An unmaintained WordPress site is a countdown
WordPress runs on updates: core, themes and plugins patch security holes weekly, and skipping them is how sites end up hacked, blacklisted by Google, or quietly broken after an auto-update collides with an old plugin. Most owners discover neglect the expensive way — a white screen on a Monday morning, or a malware warning where their homepage used to be.
My maintenance plans make that someone else’s problem — specifically, mine. Updates are applied on a schedule and tested, backups run daily to off-site storage and are periodically restore-tested (a backup you have never restored is a hope, not a plan), uptime and malware monitoring run around the clock, and speed gets reviewed so the site does not slowly bloat itself sluggish — which matters for rankings as much as visitors.
Plans include a monthly report of everything done and time for small content edits — the “can you swap this photo” jobs that never justify an invoice on their own. Sites I have built myself get a preferred rate, and stores get WooCommerce-aware care where an hour of downtime is real money. Tell me about your site and get a plan quote within two days.
The site just works now. Updates happen, backups exist, and I have not thought about hosting in a year.
Everything a healthy site needs monthly
Core, theme & plugin updates
Applied on schedule and tested — with rollbacks ready — so patches never take your site down with them.
Daily off-site backups
Automated daily backups stored off-server, retention you can rely on, and periodic restore tests to prove they work.
Security & malware monitoring
Firewall, scanning and blacklist monitoring around the clock. If something gets in, cleanup is included, not extra.
Uptime monitoring
Your site checked every minute. If it goes down, I usually know before you do — and I am already on it.
Speed optimization
Caching, image optimization and database cleanup reviewed regularly, keeping Core Web Vitals green.
Support & small edits
Monthly time for content swaps and tweaks, plus a plain-English report of everything done.
Onboard once, then it’s handled
Onboard & audit
Full health check: outdated software, security posture, backup status, speed baseline. You get the findings either way.
Harden & schedule
Security hardening, backup pipeline, monitoring and update schedule configured to your site’s stack.
Maintain
Updates, scans, backups and speed checks run on schedule, with issues fixed as they appear — not at month-end.
Report
A monthly summary of updates applied, threats blocked, uptime and speed — proof of work, in plain English.
Maintenance questions, answered honestly
What’s included in your WordPress maintenance plan?
Updates (tested, with rollbacks), daily off-site backups, security and uptime monitoring, malware cleanup, speed optimization and monthly support time for small edits — itemized in a written plan, reported monthly.
How do you keep my website secure?
Will you fix things that break, like plugin conflicts?
Can you make my website faster?
Do you back up my site, and can it actually be restored?
WordPress Web Design
Custom WordPress websites: responsive, SEO-ready and built to convert, from first wireframe through launch.
WooCommerce Development
Shops that sell: product setup, payments, shipping and the product SEO that gets items found.
SEO Services
Technical SEO, keyword research and content working together to move your site up Google, measurably.