WordPress Website Maintenance — Keep Your Site Secure, Fast, and Working

WordPress core updates. Applied and tested each month. We check compatibility before updating and verify core site functionality after — contact forms, ecommerce checkout, booking systems, any custom functionality your site relies on.

Plugin updates. Every active plugin reviewed and updated monthly. Where a plugin update introduces a breaking change, we identify and resolve it before it affects your live site. Where a plugin is abandoned by its developer and no longer receiving security updates, we advise on replacement.

PHP version compatibility. PHP advances through versions that WordPress and your plugins must keep pace with. We monitor your current PHP version, flag when it approaches end-of-life, and manage the migration to a supported version — testing compatibility with your full plugin stack before switching.

Security monitoring and patching. We monitor for known vulnerabilities in your plugin and theme stack and apply patches promptly. Login rate limiting, SSL validity, and file permission integrity checked monthly.

Uptime monitoring. Your site monitored around the clock. If it goes down, we are alerted immediately and investigate without waiting for you to report it.

Reasonable-use content changes. Minor content updates included under a fair-use policy — correcting text, swapping images, updating contact details, adding a news post. This is not unlimited development work, but it covers the small changes every business needs done without generating a separate invoice each time.

We have taken over maintenance of sites that had not been properly maintained in months or years. The pattern is consistent — outdated core, outdated plugins, accumulated vulnerabilities, broken functionality that nobody noticed, and in some cases active malware infections redirecting visitors to spam sites. Cleaning up a compromised site is significantly more expensive and time-consuming than preventing it through regular maintenance. It also causes reputational damage — Google flags compromised sites, browsers show security warnings, and customers who encounter a compromised version of your site do not come back.

Our clients on maintenance retainers do not experience these problems. Their sites stay current, their functionality stays working, and when issues arise — and occasionally they do — we catch them early and resolve them before they cause real damage. If you are currently running a WordPress site without active maintenance, the most valuable thing you can do is get it onto a retainer. Contact us for a free site health assessment — we will tell you honestly what state your site is in and what it needs.

Hosting and maintenance can be bundled from £25 per month for standard brochure sites. That covers hosting on our managed infrastructure, weekly backups, monthly core and plugin updates, uptime monitoring, and priority support for any issues that arise. For Cumbrian businesses that need their website to just work — reliably, securely, and without surprises — that is what a Whamos maintenance retainer delivers.