WordPress Maintenance
WordPress is a powerful platform with lots of great plugins, running 43.4% (in 2025) of the Internet’s websites. Unfortunately, this popularity also attracts hackers, and requires frequent updates to its components.
Think of your website like your car. You wouldn’t just drive it without ever changing the oil, checking the tyres, or taking it for a service, would you? A WordPress maintenance service is exactly the same for your digital vehicle. It’s not just for when things break. It’s about keeping everything running smoothly so you don’t end up stuck or exposed.
Having your WordPress website maintained professionally lets you focus on your business without the constant worry about a security hack, a slow website, or some random plugin glitch. It’s peace of mind, plain and simple.
And in times of trouble, you also benefit from tools and experience that help put you back in business quickly.
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What’s Included in a WordPress Maintenance service?
A good WordPress maintenance service covers a few key things to protect your business, and improve your SEO.
Regular Updates
WordPress and all the themes and plugins in it are always getting new updates. Besides adding new features, these updates often fix bugs, as well as plug newly-discovered security holes that hackers love to exploit.
The top reason for sites being hacked is out-of-date software, and in WordPress, this means having to keep on top of things regularly.
I handle all these updates for you safely. I don’t just hit the “update” button and hope for the best. Automatic updates can introduce new bugs, and you don’t want that. So I check things carefully before updating and apply safe changes within 2 days of being published.
Backups with Off-site/Cloud Storage
Hacking can really stop things from working, but it’s not the only thing. Server crashes, software bugs and human errors can also make your website halt and stop business from coming in.
That’s why I offer a smart system to copy your website regularly. Your backups are stored securely off-site, in the cloud, not on the same server as your website. That means even if your whole server goes down, your data is safe and sound, ready to be restored in a flash.
The backups are also incremental, which means you can restore just one file or revert one plugin to its previous version without having to restore the entire site. It also means that backups, and restores, are much quicker and take up a lot less space.
Site Health Audits
Over time, your website can get a bit messy. You add content, install new plugins, add users, and things can be left behind. This can slow the site down and create security vulnerabilities.
I perform regular check-ups to make sure your site is running as fast as it should. If there are inactive or outdated plugins or themes, suspicious users or other things that need cleaning up, I do this periodically.
Early Detection
Your website security and availability will be monitored 24×7 by an external system that will report any downtime to me within 5 minutes.
Once a month, I check the error logs on your site for any issues requiring attention and handle them. More often than not, you won’t even know anything happened, because I will fix it for you.
Quick, High Quality Support
Despite having all that protection, sometimes things need personal attention. The system I use to maintain WordPress websites provides an additional way to log into sites, which is useful when someone gets locked out, and there are things I can do quickly that don’t even require logging in.
So in the event that you need assistance, I’m always available to jump in and help.
Your Investment
This is a premium WordPress Maintenance service with personal attention, normally charged at much higher prices. It’s a small investment to save yourself the huge pain and cost of a hacked site, loss of customers, and fixing things yourself.
I believe in keeping things simple and transparent. My WordPress maintanance pricing is based on the complexity of your site or the work involved:
Simple Websites
Sites that primarily showcase information, like a brochure site, blog or lead generation site.
Your investment: $299 + GST / year
Websites with a Shopping Cart
eCommerce sites with products, shopping extensions, payments and order management.
Your investment is $399 + GST / year
Out of Scope Support
I resolve most issues quickly at no extra charge, but sometimes, there’s a need for more.
Your investment: $120 + GST / hour
Protect your business and keep your website running smoothly with a WordPress Maintenance service.