WordPress Maintenance
Security updates, daily backups, plugin management, uptime monitoring, and priority support — so your site stays fast, secure, and making money while you focus on your business.
WordPress powers 43% of the internet — which also makes it the number one target for hackers. Every month, thousands of WordPress sites are compromised through outdated plugins, unpatched themes, and neglected core software. The cost of recovering from a hack — lost revenue, damaged reputation, potential data breach liability, and Google blacklisting — dwarfs the cost of preventing it.
Beyond security, an unmaintained WordPress site deteriorates over time. Database tables grow bloated with revisions and transients, slowing page loads. Plugin conflicts emerge after updates. PHP versions become outdated, losing 15-25% performance. Google's Core Web Vitals requirements evolve, and what passed last year may fail today. Without proactive maintenance, your site gradually becomes slower, less secure, and less competitive in search results.
A WordPress maintenance plan ensures none of this happens. Your plugins stay updated and tested, security vulnerabilities are patched within 48 hours, performance is monitored and maintained, and you have a WordPress expert on call when you need changes made or problems solved.
Think of it like insurance for your website investment. You spent thousands building a site that generates leads and revenue — maintenance protects that investment for a fraction of the original cost.
What's Included
WordPress core, theme, and plugin security patches applied within 48 hours of release. Vulnerability scanning and firewall management.
Automated daily backups stored off-site with 30-day retention. One-click restore capability if anything goes wrong.
Staged plugin updates tested before deployment. Conflict detection, compatibility verification, and deprecated plugin replacement.
24/7 uptime monitoring with instant alerts. If your site goes down, I know before your customers do and begin resolution immediately.
Monthly speed checks and Core Web Vitals tracking. Database optimization and cache management to maintain sub-2-second loads.
Monthly content update allowance — text changes, image swaps, new pages, and minor design adjustments handled by me.
A maintenance plan makes sense for any business that relies on its website to generate revenue or leads. Specifically:
If your website is your business's most important sales tool — and for most businesses in 2026, it is — maintenance isn't a luxury. It's basic business infrastructure.
Skipping maintenance feels like saving money until something breaks. Here's what recovery typically costs:
A monthly maintenance plan costs a fraction of any single emergency incident. It's the difference between proactive protection and reactive panic.
WordPress releases security updates regularly, plugins need updating to prevent vulnerabilities, and without monitoring your site could go down without you knowing. A maintenance plan prevents hacks, data loss, and performance degradation that would cost far more to fix after the fact.
Unmaintained WordPress sites are the primary target for hackers — outdated plugins and themes contain known vulnerabilities that are actively exploited. Beyond security, performance degrades as database bloat accumulates, broken plugins stack up, and hosting environments change. Eventually, your site slows down, gets hacked, or breaks entirely.
Security patches are applied within 24-48 hours of release. Minor WordPress core updates are applied weekly. Major core updates and plugin updates are tested on a staging environment first, then applied to your live site once verified safe — typically within one week of release.
Yes. Maintenance plans include a set amount of content change time each month — text updates, image swaps, new pages, and minor design adjustments. Larger changes or new feature development are quoted separately.
Yes. All maintenance plans are month-to-month with no long-term contracts. You can cancel at any time with 30 days notice. Your site remains yours — I provide full admin access and documentation so you can transition to self-management or another provider.
If your site is compromised while under my care, I restore it from the most recent clean backup and fix the vulnerability that allowed the breach — at no additional cost. This is covered under the maintenance plan's security guarantee.
Get a custom maintenance quote based on your site's complexity and needs. Month-to-month, cancel anytime.
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