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WordPress care

Your WordPress site, kept up to date and online

£400 or £700 a year, excluding VAT, and that’s the whole price. Matt, by name, takes a backup, runs the updates, checks the site still works, rolls back anything that breaks and writes you a report every time. He won’t take a site without server access, because that’s what makes the rollback possible.

Two plans, one job

Both plans do the same thing. The only difference is how often.

  • Quarterly check-in

    £400 a year

    Excluding VAT. Four check-ins a year

    Best for a simple site with few plugins that doesn’t change much.

    • WordPress, plugin and theme updates
    • A check that the site still works
    • A written report each time
    Ask about this plan

  • Monthly check-in

    £700 a year

    Excluding VAT. Twelve check-ins a year

    Best for a shop, a membership site or anything your business depends on daily.

    • WordPress, plugin and theme updates
    • A check that the site still works
    • A written report each time
    Ask about this plan

Not a WordPress site?

Tell us what it runs on and we’ll say whether we can look after it.

Ask us

Whichever way, the first look is free. Always. How that works.

What you’re actually paying for

Care plans are cheap to sell and easy to do badly. This is what makes ours worth the money.

  • A named person, not a queue

    Matt does every check-in himself. You know who’s been in your site and you can ask him about it.

  • A backup before anything is touched

    Files and database, every time, so the site can be put back exactly as it was.

  • A rollback if an update breaks something

    The site keeps working. The report says what happened and what fixing it properly would cost.

  • A written report every time

    What was updated, from which version to which, what was checked afterwards and anything noticed. Plain English.

  • Server access, insisted on

    Without it an update can’t be undone safely, so Matt won’t take a site without it. He’ll help you set it up.

  • Prices said out loud

    The yearly price is the price. No hourly extras hidden behind it; anything beyond updates is quoted first.

What’s in, and what isn’t

This is deliberately a small, fixed job: updates, and keeping you online. At each check-in Matt updates WordPress, your plugins and your themes, checks that the site still loads and still does what it should, and sends you a short report of what was done and anything he noticed.

It doesn’t include new features, design changes, content edits or repairs to things that were already broken. If a check-in turns up something that needs more than an update, the report says so and you get a price before any further work is done.

What a report looks like

This is an example, written for a made-up bakery. Yours will read the same way, in plain English.

Example report

Monthly check-in

Site
example-bakery.example
Date
Tuesday 6 October 2026
Carried out by
Matt Bedford

Everything is up to date and working.

Before I touched anything I took a full backup of the files and the database, so the site could be put back exactly as it was. I didn’t need it. All seven updates went in cleanly and nothing had to be rolled back.

Updates applied

Item From To
WordPress itself 7.2.1 7.2.2
Online shop plugin 10.2.1 10.2.2
Contact form plugin 6.1.2 6.1.3
Search engine plugin 26.0 26.1
Page speed plugin 3.19.4 3.20.0
Cookie notice plugin 2.4.0 2.4.1
Your theme 3.4.1 3.5.0

Checked afterwards

  • The home page, a product page and the contact page all load.
  • The contact form sends, and my test message arrived.
  • A test order went through the basket and checkout as far as payment. I cancelled it afterwards.
  • The WordPress admin login works.
  • There are no new errors in the server log.
  • The security certificate (the padlock) is valid until 14 January 2027 and renews by itself.

Things I noticed

  1. The opening hours plugin is no longer being updated

    Its author hasn’t released a new version in over two years. It still works today, but it won’t get security fixes if a problem is found.

    I’d replace it with a few lines of our own code that do the same job.

  2. Your server’s version of PHP is nearly out of support

    PHP is the language WordPress runs on. Your hosting uses version 8.2, which stops getting security fixes at the end of December 2026.

    I’d move the site to 8.4 before then, testing it on a copy first.

Neither is urgent and neither is part of the care plan. If you’d like either done, tell me and I’ll send a price first.

Next check-in Tuesday 3 November 2026

Matt

Questions about care plans

What do you need from us?

Access to your server, as well as an administrator login to WordPress. Matt won’t take on a site without it, because an update can’t be done safely if there’s no way to roll it back. The simplest route is to add him as an extra user on your hosting account, and where the host offers it he works over a secure SSH connection. If you’re not sure how to set that up, he’ll go through it with you.

What happens if an update breaks something?

Matt checks the site straight after updating. If an update causes a problem he rolls it back, so the site keeps working, and tells you in the report. Fixing the underlying conflict is a separate job, priced before any work is done.

How does payment work?

Plans are paid yearly and renew each year. Tell us before the renewal date and the plan stops there.

Our site was built by someone else. Is that a problem?

No. Most of the sites we look after were. The first check-in takes a little longer while Matt gets to know it.

Two people, one conversation

Tell us what you need

Whether it’s a fix, a new feature or something brand new, drop us a line. Here’s how it works.

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