WordPress Website Maintenance
Update, Protect, and Optimise Your WordPress Site—Without the Stress
Ongoing, managed WordPress and WooCommerce maintenance and improvement for marketing teams, agencies, and business owners who can’t risk lost sales, reputation damage, or website downtime. Trusted by businesses like yours since 2005.
Avoid unnecessary website downtime
Stay online and visible. Regular updates, proactive monitoring, and expert support mean fewer surprises and less lost business.
Prevent lost sales & enquiries
Every minute of downtime, errors, or slow speed can cost you real money. My maintenance services protect your revenue and user experience.
Prevent damage to brand & reputation
Security failures or neglected sites can put customer data at risk and hurt your reputation. Proactive maintenance keeps your brand safe.
How to Proceed
1. We discuss your needs
Tell me what’s happening with your website. I’ll ask a few quick questions to identify the problem and explain how I can help.
2. Onboarding & audit
New clients pay a small upfront fee (£140 for two hours) so work can begin immediately—often the same day.
3. Ongoing updates & monitoring
I’ll need secure access to your hosting and WordPress admin to diagnose and fix the issue. Your details are kept confidential.
4. Regular communication
Once I have access, I’ll take a backup and start repairs—usually within the hour. I’ll identify the fault, apply fixes, and test your site.
5. Fast response when needed
After repair, I’ll check updates, patch security risks, and make sure your site is stable. I’ll advise on preventing future issues.
Essential Care
Just the essentials to keep your small or low risk WordPress website alive and healthy.
- WordPress core, theme & plugin updates
- Daily backups with recovery if needed (rollbacks only)
- Security & uptime monitoring
- Monthly status email
£70/month
Enhanced Care
If you want more than “just working.” Includes all essentials plus proactive testing, optimisation, and support.
- Includes everything in Essential Care
- 1 hour/month for proactive improvements (speed checks, fixes, light edits, technical SEO or troubleshooting)
- Priority response on support request
£120/month
Virtual Manager
For teams who want expert support on demand as well as maintenance. Time is reserved exclusively for you each month. Use the time how you wish.
- 4 additional hours of consultancy/development (5 hours total)
- Priority access and flexible use
- Total transparency with per task time tracking.
- Need more? Packages tailored on request.
From £450/ month
Why Regular Website Maintenance Matters
Most agencies will tell you maintenance matters — I went a step further and proved it. To see what really happens when a WordPress site is ignored, I built a brand-new site, added 16 of the most common plugins, and left it unmaintained for six months, took notes and gathered data.
Within weeks, plugins were outdated, fatal errors appeared, and brute-force login attempts began — all on a site no one even knew existed. By month three, it was unstable and flagged by browsers as unsafe. This shows how quickly a neglected site can become a liability that can lose you sales, leads and cause reputational damage.
Missed Plugin Updates & Patches
By week 3, half the plugins were outdated. By week 11, all needed updates — creating bugs, security holes, and performance issues.
Fatal Errors Appear
By week 3, the site crashed due to plugin and theme conflicts. It was temporarily offline and unusable for visitors.
A Surge in Unauthorised Login Attempts
By week 8, attacks began; by week 16, over 1,300 login attempts were blocked. The hadn’t been marketed.
Blacklisting & SEO Losses
By month 3 browsers flagged the site as unsafe. The reputational impact could have been costly for a live business.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can you take over maintenance from my previous agency/developer?
Yes—transition is straightforward and handled with minimal disruption.
How much does WordPress maintenance cost?
Packages start from £XX/month. You’ll get a clear proposal with no surprises.
Why does my WordPress site need maintenance?
Unmaintained sites are far more likely to be hacked, go offline, or break due to plugin issues. Maintenance protects your investment and keeps your site working for your business.
What’s included in your managed maintenance plans?
All updates, monitoring, backups, security checks, monthly reports, and minor edits. Custom plans can add priority support or more hands-on improvements.
What is WordPress website maintenance?
It’s the ongoing process of keeping your site updated, secure, fast, and free of errors—covering updates, security checks, backups, and help when you need it.
Does it matter where my business is located?
Not at all. I’m based in Worthing, West Sussex but I work for companies, organisations and individuals all over the UK, in Europe, America and Canada. There is often commercial advantage in working with a developer who is in a different timezone as it is then possible to carry out maintenance works when your customers are asleep.
What People Say…
James Armstrong“It made perfect sense for ICW Digital to continue to maintain our website after the completion of our rebrand. We can’t fault the monthly maintenance and I’m relieved to have Paul staying on top of everything for us. We look forward to a long business relationship and would highly recommend him.”
Co-founder & Creative Director, Social Firefly
Lucy Marks“Paul recently completed a full website refresh ahead of a major London art exhibition we were putting on: “Thank you for all your super work on all of this. We really appreciated it. You are such an essential part of the team! We honestly could not do this without you. You have been a superstar bringing creativity and very prompt delivery and completing plenty of last minute changes!”
Artist & Business Owner – lucymarks.co.uk
Chris Heffernan“Since bringing Paul on board to maintain and optimise our e-commerce website…Our online visibility has effectively doubled, increasing from 4% to 8.5% and this growth has been instrumental in driving a 67% increase in our online orders and an impressive 156% rise in online turnover. Paul’s work on our website has played a key role in these achievements. His consistent and professional approach makes him a valuable asset to our team.”
Digital Marketing Manager – Excel Machine Tools
