WORDPRESS MAINTENANCE BENEFITS

• Peace of mind
• Security
• Optimum Performance
• Enhancements to Search Engine Placement
• Wordpress Maintenance lets you get on with running your business

Wordpress Maintenace Package Services Breakdown

Core Updates

Wordpress powers over 25% of websites on the web. Due to it's immense popularity, it is popular target for hackers, malicious code distributors and data thieves. It is very important to keep your wordpress core files up to date to ensure your website is as secure as it can be. Keeping it up to date also ensures your website gets all of the latest speed enhancements. Speed is a huge factor in SEO, so you should definitely keep your WordPress updated to ensure maximum performance.WordPress releases three major releases a year with dozens of smaller maintenance and security releases so it is easy to forget to update and leave your site vunerable.

Plugin Updates

Just like keeping the Wordpress core up to date for performance and security you should also ensure that any plugins are kept up to date. Hackers will always target the weakest part of the website and if your addons are out of date they could contain security holes allowing access to your website or data by potential hackers.

Template Updates

Templates could also contain security holes and should be updated in line with the core releases. Updating the theme also helps to keep it in line with the wordpress core files and allows your website to continue to be compatible with the latest mobile devices and browser updates.

Dedicated Wordpress Hosting

Dedicated Wordpress hosting platform just for WordPress websites, ensuring you get a robust, secure hosting environment that caters to the content management system’s every need. Advanced load-balancing, SSD storage as standard, superfast StackCache caching, clever database handling, automatic updates, and high quality hardware throughout means you get consistently excellent speeds your visitors will love. The hosting is designed to scale as your website grows, meaning the same great performance no matter how popular you get.

Free managed transfer from old host

Take the hastle out of moving your website to your new GMB Web Designs dedicated wordpress hosting - GMB Web Designs does it all for you - transfer on to the dedicted wordpress hosting is dependent upon your running the most up to date version of wordpress. A £99 fee may be payable should it be needed to rectify errors in the existing core or template setup prior to transfer.

No downtime is expected during the move of a website. In the highly unlikely event that it does happen, we’ll contact you accordingly and keep you updated at every stage.

SSL certificate & installation

An SSL/TLS certificate is displayed for websites in the forms of a padlock icon in the address bar, a green bar, and a URL that starts with https://. A secure connection is vital for any website that requests or stores personal information such as contact details or payment information.

An SSL certificate not only signals trust and authority to your website visitors, it also helps protect them when browsing your website. Search engines such as Google have openly stated that they view an SSL certificate as a mark of trust and that having one can directly improve your search engine rankings.

30 day rolling backup

Daily backups are kept for 30 days ensuring you can recover your site to any point in the last 30 days. If you do get hit by malicious code you can get your site back up and running within half an hour. If the malware scan flags that you have malicious code injected into your wordpress installation you can simply upload one of the dated daily backups taken within the previous 30 days.

Malware Scan

A daily or monthly malware scan helps to pin point any possible infection of your site. You will be notified of any identified malicious content and its location within your site files.Sometimes when a website is hacked it appears to be running as required but the scan will pick up any malicious code regardless. The rolling backup assists you in getting your site back to a healthy state minimising potential downtime and reputation damage.

Staging Website

Should you need to make amendments to your site you are able to make a private clone of your site to perform the updates on and test. Once you are happy with the results you can make these changes live on your main site by cloning the staging area to the live site.

Change requests

Most websites need minor changes now and again. .If you haven't got the time or you find it difficult to make amendments to your site you can use the monthly change time allowance to have us do the amendments for you. Amendments are usualy done within 24 hours for the request.