WordPress Maintenance
That Prevents Problems

Plans start at $150/month for Starter Care (small sites and blogs) and $350/month for Business Care (real-time backups, staged updates and priority support). WooCommerce Care is $550/month and exists for live stores, because a store needs checkout, order and payment gateway monitoring that a website plan does not include. UK clients see an approximate GBP equivalent on the pricing table; local currency invoicing is available where agreed.

Weekly core, plugin and theme updates applied in staging first, daily automated off-site backups, 24/7 security monitoring, malware scanning, uptime tracking, database optimisation, broken link checks and emergency support. Business Care adds real-time backups, bi-weekly performance optimisation and a 24-hour response target.

Yes. Hosting backups are typically whole-server snapshots taken daily or weekly. WordPress maintenance adds a backup taken immediately before every update, plugin conflict testing in staging, WordPress-specific security hardening, and an immediate restore when an update breaks functionality. Hosting support will not debug a plugin conflict for you.

WordPress core should be updated within 48 hours of a security release. Plugins need weekly review and selective updates — never all at once — to keep conflicts diagnosable. Themes need a compatibility check before updating. Professional maintenance runs updates in a staging environment first, then production, with rollback ready.

Yes, but as a separate service. A store fails in ways a website does not: payment methods stop rendering, orders fail to complete, a restore loses the orders placed since the last snapshot. WooCommerce Care adds checkout flow testing, payment gateway health checks, daily order monitoring, order-safe real-time backups and 4-hour emergency response. If you sell online, that is the plan you want.

We restore immediately from the pre-update backup taken moments before, then diagnose the conflict in staging — plugin incompatibility, theme issue or PHP version mismatch — fix it, and re-apply the update safely. Emergency response is 48 hours on Starter Care, 24 hours on Business Care and 4 hours on WooCommerce Care.

Yes. That is what the onboarding audit is for. A neglected site is not simply "many updates behind" — plugin versions may have diverged far enough that updating in the wrong order breaks things, and some abandoned plugins need replacing rather than updating. You get the priority fix list before any maintenance work starts, so there are no surprises on either side.