimes catastrophically – if you ignore it. Plugins become outdated, security vulnerabilities creep in, and performance slows to a crawl, all while you assume everything’s fine because the homepage still loads.

Regular maintenance is the difference between a site that works and a site that works until it doesn’t. Some tasks demand weekly attention (like updates and backups), while others – such as security audits and database cleanups – can be done monthly. But skipping them altogether is an open invitation for downtime, data breaches, and SEO penalties.

Here’s the checklist to keep