Website care · plans and limits
WordPress maintenance plans at $149 or $299 a month. Here's exactly what you get each month, how many developer hours that includes, and what happens if something breaks between checks.
Care
For a business site that needs to stay safe, current and online.
$149/mo
Billed monthly · cancel any month
Your site updated, backed up and watched every month, by one developer who knows it.
You keep every login
Care + development
For sites that change often and need a developer on hand.
$299/mo
Billed monthly · cancel any month
Everything in Care, plus three hours a month for changes and a monthly speed check.
You keep every login
| What you get | Care | Care + development | Single fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $149/mo | $299/mo | from $50, once |
| WordPress, theme and plugin updates, tested first | ✓ | ✓ | – |
| Daily backups kept off the server | ✓ | ✓ | – |
| Uptime and security monitoring | ✓ | ✓ | – |
| Monthly report in plain English | ✓ | ✓ | – |
| Developer time for changes and fixes | 1 hour a month | 3 hours a month | The one fix |
| Monthly mobile speed check | – | ✓ | – |
| Urgent reply | Within 24 hours | Within 24 hours | Within 24 hours |
| Cause written down | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| You keep every login | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Stores and high-traffic sites are quoted separately. Broken today? Start with a repair. Hacked? See malware removal.
A business site that changes now and then: a brochure site, a SaaS marketing site, a school. You want it safe and current without thinking about it.
A site your team changes every month: new pages, landing pages, forms and plugins. You want a developer on hand, and the speed checked as the site grows.
Something is broken today and you are not ready for a plan. Fix it first, then decide.
Not sure what a plan should cover? See what website care includes → · What maintenance costs elsewhere → · Comparing providers →
A new section, a new plugin build or a redesign is a separate job with a written quote first. Plan hours cover changes and fixes on what exists.
If a site is already infected, that is a cleanup first, then a plan keeps it clean. See malware removal.
Shops and busy sites need more testing before each update, so they are quoted after I look at how the site is built.
You pay those to your host and registrar. I work inside your account, so you keep control.
| Factor | Why it matters |
|---|---|
| How many plugins and custom parts the site has | More plugins means more update testing and more that can conflict. |
| A store or a membership site | Orders and payments make a broken update expensive, so each one is tested more carefully. |
| Developer hours included | One hour a month covers small fixes; three hours covers regular changes. |
| How fast you need a reply | A named person who answers urgent problems within 24 hours costs more than a ticket queue. |
Want the wider market picture? What WordPress maintenance costs elsewhere.
| Option | Best for | Watch out for |
|---|---|---|
| A care plan | A site that earns money and needs steady upkeep | It does not build new features. |
| Managed hosting | Server speed, server security and server backups | It usually does not test plugin updates or fix your site when a plugin breaks. |
| One-off fixes | Something broken today | Nobody knows the site before it breaks; each fix starts from zero. |
| Doing it yourself | A hobby site or a very simple one | Updates, backups and monitoring need time every week. |
A WordPress care plan is a monthly service that keeps a site updated, backed up, monitored and fixed. Here it is done by one senior developer who knows your site, with a set number of hours for changes each month.
My two plans are $149 and $299 a month. The difference is developer time: one hour a month for changes and fixes, or three hours plus a monthly speed check. Stores and high-traffic sites are quoted separately.
Yes. Move between plans at the start of any month, or cancel any month. You keep every login and own everything.
No. The hours are kept free for your site each month, so they do not carry over. If you need more one month, extra work is quoted first. The full rules are in the service terms.
No. Your site stays with your host and your account. I work through my own user account, which you can remove at any time.
Monitoring tells me when the site goes down or something changes, and urgent problems get a reply within 24 hours on both plans.
No. Cleaning a site that is already infected is a separate job. Once it is clean, the plan keeps updates, backups and monitoring running so it is less likely to happen again.
No. Managed hosting looks after the server. A care plan looks after the WordPress site on it: testing plugin and theme updates, fixing what they break and reporting what was done. Many sites need both.
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