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type: this-week-with
url: 'https://taylordrayson.com/2021/11/12/tww-s2-e74'
title: 'Season 2, Episode 74'
date: '2021-11-12T13:00:00+00:00'
fields:
  episode: S2E74
  season: '2'
  number: '74'
  topic: 'Random Website Generator - New feature, lock part of the suggestion - Website Maintenance and Updates - Premium plugins are updated and supported -  Make sure you check your site after backups are taken'
  duration: '19m 55s'
---

# Season 2, Episode 74

Random Website Generator - New feature, lock part of the suggestion - Website Maintenance and Updates - Premium plugins are updated and supported - Make sure you check your site after backups are…

Still very cold

Finishing off Random Website Generator - <a href="https://random.oxybuildchallenge.com">https://random.oxybuildchallenge.com</a>

Creating ideas for practise websites

Visitors can submit their own suggestions that get added to the list of option

The colour is generated randomly

New feature allows locking a part of the suggestion

Could be useful for Improv

Website Maintenance and Updates

HTML and Perl (cgi-bin) used to be the only way to build websites

These sites lasted for many years without ever changing

Modern visitors want to see videos, galleries and animation

These new features come in the form of a plugin

Premium plugins (paid for) will give support, updates and security fixes

Free plugins (on the whole) may not have these

Paid for plugins are the way to go for essential functionality for your website

Building functionality from scratch is like re-inventing the wheel

Website alert service to let you know when something changes

Check your websites regularly

Backup your site so you can restore if anything goes wrong

There is nothing worse than finding a problem with your website from months ago and not having a backup prior to that

Drayson Design Website Maintenance and Updates service - <a href="https://www.draysondesign.com/services/websites/wordpress-maintenance/">https://www.draysondesign.com/services/websites/wordpress-maintenance/</a>

The Creative Tinker Maintenance and Updates service - <a href="https://thecreativetinker.com/services/website-hosting/">https://thecreativetinker.com/services/website-hosting/</a>

 

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## See also

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