Updating a WordPress site
To maximize your site performance and keep it secure, you should always update WordPress to the latest version.
When you ignore updating your WordPress site, you are risking your site security and missing out on new features and improvements which come in a new version of WordPress.
Learn more about updating WordPress on the official website.
Before updating your WordPress site, you should also make sure your theme and plugins support the latest version of WordPress.
Themes
Performance, security, accessibility and a good design -- essential part of a professional site. Thus, it’s important to keep your WordPress site updated.
Our professional themes for WordPress are designed to work with the latest version of a WordPress installation.
Just make sure to keep your theme up-to-date as well.
Plugins
Unfortunately, we cannot guarantee that your installed plugins will work perfectly with the latest version of WordPress.
If you experience issue with one of your plugins after updating your WordPress site, you should contact the author of the plugin.
As our support policy states, issues with plugins should be raised with the plugin author.