WordPress maintenance services that keep your site fast, secure, and online
We look after the updates, backups, security, and monitoring for 150 plus WordPress sites at once. Hand us yours and stop worrying about it.
Last updated · Reviewed by Ali Yasin Jatoi
Related: emergency WordPress support, WordPress security hardening, WordPress speed optimisation
30 day money back · No lock in contract · A real engineer, never a ticket queue
Most sites only get attention after something breaks
Plugins and core fall behind until an update finally breaks the layout
Backups exist in theory but nobody has ever tested a restore
There is no one accountable when the site slows down or goes offline
What WordPress maintenance services actually cover, week by week
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Week one, baseline and clean up
We inventory every plugin, theme, and core version, record current page speed and uptime, take a full offsite backup, and restore it into a private clone to prove the backup works. You get the findings in plain English before anything is changed.
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Every week, tested updates
Plugin, theme, and core updates run on a staging clone first, with a visual check of the pages that make you money. Only then do they touch the live site. If an update breaks something, it never reaches your visitors.
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Every day, watching
Uptime checks every minute, malware and file integrity scanning, and daily offsite backups with a monthly restore test. If something goes down at 2am, we know before you do.
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Every month, a real report
One page, no jargon. What was updated, what broke and how it was fixed, how the site performed, and what we recommend next. Written by the engineer who did the work.
What you get
- Weekly plugin, theme, and WordPress core updates, staged and visually checked before going live
- Daily offsite backups, kept independent of your host, with a restore tested every month
- Uptime monitoring at one minute intervals with alerting to a named engineer, not a queue
- Malware scanning, file integrity checks, and hardening of wp-admin, XML-RPC, and file permissions
- Performance work: caching, image handling, database cleanup, and Core Web Vitals kept in the green
- Unlimited small content and fix requests, handled by the same engineer who knows your site
- A plain English monthly report that ties every hour of work to a business outcome
What changes for you
- You stop thinking about your website and run the business
- Updates, backups, and security are handled on a schedule
- One operator is accountable for the whole site
Questions, answered
What are WordPress maintenance services?+
WordPress maintenance services are the ongoing technical work that keeps a live site safe, fast, and online: tested plugin and core updates, daily offsite backups with verified restores, security monitoring, uptime checks, performance tuning, and a named engineer to call when something breaks. It is the difference between a site that is owned and a site that is merely published.
How much do WordPress maintenance services cost?+
Real engineer led maintenance runs from $99 a month for a single site. Plugin only automated services sell for $15 to $30 a month but nobody tests the update or answers the phone. At the other end, agencies charge $500 to $2,000 a month, usually bundled with marketing retainers you may not need. Our Care plan is $99, Care Plus is $199, and Scale is $799.
What is included in a WordPress maintenance plan?+
Weekly staged updates, daily verified offsite backups, uptime monitoring, malware scanning and hardening, performance and Core Web Vitals work, unlimited small fixes, and a monthly report. Emergency triage inside four hours is included on every plan.
Do I really need WordPress maintenance, or can I do it myself?+
You can do it yourself if you are willing to test updates on a staging copy every week, verify a restore every month, and be available when the site goes down on a Saturday. Most owners manage this for about two months. The honest answer is that maintenance is not hard, it is relentless, and that is what people actually pay to hand over.
What is a WordPress care plan?+
It is ongoing management of your site. Plugin and core updates, daily verified backups, security monitoring, performance work, and on demand fixes, all handled for you from $99 a month.
How often should WordPress be updated?+
Security releases go on within 24 hours. Everything else runs on a weekly cycle so updates are batched, staged, and checked together rather than pushed one at a time to a live site. Sites left more than a month behind are where most compromises start.
Can I keep my current developer?+
Yes. Many founders keep us as the technical safety net while their developer builds features. We handle maintenance, security, monitoring, and emergencies so nothing slips.
How fast do you respond?+
Standard requests get a clear next step within 24 hours. Site down or hacked emergencies are triaged within 4 hours by a senior engineer.
Is there a contract?+
No long term contract. You can cancel anytime and every plan is backed by a 30 day money back guarantee.
Related services
Hosting support
Your managed host keeps the server running. We keep WordPress itself healthy on top of it. Plugins, updates, performance, security, and emergencies on WP Engine, Kinsta, SiteGround, Cloudways, Hostinger, Pressable, Rocket.net, or any host you already use.
See Hosting support details MaintenanceBackup and restore
We set up, test, and verify offsite backups, then restore cleanly when something goes wrong. A backup you have never tested is not a backup.
See Backup and restore details MaintenanceCore update help
We test every major WordPress release in staging first, so updates never break your theme, plugins, or checkout the way a blind one click update can.
See Core update help details MaintenanceTheme update fixes
When a theme update wrecks your layout, fonts, or mobile view, we diagnose the conflict, restore your customizations, and protect them with a proper child theme.
See Theme update fixes detailsMore Maintenance services
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Real outcomes
Specific work, specific numbers.
- 57 → 35 · Active plugins after audit0 · Storefront downtime during the rescue
US furniture store: 57 plugins, staged rescue
A US furniture retailer had 57 active plugins layered over 4 years of patchwork. The team would not touch updates because every update broke something. We built a full staging clone, audited every plugin, removed 22, and stabilised the live storefront with zero downtime. Full recorded evidence is available on request during a discovery call.
Read the case study - 32 sites · Stabilised in one weekend0 · Customer reported issues during the work
Agency network: 32 sites stabilised in one weekend
An agency inherited a 32 site WordPress multisite network from a former partner. Three sites were down, four had silent form failures, and the network admin had not been updated in 18 months. We stabilised the entire network in one weekend window. Full recorded evidence is available on request during a discovery call.
Read the case study
Helpful guides
Honest reading from the engineers who do the work.
- Comparison · 7 minBest WordPress Maintenance Services in 2026: Honest Ranked Comparison
- Pricing · 8 minHow much does WordPress maintenance cost in 2026?
- Guides · 8 minThe WordPress maintenance checklist for 2026
Let us take this off your plate
Book a call and we will review your site before recommending anything. No admin credentials needed to start.
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
No pitch. We will show evidence relevant to your site.
One service, one system
Every service sits inside the same engineering discipline.