WordPress Website Maintenance Plans
Our Australian experts take care of your WordPress website backups, updates and maintenance.
We’LL Take Care of Your WordPress Website Maintenance
Many business owners and stakeholders involved in a WordPress website get to the stage where they don’t have time to manage the intricacies of their WordPress website. We take care of this for you, giving you time to focus on your business tasks, project or whatever else is important to you.
Pricing and Features
499 AUD per year
| Feature | Included? |
|---|---|
| Australian experts performing your maintenance | ✔ Yes |
| Quality workmanship | ✔ Yes |
| Local encrypted backups | ✔ Yes |
| WordPress Core updates | ✔ Yes |
| Theme updates | ✔ Yes |
| Plugin updates | ✔ Yes |
| Uptime monitoring | ✔ Yes |
| Contact form testing | ✔ Yes |
| User interruption checks | ✔ Yes |
| Phone and email support | ✔ Yes |
10% discount available for renewal years.
Prices in AUD / Australian dollars. All prices include GST.
Australian Owned
Smart Italics are an Australian owned and operated business. We’re based in Melbourne Victoria and help maintain WordPress websites for Australian businesses, not-for-profits and projects throughout the country.
Skilled Australian Staff
When you speak with our team, you’ll speak with our skilled staff that are based in Australia. We train every member of our team to provide a friendly, high quality service for all of our clients.
We’ll Update Your Theme
The WordPress theme is a core part of your site, handling the design and layout. It’s important to keep your theme up to date, which can help keep your site running smoothly and securely. We’ll update your WordPress theme for you as part of your regular maintenance plan.
We’ll Update Your Plugins
Plugin updates are included as part of our WordPress website care plans. We’ll update WordPress plugins that are free and that you also hold licenses for. If a problem arises with an out of date plugin license, we’ll inform you of this so you can make an educated decision if you want to renew the license.
We’ll Update WOrdPress
No WordPress update is complete without updates to the WordPress Core software itself. As new versions of WordPress are released, we’ll update your site to the latest version of WordPress. Regular updates can enable more features for your website, plus helps keep your website secure.
Local Encrypted Backups
We store local backups of your website on encrypted drives. Alongside any online backups that may be created as part of your WordPress website maintenance plan, these local backups create another option if a backup of your website needs to be restored.
Uptime Monitoring
Uptime monitoring is included on all of our WordPress Website Maintenance Plans. Your website will be monitored 24/7 for any downtime. If any downtime occurs, Smart Italics will be notified and investigate the issue.
Contact Form Testing
As part of our WordPress Website Maintenance Plans, we’ll regularly test your contact forms, if you have them. We’ll keep an eye on your forms to make sure that your users can contact you and that you are receiving the contact forms successfully.
User Interruption Checks
Before performing maintenance on your WordPress website, we check if there are any live users on your website. If there are, we hold off until there are no active users on your website or schedule a time when user traffic is at its lowest.
We Can Improve Your Site
We can also help you improve your site, alongside performing regular WordPress website maintenance. This includes making changes, designing material, creating new content, loading time performance improvements, SEO, digital marketing, implementing security features, migrating web hosts and even building a whole new theme for you.
Just need a one-off WordPress maintenance service instead?
We can help you with that too.
Contact our friendly team to discuss your website and get your free quote.
We’ve Helped Many Australian Websites Succeed
Smart Italics built my website over 2 years ago and did a great job with my detailed requests. Their follow up service has been fantastic, very pleased with their work!
Evan Morgan
Rival Sky Games
Brunswick, VIC
Dominic at Smart Italics has designed, built and maintained two WordPress websites for me since 2020. These websites have functioned well and we receive regular enquiries from them. I have always found Dom easy to contact and very helpful. When I have needed changes on my websites, he has made them for me quickly and easily. For an Australian business looking for approachable and reliable web and digital marketing experts, I’d highly recommend Dom and Smart Italics.
Jem Stone
Cultural Consultant
Melbourne, VIC
Smart Italics has continued to provide our small business with outstanding customer service and support with all our website and email setup and ongoing maintenance. They have designed and set up our website to look professional which has positively impacted our image and reputation. Can highly recommend this business for all your digital marketing and IT needs.
Alana Doran
NPE Steel and Lifting
Snowy Monaro, NSW
Case Studies – WordPress Website Maintenance
A selection of WordPress websites that we have maintained for years and that continue to perform well to this day. Each of these websites have an incredibly high uptime and generate regular enquiries or sales.
SMART Hospitality
Hospitality, Staffing and Catering
- Custom website based on client’s design
- Website still performing well after 12 years
Rival Sky Games
Board Game Miniatures with a Global Market
- Ecommerce website
- Still performing well after 7 years
Pure Motion Therapies
Myotherapist
- Business services website
- Still performing well after 4 years
Rebirthing BReathwork
Training
Breathwork and Teacher Training
- Courses, services and products website
- Still performing well after 4 years
FAQ – WordPress Website Maintenance Plans
What Is WordPress?
WordPress is a content management system (CMS) used for managing a website. It is one of the most popular CMS’ in the world. WordPress is free and open source, with an extensive library of free and premium extensions. It allows for blogs, business websites, ecommerce websites and many more types of sites. It includes user editor features, where users can login and change parts of their site. Our WordPress Website Maintenance Plan is for the self-hosted version of WordPress, where you need a web host to host the site for you. Find out more about WordPress →
Why is WordPress Maintenance Important? Do I Need to Perform Regular Maintenance on a WordPress Website?
Maintenance on a self-hosted WordPress website is important and should be performed regularly. Regular maintenance and updates of your WordPress install, theme and plugins can maintain and improve the security, user features, compatibility and accessibility of your website. Our maintenance packages help take care of this process for you.
Does This Plan Mean My Website Will Never Break?
To be blunt, not much in this world is bulletproof, including websites. Security is generally not 100% guaranteed for any platform or provider, because of the nature of unknown vulnerabilities. Additionally, plugins, themes or WordPress core updates can break elements of a site on rare occasions.
We have managed WordPress websites that have lasted for well over a decade without any major issues or breaks. Eventually, web technology does change and your website may require some extra development work to get it up to speed with some technology changes. These changes could be far and few between though. In some cases, we may cover this as part of your Website Maintenance Plan, though depending on the complexity and labour involved, we may need to bill additional time, which we would discuss with you before proceeding.
Ultimately while WordPress and self-managed CMS’ require maintenance, many businesses and projects find that the immense capabilities, features and optimisation opportunities of WordPress significantly outperform other platforms.
Please note that we aren’t a dedicated cyber security specialist. While we can help you with some standard methods to help secure a WordPress website, cyber security is a whole specialisation on it’s own, often with a price tag to suit. We can communicate with cyber security specialists you have engaged and implement their suggestions, which may incur a fee.
What Hours Are Smart Italics Available?
We are available 10am-6pm, Monday to Friday AEST/AEDT.
We are closed on Victorian public holidays.
We aren’t a 24/7 Australian sweatshop of WordPress developers, nor do we have a sweatshop of developers overseas. When you call us, you’ll speak with an Australian who most likely like you, appreciates a holiday so that can approach their work refreshed and perform the best that they can.
We do help our clients utilise web hosts, email hosts and domain registrars that provide 24/7 technical support, which they provide as a free extra in most cases, depending on your technical support query. If we’re not available and you’re utilising one of these hosts/registrars, you can contact these hosts/registrars too for support. We can provide our Website Maintenance Plan to users on most web hosts too, whether you’re using a provider in Australia or from overseas.
Does Regular Maintenance Help Website Security?
Regular maintenance of your WordPress website – updating plugins and the WordPress core software – can help protect your website against online threats. Regular website maintenance should be part of your overall digital security strategy.
Regular maintenance does not mean that your website is completely invulnerable to any digital threats. Though many WordPress websites, once security features are implemented and regular maintenance is performed, may never have a problem.
We can also help you secure your website further, which may come at an additional cost, depending on your project and your needs. Additionally, we can communicate with any internal and external security providers you have to help further secure and improve your WordPress security.
Do Your WordPress Website Maintenance Plans Also Cover WooCommerce?
Yes, our WordPress Maintenance Plans also cover Ecommerce WordPress websites that use WooCommerce, Easy Digital Downloads and other Ecommerce plugins. We also provide our WordPress maintenance service to WordPress sites using LearnDash, MemberPress, BuddyPress and other complex WordPress plugins.
What’s the Cost of Smart Italics’ WordPress Website Maintenance Plans?
Our WordPress maintenance plan is 499 AUD (including GST) per year.
A 10% discount is provided for renewals.
Can Smart Italics make a WordPress website for me?
Yes, Smart Italics can make a WordPress website for you. We can design, build, launch and maintain a WordPress website for you that is suited to a variety of purposes. These could include business services, selling products online, not-for-profit projects, music, art, news and forums. Please contact us for a quote to create your WordPress website.
Can Smart Italics Help Me Make Changes to My WordPress Website?
Yes, we can help you make changes to your WordPress website, along with maintaining your website. Our team can also help you:
- Create and change content on your WordPress website.
- Design a new logo and branded material, including business cards.
- Enhance your website’s security, accessibility, performance and loading time.
- Implement digital marketing strategies (SEO, Google Ads etc).
- Design and build a new WordPress website.
- Register domain names and migrate web hosts.
- Set up and migrate email accounts.
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Opening Hours
10AM-6PM
Monday to Friday
AEST/AEDT
After hours appointments available.
Closed for select public holidays unless prior arrangement.
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