Changing Website Managers

  • Resolved untechnicalmillenial

    (@untechnicalmillenial)


    7 years, 11 months ago

    I work for a company that currently has 2 websites hosted on WordPress.
    The websites were designed by a third party, and that third party still provides support to my company regarding the websites. (They are created and managed in WordPress (software) and hosted with GoDaddy.)

    My question is this: If we decide to take over the websites and run/update them without the third party, will we need to start over from scratch? Or will the websites still be as is (until we change them)? Will we have copyright issues?

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  • aCstudent

    (@acstudent)

    7 years, 11 months ago

    That depends on the agreement with the third-party developer/maintainer. If the agreement does not make the issue clear, it then depends on the willingness of the third-party developer/maintainer to turn over control.

    Thread Starter untechnicalmillenial

    (@untechnicalmillenial)

    7 years, 11 months ago

    Thanks!

    Daniel

    (@knownhost)

    7 years, 11 months ago

    If your company paid for the design work by the third party then your company SHOULD own any rights to them.

    You need to make sure that the hosting, domain name and any premium software licenses are in your companies name.

    After that you could drop the third party. But keep in mind WordPress cannot just be left alone, it needs at minimum core and plugin updates performed on it regularly. If you just leave it alone and don’t update it then likely one day you’ll return to the website to find it hacked.

    Also don’t forget to check for any extra WordPress admin users, update all of your passwords etc to lock things down. I’d personally make offline backups

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