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WordPress website maintenance
Expert monitoring of your website for the equivalent of one charged hour of development time a month.

WordPress

Security, caching & site monitoring

Take the worry out of keeping your website in tip-top condition with our WordPress website maintenance service.

Our clients love the peace of mind afforded by our maintenance service, allowing them to focus on their core business.

New clients have remarked on the noticeable improvements made to the loading time, security and performance of their WordPress website’s after signing up to regular maintenance.

Security

Installation and configuration of WordFence security plugin. Monitoring of attempts to force access to the site. Measures to suppress further login attempts.

Site speed

Installation & configuration of W3C caching plugin.

Helping the site to load quicker.

WordPress core updates

WordPress core updates are included, so you’ll get the latest features and security fixes upon release.

Standard plugin updates

Yoast SEO, WordFence, Contact Form 7, Flamingo and other non-premium plugins will be updated under your maintenance cover.

Monitoring

Monitoring and optimisation of the site database and logs. Periodical removal of revision entries, session files and other logs.

Alerts & notifications

We’ll look after your security alerts, cron task failures and out of date plugin notifications.

Sign Up Today to protect your site.

WordPress website Maintenance

We offer this service for just £60 per month +VAT. That’s the equivalent of one charged hour of development time a month.

ALSO INCLUDES

The initial set up and configuration of the following;
1

Set up of Google Search Console (formerly known as Webmaster Tools)

Google Search Console notifies you of search crawl errors, analytics improvements, server downtime and device rendering issues.
2

Set up & submission of a sitemap

This helps search engines to crawl your main website pages and to be notified of new content. Having your Google Analytics and Search Console setup correctly will improve your search ranking.
3

.htaccess configuration & setup of a robots file

Block spam crawlers (includes latest blacklist for bot and malware blocking), improve site speed and assist with the sanitising of urls and redirects.
Direct search engines to find important files, such as the sitemap.
4

Advanced Firewall and caching configuration

Keeping a website quick and secure whilst allowing for regular site changes to be made by staff is a fine balance. Content can often be seen to not update or to show a white screen if not configured correctly.
5

Website guidance

Advice by email / phone on site improvements and new functionality (within reason). Plan your website's development and road map.
6

Daily site backups

Database & file backups are extremely helpful. If the site experiences issues and needs to be restored to an earlier date, the site can be rolled back.
*Free daily backups cannot be guaranteed if the site is hosted by servers not managed by Measured Designs. Not all hosting companies offer this essential functionality, but we'll endeavour to work with your current hosts to set this up.

DOES NOT INCLUDE

Anything deemed to be development work. These will be charged at our standard hourly rate.

Functionality / development work

New functionality or development work, deployment of backups, content or SEO work, approval of comments / reviews / tags and third party license renewals are not covered by the maintenance plan.

Theme updates

WP themes regularly have compatibility and feature updates, to keep the site secure and in line with WordPress's core. Although we strongly endorse using a child theme, this is largely to safeguard any custom changes and doesn't prevent the parent theme from encountering issues with other plugins on the site or your site's content. The update process is usually manual and can potentially introduce styling and functionality issues, that will need testing and debugging.

CSS / JS and template theme modifications required as a result of core or plugin updates aren't covered by the basic maintenance plan.

WooCommerce template updates

WooCommerce updates can require additional site, product and order testing. Theme templates usually also require updates to be fully compatible with the WC update.

WooCommerce updates can often conflict with your site's theme, when layouts and functionality may have been previosuly overidden. These take a bit more time to test and debug.

We also offer Magento 1 / Magento 2 website Maintenance