Instead of employing an in-house web developer to maintain and update your site, let us manage your site instead. Our WordPress Managed Services cost you $200 per month. Compare that to employing a web manager.
Why your WordPress site needs to be managed?
WordPress Managed Services is like having your own in-house web developer looking after your site and keeping it up to date, but at a fraction of the cost. Websites need regular maintenance to run at their best and to remain secure. It’s like updating your antivirus software, you become vulnerable to hackers, viruses, and site breakdowns if you do not have the latest updates.
Website falls out of sync
The WordPress version your site is running will get old and fall out of sync with updated specs in PHP code and server software and hardware. WordPress core files are continually evolving to work and allow more features, as well as stop newly discovered exploits. This will eventually mean that plugins on your site will eventually fall behind the latest WordPress core in speed and security and so plugin authors also release updates to their plugins to match the WordPress core, (the Content Management System). When things fall out of sync, plugins can stop working or interfere with other plugins. The result is features on your site may stop working and in a worse case scenario the site stops working altogether.
Security vulnerabilities
If you leave your website as it is and do not take advantage of the plugin updates, your site will either fall out of sync with the automated WordPress updates allowing hackers to take advantage of security vulnerabilities that are newly discovered and published widely among the hacking community. They exploit older WordPress versions if you are not getting automatic updates and are constantly on the prowl for lists of old websites that have not been updated. They have special software that hack thousands even millions of websites at one time, so they do not even need to visit your site.
Being up to date is exactly like the difference between having your virus scanner up to date or using an old version. The latest virus signatures allows you to combat newly written viruses, similarly keeping your site up to date protects you from hackers gaining entry to your site and server from newly discovered vulnerabilities. Once a hacker gains entry through an exploit, they can put a virus or spyware on your website without you noticing it. This can seriously harm the reputation of your site in Google’s search index. They can also take your site offline, delete it completely, or put up their own content such as a political message or links to other sites.
Code errors
Programmers are human and their code is not always the most efficient or written robustly at first. Sometimes a feature may not work under certain circumstances or in conjunction with other plugins or situations. Authors are made aware of these imperfections by web developers over time and they make updates to their code to fix them and provide them as updates.
New features
New features are also added in by plugin authors. These are often requested by web programmers who say it would be great if WordPress or plugins had this or that feature or ability.
Maintenance
Maintenance only requires a few hours work per month by an IT professional. A small cost for the huge benefit. Otherwise delayed fix-ups can take many hours to fix as problems become a needle among a haystack. It can also result in having to check every part of the server for files that contain malicious code placed by a hacker. Bear in mind that there are close to a million lines of code in the average WordPress site.
Monthly Service List
Updates are performed when required, usually multiple times each week. Updates for the WordPress core and the plugins. This keeps your site up to date leading to improved and new features, speed improvements, and tighter security;
- WordPress core updates for speed and security;
- Plugin and third-party code updates for new features and security;
- Site backups of all files and the database before & after all performed updates;
- Wordfence firewall to protect site from hackers & bots;
- Monthly virus scan of your server;
- Monthly PDF report on all site updates. Includes a list and details of any hacking attempts;
- Optional Google Analytics report if we are given permanent access to the Google Analytics Account.
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