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WordPress maintenance services

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WordPress core, plugins, and themes
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Staging copy, where your host has one
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From $99 USD a month
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Hosting, domain, and plugin licenses

WordPress maintenance keeps core, plugins, and themes current in a set order: the data is exported first, the release is tried on a staging copy where the host has one, and key pages are compared before and after. Backups, monitoring, and a monthly report come with every plan, from $99 USD a month.

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WordPress maintenance services look after the three layers of software a WordPress site runs on, core, plugins, and the theme, and run every update in the same careful order instead of trusting the update button. That order, what your host changes about it, and everything a plan wraps around it are below. Plans start at $99 USD a month, published in full, and the work is done remotely for sites in the United States and Canada.

How a WordPress update is run

When a working WordPress site breaks, an update is the usual suspect: a new release clashing with another plugin, the theme, or the version of PHP underneath, the language WordPress runs in. Every release here goes through the same order, and a person, not a scheduler, reads the results.

  1. The database and files are exported

    A full copy exists before anything changes, so a release that goes wrong can be rolled back instead of debugged on the live site.

  2. The release is tried on a staging copy

    A staging copy is a private duplicate of the site that visitors never see; where your host provides one, a bad release fails in private first.

  3. Key pages are compared, before and after

    Screenshots of the same pages from before and after the update sit side by side, and the differences get read by a person.

  4. The update goes live, and the pages are checked again

    Only a release that passed the comparison is applied to the live site, and the same pages are checked once more there.

  5. Security releases skip the queue

    A security fix goes on as soon as it appears. Ordinary feature releases wait a few days first.

What a WordPress maintenance plan keeps current

Updates cover the software you are responsible for on a WordPress site. The server software underneath, PHP included, belongs to your hosting account; its version is read at the start of a plan.

  • WordPress core

    The platform itself, including the small point releases that carry its security and maintenance fixes.

  • Plugins

    Every installed plugin, with a daily check of the whole list against a published feed of known vulnerabilities running underneath.

  • Themes

    The active theme and the parent it builds on. A theme release can change how pages look, which is exactly what the before-and-after comparison exists to catch.

  • Premium software, while licensed

    A paid plugin or theme only receives updates while its license is active. Licenses stay in your name, and you pay the vendor directly.

Your host changes the method

Where your host provides SSH, a direct, secured command line to the server, the work is done from outside the site, and no management plugin is installed on it.

Some budget shared hosts do not provide it. The choices then are plain: move the site to a host that does, arranged at the start of the plan, or run a lighter method through a connector tool where your host allows it.

Staging also comes from the host: where your hosting includes a staging copy, every release is tried there first. Where it does not, the export and the page comparison still stand between a bad release and your visitors.

Backups that do not live on your host

The database is exported before every update, and separately the site's files and database are backed up, encrypted, and stored away from the server the site runs on. A backup that lives on the same server disappears with it on the one day it is needed.

When a rollback or a restore is called for, the site is put back from a copy rather than rebuilt by hand.

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Monitoring, and what it does not promise

Every plan watches the site from the outside and raises an alert when it stops answering. A month of it looks like the example here: mostly quiet, one bad day, one alert.

The limits are stated rather than implied: no check interval is promised, no response time in hours, and no overnight desk. When the alert comes, the outage is looked at, and fix work draws on the plan's edit hours or is billed at $125 an hour.

A hack is a different event from an outage. Cleanup is separate, quoted work on any plan; the update order and the daily vulnerability check exist to make it rare, not impossible.

One month of uptime monitoring

Example month. Not real data.

One outage during the month, marked in red. An alert went out to the owner when the monitor caught it.

Starting WordPress maintenance on your site

It starts with no logins and no charge: send your site's address through the free website health check, and a person looks at the site the way any visitor can, then emails a written report within 3 business days.

A plan opens with a deeper, read-only review, this time with logins: every plugin listed with its version and license status, the theme and the PHP version, who actually owns the hosting, domain, and DNS accounts (DNS being the records that point your domain at your server), whether admin logins use two-factor, and how backups and staging stand. The findings arrive in plain English, marked red, yellow, or green, and end in a list for the first month.

Questions about WordPress maintenance

How often is a WordPress site updated under a plan?

Security releases go on as soon as they appear. Ordinary feature releases for core, plugins, and themes are held for a few days, then run through the full order: export, staging where the host has one, comparison, live. No fixed weekday is promised.

Can an update still break my site?

It can; that is why the order exists. The data is exported first, the release is tried on a staging copy where your host has one, and key pages are compared before and after, so a bad release is either caught before visitors meet it or rolled back from the export.

Are premium plugin and theme licenses included?

No. Licenses stay in your name and you pay the vendors directly, and a paid plugin only receives updates while its license is active. The plan is the labor, not the software.

What happens if the site is hacked anyway?

Cleanup is separate, quoted work; it is not inside any plan. The updates and the daily vulnerability check exist to make that day unlikely, and monitoring means a site that goes down from it raises an alert.

Does it matter who hosts my WordPress site?

Yes. The full method needs SSH access, which many hosts provide and some budget shared hosts do not. Where it is missing, the options are a move to a host that has it, arranged at onboarding, or a lighter connector-based method where your host allows it.

  • Website maintenance plans

    Three plans at published prices, $99 to $349 a month, each listed with what it holds and what it leaves out.

  • Website maintenance services

    The core service: careful updates, backups stored off your server, monitoring with alerts, and a monthly report.

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