WordPress Care Plan
What is the WordPress Care Plan
BroadWeb’s WordPress Care Plan is just that – care for your wordpress website to ensure it runs fast and is safe from hacks.
Why is it needed?
1Wordpress is the world’s most popular and widely used content management system.
It powers 43.1% of all websites on the Internet. It has a 63.2% share of the CMS market.
Its popularity, unfortunately, also makes it a prime target for hackers.
Every year, hundreds of thousands of WordPress sites get hacked.
Some of these hacks are due to vulnerabilities found in WordPress core, installed plugins and themes.
Patches for these vulnerabilities are available, but sadly not applied by the website owners and operators.
At other times, the cause is simply the use of insecure passwords that are easily cracked by brute force techniques.
Only 54% of WordPress sites are running the latest version, thus leaving the remaining 46% susceptible to exploits.
WordPress’ power comes with its myriad array of plugins and themes – there are more than 60,000 plugins available in the wordpress repository.
Each plugin can potentially provide a backdoor to your website if it is insecurely coded.
According to a survey by Wordfence, over 60% of hacked website owners who knew how the attacker got in, attributed it to a plugin or theme vulnerability.
In short, WordPress is safe IF it is kept updated.
Left uncared for, it can very quickly be hacked.
Why would someone hack my website?
In short, because it is profitable for the hackers even if they are not profiting directly from you.
Oliver Sild has explained this lucidly in his article Why the hell would anyone hack my small website on Medium.
What’s covered in your WordPress Care Plan?
WordPress Audit
We start with performing a comprehensive audit of your wordpress instance. In the audit, amongst other things, we review all of the plugins and themes, understand what’s being used and for what purpose, check if these plugins are secure and being actively maintained by their developers, suggest alternatives if they aren’t, remove inactive plugins and themes and fine-tune your wordpress website.
This activity alone has proven to improve performance by up to 25% in some cases.
Regular WordPress Core, Theme & Plugin Updates
We monitor availability of updates for ALL installed plugins, themes and wordpress core files, and apply patches as soon as they’re released.
WP Activity & Security Monitoring
We install specific plugins that monitor ALL activity happening on your WordPress site. This allows us to pick up problems before they come bigger problems and quickly pinpoint potential causes of issues if things do go wrong.
Nightly Backups
Nightly offsite backups ensure that you’re always able to restore a snapshot of your website that is no older than 24 hours in the unlikely event of failures such as hardware failures, database corruption, etc.
24/7 Uptime Monitoring
At BroadWeb, our team gets alerted of downtime before you do.
24/7 On call support for uptime-related issues
We start with performing a comprehensive audit of your wordpress instance. In the audit, amongst other things, we review all of the plugins and themes, understand what’s being used and for what purpose, check if these plugins are secure and being actively maintained by their developers, suggest alternatives if they aren’t, remove inactive plugins and themes and fine-tune your wordpress website.
This activity alone has proven to improve performance by up to 25% in some cases.
1 hour of developer support + technical consulting per month
Detailed Monthly Report of maintenance carried out
Ready to get your WordPress Website under our Care Plan?
Simply fill out the form and we will create a tailored care plan for you.
