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WordPress Maintenance Services: Core Care

Core Care is the outsourced technical department for businesses that can’t afford downtime, can’t afford a breach, and don’t have time to learn WordPress. $99/month, full coverage, zero hassle.

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1,200+

sites under management

99.99%

average uptime

<3 min

median fix response

site-health.wpdept.io

Core & plugin updates

  • Up to date

Malware scan

  • Clean · 6h ago

Nightly backup

  • Verified 2:14 AM

Firewall

  • 412 threats blocked

Uptime (30d)

  • 99.97%

Site Health Score

Speed, security and uptime, scored daily and reported monthly.

94%

Built for businesses that run on WordPress

Law Firms
Accountants
Consultants
Coaches
Local Service Businesses
Healthcare Practices

The Problem

WordPress doesn't fail loudly. It fails quietly, then all at once.

No one notices a site is unmaintained — until the moment it matters most. By then it’s not a five-minute fix, it’s a five-figure mistake.

RISK 01

Plugins go stale

Every unpatched plugin is an open door. Most small business sites run 15-30 plugins, and one outdated line of code is all an attacker needs.

RISK 02

Updates break things

A routine WordPress update can silently break your checkout, your contact form, or your layout — and you won't know until a client tells you.

RISK 03

No backup, no recovery

If your site goes down and there's no recent, tested backup, "we'll fix it" becomes "we'll rebuild it." That's days of lost business, not hours.

Outcomes, Not Features

You're not paying for tasks. You're paying for what doesn't go wrong.

Anyone can list “weekly updates.” Here’s what that actually means for a business that runs on its website.

43%

of breached websites in 2024 were running WordPress — the most targeted CMS on earth.

SOURCE: SUCURI HACKED WEBSITE REPORT

$9k

average cost to recover a small business website after a malware infection or breach.

SOURCE: INDUSTRY RECOVERY DATA

88%

of visitors won't return to a site after a bad experience caused by slow speed or downtime.

SOURCE: GOOGLE/UX RESEARCH AGGREGATE

6hrs

average time an unmaintained small business site sits broken before anyone notices.

SOURCE: WPD INTERNAL TICKET DATA

Coverage

What Core Care actually protects

Not just “maintenance” — the four things that, if they fail, cost you customers, revenue, or your reputation.

Security

Firewall, malware scanning, and login hardening running continuously — so threats are blocked, not discovered after the fact.

Uptime

Your site is checked every 60 seconds. If it goes down, we know before your customers do — and we're already fixing it.

Backups

Daily off-site backups, tested for restorability — not just stored and hoped. A bad day becomes a 20-minute rollback.

Performance

Caching, image optimization, and database cleanup keep load times low — because slow sites quietly lose customers every day.

Compatibility

Plugin and core updates are tested in staging before going live, so "routine update" never means "broken homepage."

You

A real technical contact who answers the phone — so when something feels wrong, you call a person, not a help center.

How It Works

What actually happens behind the scenes

This isn’t “we’ll check on it sometime.” It’s a fixed operating rhythm, the same one an in-house developer would run.

Daily

Monitoring, backups & scans

Uptime checked every 60 seconds. A full backup runs and is verified. Malware scans run automatically in the background — silent unless something needs your attention.

WEEKLY

Updates, tested before they touch your site

Plugin, theme, and core updates are applied to a private staging copy first. If it passes, it ships to your live site. If it breaks something, you never see it.

MONTHLY

Performance tuning & your health report

Database cleanup, image optimization, and a full site audit — summarized in a plain-English report so you always know exactly what was done and why.

ALWAYS

A real person, on call

Something feels off? You email or call your dedicated technical contact directly. No tickets disappearing into a queue.

Transparency

Proof of work, every single month

No vague “everything’s fine” emails. A real report that shows exactly what was protected, fixed, and improved.

Monthly Operations Report — May 2026

acmeconsulting.com

UPTIME

99.98%

↑ 0.04% vs last month

UPDATES APPLIED

23

0 failures

THREATS BLOCKED

187

100% blocked

LOAD TIME

1.2s

↓ 0.3s improvement

02:14 AM

Nightly backup completed and verified (518MB)

06:40 AM

Plugin "WooCommerce" updated 8.9.1 → 8.9.3 in staging, passed, deployed

11:02 AM

Blocked 14 malicious login attempts from flagged IP ranges

02:30 PM

Used 22 of 60 development minutes — homepage CTA copy updated

04:55 PM

Database optimized — 21% size reduction

CoreCare

$99 / mo

Billed monthly — no annual commitment

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  • One website covered, fully
  • Onboarding within 48 hours
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$83 / mo

Billed annually at $996 — equivalent to $83/month

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  • One website covered, fully
  • Onboarding within 48 hours
  • No long-term contract

Core Care Plan

Everything your technical department would do — for less than one hour of a developer's time.

Growth Care is a single, complete plan — no tiers to compare, no add-ons to figure out. Pay monthly, or save $408/year by paying annually.

Core Care

$99 / mo

Billed monthly. No setup fee. Cancel anytime — though after the first incident we catch, you won't want to.

Cancel anytime. No setup fee.

  • Weekly core, theme & plugin updates
  • 24/7 uptime monitoring
  • Web application firewall
  • Database optimization
  • Monthly performance tuning
  • 30 min of content edits / month
  • Daily off-site, tested backups
  • Malware scanning & removal
  • Broken link & 404 monitoring
  • Staging site for safe testing
  • Monthly health report
  • Priority email & phone support
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SSL secure checkout · cancel anytime · includes 24/7 monitoring, emergency support, malware cleanup & VIP access

Core Care

$83 / mo

Billed annually at $996 — equivalent to $83/month

Save $408/year vs. paying monthly. Cancel before renewal.

  • Weekly core, theme & plugin updates
  • 24/7 uptime monitoring
  • Web application firewall
  • Database optimization
  • Monthly performance tuning
  • 30 min of content edits / month
  • Daily off-site, tested backups
  • Malware scanning & removal
  • Broken link & 404 monitoring
  • Staging site for safe testing
  • Monthly health report
  • Priority email & phone support
Get Started Today

SSL secure checkout · cancel anytime · includes 24/7 monitoring, emergency support, malware cleanup & VIP access

Why us

We're not a web design agency that also does maintenance.

Maintenance is the entire business. That focus is the difference.

01

Maintenance is our only product

We don't take on $15k design projects and squeeze your site care in between. Core Care is run by a dedicated team whose only job is keeping sites alive, fast, and secure.

02

Humans, not just software

Automated tools catch the obvious. Our team catches what they miss — reviewing every update, every alert, every flagged file before it becomes your problem.

03

You'll actually understand your site

Every report and every conversation is in plain English. No jargon used to keep you dependent — just clarity about what's happening and why.

04

Built to scale with you

As your business grows past one site, one plan, or one set of needs, Core Care grows with you — without starting the vendor search over.

Client Results

Businesses that stopped worrying about their website

We were hacked twice in one year before switching. It's been fourteen months on Core Care and I genuinely don't think about our website anymore — which is exactly the point.

Rachel M.

Family Law Attorney

My old "IT guy" took three days to respond to anything. WordPress Department fixed a broken checkout in nineteen minutes, on a Sunday. That's the whole pitch.

David T.

Accounting Firm Owner

The monthly report is the first thing in years I've actually opened and read about our website. It finally feels like someone is in charge of it besides me.

Sarah K.

Executive Coach

Questions

Before you ask, we'll answer

Do I need this if my site "already works fine"?
Most breaches and breakdowns happen to sites that were “working fine” the day before. Core Care isn’t reactive repair — it’s the daily prevention that keeps “working fine” from becoming “down” or “hacked.”
We can still help. Onboarding includes a full audit, and active issues are addressed as part of getting your site into Core Care — no separate emergency invoice required for existing clients.
No — we work alongside them. Think of us as the technical operations layer: your designer builds it, we keep it running, secure, and fast every single day after launch.
Text updates, image swaps, adding a blog post, or small layout tweaks. Bigger projects — new pages, redesigns — are quoted separately at a preferred client rate.
No. Core Care is billed monthly with no lock-in. We earn the renewal every month through the work itself, not a contract clause.

14

DAY GUARANTEE

If we don't catch anything in 14 days, we'll tell you.

Try Core Care for two weeks. If we don’t find and fix at least one real issue on your site — an outdated plugin, a vulnerability, a performance drag — we’ll refund your first month, no questions asked. We’re confident there’s always something worth protecting.

Core Care · $99/month

Stop hoping your website holds up. Start knowing it will.

Onboarding takes less than 48 hours. From there, it’s one less thing you ever have to think about.
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