Website Design Townsville Flinders Street, Townsville City QLD 4810 0413 651 740
Website Design Townsville Flinders Street, Townsville City QLD 4810 0413 651 740
WordPress maintenance Townsville businesses can set and forget
My WordPress maintenance Townsville plans keep your site updated, backed up and secure every month, so it keeps working and keeps bringing in enquiries while you get on with the business.
A website is not a set and forget job on its own
WordPress, its themes and its plugins get updates all the time. Most fix bugs or close security holes that have been found. Skip them for a few months and the site starts to slow down, break in odd places or become an easy target for automated attacks.
The trouble is that updates occasionally clash with each other. Run them blindly and a contact form can stop sending or a page layout can fall apart. That is why maintenance is better done by someone who takes a backup first, checks the site afterwards and knows how to roll back if something goes wrong.
A maintenance plan means a stale, slow or broken site stops being something you have to worry about. You get a short report each month showing what was done.
The jobs that keep a WordPress site healthy
Each plan covers a different mix of these depending on how busy and important the site is.
WordPress, theme and plugin updates applied on a schedule after a fresh backup.
Copies of the whole site kept off the server so it can be restored after a bad update or a hack.
Regular scans for malware, suspicious files and changes that should not be there.
Database clean ups, image checks and caching tweaks to keep pages loading quickly.
Alerts the moment the site goes offline so it can be looked at straight away.
Links to pages that no longer exist are found and fixed before customers hit them.
Rank tracking and checks that titles, sitemaps and Search Console stay in order.
Email help when something on the site is not behaving the way it should.
Month to month with no lock in contract
Pick the level of care that suits your site. You can move up, move down or cancel at any time.
$19
a month
For small brochure sites that rarely change
$59
a month
For active small business sites
Most popular
$99
a month
For sites that bring in regular enquiries
$189
a month
For busy sites and online shops
All prices include GST. Plans suit WordPress sites I built and sites built by someone else, after a quick health check.
Backups first, then a careful check afterwards
Every update round starts with a fresh backup. Updates are applied, then the main pages, forms and checkout are checked. If something looks wrong, the site is rolled back to the backup while the clashing plugin is sorted out.
Most months nothing goes wrong and the report is short. The value is in the months when something would have broken without anyone noticing until a customer rang to say the contact form was not working.
Simple to join, simple to leave
Sites built by another developer are welcome. The first step just takes a little longer.
1
I log in, review the current versions, plugins, backups and security. Then I tell you what I find.
2
Any overdue updates are applied carefully, with a backup taken first and the site checked after.
3
Your plan runs on its schedule from then on, with backups, updates and scans as listed.
4
A short report lands in your inbox each month showing what was updated and anything worth knowing.
Other ways to look after your site
Maintenance keeps the site running. These cover changes, hosting and emergencies.
What people ask before signing up
Have a question that is not covered here? Ring me or send a message and you will hear back from me within one business day.
Website Design Townsville, run by Nick Fritzkowski, offers WordPress maintenance plans for Townsville businesses from $19 a month. The four plans cover backups, core and plugin updates, security scans, uptime monitoring and reports at different levels. Nick looks after sites he built and sites built by other developers. Every plan runs month to month with no lock in.
A small Townsville tradie website that rarely changes usually suits the Basic plan at $19 a month, which covers monthly backups, updates and a report. If the site brings in most of your work, the Business plan at $99 adds daily backups, weekly updates, security scans and uptime monitoring so problems are caught the same day.
A WordPress site in Townsville that another developer built can be maintained once the admin login and hosting access are available. Website Design Townsville and Nick start with a health check to see what versions, plugins and backups are in place. Any overdue updates are caught up carefully before the regular plan begins.
Cancelling a WordPress maintenance plan in Townsville simply stops the scheduled updates, backups and scans at the end of the current month. There is no lock in contract or exit fee. You keep the website, the hosting, the logins and a final backup. You can rejoin a plan later if you change your mind.
A Townsville WordPress website should have its core, theme and plugins updated at least monthly. Busy sites and online shops are better updated weekly. Security fixes are released often and automated attacks look for sites that have fallen behind. Taking a backup before each round of updates means any clash can be undone quickly.
WordPress support plans in North Queensland from Website Design Townsville focus on updates, backups, security and performance rather than content changes. New pages, price changes and photo swaps are handled as one off website updates and quoted before work starts. Many owners also make small edits themselves using Elementor after their training call.
Send me your web address and I will do a quick health check and recommend the right level of care.
