WordPress Website Maintenance Plans
Owning a website is only half the battle. Maintaining it can be time-consuming and often require that an additional employee be hired. Take the stress out of maintaining your WordPress website and keep your site operational, safe and secure. Choose one of my WordPress website maintenance plans:
| The Basic | The Prime | The Fix-It | |
$75PER MONTH | $185PER MONTH | $375EMERGENCYONE TIME ONLY |
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| WordPress Core Updates | Weekly | Weekly | One Time Only |
| Plugin Updates | Weekly | Weekly | One Time Only |
| Database Backup | Weekly | Weekly | One Time Only |
Site Security ScanYour website is scanned for known malware, blacklisting status, website errors, and out-of-date software. Helps to keep your site secure. | |||
Theme BackupBackup of your WordPress theme (some people call it a template or skin), to insure that any changed files are up-to-date. | |||
Database OptimizationWordPress website content is saved in a database. This step helps to maximize the speed and efficiency with which data is retrieved. | |||
SPAM CleanupCheck for and remove any SPAM in your comments or other sections of your site. | |||
Broken Link Check + FixChecks all of your links within the site to insure they are still active and correct. This can be helpful if you change page titles or urls, or if an external link is no longer valid. | |||
Uptime MonitoringMonitoring of your website server performance for any times that it may go offline. Lots of downtime on a site can mean that something is not functioning properly, and that should be addressed ASAP when it occurs. | N/A | ||
Load Time CheckUse of a tool to check page load time and indicate how long it takes for a page to fully load in the browser after a user clicks a link or makes a request. Page load time can affect your website’s SEO. | |||
Site Edits Edits of site content and/or creation of supporting site graphics. Site edit time can be rolled over for up to 3 billing cycles. Any time not used after the 3rd consecutive billing cycle will be forfeited. | 30 mins./Mo. | 1 hour/Mo. | 2 hours |
| Reports | Monthly | One time w/recommendations | |
| Cancellation | Any time w/30 days notice | Any time w/30 days notice | N/A |
| Payments | Recurring via PayPal* | Recurring via PayPal* | Online via PayPal* |
| Sign Up | Sign Up | Sign Up |
| The Basic | |
$75PER MONTH |
|
| WordPress Core Updates | Weekly |
| Plugin Updates | Weekly |
| Database Backup | Weekly |
| Site Security Scan | |
| Theme Backup | |
| Database Optimization | |
| SPAM Cleanup | |
| Broken Link Check + Fix | |
| Uptime Monitoring | |
| Load Time Check | |
| Site Edits | 30 mins./Mo. |
| Reports | |
| Cancellation | Any time w/30 days notice |
| Payments | Recurring via PayPal* |
| Definitions | Sign Up |
| The Prime | |
$185PER MONTH |
|
| WordPress Core Updates | Weekly |
| Plugin Updates | Weekly |
| Database Backup | Weekly |
| Site Security Scan | |
| Theme Backup | |
| Database Optimization | |
| SPAM Cleanup | |
| Broken Link Check + Fix | |
| Uptime Monitoring | |
| Load Time Check | |
| Site Edits | 1 hour/Mo. |
| Reports | Monthly |
| Cancellation | Any time w/30 days notice |
| Payments | Recurring via PayPal* |
| Definitions | Sign Up |
| The Fix-It | |
$375EMERGENCYONE TIME ONLY |
|
| WordPress Core Updates | One Time Only |
| Plugin Updates | One Time Only |
| Database Backup | One Time Only |
| Site Security Scan | |
| Theme Backup | |
| Database Optimization | |
| SPAM Cleanup | |
| Broken Link Check + Fix | |
| Uptime Monitoring | N/A |
| Load Time Check | |
| Site Edits | 2 hours |
| Reports | One time w/recommendations |
| Cancellation | N/A |
| Payments | Online via PayPal* |
| Definitions | Sign Up |
You’ve taken a great step. Your website is built on the WordPress platform, so that means that you have control over your website content. You can make changes to the text whenever necessary. But every time you log in to your site, that little message at the top of the dashboard is there to greet you with:
WordPress 5.7.2 is now available! Please update.
…and to add to the frustration, you have several plugins that require updates as well!
Do you find yourself thinking, “It’s just easier to ignore it. After all my site still works, right? Besides, if I update, it might break my whole website!”? In reality, because the security of a WordPress website is dependent on updates, it is very important that you update whenever a new version of WordPress comes out.
WordPress developers take security very seriously, but as with any other system, there are potential security issues that may arise and there are always trade offs when balancing security and convenience. Keep up to date with the latest WP version: The WordPress developers do not maintain security patches for older WordPress versions. Once a new version has been released or the vulnerability has been fixed then the information required to exploit the vulnerability is almost certainly in the public domain making any old versions more open to attack.1
WordPress Website Maintenance Plan – Definitions
• Site Security Scan: Scan your website for known malware, blacklisting status, website errors, and out-of-date software. Helps to keep your site secure.
• Theme Backup: Backup of your WordPress theme (some people call it a template or skin), to insure that any changed files are up-to-date.
• SPAM Cleanup: Check and remove any SPAM in your comments or other sections of your site.
• Database Optimization: WordPress website content is saved in a database. This step helps to maximize the speed and efficiency with which data is retrieved.
• Broken Link Check + Fix: Checks all of your links within the site to insure they are still active and correct. This can be helpful if you change page titles or urls, or if an external link is no longer valid.
• Uptime Monitoring: Monitoring of your website server performance for any times that it may go offline. Lots of downtime on a site can mean that something is not functioning properly, and that should be addressed ASAP when it occurs.
• Load Time Check: Use of a tool to check page load time and indicate how long it takes for a page to fully load in the browser after a user clicks a link or makes a request. Page load time can affect your website’s SEO.
• Site Edits: Edits of site content and/or creation of supporting site graphics. Site edit time can be rolled over for up to 3 billing cycles. Any time not used after the 3rd consecutive billing cycle will be forfeited.
* All maintenance plans are only payable via recurring payment by credit or debit card through PayPal.
1 From WordPress.org.