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WordPress Website Maintenance Services

Automated WordPress maintenance that keeps your site working updates won’t break your site, recovery is fast when needed, and it runs without you managing anything.

WordPress website maintenance is the ongoing process of keeping WordPress sites working reliably. It includes tested updates that are put back if they break anything, backups from daily to every change, a global CDN for fast load times, security monitoring, and uptime checks every minute. Professional maintenance prevents broken functionality that loses revenue, keeps 90 days of recovery points, and runs without you managing updates or restoring backups manually.

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Why Does WordPress Maintenance Matter for Business Websites?

WordPress powers over 40% of all websites, making it a prime target for hackers and malware. Regular updates to WordPress core, themes, and plugins are released to patch security vulnerabilities and fix bugs. Without consistent maintenance, sites become outdated, vulnerable to attacks, and prone to breaking when updates conflict with existing code.
When maintenance is neglected, the costs compound: broken checkout and contact forms lose revenue, malware infections damage your reputation and SEO rankings, and a single failed update can take your site offline for hours or days while you scramble to recover.
Professional maintenance photographs your key pages before and after every update and puts it back if anything breaks, runs backups from daily to every change, monitors security and uptime continuously, and brings in expert help when automation isn't enough.
The result is a site that stays current, secure, and fast without you reading error logs, restoring backups, or chasing your developer. You get reliability you can count on and your time back.

What’s Included in WordPress Maintenance

Comprehensive WordPress maintenance covers security, updates, backups, performance monitoring, and ongoing technical support.

Automated WordPress Updates

WordPress core, theme, and plugin updates run on your live site, with your key pages photographed before and after. Risky updates are flagged before we run them. If an update breaks checkout, forms or layouts, we put it back. Your site stays current with security patches without breaking customer-facing functionality.

Off-Site Backups, Kept 90 Days

Backups run daily, every 12 hours, or on every change, depending on your plan. Each one is stored off-site for 90 days, with a second copy held by another company, so you can roll back to any day in that window. We also test a real restore once a year, twice a year, or every three months, by tier.

Security Monitoring and Threat Detection

Malware scanning every 12 hours detects malware, suspicious files, backdoors, and security vulnerabilities. A firewall at the edge, DDoS and bot protection, login protection and two-factor login protect your site against common attacks, and known vulnerabilities are shielded with virtual patching.

Uptime Monitoring with Instant Alerts

Your site is checked every minute. If it goes down or stops responding, we're on it within 4 hours, 2 hours or 1 hour, depending on your plan.

Performance Optimization

Every plan includes a global CDN, page and browser caching, and images compressed and converted to modern formats. Your site loads fast for visitors worldwide, and you get real visitor speed data every month.

Broken-Looking Pages Spotted

Your key pages are photographed before and after every update, so a page that looks wrong gets caught before a customer reports it.

Spam Blocked on Forms and Login

Spam is stopped at your contact forms and login page before it reaches your inbox or your admin, with no manual moderation.

How WordPress Maintenance Works

Our WordPress maintenance process is automation-first with expert oversight for issues that require human attention.

1

Initial Site Audit

When you start, we check your site for outdated plugins and themes, known vulnerabilities, and malware so we know what we're working with.

2

Configuration and Security Hardening

We set up backups, monitoring, updates, and performance work for your plan, turn on login protection, and point your nameservers to the edge network where the firewall and CDN run.

3

Ongoing Automated Maintenance

Backups run daily to every change, malware scans run every 12 hours, and uptime is checked every minute. Updates run on the live site with key pages photographed before and after, and anything that breaks is put back. Each month you get one report.

4

Expert Intervention When Needed

A plugin conflict or a malware cleanup goes to our team. You don't read error logs or restore backups yourself.

See How Maintenance Works in Practice

Real WordPress sites we operate end to end — see how “handled” actually plays out.

Get Reliable WordPress Maintenance

Professional WordPress maintenance is included in all our plans. Tested updates, off-site backups, and security monitoring come standard on every tier. What changes between plans is not what you get. It is how often we back up your site, how fast we respond, and how many small jobs we take on at once. Hack cleanups are included on yearly billing, and $50 an hour on monthly.

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Protection On Every Plan
Setup Free On Yearly
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Protection On Every Plan
Setup Free On Yearly
Cancel Anytime. Yearly Runs to the End of the Paid Year.
Protection On Every Plan
Setup Free On Yearly
Cancel Anytime. Yearly Runs to the End of the Paid Year.
Protection On Every Plan
Setup Free On Yearly
Cancel Anytime. Yearly Runs to the End of the Paid Year.

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WordPress Website Security

Malware scanning every 12 hours, an edge firewall, and hack cleanups included on yearly billing keep your site protected against attacks, vulnerabilities, and downtime.

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WordPress Speed Optimization

Professional caching, CDN, image optimization, and Core Web Vitals tuning make your site load fast for visitors worldwide.

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WordPress Backups & Disaster Recovery

Backups run as often as every change and live off-site, with a spare copy held by another company. Any day from the last 90 is one restore away.

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Frequently Asked Questions About WordPress Maintenance

Core, theme and plugin updates, off-site backups, uptime and security monitoring, and help when something goes wrong. The distinction people usually want is how that differs from an agency retainer. A retainer waits for you to raise a ticket. A maintenance plan runs the updates and watches the monitoring, whether you remember to ask or not. All of it is standard on all three NoDrama plans.
Most WordPress maintenance plans start between $39 and $197 a month, and consultative services start around $2,000. The price matters less than what the entry tier includes, so check whether updates are tested before going live, how often backups run, and how fast someone responds. NoDrama's plans are $129, $249 and $479 a month, with tested updates, off-site backups and a monthly report on every plan.
On your live site. Your key pages are photographed before and after each update and compared, which catches the layout breaks and missing elements that a version number tells you nothing about. Risky updates are flagged before we run them, and anything that breaks is put back. This runs on every plan, including the $129 one, because a broken site is not less broken for being on a cheaper tier.
Yes, if you're comfortable testing updates on a staging copy before they hit the live site, keeping backups current and stored off the server, and working out which plugin caused the conflict when something breaks. Plenty of owners do this well. The honest question isn't whether you're capable. It's whether those hours are worth more spent elsewhere and whether anyone in the business wants to own the job every week.
Security fixes quickly, once they've been checked on a staging copy. Everything else is better held for a tested cycle than applied the moment the notification appears, because an untested update is a common way a working site stops working. Quick on anything with a security component, deliberate on the rest.
Four things separate a serious provider from a cheap one. Updates are checked before and after and put back if something breaks. Backups are stored somewhere other than the server running the site. A response time written down rather than implied. And a clear line between what's included and what gets quoted separately. On our side: key pages photographed before and after every update on every plan, off-site backups kept 90 days with a second copy at another company, a written response time of 4, 2, or 1 hour when your site is down or hacked, depending on plan, and scope written into the plan table.