The 27 Point WordPress Maintenance Checklist
The same monthly checklist we run for our own clients. Copy it, hand it to your team, or use it to grade your current provider.
- Confirm a full offsite backup ran in the last 24 hours
- Test restore one backup to a staging copy at least monthly
- Run WordPress core update in staging, smoke test, then push live
- Update plugins in batches, never blindly all at once
- Update themes, especially parent themes used by child themes
- Check PHP version is supported and on a current minor release
- … and 21 more in the full PDF.
What is inside the full 27 point checklist
The download is the exact monthly ritual we run on the 150+ WordPress sites we manage. It is grouped into five phases so you can hand it to a junior engineer, a VA, or your current care provider and see, line by line, what they actually do.
Backups and restore
Prove the backup ran, then prove it restores. Most providers skip step two until an incident forces them to.
Core, plugin, and theme updates
Staging first, batched, tested, rolled back cleanly. Never the one click blind update that took your checkout offline.
Security and access
Malware scan, admin audit, 2FA, SSL, and the two file permission checks most WordFence tutorials miss.
Performance and Core Web Vitals
LCP, CLS, INP, cache warming, and the database cleanup that quietly speeds up every page.
SEO hygiene
Sitemap, robots, 404 log, broken link sweep, and the redirect map most sites forget after a migration.
Reporting and handover
The one page monthly report format your CFO will actually read, plus the risk register for next month.
Do not have time to run this yourself?
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