WordPress Maintenance Plans

Essentials is a good fit for business and nonprofit websites that need ongoing updates, security, and technical care. Choose E-Commerce if your website accepts payments or paid bookings. Digital Marketing adds traffic analysis, search visibility tracking, and recommendations for improvement. Full Package combines those services with deeper performance work and maintenance for agreed custom systems.

If you’re unsure, send us your website address and tell us how the site supports your business. We’ll recommend an appropriate plan and explain why.

Our monthly WordPress maintenance plans are $110 for Essentials, $220 for E-Commerce, $220 for Digital Marketing, and $330 for Full Package.

Before you enroll, we review your website and confirm the scope. Any initial repairs, additional development, or work outside your plan is discussed separately, so you know what you’re paying for.

Yes. We regularly take over existing WordPress websites, including sites with older themes, complicated plugin combinations, custom features, and a history of malware or unreliable performance.

We review the setup to understand what is working, what needs attention, and where there may be opportunities to improve reliability or reduce costs. You don’t need to rebuild your website simply because you need a new technical partner.

Yes. Our maintenance plans include our malware-free guarantee: if your covered website becomes infected while on a plan, we clean it up at our expense. You pay nothing extra for that cleanup.

If the website is already infected when you come to us, we assess the existing problem and confirm any initial recovery work before ongoing coverage begins.

Yes. Diagnosing and repairing troubled WordPress websites is a core part of our work. We help with malware infections, failed updates, plugin conflicts, broken functionality, and recurring errors.

Tell us what you’ve noticed and when it started. If you don’t know what is wrong, that’s fine—we’ll investigate, explain what we find in plain language, and recommend a practical path to recovery. Any initial repair scope is confirmed before work proceeds.

Learn more about our WordPress maintenance and support services.

Yes. When we take on WordPress performance optimization, we commonly reduce page load times by half or more. The improvement depends on the starting point, the website’s functionality, and the work approved; it is not a fixed result promised with every maintenance plan.

We investigate the causes of slow performance, which can include theme code, plugins, images, database queries, caching, and hosting. Every plan includes performance monitoring, while Full Package adds optimization beyond monitoring. Larger changes are scoped separately.

Learn more about Core Web Vitals and website performance.

Sometimes, substantially. An expensive hosting plan can be compensating for inefficient code or a poorly optimized website. We look at both the website and its hosting requirements before recommending a change.

In one client project, we replaced a problematic WordPress theme and changed the hosting setup, saving the client approximately $1,000 per month while improving performance. That project involved theme and hosting work beyond routine maintenance; the opportunity depends on the website.

Read the WordPress hosting cost reduction case study.

No, not necessarily. We can often maintain your WordPress website with its existing host if the environment supports reliable updates, security, backups, and troubleshooting.

Our hosting may offer better performance or lower costs, but we review your actual setup before making that recommendation. If the current host is contributing to problems, we’ll explain the findings and your options. Hosting is discussed and priced separately.

Every website we host is backed up daily to an offsite location, keeping backup copies separate from the live hosting environment.

If your website stays with another host, we review the existing backup arrangements and clarify who is responsible for backups and restoration. We confirm the recovery arrangements during onboarding so those responsibilities are understood before an emergency.

Small requests can sometimes be handled within your plan when there is time available after the maintenance work is covered. Send us the request and we’ll let you know whether it fits.

New features, redesigns, substantial repairs, and larger development tasks are scoped separately. Full Package includes maintenance for agreed custom systems and integrations, with the specific coverage established during our initial review.

Yes. Digital Marketing adds traffic analysis, keyword tracking, competitor reviews, and practical SEO recommendations. We also consider answer engine optimization, or AEO: helping your website clearly explain your services and expertise in ways that can support discovery through AI tools such as ChatGPT and Claude.

That can include identifying useful questions to answer, improving content structure, and making your business information clearer and more consistent. No provider can guarantee that an independent search engine or AI platform will recommend a particular business.

We confirm which improvements fit within your plan and which would require a separate content, SEO, or development scope.

Yes. We offer an AI blogging tool to help clients publish useful website content more consistently. Clients who have used it have seen encouraging results, and we can discuss how it might fit your business and content goals.

The starting point is what your customers actually need to know: their questions, the problems you solve, and the experience that makes your business useful to them. We’ll explain how the tool works, what review is needed from your team, and its pricing separately from your maintenance plan.

Yes. Our work can help reduce operating costs, improve the customer experience, and support more inquiries or sales. The priorities depend on your business: a store needs a dependable checkout, a service company needs qualified inquiries, and a nonprofit may need easier registrations or donations.

One water delivery client returned to our office about a year after we began marketing his website, wearing a new pair of Italian leather shoes and sharing that his company was being acquired. He credited the results of our marketing work with helping make that possible. It remains one of our favorite client stories.

That was a broader marketing engagement, rather than maintenance alone. We help you distinguish keeping the website healthy from investing in its growth, then agree on the work and the business measures that matter.

Yes. We can discuss hourly, as-needed WordPress support if you need occasional troubleshooting, technical changes, or help with a specific problem.

Monthly plans are intended for ongoing care. Send us your requirements and we’ll explain which arrangement makes the most sense for your website.

Send us your website URL, a brief description of what you need, and any current concerns. You don’t need to know which plan fits or diagnose the technical problem first.

We’ll review your requirements, recommend an appropriate level of support, and explain any initial work or separate costs. You can request a maintenance recommendation or email projects@watermelonwebworks.com.