WordPress Maintenance for Business-Critical Websites

Updates, backups, monitoring and performance work run on a fixed schedule. You speak to me, not to a ticket queue. And you hear about a problem from me before you hear about it from a customer.

  • Security updates for core, themes and plugins, plus vPatches: protection rules for holes that have no update yet
  • Daily offsite backups, restore tested, not assumed
  • 24/7 uptime and security monitoring
  • Managed performance hosting on the two upper plans

Care plans from €99/month · Cancel monthly · No minimum term

What happens when WordPress maintenance gets skipped

The Problem

Sites rarely break during an update. They break three updates later, when a plugin that stopped being maintained meets a PHP version nobody chose to change. By then nobody remembers who touched what, so nobody touches anything.

What follows is not a crash. It is a slow loss: a contact form that stops sending and nobody notices for six weeks, a checkout step that fails in one browser, a security patch that sat unapplied for four months.

Maintenance is not “applying updates”. Maintenance is somebody checking afterwards that the site still does what it should.

  • 300.000+ malicious attacks are launched against WordPress every day. Source: Wordfence, 2025.

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    90% of WordPress vulnerabilities come from plugins that are no longer maintained. Source: Patchstack annual report.

  • 53% of mobile visitors leave a page that takes longer than three seconds. Source: Google.

  • 360€ average total cost per minute downtime for small businesses, in addition to long-term SEO damage.

The Solution

Ready for WordPress maintenance that runs without you

Get the right maintenance plan for your site. I review your setup and recommend the plan that fits your risk level and budget.

  • Regular Updates and vPatches

  • Daily Offsite Backups

  • Managed Performance Hosting

  • 24/7 Security & Uptime Monitoring

  • A web performance report shows a desktop page speed score of 94. Metrics include fast first contentful paint, low total blocking time, and minimal layout shift. A response time graph is shown below.
  • A status dashboard shows an uptime rate of 100.00%, with four green bars representing continuous uptime from November 20 to November 23.
  • A dark-themed analytics dashboard shows line graph data of website visits from late September to mid-December. Metrics include 4k unique visitors, 11k pageviews, 58% bounce rate, and 1m 28s average visit duration.

See how my care routine works

How it works

How I look after your site month after month

A predictable maintenance routine so updates, checks, and fixes happen without you having to chase anyone.

  • Onboarding

    Secure access, a baseline check of security, performance and backups, and a written starting point. This is a baseline, not the full audit.

  • Protection

    Continuous monitoring, alerts and offsite backups, so problems get caught early and you can roll back quickly.

  • Maintenance

    Safe, scheduled core, plugin and theme updates with checks afterwards, to keep your site stable and free of known holes.

  • Ongoing Support

    Priority help for fixes and small changes, plus clear reports showing what was done and how your site is running.

Reliable maintenance, whatever your site was built with

Page Builder Support

Whether your site runs on Bricks, Gutenberg, Elementor, Divi or custom ACF blocks, I have worked with it. That means fewer compatibility surprises and faster troubleshooting when an update goes wrong.

Gutenberg

Full support for block themes and ACF-based setups.

Bricks Builder

My builder of choice. Deep expertise, fast troubleshooting.

Oxygen

Performance-first care for Oxygen-based sites.

Breakdance

Full care support for Breakdance sites.

Elementor

Expert care for Elementor sites, including custom widgets.

Divi

Reliable care for Divi-based sites.

  • Dedicated Customer Support

  • Vulnerability Scans

  • Performance Optimization

  • Image Optimization

  • Staging-Tested Updates

  • 24/7 Uptime Monitoring

  • Daily Offsite Backups

  • Enterprise‑grade WAF

  • Advanced Analysis

  • CDN

  • Monthly Content Edits

  • Dedicated Performance Hosting

  • Dedicated Customer Support

  • Vulnerability Scans

  • Performance Optimization

  • Image Optimization

  • Staging-Tested Updates

  • 24/7 Uptime Monitoring

  • Daily Offsite Backups

  • Enterprise‑grade WAF

  • Advanced Analysis

  • CDN

  • Monthly Content Edits

  • Dedicated Performance Hosting

WordPress maintenance packages and prices

Pricing

 Each plan runs as a system, not a checklist. Updates are tested, backups are restored to verify them, performance is tracked. You are not the last to know when something changes.

  • Essential

    99
    Monthly

    Best for sites where downtime is inconvenient.

    • Managed core/plugin/theme updates with safe rollbacks

    • Daily off-site backups and restore support

    • Malware scanning with cleanup included

    • 24/7 uptime monitoring and alerts

    • Threat protection firewall

    • Standard response support

  • Managed

    299
    Monthly

    Best for sites where downtime costs money.

    • High-performance managed hosting with SSL/CDN

    • Staging-tested updates with visual checks

    • Core Web Vitals–focused performance tuning

    • Transactional email relay setup and monitoring

    • Priority support queue

    • Ongoing minor fixes and content edits included

  • Premium

    599
    Monthly

    For teams that want a dedicated WordPress expert on retainer — not just maintenance, but ongoing technical ownership.

    • Everything in Managed Care

    • Monthly review with a clear performance/security action plan

    • SEO and accessibility monitoring with actionable issues

    • User-journey monitoring for key funnels and breakages

    • After-hours coverage for critical incidents

    • Expedited support and a larger bucket of development/optimization time

  • Platform & Performance
    Platform & Performance
    Web Hosting
    Web Hosting

    DNS Management
    DNS Management

    Content Delivery Network
    Content Delivery Network

    Uptime Monitoring
    Uptime Monitoring
    Guaranteed Email Delivery
    Guaranteed Email Delivery
    User Journey Monitoring
    User Journey Monitoring

    Updates & Maintenance
    Updates & Maintenance
    WordPress Updates
    WordPress Updates
    Plugin Updates Mode
    Plugin Updates Mode

    Automatic

    Manual (staged)

    Manual (Staged)

    Staging Site
    Staging Site

    Staging-Tested Updates
    Staging-Tested Updates

    Visual Regression Testing
    Visual Regression Testing

    Premium License Management
    Premium License Management
    Security & Backups
    Security & Backups
    Activity Logging
    Activity Logging
    Proactive Threat Protection
    Proactive Threat Protection
    Malware Scanning
    Malware Scanning
    Hack Cleanups & Site Restores
    Hack Cleanups & Site Restores
    Spam Protection
    Spam Protection
    Daily Remote Backups
    Daily Remote Backups
    Strategy & Optimization
    Strategy & Optimization
    Core Web Vitals Promise
    Core Web Vitals Promise

    Performance Optimizations
    Performance Optimizations

    Included

    Included

    Technical SEO & GEO
    Technical SEO & GEO

    Included

    Support SLA
    Support SLA

    Standard

    Priority

    Priority

    Content Edits
    Content Edits

    5

    Included

    Quick Fixes
    Quick Fixes

    Included

    Unlimited

    Support & Development
    Support & Development
    Monthly Strategy Sessions
    Monthly Strategy Sessions

    Included

    Flexible Dev Capacity
    Flexible Dev Capacity

    Reserved capacity included

    GDPR & Accesibility Monitoring
    GDPR & Accessibility Monitoring

    Included

    Emergency After-Hours Support
    Emergency After-Hours Support

    Included (P1 only)

    Actionable Performance Reports
    Actionable Performance Reports

    Included

    Search Console Assistance
    Search Console Assistance

    Included

    Google Analytics (GA4) Support
    Google Analytics (GA4) Support

    Included

    Support & Development
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    Premium extensions included in all care plans

    Premium Extensions

    All care plans include access to a curated set of premium tools — at no extra cost. No separate licenses, no hidden fees.

    What clients say after a year on a plan

    Testimonials

    Four business owners who handed me their site.

    We have been working with Henrik for quite some time now. He hosts our website and provides support. The quality of his support has far exceeded our expectations, and his exceptionally fast response times are particularly noteworthy.
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    Mathias Pauls
    CEO, Kunst & Bühne
    Henrik is reliable, competent, friendly and always available to answer questions. I can absolutely recommend Henrik and am so happy to have found him.
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    Julia Schlenkrich
    CEO, Julia Schlenkrich Fotografie
    The collaboration was trusting, professional, transparent and reliable. He helped us make significant progress, particularly in the area of SEO – our visibility and rankings improved greatly after just a short time. Highly recommended and we would use him again anytime!
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    Colin Bien
    CEO, NRole
    He is always available to answer questions and makes adjustments without any fuss. Thanks to him, my visits have increased and customers can find me more easily.
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    FAQ

    WordPress maintenance FAQs

    Clear answers to the most common questions about scope, safety, and what to expect.

    Did you know that...

    46% of all cyber breaches impact businesses with fewer than 1,000 employees.

    Recent studies from Verizon and IBM show attackers now actively favor smaller, less‑protected organizations. “Small” doesn't mean safe. It means less prepared.

    See maintenance plans

    Yes. Plenty of people do. The part that usually fails is not the update button, it is the check afterwards and the rollback when something breaks on a Friday. If you have a staging site, a tested backup and 30 minutes a week, do it yourself.

    Because no script does the work. Updates run through a staging environment and get checked after they are applied. Backups are restored to confirm they actually work. When something breaks, the reply comes from the person who set up your environment, with a median first response of four hours. Providers at €29 a month apply updates automatically and reply when you open a ticket. That is a different product, not a cheaper one.

    Updates for core, themes and plugins, applied in a tested order. Daily offsite backups, with restores tested so you know they work. Uptime and security monitoring, with alerts coming to me first. Performance checks and a monthly report.

    Not included: new features, redesigns, migrations, and repairs to a site that arrived broken.

    €99, €299 or €599 a month. Cancel any time, no minimum term.

    The tier depends on what an outage costs you, not on how big the site is. €99 covers monitoring, updates and backups. €299 adds hosting, staging-tested updates and small changes. €599 adds reserved development time and out-of-hours cover.

    No. A plan keeps a working site working. It is not a repair.

    Start with an audit instead: €300, about a week, and you get a written report on what is broken, why, and what the fix costs. Once the site is stable, a plan keeps it there.

    Median first response is four hours during business hours, Monday to Friday, 9 to 18 CET. Critical incidents outside those hours are covered on the €599 plan only.

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