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The problemYour developer stopped replying, and your plugins kept getting older.

WordPress Monthly Maintenance Package: Someone Watching Your Site Every Month

In shortA WordPress monthly maintenance package is a fixed monthly fee for keeping a site updated, backed up, monitored and secure, with a few hours of edits included. Ours cost $99, $199 or $399 a month, with 50% off a new client's first three months, billed month to month with no contract and no extra charge for emergencies.

Most website disasters are slow. The developer who built the site moves on. A plugin stops getting updates. Backups quietly stopped months ago, the security certificate is close to expiring, and the small edits you meant to make keep piling up. Nobody notices until a customer emails to say the contact form is broken, or a browser starts warning visitors away.

A WordPress monthly maintenance package turns all of that into one predictable line item. You know the cost, we know the scope, and the work happens every month whether or not anyone remembers to ask. Each package includes edit hours for small changes, a plain-English monthly report, and emergency response at no extra charge. It runs month to month, with no cancellation fee.

Animation: untested updates, known plugin holes and failed backups send red packets into a WordPress site that shows a critical error, then a shield closes around it, every packet is stopped, and an uptime-checks counter climbs.
Fig. — Before: a plugin update takes the site down and the backup will not restore. After: weekly updates with a backup first, monitoring, and one person accountable.
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Sound familiar?

These are the slow problems a monthly routine is there to catch.

My WordPress developer stopped responding

Nobody has the logins, the history or the time when something breaks, and finding a new developer in the middle of a crisis costs days.

What we doWe take over with an audit of access, plugins, backups and PHP version, then look after the site every month as the one person who knows it.

My WordPress backups stopped working months ago

Backup plugins can fail quietly after an update or a full disk. You find out only when you need to restore and the newest copy is old.

What we doDaily off-site backups kept for 30 days, with backup status in every monthly report, so a stopped backup is caught in days, not at the worst moment.

Abandoned plugins are still running on my site

Abandoned plugins stop getting security fixes. Patchstack reports 1,614 vulnerable plugins were pulled from WordPress.org in 2024, and sites still running them are not told.

What we doEach month we check your plugins against vulnerability reports and replace abandoned ones with maintained alternatives before they become the way in.

Small website edits pile up because nobody has time

Old prices, staff who left and last season's banner stay live for months, and customers notice before you do.

What we doEvery package includes edit hours: 1 on Essential, 3 on Growth, 6 hours of development on Commerce. Send the change and it gets done.

A surprise invoice every time something goes wrong

Hourly or per-incident billing means the bill arrives after the work, at the worst possible moment, and you cannot budget for it.

What we doOne fixed monthly amount. Emergency response is included, and anything bigger is quoted at a fixed price before we start.

SSL certificate expired and visitors see a security warning

Browsers show a full-page warning and most visitors leave. Forms and checkouts can fail until the certificate is renewed.

What we doWe watch for expiring certificates along with uptime, so a failed renewal is fixed before your visitors ever see the warning.

WordPress monthly maintenance package at a glance

Monthly price$99, $199 or $399; 50% off the first 3 months for new clients
BillingFixed monthly amount, month to month, no cancellation fee
Edit hours1 (Essential), 3 (Growth), 6 dev hours (Commerce); no rollover
EmergenciesResponse included; within 2 hours on Commerce
Monthly reportWhat was updated, what was held back, what needs your decision
Multiple sitesOne account, one fixed monthly quote
If you leaveYour backups go with you, free

Worth knowing: The real value of a monthly package is not the updates. It is that somebody is paying attention. Most site disasters are slow: a plugin abandoned by its developer, backups that silently stopped six months ago, a certificate quietly expiring. Nobody notices until it is expensive.

What’s actually involved

Predictable monthly cost

One fixed amount. No hourly billing, no per-incident charges, and no invoice that arrives after the work is already done.

Included edit hours

Every package includes hands-on time for the small changes that otherwise pile up: price updates, new staff bios, a seasonal banner.

Emergency response included

If the site goes down, response is part of the package, not a separate emergency rate charged at the worst possible moment.

Monthly report in plain English

What was updated, what was held back, how the site performed, and anything that needs a decision from you. No 40-page PDF nobody opens.

Cancel any time

Month to month. We keep clients by being worth keeping.

You keep your backups

If you leave, your backups leave with you at no charge. That should not be unusual, but it is.

Plans and pricing

Fixed monthly price, month to month, cancel any time. No bundled hosting and no annual lock-in.

Launch offer 50% off your first 3 months — then the regular price below. Launch offer for new maintenance clients — no contract, cancel any time.

Essential

For brochure sites and small business WordPress.

$49 /month $99

First 3 months, then $99/month

  • ✓Weekly core, theme & plugin updates
  • ✓Daily off-site backups, 30-day retention
  • ✓Uptime monitoring, 1-minute checks
  • ✓Security hardening & malware scanning
  • ✓Monthly report you can actually read
  • ✓1 hour of content edits per month
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Growth

For sites that generate leads and cannot go down.

$99 /month $199

First 3 months, then $199/month

  • ✓Everything in Essential
  • ✓Updates tested on a staging copy first
  • ✓Core Web Vitals monitoring & tuning
  • ✓3 hours of content edits per month
  • ✓Priority response, same business day
  • ✓Quarterly SEO health check
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Commerce

For WooCommerce and anything taking payments.

$199 /month $399

First 3 months, then $399/month

  • ✓Everything in Growth
  • ✓Checkout & payment-flow monitoring
  • ✓Hourly backups during business hours
  • ✓6 hours of development time per month
  • ✓Emergency response within 2 hours
  • ✓Direct line, no ticket queue
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Multiple sites? Rates drop per site — tell us how many.

Questions people actually ask

What does a WordPress monthly maintenance package include?

Core, theme and plugin updates, daily off-site backups, uptime monitoring, security scanning and hardening, a set number of edit hours, emergency response and a monthly report. Growth and Commerce add staging-tested updates and Core Web Vitals checks. A package without off-site backups and someone checking the updates is missing the parts that matter.

How many hours of work are included?

One hour on Essential, three on Growth, and six hours of development time on Commerce, for content edits and small changes. Hours do not roll over, because the package covers ongoing upkeep rather than banking time for a redesign. Larger jobs are quoted separately at a fixed price.

Do unused hours carry over?

No. Any provider offering unlimited rollover is either not tracking it or has priced the rollover into your monthly fee. If you have a larger project, such as a new section or a redesign, we quote it separately at a fixed price so you know the cost before we start.

Can you handle multiple sites?

Yes. Several sites on one account are usually cheaper per site, because much of the setup and monitoring work is per account rather than per site. Tell us how many sites you have and what they do, and we will quote one fixed monthly price for the lot.

What counts as an emergency?

The site is down, the checkout is broken, malware is detected, or anything else is stopping customers from doing business with you. Response is included in every package at no extra charge. On Commerce, emergency response is within 2 hours, with a direct line and no ticket queue.

What is in the monthly report?

A short plain-English summary: which updates ran, which we held back and why, backup status, uptime for the month, security scan results, any edits done, and anything that needs a decision from you. Growth and Commerce reports also cover Core Web Vitals. It is meant to be read in two minutes, not filed away.

What happens in the first month?

We start with an onboarding audit: access and logins, the plugin list and any abandoned plugins, the backup setup, the PHP version, and security and speed baselines. If the audit finds something that has to be fixed before the site can be maintained safely, you get a fixed quote first. Then the monthly routine starts.

How do I cancel a monthly package?

Tell us any time. Packages are month to month, so a cancellation takes effect from the next billing cycle. There is no cancellation fee and no penalty for downgrading during a quiet quarter, and we hand over your backups on the way out at no charge.

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