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WP Care Plans

Monthly maintenance, updates, security and backups included.

From £79/mo

WordPress Maintenance Services

WordPress Maintenance
Services for UK Agencies
and Businesses

We take care of the updates, backups, security checks and small fixes that keep a WordPress site healthy, so you and your clients never have to think about them. Care plans start at £79 per site per month, work with your existing hosting and roll monthly with no minimum term.

WHAT YOU GET

What our WordPress maintenance services include

Every plan covers the same core care. Higher plans add development time, content and faster response, but nothing below is held back as an upgrade.

Weekly staged updates

WordPress core, plugins and themes are updated once a week on a staging copy first. We check the pages that matter, forms and checkout included, then push the update live. If something breaks, it breaks where nobody sees it.

Daily offsite backups

A full backup every day, stored away from your server for 30 days. If an update, a hack or an accidental delete takes the site down, we restore it from the last clean copy.

24/7 uptime monitoring

Your site is checked around the clock. If it goes down, we get an alert straight away, rather than you hearing about it from a customer.

Daily security and malware scanning

Files are scanned every day for malware, injected code and known vulnerabilities in the plugins you run. Problems are flagged early, usually before they turn into an incident.

SSL certificate monitoring

We watch certificate expiry dates, so the padlock never quietly disappears and browsers never warn your visitors away.

Monthly Core Web Vitals check

Speed and stability are checked every month, with plain recommendations when something slips. Bigger performance work is handled by our speed optimisation service.

Edit and development hours

Every plan includes monthly time for small changes: text, images, forms, menus, plugin settings and minor styling. You send the request and we get it done.

Clear monthly reports

A short report shows what was updated, what we found and what we fixed. Agencies receive it under their own brand, ready to forward to clients.

WHY IT MATTERS

Why WordPress sites need ongoing maintenance

Most WordPress problems don’t begin with a dramatic hack. They begin with a plugin update nobody ran, a backup nobody tested or a certificate nobody renewed. Regular website maintenance is what stops those small gaps becoming expensive ones.
Plugins are where the risk sits. Every week, new vulnerabilities are published for plugins that thousands of sites rely on, and attackers scan for unpatched sites within days. A site that isn’t updated and watched every week is carrying risk it can’t see.
WordPress’s own guidance is to take a full backup before every update. On one site that’s a chore. Across twenty client sites it’s a full-time job, and it’s exactly the work our care plans take off your hands.

7,966

new WordPress vulnerabilities found in 2024

96%

of them were in plugins

33%

were not fixed in time for public disclosure

Source: Patchstack, State of WordPress Security in 2025, covering vulnerabilities reported in 2024.

52%

of WP breaches from outdated plugins

PRICING

WordPress care plans and pricing

Three plans, priced per site. Pay monthly, or pay annually and get two months free. Agencies and businesses get exactly the same plans.

Essentials

For brochure and lead generation sites that need dependable core care.

£79/site/mo

£66 a month when paid annually

Weekly staged updates

Daily offsite backups, 30-day retention

24/7 uptime and daily security scanning

1 hour of WordPress edits a month

Monthly report

Support response within 8 hours

Partner

For growing sites and agencies that want development time, content and faster response.

£149/site/mo

£124 a month when paid annually

Everything in Essentials

2 hours of development time a month

1 SEO blog post written and published a month

Active malware removal included

WooCommerce checks and monthly database tuning

Support within 4 hours, emergencies within 6

Studio

For revenue-critical sites and agencies that want an embedded WordPress team.

£249/site/mo

£207 a month when paid annually

Everything in Partner

4 hours of development time a month

2 SEO blog posts a month

AEO visibility report and page builder checks

Dedicated account manager and monthly strategy call

Support and emergencies within 2 hours

COMPARE PLANS

Compare WordPress care plans side by side

Everything each plan includes, in one place.

Feature

Essentials

Partner

Studio

Monthly price, per site

£79

£149

£249

Annual price, per site per month

£66

£124

£207

Weekly staged updates

Daily offsite backups, 30-day retention

24/7 uptime monitoring

Daily security and malware scanning

SSL certificate monitoring

Monthly Core Web Vitals check

WordPress edit and development time

1 hr/mo

2 hrs/mo

4 hrs/mo

Active malware removal

Alerts only

Included

Included

WooCommerce compatibility checks

,

Database optimisation

,

Monthly

Monthly

Broken link scan and fix

,

Page builder checks (Elementor, Bricks, Divi, Oxygen)

,

,

SEO blog posts written and published

,

1 a month

2 a month

AEO visibility report (ChatGPT, Perplexity)

,

,

Report frequency, white-label for agencies

Monthly

Fortnightly, with keyword snapshot

Weekly, with keyword snapshot

Support response

Within 8 hours

Within 4 hours

Within 2 hours

Emergency response

,

Within 6 hours

Within 2 hours

Dedicated Slack channel

,

Dedicated account manager

,

,

Strategy call

,

,

30 min

Managing four or more sites? Per-site pricing drops with volume, to as low as £45 per site on Essentials for 11 to 20 sites. See volume pricing.

EDIT HOURS EXPLAINED

What counts as a WordPress edit?

Edit hours are for small changes to what’s already on your site. Anything bigger is quoted up front, so there are no surprise invoices.

INCLUDED IN YOUR EDIT HOURS

Text and copy updates

Image and media swaps

Contact form changes

Minor CSS and styling tweaks

Plugin settings and configuration

Menu, button and link changes

Small layout adjustments to existing pages

QUOTED SEPARATELY

New page or landing pages

New features or functionality

Redesigns and rebrands

WooCommerce store development

Custom plugin or theme development

Third-party integrations

SEO or performance projects, migrations and hosting changes

Unused hours don’t roll over. Partner and Studio clients can buy extra hours at a discounted rate, and every out-of-scope job is approved by you before we start.
NO MIGRATION NEEDED

Works with your existing WordPress host

You don’t need to move hosting to use our WordPress maintenance services. We connect to your site where it already lives, whether that’s a managed WordPress host, a shared hosting account or a server your developer set up years ago. Your hosting contract, domain and email stay exactly as they are.
Some providers bundle hosting into their care plans. That can work, but it usually means a migration at the start and another one if you ever leave. Keeping maintenance separate from hosting means you can change either one without disturbing the other.
To get started we need WordPress admin access, plus hosting or SFTP access so we can restore backups when needed. Credentials are stored securely and covered by our NDA.

WHO THIS IS FOR

Built for agencies. Built for businesses.

The same quality of WordPress development, delivered the right way for your situation.

FOR AGENCIES

White-label WordPress maintenance for agencies

Plenty of UK agencies build great websites but don’t want their developers spending every Friday on plugin updates. We act as your behind-the-scenes WordPress team, so your people can stay on billable project work.

Reports go out under your logo, colours and domain

We never contact your clients; everything goes through you

A dedicated Slack channel across your client sites on Partner and Studio

Volume pricing from four sites upwards

FOR BUSINESSES

WordPress maintenance for UK businesses

If you run your own WordPress site, you get the same care and day-to-day WordPress support, with a direct line to the people doing the work. There’s no ticket queue and no new account manager every few months. You message us, a WordPress developer picks it up, and you see the result in your next report.

It suits business owners who would rather spend their time on the business than in wp-admin, and in-house marketers who need a reliable developer on hand without hiring one.

Wondering what maintenance should cost? Our UK WordPress maintenance cost guide breaks down typical prices and what each level includes.

BEYOND BROCHURE SITES

Support for WooCommerce,
membership and inherited sites

Some sites carry more risk than others. Here’s how we handle the ones where a bad update costs real money.

WooCommerce stores

A broken checkout costs sales by the minute. Partner and Studio include WooCommerce compatibility checks, and we test the cart and checkout on staging before any update goes live. Store builds and new features are handled by our WooCommerce development team.

Membership and booking sites

Logged-in areas, payment gateways and booking plugins are tested after every update round, not just the homepage.

Sites built by someone else

Most of the sites we look after were built by another developer or agency. We start with an audit, document what's installed and flag any risks before we take responsibility for it.

Page builder sites

We work with Elementor, Bricks, Divi, Oxygen and the block editor. Studio adds builder-specific checks after every update.

SECURITY

What happens if your WordPress site is hacked

Daily scanning means most infections are caught early. If one does get through, this is what we do:

Isolate the site so the damage can't spread.

Remove malicious code, backdoors and rogue admin users.

Close the hole that let the attacker in and harden the site.

Restore from a clean backup where needed, and check that Google sees a clean site.

Send you a plain-English report of what happened and what we changed.

Active malware removal is included on Partner and Studio. Essentials includes daily scanning with instant alerts, and cleanup is available through our emergency malware rescue service. For ongoing hardening beyond a care plan, see managed WordPress security.

See it in practice: a hacked site with no backup, recovered the same day.

GETTING STARTED

How onboarding works

Most sites are fully set up within 24 hours. Here’s what happens from the first conversation to your first report.
STEP 01

Free audit

We review security, plugin health, backups and performance, then tell you what we would fix first. No obligation.

STEP 02

Setup within 24 hours

Monitoring, backups, security scanning and staging are in place within 24 hours of signing up.

STEP 03

First update round

We run the first staged update, fix anything urgent from the audit and confirm everything works.

STEP 04

First report

Your first report arrives, showing where the site started and the work done. From then on, it's routine.

Plans roll monthly with no minimum term. You can cancel at any time with 30 days’ notice.
RESULTS

Results from WordPress maintenance clients

THE CHALLENGE

40 hours lost every month to WordPress maintenance

A 12-person marketing agency in London was losing every Friday to plugin updates, security patches and client site fixes. At an average billing rate of £80 an hour, that was around £3,200 of billable time each month.

After handing WordPress maintenance to us, they won back 40 hours in the first month, with no site incidents during that period.

40h

Saved monthly

£3.2k

Margin recovered

0

Incidents

First month we recovered 40 hours. That is real money back in our business
Managing Director, marketing agency, London

Emergency malware cleanup that saved a client contract

Cancel anytime

Hacked site with no backup, recovered the same day

Restaurant group stops losing bookings to a slow site

WooCommerce store that broke after every update, fixed

BUYER'S CHECKLIST

How to compare WordPress maintenance providers

Most plans look alike on a pricing page. These questions separate them when something actually goes wrong:

Are updates tested on a staging copy, or applied straight to the live site?

How often are backups taken, where are they stored, and when was a restore last tested?

How much developer time is included each month, and what does extra time cost?

Is malware cleanup included, or billed as an emergency?

Do you have to move to their hosting?

Are response times written down, and when does the team actually work?

Is there a minimum contract or a cancellation fee?

The National Cyber Security Centre’s guide to choosing a managed service provider is a useful extra checklist for any small business making this decision.

QUESTIONS

WordPress maintenance care plan questions.

Honest answers before you decide.

What is included in a WordPress maintenance care plan?

Our WordPress maintenance care plans include weekly staged updates to WordPress core, plugins and themes, daily offsite backups with 30-day retention, 24/7 uptime monitoring, daily security scanning, SSL monitoring, Core Web Vitals checks and a monthly white-label performance report. Higher plans include development time and SEO blog content.

Our care plans cost £79, £149 or £249 per site per month, or the equivalent of £66, £124 or £207 a month if you pay annually. Across the UK market, prices run from basic update-only services to managed plans with bundled hosting at several hundred pounds a month. Our UK WordPress maintenance cost guide breaks down what you should expect at each level.

A staged update means we apply the update to a copy of your site first and test it before touching the live version. If anything breaks, we catch it on staging and fix it before your visitors ever see a problem. Standard updates go straight to the live site with no safety net.

Yes. We manage WordPress maintenance for agencies with multiple client sites, providing white-label reports under your brand for each. Volume discounts apply from 4 or more sites per month.

Our Essentials plan includes daily malware scanning with alerts. Partner and Studio plans include active malware removal as standard. If you need emergency malware removal outside a plan, we offer that as a standalone service.

No. All reports, communications and deliverables go out under your agency brand. We are completely invisible to your clients. This is a core part of how we work.

No. All plans are monthly rolling with no minimum term. Cancel anytime with 30 days notice. We earn your business every month.

Yes. We serve UK digital agencies on a white-label basis and UK business owners who need direct WordPress care. All services apply equally to both.
The easiest first step is a free WordPress audit. We review your site, identify the key issues and recommend the right plan. No obligation and no sales pressure.

DJ

About the author: Dewang Jani

WordPress Specialist, WP Miracle
Dewang is the founder of WP Miracle. He leads WordPress builds, maintenance and support for agencies and businesses across the UK, Australia and Hong Kong, and oversees every care plan we run.

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