Website
Maintenance Plans
Keep your website secure and up to date with a monthly maintenance plan. We handle the updates, backups and monitoring, and you deal directly with the developer who looks after your site.
Websites Age Faster Than You Think
A website needs looking after long after it goes live. New security flaws turn up in WordPress plugins every week, and each one needs an update to close it. Pages also slow down as images and old data pile up.
Attackers use automated tools that scan thousands of websites at once. For the most targeted flaws, the first attacks begin within hours of the flaw being made public.
We take care of all of that for you, from software updates and speed fixes to security checks and small content edits. You won't need to touch the technical side unless you want to.
WordPress security in numbers
What one year of vulnerability research found
| New vulnerabilities found across the WordPress ecosystem in 2025 | 11,334 |
| Rise on the previous year | 42% |
| Found in plugins, not WordPress itself | 91% |
| Vulnerabilities in the WordPress core, all low risk | 6 |
| Time to first attack on the most targeted flaws (weighted median) | 5 hours |
| Had no fix available on the day they were disclosed | 46% |
Source: Patchstack, State of WordPress Security in 2026. Almost all of these flaws were in plugins and themes.
Problems Spotted Early
We run uptime and security monitoring around the clock, take regular backups and apply security patches. When something goes wrong, the alert comes to us and we look into it.
If you're on Growth or Protect, you also get your own SEO dashboard. It shows where you rank in Google and how that has changed, along with your traffic and your competitors' positions. You can also check which other websites link to yours, audit the site and see how you show up in AI search results.
On Maintain, your monthly report shows your uptime figures and a site health score.
Maintenance, Backup and Support Plans
Every plan includes security updates, backups, uptime monitoring, hack clean-up and direct contact with your developer. Growth adds work on your Google rankings and priority support, and Protect is built for online shops.
Maintain
Web essentials - maintenance, backup, support
- Security Updates
- Performance Boost
- Content Refresh
- SEO Tune-Up
- Performance Reports
- Reliable Backups
- Basic Training
Growth
SEO monitor - maintenance, backup, support
- SEO Dashboard
- Priority Support
- Reliable Backups
- Speed Optimisation
- Content Management
- Ongoing SEO
- Detailed Reports
Protect
Ecommerce - maintenance, backup, support
- Development Hours
- Realtime Check-Ups
- Premium Support
- Advanced Monitoring
- Dedicated Support
- Transaction Support
- E-commerce Support
What Regular Maintenance Covers
Where a website starts to slip when nobody's looking after it.
Security
Updates close the security holes that malware and automated attacks look for. Keeping software patched also protects the customer data your site holds.
Performance Optimisation
Websites slow down as images and old database entries build up. Regular tidy-ups keep pages loading quickly on phones, and Google uses page speed as one of its ranking signals.
SEO and Search Rankings
Google can only rank pages it can reach and load properly. Regular checks catch broken links and slow pages that can cost you search traffic.
Content Updates
Out-of-date prices, staff photos or opening hours make a business look neglected. Small monthly edits keep those details right without you having to open the editor.
Functionality
A plugin update can quietly break a contact form or a checkout. Regular checks confirm that enquiries and orders are still coming through.
User Experience
Layout bugs, menus that don't work on phones and hard-to-read text put visitors off before they get in touch. Ongoing care catches these.
Maintain
Web essentials: maintenance, backup, support
Our Maintain Plan covers the essentials: security updates, reliable backups, uptime monitoring, basic checks on page titles and headings, and small monthly content edits. It suits smaller business websites that need to stay secure and up to date.
Ask About This PlanWhat's included
Security Updates
Patches for WordPress and everything installed on it, with PHP kept on a supported version. We check vulnerability reports daily and fix whatever affects your site.
Reliable Backups
A mix of offline backups and up to 6 server-side snapshots per day, kept for 90 days. If anything goes wrong, we can restore your site from a clean copy.
Performance Boost
Basic speed work: compressing images, tidying up the database and setting up caching, which keeps ready-made copies of your pages that load faster.
Content Refresh
Small text and image changes each month, such as a new team photo, updated opening hours or a reworded paragraph. Just send us what you need changed.
SEO Tune-Up
Basic checks on page titles, descriptions and headings, which help Google and searchers understand each page. We also look out for broken links.
Uptime Monitoring
Automatic monitoring alerts us when your site goes down, so we can find the cause and get it back up.
Monthly Report
A short email each month showing what we've done, your site health score, uptime figures and anything we'd recommend.
Basic Training
Three hours of one-to-one training at launch, enough to make simple edits yourself.
Growth
SEO monitoring: maintenance, backup, support
Growth is full website maintenance plus ongoing work on your Google rankings, priority support and your own SEO monitoring dashboard. It suits businesses that want to keep a close eye on how they're doing in search.
Ask About This PlanWhat's included
SEO Monitoring Dashboard
Track your keyword rankings and search visibility as they change, and see where your pages could do better in Google.
Reliable Backups
A mix of offline backups and up to 6 server-side snapshots per day, kept for 90 days. With that many restore points, we can roll back to just before a problem started.
Priority Support
Your requests go to the front of the queue, and you deal directly with the developer who looks after your site.
Speed Optimisation
Deeper speed work, including a content delivery network, images that load as people scroll, smaller code files and tuning for Google's speed scores.
Content Management
Regular content work, from new pages and blog posts to image galleries and product listings, added for you.
Advanced SEO
Structured data and an up-to-date sitemap to help Google read your site, better links between your pages and a monthly look at what your customers search for.
Security Monitoring
Round-the-clock malware scanning and a managed firewall that holds off traffic floods and flags break-in attempts. If your site is hacked, cleanup and restoration are included.
Detailed Reports
A monthly report covering your rankings, traffic, security and speed, with clear next steps.
Protect
E-commerce: maintenance, backup, support
Protect is for online shops, where a broken checkout costs sales. It includes development hours each month, checkout and payment monitoring, backups kept for 180 days and direct phone access to the developer who looks after your store.
Ask About This PlanWhat's included
Reliable Backups
A mix of offline backups and up to 6 server-side snapshots per day, kept for 180 days. For a shop, lost data means lost orders, so we keep plenty of restore points.
Development Hours
Development time each month for new features, layout changes, custom integrations and improvements to how your shop works as it grows.
Real-Time Monitoring
Continuous monitoring of uptime, speed and security, with alerts sent to us when something goes wrong.
Premium Support
Direct phone access to the developer who looks after your store, with no ticket queue to get through.
Transaction Support
We monitor the connection to your payment provider, test the order process and work on making the checkout smoother.
E-commerce Optimisation
Making product pages easier to find in Google, analysis of how many visitors go on to buy, insight into abandoned baskets and help connecting your stock system.
Advanced Security
A firewall that blocks harmful traffic before it reaches your shop, protection from floods of fake traffic, and regular penetration tests that find weak spots before attackers do.
Analytics & Insights
Revenue tracking, a look at the routes customers take through your shop and where they drop out, and a monthly strategy call to go through the numbers together.
Compare Our Maintenance Plans
See what each plan includes, side by side.
| Plan Features | Maintain | Growth | Protect |
|---|---|---|---|
Core, theme and plugin updates | Included | Included | Included |
PHP version management | Included | Included | Included |
Round-the-clock security monitoring | Included | Included | Included |
Malware removal and recovery | Included | Included | Included |
DDoS mitigation | Not included | Included | Included |
Penetration testing | Not included | Not included | Included |
Uptime monitoring | Included | Included | Included |
Backup retention | 90 days | 90 days | 180 days |
Response time | Same working day | Same working day | Same working day |
Priority queue | Not included | Included | Included |
Direct phone line | Not included | Not included | Included |
Image, caching and database optimisation | Included | Included | Included |
CDN and Core Web Vitals tuning | Not included | Included | Included |
On-page SEO checks | Included | Included | Included |
Technical SEO and keyword research | Not included | Included | Included |
Product page SEO | Not included | Not included | Included |
SEO dashboard | Not included | Included | Included |
Monthly content edits | Included | Included | Included |
New pages and blog posts | Not included | Included | Included |
Monthly development hours | Not included | Not included | Included |
Monthly report | Included | Included | Included |
Rankings and traffic reporting | Not included | Included | Included |
Revenue analytics and strategy call | Not included | Not included | Included |
Checkout and payment monitoring | Not included | Not included | Included |
One-to-one training | Included | Included | Included |
Direct contact with your developer | Included | Included | Included |
Frequently
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