WordPress care plans, run on a calendar, not a ticket queue.
Staged updates, tested backups, security, monitoring, and same-week edits for WordPress sites and WooCommerce stores that earn their keep. A named person who knows your build, and a written summary every month.
Sites don't break. They rot.
Launch day is the easiest day in a website's life. From day two, plugins push updates, the host moves PHP forward, and a payment add-on quietly stops matching WooCommerce core. None of it is dramatic. That is the problem.
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Eight quiet months, then a recovery project.
By the time something visibly breaks there are forty pending updates, an expired certificate, and a fix that is no longer fifteen minutes.
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Backups nobody has restored.
Most sites find out whether their backups work on the day they need them. A backup you've never restored is a rumor, not a backup.
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A checkout that stopped taking money.
Monitoring catches a dead server. It doesn't catch a checkout button that quietly stopped firing while the homepage looked fine.
A calendar, not a ticket queue.
Every week.
Small, steady work so nothing piles up in a corner.
Staged updates
Plugins and themes weekly, core monthly, always on staging first. Never bulk-clicked.
Backup check
Did the scheduled backups run, and are they the size they should be.
Security and uptime
Malware scan and uptime log, reviewed by a person.
Spam sweep
Comment and form queues cleared on sites that take them.
Every month.
The checks that catch what automated monitoring misses.
Test restore
A backup restored to a throwaway environment, so recovery is proven before it's needed.
Real-device pass
Click the nav, submit the form, add to cart, check out.
Performance review
Core Web Vitals and page weight against the numbers set at launch.
Written summary
What we updated, what we held back and why, what we are watching.
Every quarter.
The slow risks, handled on our timeline instead of the host's.
PHP planning
PHP moved forward on staging before the host forces it.
Plugin audit
Abandoned, overlapping, and stopgap plugins removed.
Database housekeeping
Expired transients, orphaned revisions, and bloated options cleared.
Security and licenses
A posture review and a license check, so nothing critical lapses.
Whenever you need it.
Your hosting account, the edits, and a person who knows your build.
Content edits
Swap a price, add a team member, fix a typo, the same week.
Hosting, managed
Your hosting account, run by us: staging, PHP versions, backups, caching.
A named person
Someone who knows your site answers, not whoever's free.
Security hardening
Seven defenses, monthly audits, recovery on standby.
What most maintenance plans skip.
If a plan can't tell you what it does every week, every month, and every quarter, it isn't a plan. It's a standing invoice.
| Typical maintenance plan | Beenacle care | |
|---|---|---|
| Updates | Bulk-clicked on the live site. | Staged first, clicked through by a person. |
| Backups | Taken, never restored. | Test-restored every month. |
| Checkout | An uptime ping on the homepage. | A real-device checkout test every month. |
| Scope | “X hours of support” with no checklist. | A written weekly, monthly, and quarterly calendar. |
| Support | A ticket queue that routes to whoever is free. | A named person who knows your build. |
| Reporting | Nothing, or an automated PDF. | What we did, what we held back, and why. |
What a care plan shouldn't be. It isn't “we'll look at it if something breaks.” That's a phone number, not a plan: you only hear about problems after they've cost you something. And it isn't a hosting markup. Some agencies buy hosting wholesale, resell it at a margin, and call the spread a care plan. Hosting is not maintenance, which is why your hosting account stays in your name and the plan is priced on the work alone.
Uddhab has been an integral part of our team for many years now. His communication is excellent, he is always available and gets any tasks done expeditiously. I can rest easy knowing that he is in charge of our web design and maintenance.
Ted Stefanidis · Managing Director, Executive Platforms
What care costs.
Site care
For marketing and content sites. Staged updates, backups checked weekly and test-restored monthly, security, monitoring, same-week content edits, your hosting account managed, and a written summary every month.
Ongoing care, including accounts we've held since 2017Store & regulated care
For WooCommerce and regulated stores, where downtime costs money by the hour. Everything in site care, plus a checkout test after every meaningful update, and COA refreshes for regulated catalogs.
A store we built and maintain has crossed $10M in cumulative revenueAll figures in USD. Hosting is billed separately by your host. The price tracks the cost of failure, not the size of the homepage: a single recovery from a hacked or broken unmaintained site routinely costs more than a year of steady maintenance.
How care starts.
What we usually find on the first look. If a site hasn’t had real maintenance in a year, it’s almost certainly carrying some of these:
- A backup nobody has restored since setup.
- A PHP version the host is about to deprecate, or a plugin three major versions behind with a published vulnerability.
- An abandoned plugin, still active, its code now attack surface.
- A form or checkout event that stopped firing months ago, with no error message.
- Page weight creeping up and Core Web Vitals slipping below launch numbers.
- An SSL certificate, domain, or license drifting toward an expiry nobody has on a calendar.
None of these sets off an alarm. That’s why they’re dangerous.
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Send a brief
A paragraph about the site, where it's hosted, and what's worrying you. Sites we didn't build are welcome.
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We look first
We go through the site, its plugins, and its hosting, and tell you plainly what it's already carrying before you commit.
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A baseline month
Updates staged and applied, a first test restore, and performance numbers recorded so drift has something to be measured against.
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The calendar runs
Weekly, monthly, and quarterly work, with a written summary each month: what we updated, what we held back, and why.
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Someone who answers
When something breaks, you message the person who knows your build. It's the part clients value most a year in.
WordPress care plan questions, answered.
What is a WordPress care plan?
A WordPress care plan is scheduled, ongoing work that keeps a live site from decaying after launch. A WordPress site isn’t a finished object. It’s a running system on top of other running systems: PHP, MySQL or MariaDB, a web server, a CDN, dozens of plugins, and WordPress core, all updating on their own schedules. A real plan is a short list of deliverables you could audit at the end of any month: staged updates, off-site backups that get test-restored, uptime and security monitoring, small content edits, a written summary, and a named person who knows your build. Maintenance is cheap when it’s a rhythm and expensive when it’s a rescue.
What does a WordPress care plan include?
Ours runs on a calendar. Weekly: staged plugin and theme updates, a backup check, and a security and uptime review. Monthly: core updates, a test restore, a performance review, a real-device pass through forms and checkout, content edits, and a written summary. Quarterly: PHP planning, a plugin audit, database housekeeping, and a security and license review. We manage your hosting account too, which stays in your name, and a named person who knows your build is behind all of it.
How much does a WordPress care plan cost?
Ours start at $450 a month for marketing and content sites and $1,000 a month for WooCommerce and regulated stores, in USD, with hosting billed separately by your host. Plans at $50 to $100 a month exist, and they usually cover automated updates and backups with no human checks. The difference shows up at 11pm on a Friday when something breaks, and the only question that matters is whether the person you message actually knows your site.
Do you take on sites you didn't build?
Yes. Before a plan starts we go through the site, its plugins, and its hosting, and tell you plainly what it’s already carrying, whether that’s a stale PHP version, an abandoned plugin, or a backup nobody has ever restored. You decide from there.
Is hosting included in the plan?
No, and that’s deliberate. You open your own hosting account, and we recommend Kinsta (we’re a Kinsta Agency Partner). You add us to it, and we manage it from there: staging, PHP versions, backups, caching. You always own the account and pay your host directly, so nothing is locked to us. If you’re elsewhere and want to move, we migrate you.
Will an update break my site?
Not on the live site. No plugin update or major core release reaches production until it has been applied on a staging copy and clicked through by a person. Minor core security patches are the one exception: those apply automatically, because waiting on a known vulnerability is the bigger risk. On staging, a bad update is a non-event. We roll it back and wait for a fix.
How do you know the backups work?
We restore one. Every month we restore a backup to a throwaway environment, so the recovery path is proven before you ever need it. A backup you have never restored is a rumor, not a backup.
How quickly do you respond?
Small content edits are done the same week. When something is broken, you message a named person who knows your build, not a ticket queue that routes to whoever is free.
Do you look after WooCommerce and regulated stores?
Yes, from $1,000 a month. Stores get a checkout test after every meaningful update, because a broken checkout doesn’t announce itself; it just stops taking money while the homepage looks fine. For research peptide and other regulated catalogs we also keep COAs current and the research-use pages intact. See our peptide store work.
A paragraph is enough.
Send the rough shape of what you're building. You'll hear back within one business day: an honest read, a few questions, and a clear next step. Not a discovery-call gauntlet.