{"id":908,"date":"2016-05-14T03:32:12","date_gmt":"2016-05-14T03:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2016.ottawa.wordcamp.org\/?post_type=wcb_session&#038;p=908"},"modified":"2016-06-23T04:07:43","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T04:07:43","slug":"dont-get-left-behind-keeping-your-site-up-to-date","status":"publish","type":"wcb_session","link":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2016\/session\/dont-get-left-behind-keeping-your-site-up-to-date\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t get left behind: Keeping your site up-to-date"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"speaker-avatar\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"grav-e17730eb78cbdf350470ca875db9d562-0\" class=\"avatar avatar-96 photo grav-hashed grav-hijack alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e17730eb78cbdf350470ca875db9d562?s=200&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g\" alt=\"\" width=\"96\" height=\"96\" \/><\/div>\n<p>In my years of developing and managing WordPress sites I&#8217;ve discovered that many end users don&#8217;t keep their sites as updated as they should. This usually stems from not being sure how things work and\/or the fear of breaking things. My talk will focus on the real-world management task of plugin and WP core updates: what WP does automatically and what you have to do yourself; how the update system notifies you; deciphering update version numbers and descriptions; how to do the actual updates for plugins, theme and WordPress itself.<\/p>\n<p><strong>User level<\/strong>: <span class=\"\">Beginner user, Intermediate user<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Prerequisites<\/strong>: <span class=\"\">Passing experience with what the WordPress admin screen look like.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Slides:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/the___miked\/wordcamp-ottawa-2016-updates\">http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/the___miked\/wordcamp-ottawa-2016-updates<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my years of developing and managing WordPress sites I&#8217;ve discovered that many end users don&#8217;t keep their sites as updated as they should. This usually stems from not being sure how things work and\/or the fear of breaking things. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2016\/session\/dont-get-left-behind-keeping-your-site-up-to-date\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Don&#8217;t get left behind: Keeping your site up-to-date<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7756733,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wcpt_session_time":1463194800,"_wcpt_session_duration":3000,"_wcpt_session_type":"session","_wcpt_session_slides":"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/the___miked\/wordcamp-ottawa-2016-updates","_wcpt_session_video":"","_wcpt_speaker_id":[906],"footnotes":""},"session_track":[119092],"session_category":[],"class_list":["post-908","wcb_session","type-wcb_session","status-publish","hentry","wcb_track-site-creators"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p79zQK-eE","session_date_time":{"date":"May 14, 2016","time":"3:00 am"},"session_speakers":[{"id":"906","slug":"mike-dickson","name":"Mike Dickson","link":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2016\/speaker\/mike-dickson\/"}],"session_cats_rendered":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_session"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1659,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/908\/revisions\/1659"}],"speakers":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/906"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wporg\/v1\/users\/themiked"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_track","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_track?post=908"},{"taxonomy":"wcb_session_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_category?post=908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}