A WordPress maintenance service that keeps your site secure, fast and up to date.
Your WordPress or WooCommerce site is working hard for you every day — so it needs looking after. Our monthly care plans handle the quiet, important work: updates tested on staging before they ever touch your live site, security monitoring, off-site backups, uptime checks, speed tuning and small content edits. You get one team who knows your site and picks up the phone. Remote, worldwide.
A website is a living thing — it needs looking after.
A WordPress site is never really "finished". The moment it goes live, the world around it keeps moving. WordPress puts out updates; so do your plugins and your theme. Hackers hunt for old, unpatched versions every single day. Meanwhile your images pile up, your database grows, and the site that felt fast on launch day slowly gets heavier. Leave all of that alone for a year and you don't have a stable site — you have a slow, risky one waiting to break.
That's what a maintenance plan prevents. Instead of ignoring your site until something goes wrong, someone keeps it healthy on purpose — a little care, every month, so the big problems never get the chance to happen. It's the difference between servicing a car and only calling a mechanic once it has stopped on the motorway.
That is what we do at Scorpyns. We keep WordPress and WooCommerce sites secure, fast and current with clear monthly care plans. We also build and run our own WordPress products, so we know exactly what breaks, what to watch, and how to fix it before it costs you customers. If your business and customers are in the EU, we also run EU-focused plans — see our WordPress & WooCommerce maintenance for Europe and WordPress speed optimisation.
The quiet work that keeps you online.
Updates on staging
WordPress core, plugins and theme, updated on a private copy of your site first. We check everything still works, then push it live — so an update never breaks your site in front of customers.
Security & monitoring
Hardened login, a firewall, malware scanning and patched software. We watch for trouble and shut the door before attackers get in. If the worst happens, see our malware removal.
Backups you can trust
Automatic, off-site backups on a schedule that suits your site — daily for a busy shop. Tested restores, not just saved files, so there is always a clean version to fall back to.
Uptime monitoring
We watch your site around the clock. If it goes down, we know within minutes — usually before you do — and get straight to work bringing it back.
Speed & Core Web Vitals
Caching, image optimisation and clean-up keep pages fast and your Core Web Vitals healthy — better for visitors, and for how you rank on Google.
Small content edits
Need to change a price, swap a photo, add a page or publish a post? Email us and we handle it — usually within a day or two — so you never have to fiddle with the site yourself.
The important things are never extra.
Some "cheap" plans quietly leave out the parts that matter most. With us, everything below comes with every WordPress care plan — as standard.
- Core, plugin & theme updates — kept current, so you're never running risky old versions.
- Tested on staging first — every update checked on a private copy before it touches your live site.
- Off-site automated backups — safe copies stored away from your server, on a schedule that fits.
- Security monitoring & hardening — firewall, malware scans, locked-down login and spam control.
- Uptime monitoring — round-the-clock checks that alert us the moment your site goes down.
- Speed & Core Web Vitals tuning — caching and clean-up to keep pages loading fast.
- Broken-link & error checks — we catch the small breakages before your visitors do.
- Database clean-up — trimming the clutter that quietly slows an older site down.
- Small content edits — a set amount of text, image and page changes each month, done for you.
- Monthly health report — a plain-English summary of what we did and how your site is doing.
- Priority support — a direct line to a team that already knows your site.
- You own everything — your site, hosting, accounts and backups are always yours, never locked to us.
A team that stays.
Plenty of people will set up a WordPress site and move on. Far fewer will still be watching it, updating it and answering the phone a year later. Maintenance is a promise to stick around — and that's exactly the kind of work we're built for.
We build our own WordPress products too. We don't just patch other people's sites — we run our own. So we know first-hand which plugins cause trouble, what a bad update looks like, and how to keep a site fast and safe for years, not just for launch week.
Updates on staging, always. We never gamble with your live site. Every change is tested on a private copy first, so your visitors and your checkout keep working while we do the risky part safely, out of sight.
Remote-first, worldwide. We look after sites for businesses anywhere. We work across time zones, keep everything written down in clear monthly reports, and speak plainly — no jargon, no talking down to you. You always know what's being done to your site and why.
From first check to steady care.
Free health check
Send us your site. We review its updates, security, speed and backups, and tell you honestly what shape it's in — no charge, no pressure.
Right-sized plan
We recommend the plan that fits your site and how much help you want, with one clear monthly price and no long lock-in.
Set-up & staging
We connect monitoring and backups and spin up a staging copy — the safe place where every future update gets tested first.
Monthly care
Tested updates, security checks, speed tuning, backups and your content edits — done on a steady rhythm, every month.
Report & review
You get a plain-English report of what we did and how the site is doing, plus a real person to ask whenever you need one.
Proven tech, used well.
We use dependable, well-known tools for updates, security, backups, monitoring and speed — and we choose the right one for your site, not just our habit.
What you're really paying for.
Maintenance is easy to skip because, done well, nothing happens — no hacks, no downtime, no broken updates. That silence is exactly what you're paying for. Here's what goes on behind it, so you can see why a good care plan is worth far more than the fire it quietly prevents.
Why updates are the risky part
Updating WordPress and its plugins isn't optional — old versions are how most sites get hacked. But hitting "update all" on a live site is a gamble: one plugin can clash with another and take your site, or your checkout, down without warning. The safe way is to update a private staging copy first, check every important page still works, then repeat the exact same steps live. That one habit turns updates from a monthly risk into a non-event — and it's the heart of what we do.
Security is a routine, not a plugin
Real security isn't one magic tool you install and forget. It's a routine: patching software quickly, hardening the login, running a firewall and malware scans, limiting who can do what, and watching for early signs of trouble. Most attacks are automated — bots looking for one unlocked door. Steady maintenance keeps yours locked, so they move on to an easier target.
Backups only count if they restore
Plenty of sites have "backups" nobody has ever tried to restore — and a backup you can't restore is just a false sense of safety. We keep them off-site, away from your server, on a schedule that matches how often your site changes, and we make sure they actually bring the site back. For a busy WooCommerce store that means daily copies, so a bad day never becomes a lost week of orders.
Speed and Core Web Vitals
Sites get slower with age: images stack up, plugins add weight, the database fills with clutter. A slow site loses visitors and drags down your Google ranking, because Core Web Vitals — how fast and stable your pages feel — are part of how you're judged. Maintenance keeps this in check with caching, image optimisation and regular clean-up, so the site stays as quick as the day it launched. If speed is your main worry, our speed optimisation work goes even deeper.
One team who knows your site
The hidden value of a care plan is memory. When one team looks after your site every month, they know its quirks, its plugins and its history. So when something needs attention, there's no starting from scratch and no explaining your setup to a stranger — just a quick fix from someone who already understands how it all fits together.
We don't just talk — we ship.
We don't just launch sites and leave. Take Deshavri, an Ayurvedic wellness store we designed, built and still run today — kept secure, fast and up to date so it can sell around the world. Proof beats promises.
WordPress maintenance questions, answered simply.
What does a WordPress maintenance plan include?
Every care plan covers the things that keep a site healthy: WordPress core, plugin and theme updates tested on a staging copy first, security monitoring and hardening, off-site automated backups, uptime checks, and a monthly health report. Most plans also include speed tuning and a set amount of small content edits each month, like changing text, swapping an image or adding a page. We shape the plan around your site, so you pay for the care you actually need.
How much does WordPress maintenance cost?
It depends on the size of your site and how much hands-on help you want. A simple brochure site costs far less to look after than a busy WooCommerce store with orders, payments and many plugins. We offer a few clear monthly plans and tell you which one fits before you commit — no long lock-in, no surprise charges. You can see how our pricing works.
Why do you test updates on a staging site first?
Because updates can break things, and the last place you want to find that out is on your live site in front of customers. A staging site is a private copy of your site where we apply updates and check that everything still works — the checkout, the forms, the layout. Only once it's clean do we push the same updates to your live site. It's the single biggest reason our maintenance is safe rather than risky.
Do you work with international and remote clients?
Yes. We are a remote-first team and we look after WordPress sites for businesses anywhere in the world. We work across time zones, keep everything written down in clear reports, and set calls at a time that suits you. Your hosting, your dashboard and your reports are all online, so distance has never been a problem for the way we work.
Can you look after a WooCommerce store, not just a blog?
Yes, and stores need maintenance the most. A WooCommerce site has payments, stock, tax rules and extra plugins, so a broken update costs real money. We test every change against your checkout and key pages before it goes live, watch performance during busy periods, and keep the whole store patched and backed up. If your customers are in the EU, we also run EU-focused WordPress and WooCommerce maintenance.
What happens if my site gets hacked or goes down?
We act fast. Uptime monitoring tells us the moment your site goes down, often before you notice, and we get to work restoring it. If your site is hacked, we clean out the malicious code, close the hole that let it in, and restore a clean backup if needed. Care-plan clients are first in the queue, and because we hold recent off-site backups, there's almost always a safe version to fall back on.
Do I have to be on a plan, or can you help with a one-off problem?
Both. Many people first come to us with a one-off problem — a slow site, a failed update, a hack — and we fix it as a single job. Others prefer the steady peace of mind of a monthly plan so the problem never happens again. There's no pressure either way. We'll tell you honestly which one makes more sense for your site.
Will you make small content changes for me each month?
Yes. Most plans include a set amount of small edits each month — updating text, prices or opening hours, swapping a photo, adding a blog post or a new page, or fixing a broken link. You email us what you need and we handle it, usually within a day or two. It saves you from logging in and fiddling with the site yourself, and it keeps your content fresh.
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