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WordPress Maintenance Plans — Updates, Backups & Support

Websites break when nobody's watching. Monthly maintenance plans covering core and plugin updates, security monitoring, automated backups, uptime checks, and priority support.

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Quick Answer

WordPress maintenance covers the ongoing technical upkeep a site needs to stay secure and fast: core and plugin updates, automated daily backups, malware and uptime monitoring, broken link checks, and a guaranteed response time for fixes. Without it, sites gradually accumulate security vulnerabilities and performance issues.

What's Included

WordPress core, theme, and plugin updates
Daily automated off-site backups
Malware scanning and security monitoring
Uptime monitoring with instant alerts
Broken link and 404 monitoring
Monthly performance and speed checks
Priority email/chat support
Monthly health report

Who Is This For?

Business Owners Without In-House Dev

You don't have time to manage updates yourself, and you don't want to risk a site going down unnoticed.

Agencies Outsourcing Maintenance

Hand off client site upkeep to a reliable partner while you focus on strategy and design work.

eCommerce Stores

Downtime costs you sales directly. Proactive monitoring catches issues before customers do.

How It Works

1

Initial Audit

Full site health check — plugins, themes, security, and backup status reviewed.

2

Setup

Monitoring, backup automation, and update schedule configured.

3

Ongoing Care

Monthly updates, scans, and performance checks run on schedule.

4

Reporting

Monthly report covering what was updated, fixed, and monitored.

Client Result

Zero Downtime, 14 Months

A client's WooCommerce store has had zero unplanned downtime across 14 months of active maintenance management.

Pricing

Basic

£99/mo

  • Core & plugin updates
  • Weekly backups
  • Uptime monitoring
  • Email support
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Pro

£199/mo

  • Daily backups
  • Malware scanning
  • Broken link monitoring
  • Monthly speed checks
  • Priority support
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Business

£399/mo

  • Everything in Pro
  • 2 hrs/month content updates
  • Quarterly security audit
  • Same-day emergency response
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Common Questions

Uptime monitoring alerts me immediately, and emergency response is included in all plans — Business tier guarantees same-day response, while Basic and Pro target next-business-day resolution.

I can recommend and help manage hosting, but hosting itself is billed separately by your provider — maintenance plans cover the WordPress layer, not server infrastructure costs.

Yes, all maintenance plans are month-to-month with no lock-in contract.

Minor bug fixes are covered under Pro and Business tiers. Larger feature work or redesigns are quoted separately as project work.

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