The Proper Care & Feeding of Your

WooCommerce Store

Thank you to iThemes Training

& the whole iThemes crew!

Gordon Seirup

@coppergordon

gordon@woobetter.com

What is our responsibility to our clients?

BACKUPS

Every site needs PROACTIVE maintenance,

WooCommerce especially.

"Reactive Maintenance" isn't maintenance

it's repair

What does PROACTIVE need to include?

• Backups
• Communication
• Updates
• Testing
• Monitoring
• Peace of Mind
• Risk Mitigation

WordPress Core, 'Regular' Plugins, Themes,

and WooCommerce Updates

• Security Patches ASAP
  • Subscribe to Developers' updates
  • Automatic Updates? 
  • Managed WordPress Hosting
• Feature Releases - stay off the "bleeding edge"
• STAGING environment
• Order/data continuity

Post-Updates Testing

Post-Updates Testing - CHECKLISTS

• Checklists
• Checklists
• LIVING Checklists
• The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande

Monitoring

• Uptime
• Page Speed
• Active Security Scans

Peace of Mind

Peace of Mind

• One point of contact
• Support

YOUR Peace of Mind - Risk Mitigation

• Contracts
• Managed WP Hosting
• Manage Expectations
• Network
• Checklist: https://woobetter.com/check-up/

That was Proper Care, for "Feeding"

• https://www.liftoffsummit.com/​
• June 19-23
• Patrick Rauland & Bob WP

Thank you again to iThemes Training

& the whole iThemes crew!

Gordon Seirup

@coppergordon

gordon@woobetter.com