Most WordPress sites are not broken. They are just slowly falling behind. A plugin stops getting updates. The PHP version on the server reaches the end of its support. A backup that everyone assumed was running quietly stopped six months ago. None of this is visible until something goes wrong, and then it is urgent and expensive.
Our WordPress maintenance services are for business owners and marketing teams who need their site to keep working without thinking about it. You may have a small team, no in-house developer, or a developer who would rather build new features than babysit updates. We take the routine work off your plate and handle it carefully, on a schedule.
What’s included
- Tested updates for WordPress core, plugins and themes, applied on a staging copy first. A staging copy is a private clone of your site used for testing.
- Daily off-site backups stored away from your server, with regular restore tests so we know they actually work.
- Uptime monitoring that alerts us when your site goes down, often before you notice.
- Security checks, including file change monitoring, admin account reviews and malware scans.
- Speed checks against Core Web Vitals, Google’s measures of loading, responsiveness and visual stability.
- Plugin and theme health reviews to flag abandoned or duplicated plugins before they become a problem.
- Platform tracking for PHP, database and server versions, so upgrades are planned, not rushed.
- A small block of developer time each month for fixes and minor changes.
How it works
- Assessment. We review your site, hosting, plugins and custom code, and tell you plainly what we find.
- Fixed quote. Based on the assessment, we give you a fixed monthly price. No hourly surprises.
- Onboarding. We set up backups, monitoring and a staging environment, and fix anything urgent first.
- Regular maintenance. Updates go out on a set schedule. Each one is tested on staging with automated checks on your key pages and forms before it reaches the live site.
- Monthly report. You get a short summary of what we did, what we found, and what we recommend next.
We explain our update process in detail in our guide to safe WordPress updates with staging and automated tests.
What you get
- A site that stays current, with a documented rollback plan for every update.
- Backups you can trust, because we test restoring them.
- A monthly report in plain language, not a wall of log output.
- A technical debt score that shows whether your site is getting healthier or falling behind.
- One team to call when something looks wrong.
If you are not sure what a good plan should cover, our article on what real WordPress maintenance includes walks through it.
Why Verma IT
Many maintenance plans stop at clicking “Update all.” We treat maintenance as the way to keep technical debt from building up. Technical debt is the hidden cost of old plugins, outdated server software and untested code. We believe it can be measured, so we measure it and work to bring the number down every month.
Our founder, Ajay Verma, published his first plugin on WordPress.org in 2010 and is a WordPress core contributor. He works every day with Docker, PHPUnit and Playwright, the tools we use to build test environments and run automated checks before updates go live. That means we can test changes on throwaway copies of your site instead of experimenting on the real one.
We are also comfortable with the hard jobs that maintenance sometimes uncovers, such as a major PHP upgrade or a legacy theme that needs refactoring. If your site needs a deeper look first, a technical debt audit is a good starting point.
Get started
Tell us about your site and how it is maintained today. We will review it and send you a fixed quote. Contact us to start the conversation.
Frequently asked questions
- What do WordPress maintenance services include?
- Ours include tested core, plugin and theme updates, off-site backups, uptime monitoring, security checks, speed checks and a monthly report. We also track your site's technical debt so it goes down over time.
- How often should a WordPress site be updated?
- Security updates should go out within days of release. Other updates can follow a weekly or monthly schedule, as long as each one is tested on a staging copy first.
- Will updates break my site?
- Any update can break something. We reduce that risk by testing on a staging copy, running automated checks on key pages and forms, and keeping a backup ready so we can roll back in minutes.
- How much does WordPress maintenance cost?
- It depends on the size and complexity of your site. We review your site first and then give you a fixed monthly quote, so there are no surprises.
- Can you take over a site another agency built?
- Yes. We start with an assessment of the code, plugins and hosting, fix anything urgent, and then move the site onto our regular maintenance schedule.