WordPress Maintenance Plans

We do offer custom development as a supplement to our ongoing care plans. If you have a larger project that requires custom work and is outside the scope of our care plans, we’re happy to do it as an addition to our ongoing maintenance of your website.

Custom development is $80/hr. You’ll detail the project to our technical team and we’ll give you an accurate estimate for how much time it takes. We’ll start working only once you give us the green light to move forward.

WordPress updates are changes made to code. This may be the code of the core WordPress software, your theme, or your plugins.

WordPress updates show up in your admin dashboard as a bright red notification. They signal that software you have installed, whether activated or deactivated, is in need of a refresh.

With just a few clicks, you can push an update from a developer to your WordPress website. But we highly recommend taking safety precautions like doing a full backup of your site before doing updates, performing updates on a staging site first, or simply having your webmaster manage all your updates.

Every piece of software installed on your server must be kept up-to-date if you want your site to run in tip-top shape. This is why you use tools built by trustworthy developers and designers who are accountable to their software and keep it updated on a regular basis.

There are a number of reasons why a WordPress developer might see fit to update the code of their software and send it over to your website:

Security patches: code is highly susceptible to infiltration and infection, which is why you’ll often see security updates issued for the purposes of patching bugs.
Performance upgrades: even if you’ve installed well-trusted and well-reviewed plugins and themes, performance can degrade over time as software or code becomes obsolete. Performance patches are issued to ensure that your WordPress software doesn’t have a negative effect on speed.
New features: the web is always changing, which is why any good developer (including those behind WordPress itself) will pay attention to changing trends. As they change, it’s crucial to keep software in line so that websites may continue to align with the modern user experience.

Your website is comprised of files and software that you’ve uploaded to your server as well as a database full of content and data. A backup is a copy of all this “stuff” that makes up a WordPress website. That copy is then stored somewhere for safe keeping.

We have plenty of automated tools that will check the status of your website(s). They actually ping your website(s) every minute of every day.

These pings simply check to make sure your site isn’t giving a 400/500 error. If it is, our team knows within 60 seconds that something is wrong and starts troubleshooting the issue immediately to get it addressed as quickly as possible.