Monthly WordPress care that keeps your site fast, secure, and online, without you thinking about it.
WordPress since 2007 · maintenance plans with full Artificial intelligence (AI)-use disclosure and teaching built into every engagement · 20+ plugins published on WordPress.org · WordCamp Niagara organiser · Fort Erie, Ontario
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The work itself is remote, because that is how maintenance is actually done and it means the plan costs the same wherever you are. What being in Niagara changes is the conversation: if you are somewhere between Fort Erie and St. Catharines I can come and sit down with you to sort out what the site needs, and after that you are dealing with the same person every month rather than a ticket queue.
The maintenance problem nobody fixes until it bites them
- A plugin update broke the checkout two weeks ago. Nobody noticed until a customer emailed.
- PHP is two major versions behind. The hosting provider sent the warning; it was forwarded to the developer who no longer works there.
- Google flagged a security issue in Search Console. It was discovered six weeks later when someone checked the account.
- The site backup exists. Nobody has ever verified it restores. It turns out not to.
What is included in every care plan
- Core, plugin, and theme updates: staged and tested before applied to production.
- Daily security monitoring with 24-hour incident response. Malware found, malware removed.
- Monthly performance check against the prior-month baseline, page speed, Core Web Vitals, crawl health.
- Uptime monitoring and off-site backup verified working monthly.
- Small fixes (under 30 min/month) included, broken contact form, wrong URL, style regression after an update.
- Monthly plain-English report: what was done, what was found, what is coming.
Care plan tiers
- Essential: $650 CAD a month. Predictable monthly upkeep, core security, updates, uptime, and small fixes (under 30 min/month included). 24-hour incident response. Right for brochure sites, service businesses, and blogs where transactions do not happen on the site.
- Active: $1,800 CAD a month. Faster response, regular implementation hours, and transaction testing for WooCommerce and membership sites. Right for stores, membership sites, and operating businesses where downtime means direct revenue loss and where the team wants real implementation hours each month rather than a stack of small fixes.
- Concierge: $4,000 CAD a month. Named contact, priority response, written runbook for the site, and scoped SLA. Right for multi-site installs, high-traffic properties, integrations that need extended testing, and operations where the maintenance relationship is part of the executive surface. Scope confirmed on the discovery call.
Prices are a starting point and scope is confirmed on the discovery call. No setup fee. Month-to-month, with 30 days notice. New sites under active development are not the right fit for a care plan, start the plan after launch, not during the build.
The maintenance relationship is built around the audit-credit-forward policy that runs through every engagement on this site: any audit work commissioned during the care relationship credits against the next implementation cycle, and any larger fix surfaced during routine maintenance routes cleanly into the right build tier. The work moves with you.
Common questions
What actually happens if the site goes down?
You contact me and I start work, rather than filing a ticket into a queue. Uptime monitoring usually means I know before you do. What I do not offer is a twenty-four-hour guaranteed response, because I am one person and pretending otherwise would be dishonest. If you need a follow-the-sun guarantee, you need a team, and I will tell you that on the call.
Is this just plugin updates?
Updates are the visible part and the smallest part. The work is testing that an update did not break anything, watching for the plugin that has been abandoned upstream, keeping backups you could actually restore from, and noticing the slow drift that turns into an outage in eight months. Anyone can press update. The value is in what gets checked afterwards.
Can we cancel?
Any time, and you keep everything. No notice period, no exit fee, no holding the site hostage. You have the code, the hosting, and the logins throughout, and if you leave I will hand over cleanly to whoever is next. A care plan you cannot leave is a subscription, not a service.
Tell me about your project
The fastest way to a straight answer. Tell me what you need and I will reply within a business day, honestly, even when the answer is that I am not the right fit.
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