Title: Changing Website Managers
Last modified: May 9, 2018

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# Changing Website Managers

 *  Resolved [untechnicalmillenial](https://wordpress.org/support/users/untechnicalmillenial/)
 * (@untechnicalmillenial)
 * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-website-managers/)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/acstudent/)
 * (@acstudent)
 * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-website-managers/#post-10263942)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/untechnicalmillenial/)
 * (@untechnicalmillenial)
 * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-website-managers/#post-10263983)
 * Thanks!
 *  [Daniel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/knownhost/)
 * (@knownhost)
 * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-website-managers/#post-10266029)
 * 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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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 3 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [Daniel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/knownhost/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-website-managers/#post-10266029)
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