Practical pieces about updates, security, monitoring and selling maintenance contracts.
A maintenance plan is only worth something if it is written down. These are the 27 tasks we run across client sites, split by how often they need to happen.
You do not need a penetration test to find the problems that actually break WordPress sites. Ten checks catch the overwhelming majority of them.
A maintenance contract is not a promise to be available. It is a written list of what you do, how fast you respond, and what falls outside the fee.
If you maintain sites for clients, you are a processor. That comes with obligations most agencies have never written down.
Every management tool promises one dashboard for every client site. The difference is in how they connect, what happens when a site breaks, and what you can hand to a client afterwards.
Most agencies underprice maintenance because they only count the hours they can bill. A realistic 2026 price list includes tooling, risk, and the cost of calm weekends.
Updating forty sites in one click sounds risky. With a fixed order, a health check and a rollback plan it is safer than updating by hand.
A good monthly report has three numbers and one sentence of context. Everything else is noise your client will skip.
Charging per hour punishes you for being efficient. Here is how agencies build a maintenance package that scales with the number of sites.