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