WordPress maintenance plans, built by people who fix WordPress for a living
WordPress care plans from $99 to $799 per month. Tested updates, verified restores, a named engineer from Care Plus up, and a 30 day money back guarantee. Cancel any time. No lock in contract.
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The best WordPress maintenance plans of 2026
Four WordPress maintenance plans, ranked by site size and SLA: Care $99/mo, Care Plus $199/mo, Commerce $349/mo, and Scale $799/mo. Every plan is month to month, backed by a 30 day money back guarantee, and includes tested updates, verified restores, and a human engineer reply within 8 to 12 hours. Care runs on a shared engineering queue; a named engineer starts at Care Plus.
Pay month to month. Cancel any time.
Care
For brochure and small business sites that need to stay safe and current.
$99 /mo
Billed monthly
Best for: 1 site under 5,000 visits a month
What it protects
Protects roughly $30k to $120k a year in leads and search traffic that vanish the moment an unmaintained WordPress site breaks or gets flagged.
↳ One prevented outage or malware cleanup pays for the whole year.
- Tested plugin, theme, and core updates (a human, not a cron job)
- Daily offsite backups with verified restores, opened on staging to prove they work (30 day retention)
- Uptime and security monitoring, we hear about it before you do
- A human engineer replies within 8 to 12 hours, from a shared engineering queue
- Monthly summary in plain language, no jargon dump
- Cloud staging on request
No credit card to start. We onboard inside 48 hours.
Care Plus
For growing sites and lead generation that cannot afford downtime.
$199 /mo
Billed monthly
Best for: 1 site up to 50,000 visits a month
What it protects
Keeps a lead generation site earning. On a site doing 20 leads a day at $200 average, one caught form regression pays back 20x in a single afternoon.
↳ Recovers its cost the first time we catch a broken contact form or a slow page dropping Core Web Vitals.
- Everything in Care
- A human engineer replies within 8 to 12 hours, and fix work starts inside that window
- Performance tuning and Core Web Vitals work every quarter
- A named engineer who knows your site, replies in the same thread
- Small content and fix requests included (30 min / mo, rolls forward)
- Permanent staging environment with one click sync
No credit card to start. We onboard inside 48 hours.
Commerce
For WooCommerce and high traffic sites where every hour costs money.
$349 /mo
Billed monthly
Best for: WooCommerce, membership, LMS, 50k+ visits / mo
What it protects
Insures the checkout. A store doing $5k a day loses about $208 an hour to any outage. Checkout monitoring flags it early, and a senior engineer replies within 8 to 12 hours.
↳ One prevented checkout outage a year covers the entire plan five times over.
- Everything in Care Plus
- WooCommerce checkout, cart, and payment gateway monitoring
- A human engineer replies within 8 to 12 hours on store issues
- Staging plus database safe deploys, no wiped orders
- Quarterly security and speed deep review with a Loom walkthrough
- Hosting recommendations. Migrations are quoted per project after the Website Takeover Review ($249)
No credit card to start. We onboard inside 48 hours.
Scale
For brands and agencies running mission critical WordPress that simply cannot go down.
$799 /mo
Billed monthly
Best for: Multi site, 250k+ visits / mo, regulated industries
What it protects
Enterprise-grade continuity without the enterprise agency fee. On a portfolio doing $50k+ a day, a named lead engineer who already knows the stack is the difference between a footnote and a board-level incident.
↳ One avoided board-level incident, one passed security questionnaire, or one enterprise-grade audit trail justifies the year.
- Everything in Commerce
- Dedicated lead engineer and backup engineer, both named
- A human engineer replies within 8 to 12 hours on store issues
- Real time uptime, performance, and security dashboard, shared with your team
- Monthly engineering call and quarterly roadmap in writing
- Custom SLA, NDA, and security questionnaire support
No credit card to start. We onboard inside 48 hours.
30 day money back guarantee. No lock in contract. Cancel anytime.
Compare the WordPress care plans side by side
Everything in every plan, in one table. No fine print buried in a footer.
Plugin, theme, core updates
Care: Tested weekly
Care Plus: Tested weekly
Commerce: Tested weekly
Scale: Tested weekly + change review
Offsite backups
Care: Daily, 30 day
Care Plus: Daily, 60 day
Commerce: Hourly, 90 day
Scale: Hourly, 12 month + cold archive
Uptime monitoring
Care: 5 minute
Care Plus: 1 minute
Commerce: 30 second
Scale: 30 second + real user monitoring
Malware scanning
Care: Daily
Care Plus: Daily
Commerce: Hourly
Scale: Continuous
Malware cleanup if hit
Care: Included
Care Plus: Included
Commerce: Included
Scale: Included + forensics report
Standard response
Care: 8 to 12 hours
Care Plus: 8 to 12 hours
Commerce: 8 to 12 hours
Scale: 8 to 12 hours
Emergency response (site down / hacked / checkout broken)
Care: 8 to 12 hours
Care Plus: 8 to 12 hours
Commerce: 8 to 12 hours
Scale: 8 to 12 hours
Performance tuning
Care: On request
Care Plus: Included
Commerce: Included + quarterly review
Scale: Included + monthly review
Content and fix requests
Care: Hourly billed
Care Plus: 30 min / mo
Commerce: 2 hours / mo
Scale: 6 hours / mo
Staging environment
Care: On request
Care Plus: Permanent
Commerce: Permanent + DB safe deploy
Scale: Permanent + multi env
WooCommerce monitoring
Care: No
Care Plus: No
Commerce: Yes
Scale: Yes + payment gateway alerts
Named engineer
Care: Shared queue
Care Plus: Yes
Commerce: Yes
Scale: Lead + backup engineer
Money back guarantee
Care: 30 days
Care Plus: 30 days
Commerce: 30 days
Scale: 30 days
WordPress care plans explained, in plain language
A WordPress care plan is a monthly subscription where a team of engineers keeps your WordPress site online, updated, backed up, secure, and fast, so you do not have to think about it. The good ones replace four jobs you would otherwise hire separately: a sysadmin, a security analyst, a backup operator, and a developer on call. The cheap ones replace none of them and just run a script.
Tested updates, not auto updates
A human runs every plugin, theme, and core update on staging, checks the homepage, contact form, checkout, and key URLs, then pushes to production. Auto updates break sites quietly. We do not use them.
Verified restores
Daily backup, stored offsite in a separate provider, restored to staging once a month to prove it actually restores. A backup that has never been tested is a guess.
Security monitoring and cleanup
Malware scans, firewall, login lockdown, file integrity checks. If you get hit while on a plan, the cleanup is included. No surprise invoice.
A real human to email
Care requests go to a shared engineering queue. From Care Plus up you get a named engineer who knows your site, and Scale adds a lead and backup engineer.
How WordPress care plans compare to alternatives
A managed host (Kinsta, WP Engine, Cloudways) keeps the server healthy but will not test your plugins, fix a broken contact form, or clean malware out of your theme files. A freelancer is cheaper per hour but disappears on holiday. A care plan covers everything the host does not, with response times in writing and a team behind it. Most site breaks start with an untested update, which is why our plugin update routine runs on staging first, and why Commerce watches the cart: a checkout that stops working loses orders silently. Weighing a bigger agency? See how we stack up as a WP Site Care alternative.
Comparing us to someone specific?
Side by side breakdowns of price, SLA, scope, and what is actually included.
WordPress maintenance pricing FAQ
Straight answers to what people actually ask before signing up.
How much do WordPress maintenance plans cost?+
Honest WordPress maintenance plans run between $99 and $799 per month, depending on traffic, whether the site sells anything, and how fast you need a human when something breaks. Our Care plan starts at $99/mo for small sites, Care Plus is $199/mo for growing lead gen sites, Commerce is $349/mo for WooCommerce, and Scale is $799/mo for mission critical multi site setups. Anything cheaper than $79 is usually a script running updates with no human review, which is how sites get broken in the first place.
What does a WordPress maintenance plan include?+
A real WordPress care plan should cover four things: tested updates (a human checks the site after every plugin update, not a script), verified restores (the backup is opened on staging to prove it restores), uptime and security monitoring (you find out before your customers do), and a human you can email when something breaks. Ours adds performance tuning, a named engineer from Care Plus up, and a 30 day money back guarantee.
How do I choose the best WordPress maintenance plan?+
Start from how much money the site makes or saves you per day of uptime. If the site is a brochure that brings 2 leads a week, Care at $99/mo is the right shape. If the site brings 20 leads a day or runs a booking flow, Care Plus pays for itself the first time we catch a broken contact form. If you sell on WooCommerce, Commerce is the only honest pick because checkout monitoring flags lost sales early.
Why do you need a WordPress maintenance plan?+
WordPress runs 43% of the web because anyone can extend it with plugins, and that same flexibility is why unmaintained WordPress sites get hacked, slow down, or simply break after an auto update. A care plan is the difference between finding out your site is down from a customer email versus a monitoring alert our engineers are already watching, with fix work starting inside the 8 to 12 hour response window.
Are WordPress maintenance plans worth it for small sites?+
If your site is older than 12 months and you have not touched it, yes. We see two failure patterns on small sites: silent SEO collapse from broken plugin updates that you only notice 3 months later when leads dry up, and ransom emails from sites that got injected with spam. Both are cheaper to prevent at $99/mo than to recover from.
Can I cancel anytime?+
Yes. Every plan is month to month, no lock in contract, no cancellation fee. If you cancel inside the first 30 days we refund the full month. We keep your offsite backups for 30 more days after cancellation so you have time to migrate cleanly.
Do you cover WooCommerce, LMS, and membership sites?+
Yes. WooCommerce, LearnDash, Tutor LMS, MemberPress, Restrict Content Pro, Easy Digital Downloads, BuddyBoss, and the standard page builders (Elementor, Bricks, Beaver, Divi, Oxygen) are all on our Commerce plan with checkout and login flow monitoring.
What happens if my site gets hacked while on a plan?+
We clean it. Malware removal, blacklist removal, hardening, and a post mortem are included on every plan. We do not charge extra for emergencies if you are already on a plan with us, because that is the whole point of being on a plan.
Not sure which WordPress care plan fits?
Book a free 20 minute call. We open the site, look at hosting, plugins, backups, and tell you which plan makes sense. No pitch, no obligation.
A human engineer replies within 8 to 12 hours.