WordPress Website Care Plans
It's critical to have it up and running perfectly
WordPress Care & Maintenance
Your car needs regular care & maintenance. So does your WordPress website. Just like your car, your website will breakdown if it’s not maintained.
Your website is one of your most important business assets. Make sure it’s always running perfectly by having a maintenance plan.
Tech changes means updates often need to be run on your website weekly. Not running updates regularly leaves your website vulnerable to hacking attempts.
What happens if I don't update WordPress?
WordPress Care & Maintenance Plans
Hosting included at no extra cost!
For much less than a cup of coffee a day, you could have our very best website care & maintenance plan, 60 extra minutes of our time a month and Web Hosting!
Or you can scale to a lower plan if that suits you better. Imagine the benefit of having a full web agency on your team.
We have an extensive library of agency level plugins that clients on our maintenance plans have access to. These include plugins for Security, Performance, Advanced Functionality, SEO and more.
As a Website Developer, Designer & SEO Specialist with 13 years experience, your website could not be in better hands with our Creative Director, Michelle Beatty, who gives her personal attention to all clients.
Pay monthly, or pay annually in advance. Annual payments receive a 15% discount. All maintenance clients also receive a 15% discount on any other services we provide, including hourly rate work and bulk hour package purchases, as well as take priority when booking further work with us.
You DIY it
or the really experienced user
Basic
15% discount if paying annually
(additional restores $95 + GST)
(worth $200+ per year)
(accumulates if not used for 2 months maximum)
Better
15% discount if paying annually
(additional restores $95 + GST)
(worth $300+ per year)
(revision + database cleanup)
(accumulates if not used for 3 months maximum)
Best
15% discount if paying annually
(additional restores $95 + GST)
(worth $500+ per year)
(revision + database cleanup)
(optimises site speed)
(accumulates if not used for 4 months maximum)
Plan Comparison Table
Hosting | ||||
Support | ||||
Updates | ||||
Maintenance | ||||
Daily Backups | ||||
Backups stored off site | ||||
Uptime Monitoring | ||||
Malware Scans (viruses) | Monthly | Weekly | ||
Real time security & hack attack monitoring | ||||
Dedicated Server (shared with 9 websites max) | ||||
Secure Local Server | ||||
SSL Certificate | ||||
Spam Filtering | ||||
Elastic Email (for transactional emails) | ||||
Free Site Restore | 2 free | 3 free | 4 free | |
Minutes of time (for support, changes, new content) | 15 mins / mth accumulates 2 mths max | 30 mins / mth accumulates 3 mths max | 60 mins / mth accumulates 4 mths max | |
Reduced Hourly Rate | ||||
Premium plugin licences (site speed, SEO & design capabilities) | Value $200 p/yr | Value $300 p/yr | Value $500 p/yr | |
Site Optimisation (revision & database cleanup) | Monthly | Daily | ||
Plugin, theme & core updates | Monthly | Fortnightly | Weekly | |
Dead link check | Monthly | |||
Contact Form Test | Monthly | |||
Spam comment cleanup | Monthly | |||
Action admin panel notices | Monthly | Weekly | ||
Image Compression (optimises site speed) | Unlimited | |||
AI Compression new uploads | ||||
VIP Priority Access (Top of Queue) |
DIY @ $0
Basic @ $65 p/mth
Better @ $110 p/mth
Best @ $155 p/mth
These WordPress maintenance care & care plans are suitable for most websites. If your website has a very high level of traffic or is extremely large, then we will customise a hosting plan suited to your website’s unique needs.
Great website hosting with a great maintenance plan keeps your website online, protected from security risks and performing at its best.
Why do I need Web Hosting?
Your website must live somewhere. Hosting is where your website lives.
If you think of your website like a house, then you’ll understand it needs a block of land to live on. Hosting is like the land your website needs to live on.
Should I care where it's hosted?
Let’s use the land analogy again. Some land is on town water, connected to the power grid, all plumbed up.
You turn on a tap or flick a light switch and everything works.
There are people behind the scenes maintaining those power & water grids, to keep them up to date and free of problems.
Do I have to do Maintenance?
The Internet is a fickle thing. It changes daily. Systems & software is updated regularly, security fixes are released, updates may have compatibility problems, hackers try to go to work etc. Things can break in the background, causing your website to either go down or have some part of it stop working.
It’s ‘Murphys Law’, that’s going to happen, just when your perfect client or customer is checking out your website. So your website needs to be running smoothly, working properly and lightning fast.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes, all of our care plans include website hosting.
The price doesn’t change. This is because we use excellent hosting we know we can rely on and the ease of looking after
We provide all our clients with a set period of free hosting, care & maintenance. After seeing what we do, clients can choose to continue on one of our care plans or look after the website themselves.
If the website has been well built on a stack I’m familiar with – yes. That’s tech jargon for saying I’d need to have a look at it first.
No. Each website needs its own care plan. They don’t all need to have the same plan though. One site might have the basic plan and the other the best plan.
Yes, we take a quick look at your site to make sure it is still working and looks visually the same. We check this on and for all devices – widescreen, laptop, tablet & Smartphones.
Most update related issues can be fixed in a few minutes. If this happens we will resolve it without additional cost to you. If a fix is likely to take longer and you do not have any additional minutes available on your plan, we will estimate the cost for you, suggest appropriate alternatives or back the update out for you. Some developers experience issues with updates that they fix quickly, and so we will often delay an update if this is likely to be an issue with a particular update, to wait until the issue has been patched. We also always take an extra offsite backup before starting any updates.
The free minutes we include with our care plans are primarily for changes to existing pages, changes to existing functionality, adding or swapping images, adding a new blog article you have written etc. Unless we agree otherwise, they are not for new pages, website redesigns, new functionality, re-development, technical SEO, domain name renewals or the other services we offer. We provide full terms
If you are on a monthly plan, you can give me 30 days’ notice if you wish to cancel it. You can upgrade or downgrade your plan at any time.
Yes we do web design, development and SEO work on an ad hoc hourly basis. You can also purchase bulk hours at a discount to our hourly rate.
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