WordPress maintenance
Your WordPress site, kept current and running
A backup before every update. Tested on a staging copy when your host supports it. Someone who notices when it goes down.
I build WordPress for a living: plugins on WordPress.org, 30+ custom Gutenberg blocks, multilingual sites. So when an update breaks something, I fix the cause instead of rolling back and hoping. One monthly price, fix time included, no ticket queue.
Every month
What's included
Updates, done safely
WordPress core, plugins and theme. Backed up first, tested on a staging copy when your host provides one, then applied to the live site and checked. Major versions (a big Elementor or WooCommerce jump) get extra care, and I tell you before I start.
Backups you can restore
Regular automatic backups stored off your server, plus one before every change I make. I test that backups restore, not just that they ran.
Uptime & security
Monitoring that tells me when the site is down, SSL kept valid, security scanning, and removal of plugins and admin accounts that shouldn't be there anymore.
Fix time
Up to 3 hours a month for the small things: a broken form, a layout glitch after an update, a slow page. Anything bigger is quoted first, and you decide.
A short monthly report
What was updated, what I found, what I fixed, and anything you should know about. One email a month.
One person who knows your site
Not a rotating support desk. The same developer every month, who remembers why that plugin is there.
Catch-up
Before and after the first month
Most sites arrive somewhere on the left. The one-time catch-up gets them to the right, and the monthly plan keeps them there.
- WordPress two versions behind
- 14 plugin updates waiting, one no longer maintained
- Spam pages nobody on the team wrote
- Last backup: unknown
- Nobody is told when it goes down
- Core, plugins and theme current, tested on staging first
- Spam removed, unknown admin accounts gone, likely ways in closed
- Nightly off-server backups, restore tested
- Uptime and SSL monitored, I get the alert
- One email a month
Why me
A developer doing the upkeep
Most maintenance services are good at clicking "update" and bad at what happens when it breaks. I've been on the building side of WordPress for years:
- Two plugins on WordPress.org, one of them a WooCommerce payment gateway, so I know how plugins behave when WordPress or WooCommerce changes underneath them.
- 30+ custom Gutenberg blocks for enterprise clients at a digital agency, plus Elementor sites and WPML multilingual builds with Hebrew RTL and English LTR.
- Looked after three independent clients' sites: kept WordPress, Elementor and plugins current, managed DNS, SSL and caching across cPanel and Cloudflare, and ran the Search Console side.
- A broken Elementor site rebuilt end to end for a freelance client, with new pages designed on it.
If an update breaks something, it's on me. Because every change starts with a backup, the worst case is a quick restore, and fixing what the update broke comes out of my time, not your fix hours.
Questions
Common questions
What does it cost?
From $250 a month, quoted after I look at your site. The base plan is $250 and includes up to 3 hours of fixes; a bigger or more complex site is quoted higher. Extra work is quoted before I do it: new pages, new features, and content or design changes. A site that's badly out of date, or hacked, gets a one-time catch-up quote first.
My site has been hacked. Can you clean it up?
Yes. Posts or pages you didn't write, admin users you don't recognise, a warning from Google or from your host: those are the usual signs. I look into how they got in, remove what they left behind, close the likely ways in, and bring everything up to date to make a repeat far less likely. Cleanup is a one-time job, quoted after I look at the site. The monthly plan then keeps it that way.
Do I have to move hosting?
No. I work with the hosting you already have. If it's causing problems (slow, unreliable, or overpriced), I'll tell you and suggest options, but moving is your call.
What access do you need?
An administrator login for WordPress, your hosting panel, read access to your domain/DNS settings, and Cloudflare if you use it. You keep ownership of everything: your site, your hosting, your domain.
Can I cancel?
Anytime, with a month's notice. No contract term. If you leave, you get your latest backup and everything stays yours.
Want your site looked after?
Send me the address. I'll take a look and tell you what shape it's in, what the first month would involve, and the price.
- Send me your site's address
- I look and reply with a quote
- The first month starts once it's paid