Why It’s Important To Maintain Your WordPress Site

Your website is the foundation of your online presence, any customer coming from your social media, ad campaigns and even organic search will land on your website to get in contact with you, ask about your services or even purchase your products. If your website isn’t frequently updated and is not working properly this could have a huge impact on new leads/sales generated by the site.

Why Maintaining Your WordPress Site Is Important?

One of the most important reasons you should maintain your WordPress site is for the security of the site. If there are any vulnerabilities due to the version of WordPress not being the latest version or a plugin being out of date, this could leave your site exposed to a potential hack bringing your website down and even stealing your customers information.

Also making sure your WordPress site is updated and working correctly can have an impact on your SEO campaign; for example if a part of your website has stopped working due to a plugin being out of date and a user lands of this page and leaves the page quickly it will increase the bounce rate of the page. This could lead to lowering the rank of your website in the search results.

How Often Should I Update My WordPress Website?

Our WordPress maintenance plans are run once a month in line with core WordPress updates and plugin updates this is to assure that your site is always updated, secure and is running as expected.

How Long Does It Take To Complete a Website Maintenance Plan?

This does depend on how many updates that need to be run and the level of service your site requires. For example the basic level of maintenance we offer will take 1 hour to run all updates and test that the core functionality is running after those updates have been completed.

What Is Included In Our WordPress Maintenance Plans?

We offer three different levels of support ranging from the basic to the premium support which covers a wide range of features, here are our packages.

As you can see above all our packages come with uptime monitoring so if you site goes down for any reason, we will be the first to know and we can investigate the issue and get your website up and running again.

Also, you will receive a monthly report of what updates we have done, backups taken and any testing we have carried out. With the premium support you will also be provided a speed test result for both mobile and desktop and any recommendations we suggest keeping your website running at peak performance.

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