Your WordPress site
kept up, for a fixed fee.
WordPress maintenance for one fixed fee per year, cancellable yearly: updates, backups, security and monitoring. I do not build new WordPress sites myself, but I do keep existing ones running. Webframer is based in Hazerswoude-Dorp near Alphen aan den Rijn, so there is a person on the other end you can call.
Why people hand over their WordPress site.
Your builder has vanished
The site still runs, but whoever made it no longer replies. Nobody dares press the update button any more.
Updates have been pending for months
Every pending plugin update is a known hole someone can walk through. On WordPress that is the most used way in.
No backup was ever restored
A backup nobody has ever tested is not a backup. You find that out at exactly the wrong moment.
The site was hacked once
Spam links in the footer, a redirect to a gambling site, or a warning in Google. Cleaning up is one job, stopping it coming back is another.
Your hosting is a box of question marks
You pay something somewhere every year, but nobody knows what for, what is in it or whose account it is.
You just want someone to call
Not a ticket system in another time zone, but a number where someone picks up who knows your site.
How a handover runs.
Baseline check
I look at what is running: WordPress version, theme, plugins, PHP version, hosting and whether anything is already wrong. That produces a list of what is currently open.
Clean up first, then keep it up
Overdue updates, unused plugins removed, backups set up and tested once to see whether restoring actually works. That is one-off work, separate from the yearly fee.
Access in your name
Hosting, domain and WordPress account stay yours; I get my own login you can revoke at any moment. No dependency you have to prise loose later.
Then monthly upkeep
Updates run on a staging environment before they go live, backups are checked, and you hear it when something is up. You also hear when nothing is, once a quarter.
- ✓Core, theme and plugin updates
- ✓Daily backups, restore actually tested
- ✓Security and uptime monitoring
- ✓Small text changes included
- ✓Fixed fee per year, cancellable yearly
- ✓An honest word when replacing is cheaper
One-off clean-up work at handover is billed separately, so the yearly fee is not polluted by someone else's backlog.
What it costs depends on how much is running and what state it is in. I start with a baseline check; after that you hear one yearly figure and what the clean-up costs once.
I do not build WordPress, but I do maintain it
That looks contradictory and it is not. New sites I build in Next.js by default, because it is faster and needs less maintenance; if you deliberately ask for WordPress, that is possible too. But there are hundreds of thousands of WordPress sites running fine that only need someone to keep them up. Replacing yours because I prefer something else is spending your money on my taste.
So: if your site runs and does what it should, I keep it up for as long as you want. If it is so dated that maintenance becomes mopping with the tap on, I say so before you pay, and why.
Why I go a different way for new sites is written out in why I choose Next.js and not WordPress.
What happens every month
Maintenance is not a subscription with nothing behind it. It is a short, boring routine with exactly one purpose: that your site still works next year and that nobody gets in meanwhile.
- ✓Core, theme and plugins updated
- ✓Updates on staging first
- ✓Daily backup, stored off the server
- ✓Restore genuinely tested once a year
- ✓Uptime and error monitoring
- ✓PHP version kept current
- ✓A quarterly note, even when nothing happened
When replacing eventually makes more sense
Sometimes the honest answer is that maintenance does not solve the problem. A site on an outdated PHP version, with a theme nobody updates any more and twenty plugins fighting each other, costs more every year and gets more brittle every year.
In that case I say so, with a timeframe: this can be kept up for another year, after which replacing is cheaper than carrying on. You are tied to nothing; maintenance is cancellable yearly and the choice stays yours.
If it comes to that, every old URL moves along with a redirect so your positions in Google stay put. What that involves is on website development and in what a migration costs you in rankings.
The Alphen aan den Rijn region
Webframer is based in Hazerswoude-Dorp, inside the Alphen aan den Rijn municipality. For maintenance, distance makes no technical difference — the work is remote — but it does help that you can call someone in the same region, and that dropping by is possible when something is genuinely wrong.
Work I keep running in the real world
What does WordPress maintenance cost per year?
Do you take over a WordPress site someone else built?
Do you build new WordPress sites?
My site was hacked. Can you fix that?
What happens if I stop the maintenance?
Do you do WordPress hosting?
Do you only work in Alphen aan den Rijn?
Tell me what you
want to build.
A half-hour call. You get an honest answer about what it costs, how long it takes and whether building it is smart at all.