WordPress Website Maintenance
updated 11/17/24
We offer ongoing website maintenance packages on a monthly basis. A website needs maintenance to stay healthy. Hackers find vulnerabilities in outdated website components. We keep your website secure and selectively updated to reduce your risks. We do not automatically update to every new version of a theme or plugin. Some companies are prone to buggy releases; we update themes and plugins that we believe are ready for your website.
Basic Maintenance Plan
- Urgent update of a vulnerable plugin or theme
- Update WordPress with stable new version
- Update plugins with stable new versions
- Update themes with stable new version
- Check email logs and clear if valid
- Clean up comments
Advantage Maintenance Plan
- Everything from Basic Maintenance Plan
- Uptime monitoring from Sucuri
- Check for valid daily backups
- Identify “not found” pages and adding redirects
- Check of Google Analytics, Google Search Console
- Flag any new trends
- Email to you when completed
Our maintenance plans are for those clients who prefer not to be responsible for updating website components like themes, plugins and WordPress versions.
I recently read an analogy comparing websites to cars – both need regular maintenance to keep running well. A poorly maintained car is apt to break down at the worst possible time. A website that is ignored for months (or years) is more vulnerable to hackers.
Additional Website Tasks
We can also manage these tasks for clients.
- Consolidating all domains at one registrar
- Optimizing websites for faster loading and improved Google PageSpeed Insights score
- Moving your website to a more reliable / faster host
- Cleaning hacked websites
- Responding to good and bad Google reviews
- Adding your most recent projects to the website
- Adding new skills or products
Recommended Tools
Websites can and should be tracked with these or similar tools:
- Sucuri or WordFence for security
- Google Search Console for website health
- Google Analytics for traffic
- GT Metrix for website speed
- premium SEO tools for rankings
- backup tools
No news is good news from Sucuri, WordFence and Google Search Console.
One of the most rewarding parts of my job is seeing clients grow their businesses over the years. I’ve maintained several client websites for over ten years. Contact me today to discuss website management.
