WordPress Maintenance Agency

WordPress Maintenance For Fast & Secure Websites

Maintaining and optimising the performance of your website can be time consuming and without the right knowledge, making updates can lead to site breaking issues.

A slow site can cause frustration and drive users away, and a website not kept up-to-date can leave it vulnerable to hacking, or lead to key elements breaking.

At Impact, we’re obsessed with performance and security, and as WordPress specialists, we know just how important it is to keep your website up-to-date.

We offer a range of contract free monthly maintenance plans, to keep your website up-to-date, fast and secure.

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WordPress & Plugin Updates

Last year, WordPress released numerous updates. Premium plugins like Gravity Forms and Yoast regularly release new versions and updates. These can be for functionality, performance or security, and it is important that they are kept up-to-date, to ensure your site continues to work correctly and avoid security vulnerabilities.

It is also important to ensure you aren’t using any plugins with known vulnerabilities or that aren’t patched and updated by their creators.

A large percentage of website hacks are due to out-of-date CMS versions, or plugins that aren’t kept updated.

Our team will make sure that updates are done regularly, and tested on a staging server first, to make sure they don’t break any functionality on your site.

Speed & Performance

Speed is everything these days. It is a key ranking factor for Google, and users want a fast site; slow load times mean they’ll go elsewhere. You could have the greatest website in the world, but if it’s slow, all that hard work is squandered if users don’t stick around to view it.

There are a multitude of factors which can slow your site down and create a poor user experience - hosting location, lack of caching, bloated code, lack of image compression and many more. It can feel like a full time job staying on top of all of this.

Our team love the challenge of regular optimisation to keep our customers’ websites running fast and smoothly.

We will continually monitor your website and carry out routine WordPress Core, Plugin and theme updates as and when required.

Through premium plugins and website configuration we help to continually improve the overall speed, performance and page loading times of your website.

With 24/7 website monitoring, proactive security patches being applied and a responsive team on hand to repair and protect the website moving forward.

Protect your data with daily or hourly offsite backups should a catastrophe occur. Our team will restore the latest backup to get you back up and running in lighting time.

We will continually monitor your website and carry out routine WordPress Core, Plugin and theme updates as and when required.

Through premium plugins and website configuration we help to continually improve the overall speed, performance and page loading times of your website.

With 24/7 website monitoring, proactive security patches being applied and a responsive team on hand to repair and protect the website moving forward.

Protect your data with daily or hourly offsite backups should a catastrophe occur. Our team will restore the latest backup to get you back up and running in lighting time.

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If you’re having trouble with your WordPress website, regardless of the issue, the first step is requesting a WordPress Website Healthcheck - we’ll take a look under the bonnet.

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Boosted performance on desktop and mobile

Initially driven by a need for speed, where Impact made a number of refinements to our sites to help boost performance on desktop and mobile, they now provide proactive website management and reactive support to ensure that the sites remain secure, available, and fast.

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Security

There are many myths and misconceptions about the security of WordPress websites. Much of this is down to two reasons; one being the very old fashioned idea that WordPress is only a blogging platform, when it is in fact fully realised and scalable CMS. The second reason is that as the market leading CMS, with over 60% market share, we hear more about security breaches on WordPress sites, because there are so many more WordPress sites than anything else.

We approach security very methodically, as it is a bit of an obsession for us. As well as managing and testing updates to WordPress and plugins, we use Sucuri’s firewall and website security platform, to monitor and protect the sites we look after.

We Created The Ultimate Combined Hosting, Support & Maintenance Solution That Our Clients Love

After many years of providing support we listened to our clients and understood their main drivers for website success, speed, security and reliability, our Support Unlimited WordPress Care Plans are exactly that.

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WordPress Maintenance FAQ’s

What is WordPress Maintenance?

It’s not enough to build an amazing website, if you then leave it to fall apart. Just as you wouldn’t buy a vintage car and not look after it. We maintain and service our cars, and we need to do the same for our websites to keep them running smoothly.

WordPress maintenance includes all of the regular tasks which need to be carried out, like updates. Along with optimisation to fine tune performance, and security, to make sure your website stays safe from attacks.

Why is WordPress Maintenance important?

If you do not keep on top of regular maintenance it leaves the website in a concerned state as it ages. For example when WordPress jumps from version 4 to version 5 there are normally a lot of smaller updates between them in which trying to skip in one go can generally lead to your website breaking or not loading correctly or issues with certain plugins.

What is PHP and why do I have to update my website for PHP Compatibility?

Another thing to keep on top of is ensuring your website is hosted using the most up to date and secure software. PHP (Pre Hypertext Processing) is a language widely used on the web by many big brands, but more importantly is the underlying code that WordPress operates on.

Very similar to updating your computer operating system many hosts will upgrade their version of PHP to the most stable and secure version.

This does not mean that your website will work out the box when it is upgraded.

As part of routine maintenance we can run an audit on your site and provide a separate proposal to help carry out additional development to ensure the compatibility is met for the website theme and its plugins.

Why use an agency for WordPress Maintenance?

Maintaining multiple websites can be very time consuming for an individual to control as well as other possible development tasks.

At Impact, we assign website maintenance across multiple staff members who have access to many premium 3rd party solutions and platforms to control the management of your website.