Best Practices to Follow While Upgrading Your Sitefinity Website

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Best Practices to Follow While Upgrading Your
Sitefinity Website
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In order to ensure that your Sitefinity website
offers its optimum performance and offers the
visitors what they are actually looking for, it
is imperative to keep your site upgraded to the
latest version. Upgrading to the latest
Sitefinity CMS version ensures that your site has
some of the best features and functionalities
that Sitefinity offers.
But before you upgrade, here are some best
practices and suggestions that make the upgrading
process foolproof and as smooth as possible.
Also Read Upgrading to The Latest Version of
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Prepare Your Site For An Upgrade
Each business website is unique and some are
customized to meet specific needs. Latest
versions of Sitefinity come with API changes,
major changes in the authentication, workflow
module and content editing extensions.
Customizations to these will need code fixes.
So, when upgrading your Sitefinity site, you
should consider your needs and the version
compatibility so that your site gives the best
performance.
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Backup Content, Database and Website
Another important step while upgrading to the new
version is to take a backup of your database,
entire website and its content. If in any case
something goes wrong while updating the system,
you will have all your data saved so that you can
easily restore them to its previous status.
Taking a backup will save your business major
troubles and countless hours needed to rewrite
and fix codes and content.
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Perform The Upgrade
Sitefinity provides detailed documentation for
the upgrade process and there is also knowledge
based articles that address some common issues
and also errors that users face during the
process in order to help them to resolve common
issues. Sitefinity Project Manager Tool is used
for upgrading.
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to Cyberattacks. Switch to Sitefinity
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Thorough Upgrade Testing
Before making the website live again, it is
crucial to check all the modules, custom codes,
widgets and everything else that could affect the
upgrade process. For this, you may have to
reset some of your settings and also make certain
changes. It is best to select the key
functionalities of the site and then test them
after the Sitefinity upgrade.
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