WordPress maintenance plans for people who would rather not think about it
Updates tested on staging before they touch your live site. Backups somebody has actually restored. Uptime watched by a machine and read by a person. We run WordPress maintenance plans for businesses across the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, from $99 a month, and you get the same two people every month.
What actually happens, and when
A WordPress care plan is not one big job. It is a small amount of boring work on a schedule, which is exactly why it works.
Updates and a look around
- Core, plugin and theme updates applied on staging first
- Visual check that nothing moved
- Security scan
- Backup verified as readable
The parts that drift
- Database cleanup and optimisation
- Broken link and 404 sweep
- Core Web Vitals checked against real user data
- A plain English report of what changed
The bigger picture
- PHP version reviewed and upgraded
- Plugin audit, anything unused removed
- User accounts and permissions reviewed
- A full restore run on a spare environment
Somebody answers
- You message a person, not a ticket queue
- We roll back if an update caused it
- Emergency work is included, not billed as extra
- You are told what happened afterwards
Three plans, priced in plain numbers
Most agencies make you book a call to find out the price. Here it is. Every plan starts with an audit so we both know what state the site is in before anything begins.
Care
For brochure and marketing sites that need to stay current, safe and backed up.
- Weekly core, plugin and theme updates, tested on staging first
- Daily off-site backups, verified readable
- Uptime monitoring and security scanning
- 30 minutes of small content or layout changes a month
- Plugin licence management
- Monthly report in plain English
- Reply within one business day, as a written SLA
Care Plus
Recommended for stores, booking sites and anything taking payments.
- Everything in Care
- 2 hours of changes and small development a month
- WooCommerce, booking and membership coverage
- Checkout tested after every update
- More frequent backups for order data
- Quarterly speed review, with the fixes done
- Quarterly restore test on a spare environment
- PHP version upgrades handled
- Reply within four business hours
Managed
For sites that earn their keep daily and need developer time on tap.
- Everything in Care Plus
- 5 hours of development a month
- A staging site kept in sync with live
- Monthly Core Web Vitals work against real user data
- Out of hours emergency cover
- Quarterly call to plan what is next
- Reply within two business hours
Prices are in USD per site and billed monthly in advance. No contract, cancel whenever you like. Running more than one site? Tell us how many and we will price them as a group.
What a plan covers, and what it does not
Most disagreements about maintenance are really about scope, so here it is up front.
Included every month
- All updates, tested before they go live
- Backups, monitoring and security scanning
- Small content and layout changes, within your plan hours
- Fixing anything that breaks on our watch
- Plugin licence management
- A report you can actually read
Quoted separately
- New page templates or a redesign
- A new WooCommerce or booking system
- Migrating to a different host
- SEO campaigns and content writing
- Cleaning up an infection that predates us
- Anything that needs more than a couple of hours
If something sits on the line we will tell you before doing it, not after. Nobody enjoys a surprise invoice.
A backup you have never restored is a hope, not a backup
Almost every site we take over has backups running. Far fewer have backups that work. Plugins fail quietly, storage fills up, and a database export that stops halfway still looks like a file.
- Backups stored off the server, not next to the site
- Daily for files and database, more often for stores
- A real restore run every quarter on a spare environment
- Retention long enough to go back past a problem you noticed late
- You get the credentials, so the backups are yours too
What lands in your inbox
One page, no jargon, and you can tell in twenty seconds whether anything needs you.
What changed
Every update applied, what it touched, and anything we chose to hold back because it looked risky.
What we caught
Downtime, failed logins, broken links, forms that stopped sending, and speed that slipped.
What we suggest
One or two things worth doing next, with a rough size. No pressure and no invoice attached.
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Care plan questions, answered straight
Already broken rather than in need of upkeep? That is bug fixing. Everything else we do with WordPress is on the services page.
Want a number for your site?
Send the URL. We will look at what it runs on and come back with a monthly price and what it covers.
How much does WordPress maintenance typically cost?
Ours are $99, $199 and $399 a month per site, in USD. Across the market a managed plan from a real team generally runs somewhere between $95 and $400 a month, with cheaper plans usually meaning an automated update bot and nobody reading the results. What moves the number is whether the site takes payments, how often it changes, and how fast you need somebody to answer when it breaks.
What are the best WordPress maintenance services?
The honest answer is that the plan matters less than who is behind it. Ask three things: are updates tested somewhere before they hit the live site, has anyone ever restored the backup, and who actually replies when something breaks at five on a Friday. Plenty of cheap plans fail all three.
Do I really need a maintenance plan?
Not always. If your site is a simple brochure, you are comfortable applying updates, and you have tested backups, you can run it yourself and we will happily hand you a checklist. A plan earns its keep when the site brings in work, takes payments, or when nobody in the building wants to own it.
What happens if an update breaks the site?
It gets rolled back, which is why updates go to staging first and why the backup is verified before anything is applied. If something slips through and breaks on live, fixing it is included. That is the whole point of the arrangement.
Can you maintain a site you did not build?
Yes, and that is most of the sites we look after. We start with an audit so you know what state it is actually in, and if it needs work before a plan makes sense we will tell you that first rather than quietly absorbing it.
Do you cover WooCommerce stores?
Yes, and they get watched more closely. Checkout gets tested after every update, payment gateways and shipping rules are checked, and backups run more often because an hour of lost orders matters more than an hour of lost blog traffic.
Am I locked in?
No. Plans are monthly and billed in advance, you can stop whenever, and everything stays in your name throughout. If you leave we hand over a document with the hosting, the licences and what we were doing each month.
Tell us what you need and we will show you how we would do it
Share a few details about your business and what you want to fix or build. It could be a new website, a WordPress site that keeps breaking, SEO that has stalled, or a sales process that needs automating. We will come back with honest advice, even if that means a smaller job than you expected.
A reply within one business day
A real person on the team reads your message and replies, usually the same day.
A free review of your current setup
We look at your website, rankings or systems before we talk, so the call is useful.
A written proposal
You get a clear scope, timeline and price in writing before any work starts.
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