WordPress maintenance, updates and backups
We keep WordPress, your theme and your plugins up to date, and test each round of updates so they do not break forms, checkouts or page layouts. Your site is backed up off-site, and we check that backups actually restore. It is all part of a care plan for a fixed monthly fee.
Part of Care · Updated
What’s included
- Core, theme and plugin updates
- Applied on a regular schedule, with security fixes applied promptly.
- Testing after updates
- Key pages, forms and checkouts checked after each round of updates.
- Off-site backups
- Backups stored away from your hosting, so a server problem cannot take them with it.
- Restore checks
- We check that backups restore, because a backup nobody has tested is a guess.
- Plugin review
- Unused and abandoned plugins identified and removed, which makes the site faster and safer.
- A record of every change
- Every update listed in your monthly written report.
Frequently asked questions
What is included in a website maintenance package?
Our care plans cover hosting, security, updates, backups, monitoring and a written monthly report. Managed and Partner plans add content changes, and Partner adds quarterly improvement work. Every plan is a fixed monthly fee, quoted in writing.
How often should a WordPress site be updated?
Security updates should be applied promptly, and everything else reviewed at least monthly. Sites left without updates for months are among the easiest to break into and the hardest to update safely later.
What if an update breaks something?
We test after updates and can roll back to the previous version or restore a backup. You see what changed, and why, in your monthly report.
More Care services
- Hosting and security
Managed hosting and security, registered to you.
- Monitoring and incident response
Downtime, forms and checkouts watched around the clock.
- Content changes
Send us the change and we make it.
- Monthly written report
What we checked, what we fixed and what we recommend next.
Tell us what your website needs to do.
We reply within one working day with honest next steps.