WordPress maintenance that keeps the site boring in a good way.
WordPress maintenance covers updates, backups, uptime watches, and small fixes so your site does not become a weekend emergency. Steady care beats heroic recoveries.
Fit
Who this is for.
Owners of business-critical WordPress sites who want someone accountable for updates and basic health.
Best when the site is already reasonably clean. If the stack is a plugin museum, we may need a rebuild first.
A good fit when
Production WordPress that needs routine updates and monitoring
You want staging-tested updates instead of blind clicks
Small content and CSS fixes between larger projects
You need a clear monthly report of what changed
Not a fit when
Abandoned spam sites
Emergency malware cleanup as a surprise under a cheap retainer without triage
Agencies wanting white-label bulk care with no access to decision makers
Focus
What maintenance prevents.
Quiet failures that turn into outages.
Skipped updates
Core and plugins drift until something breaks loudly.
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Backup theater
Backups that exist but were never restore-tested.
02
Uptime surprises
Nobody notices downtime until a customer emails.
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Drive-by edits
Tiny requests that accumulate into risk without notes.
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Scope
What is included.
Retainers define hours, response times, and what counts as a small fix.
Update cadence
Core, plugins, and themes on a schedule with staging when possible.
01
Monitoring
Uptime checks and alert paths you actually see.
02
Hardening basics
Least-privilege users, sensible backups, and obvious attack surface reductions.
03
Small fixes
Copy, CSS, and light PHP within the hour budget.
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Process
How care runs.
Predictable rhythm. Clear notes.
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Onboard
Access, staging, backup verification, and baseline health.
02
Cadence
Scheduled updates and checks.
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Fixes
Small tickets inside the monthly budget.
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Report
What changed, what failed, what should be a project.
What you leave with
Monthly change log
Verified backup and update routine
Uptime alerting configured
A list of issues that need a real project
Limits
Honest limits.
Maintenance is not unlimited product development.
Large features graduate to a build sprint.
Compromised sites may need a separate incident engagement.
I will recommend a rebuild when care alone is reckless.
FAQ
Questions about maintenance.
Hours, emergencies, and hosting.
Response windows are defined in the retainer. True 24/7 NOC is a different product.
I can work on your hosting or recommend options. Hosting bills stay in your name unless we agree otherwise.
Usually copy, CSS, plugin settings, and light template edits. New templates or checkout flows are projects.
Yes after a health check. Sometimes the honest answer is rebuild first.
Next
Related work.
Care pairs with setup and occasional SEO checks.
WordPress setup
Clean installs and rebuilds with performance, SEO basics, and editorial workflows set up from day one.
01
Technical SEO audit
Crawlability, indexation, Core Web Vitals, and on-page signals. You get a prioritized fix list, not an 80-page dump.
02
Web development
Websites and web apps on maintainable stacks. Shipping the product, not a slideshow of frameworks.
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Start a trial
A short paid trial to see how we work together before locking a larger scope.
