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WordPress care plans from $99 to $799 per month. Tested updates, verified daily backups, a named engineer, and a 30 day money back guarantee. Cancel any time. No lock in contract.

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Reviewed by Ali Yasin Jatoi, Founder & Lead Engineer· Updated 2026-07-03

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 offsite backups, and a named engineer you can email.

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,$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 verified offsite backups, opened on staging to prove they restore (30 day retention)
  • Uptime and security monitoring, we hear about it before you do
  • 12 hour standard response on weekdays, same-day emergency triage
  • Monthly summary in plain language, no jargon dump
  • Cloud staging on request
Start with Care

No credit card to start. We onboard inside 48 hours.

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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-gen site earning while you sleep. 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
  • 8 hour standard response, 4 hour emergency triage, 7 days a week
  • Performance tuning and Core Web Vitals work every quarter
  • Priority access to a named engineer, replies in the same thread
  • Small content and fix requests included (30 min / mo, rolls forward)
  • Permanent staging environment with 1-click sync
Start with Care Plus

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. This plan catches it the same hour, 24/7, before Stripe emails a decline batch.

One prevented checkout outage a year covers the entire plan five times over.

  • Everything in Care Plus
  • WooCommerce checkout, cart, and payment gateway monitoring
  • 4 hour standard response, 1 hour emergency response, 24/7
  • Staging plus database-safe deploys, no wiped orders
  • Quarterly security and speed deep review with a Loom walkthrough
  • Hosting recommendations and free migration to Kinsta, WP Engine, or Cloudways
Start with Commerce

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 15-minute triage window 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
  • 1 hour standard response, 15 minute emergency response, 24/7
  • 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
Start with Scale

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: 12 hours, weekdays

Care Plus: 8 hours, 7 days

Commerce: 4 hours, 24/7

Scale: 1 hour, 24/7

Emergency response (site down / hacked / checkout broken)

Care: Same day, weekdays

Care Plus: 4 hours, 7 days

Commerce: 1 hour, 24/7

Scale: 15 minute, 24/7

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 offsite backups

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

Named engineer on Care Plus and Commerce. You get a person who knows your site, not a ticket queue and a chat bot.

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.

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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 offsite backups (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, 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 catches lost sales the same hour.

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 Slack alert at 2am that we already fixed.

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 15 minute site review. We open the site, look at hosting, plugins, backups, and tell you which plan makes sense. No pitch, no obligation.

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Evidence on request

Every fix is recorded. Every outcome is verifiable.

We have 500 plus recorded engineer sessions covering migrations, malware cleanups, speed wins, and emergency recoveries. Most clients are under NDA, so we cannot publish them publicly. On a 20 minute discovery call we will show you the recordings, dashboards, and before and after numbers most relevant to your situation.

  • Loom walkthroughs of real client recoveries, narrated by the engineer who did the work.
  • Anonymised case files with PageSpeed, GSC, and uptime evidence, NDA respected.
  • References from named clients available on the call when there is a fit.

On your discovery call you will see

500+

Recorded fixes

150+

Founder track record

100%

Confidential

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