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Hey, what's up everybody? Pat Flynn here and welcome to episode 327 of Ask Pat. Thank you so much for joining me today.

Awesome. Now let's get to today's question from Tyler.

Hey, Pat. This is Tyler from Grand Rapids, Michigan. Thanks so much for all that you do and all the information you provide.

My question is in regards to WordPress and its associated plugins. I'm basically wondering if you have any advice or guidance and how to best manage the relentless updates that happen on WordPress and different

plugins. I'm concerned at the amount of time that I'm spending keeping my WordPress site

and plugins up to date and just also making sure that everything continues to work well and

integrate well and that I haven't had any features go down on my website because a certain update

has been made.

So, yeah, if you've experienced this or you have any tips or tricks or best practices to share, that would be great to hear.

Thanks.

Hey, Tyler, thank you so much for the question today.

Plugins are an interesting thing with WordPress.

I mean, it's one of the benefits of using WordPress to be able to just plug and play these different things that you can add onto your site from anything from a, I mean, you name it, there's a plugin for it. I mean, if anybody has had an idea for something they wish was on a website, somebody has probably created a solution for it. And there are obviously new plugins coming out all the time. And as they come out, they're very attractive and we put them on our site and

crazy thing about it is a lot of times it breaks our site too because especially once you have a lot of plugins working together to kind of create what your site becomes it doesn't always work out the way we want it to because i, it's code and just one little line of code that

just works or is incompatible with another plugin or something else that you have going on with

your theme or the version of WordPress that you have. I mean, there are so many different variables.

It's really easy to break things. So I totally know where this question is coming from.

So again, how do you manage the sort of updates of plugins?

Now, let's just talk about those updates really quick.

It's really important to update your plugins as soon as possible.

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