website maintenance
WEBSITE MAINTENANCE
The technical requirements of running a WordPress website can be terrifying. Many people struggle with understanding technical language and often the simplest request on a WordPress dashboard makes them break out in a cold sweat. For others, they simply don’t have the time or inclination to worry about it and prefer to outsource this very important process.
regular wordpress maintenance
Your website’s backend is just as important as the content that you create on the customer-facing side. It needs to be available 24/7 to grow your business, keep your brand professional and to be ready for when your customers or readers want to access it.
To keep your website running at an optimum level, running the required updates on a regular basis and keeping an eye on potential issues is very important. Failure to do so can cause speed and functionality issues as well as opening the door to potential hackers and other security problems.
Thousands of websites get hacked every day. Security and backups should be an integral part of your website process.
Outsourcing this job to someone who has the skills can save you precious time and ultimately money.
comprehensive annual package - $150 AUD / month
- Regular oversight of dashboard to check for updates and issues
- Daily backups and cloud storage
- General troubleshooting solutions and basic fixes (where a developer isn't required)
- Updating of WordPress, themes and plugins (after disabling auto updates). Themes are updated via a staging site.
- Liaison with web host where required
- Installing and deactivating plugins
- General plugin and WordPress advice where it is relevant to the maintenance program
- Daily security and malware scanning
- 24/7 uptime monitoring
- Spam monitoring and removal
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Monthly activity report
- Email support
common troubleshooting actions and basic fixes
- Plugin conflicts
- Debugging issues
- Limiting revisions
- Hardening of WordPress login
- Basic formatting changes using CSS
- Disabling auto updates
- Implementing updated dates
- Permalinks stopped working
- Update API authorisations
RATES
The annual package is invoiced three months in advance. If you have any questions about the WordPress maintenance packages, or want to discuss your requirements, send me an email at kerri[at]kerrimcconnel.com. Alternatively, you can send me a message from our contact page