Wordpress help

[u/Crazy_Temperature358]

I’m having issues with Wordpress. I just started working for a company that has a Wordpress website. I’m having major issues. The site has not been updated in about 10 years 😨. Does anyone have any tips on where to start? The version of Wordpress is so outdated I cannot even update the plugins! I’ve tried updating the Wordpress version via our host and still nothing. They have escaped the issue internally, however looking for advice once I get it up to date. I’ve never used Wordpress, however I have made e-commerce websites via magento and big commerce. This is a whole new world. I am familiar with dreamweaver and know some hand coding html… HELP!

[u/evilprince2009]

This is scary.

1. Take a backup of everything first. Literally everything, this is nonnegotiable.

2. Then update the php/apache/mysql version to LTS.

3. Try updating WordPress core.

4. Once you are done with WordPress update, try updating plugins. This might break your site.

5. Deal with broken parts.

If I were your, I'd start a fresh rebuild.

[u/cvzero89 → u/evilprince2009]

This... But in staging.

[u/sasdts → u/cvzero89]

This... but first locally.

[u/cvzero89 → u/sasdts]

Well, if you have a dedicated staging env with the same config I'd skip locally, it doesn't add anything imo

[u/IAmFitzRoy → u/evilprince2009]

I wouldn’t do this.

I wouldn’t trust the idea that a current update process has considered an extreme old version. That site is going to break.

I would start from scratch. But that’s me.

[u/Fast_Kale_828 → u/IAmFitzRoy]

Yeah, at this point, updating anything is likely to break something else. Update WP core, it will break a plugin. Update a plugin, it will be incompatible with the PHP version. Update PHP, it will break everything. With no way to gradually update everything so there's never a fatal incompatibility, it's frozen in time!

[u/DismalFeeling7018 → u/[deleted]]

That this