WordPress care for small businesses

Someone should be looking after your website.

Your website matters to your business. Managing WordPress shouldn't be part of your job.

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Not just updates. Someone accountable.

You shouldn't have to watch WordPress.

Updates, plugin conflicts, security alerts, backups, and mysterious errors all compete with running your business. Ignoring them isn't a strategy.

I take care of the technical side.

I keep an eye on the important things, handle routine maintenance, and investigate problems when something doesn't look right.

And when something breaks?

I make sure a current backup is available before routine updates and can roll the site back when an update causes a problem. You're not left figuring it out alone.

Why Site Stewards

25+ Years of Experience

You're dealing with an experienced web developer, not a dashboard full of automated alerts. Clear communication, practical advice, and a person who knows WordPress.

Transparent Backup Control

Your backups belong to you. Request your full site archive at any time and receive a verified download link.

Maintenance With Follow-Through

Automated alerts are only useful if a human actually responds. I personally review what the monitors find and follow up when something needs attention.

Simple Monthly Plans

The pricing stays simple: $99/month for essential care, or $199/month when your website needs more attention. Both plans are month-to-month, with no long-term contract or commitment.

Essential care

Starter

$99
per month + $199 onboarding

For a business that wants its WordPress site maintained, monitored, and backed up without having to think about it.

  • Safe Updates: Automatic core, plugin, and theme updates with error checking.
  • Instant Rollbacks: One-click recovery if an update fails.
  • Off-Site Backups: Encrypted daily cloud copies with download access on request.
  • Firewall Protection: Helps block known threats and vulnerable requests.
  • Uptime Monitoring: 24/7 checks for site availability and SSL health.
  • Standard Support: Email help with a 24–48 hour response time.
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Best for businesses that need more hands-on support
More attention + edits

Professional

$199
per month + $199 onboarding

For businesses that want ongoing website changes in addition to routine care.

  • Everything in Starter: All the protection and monitoring from the Starter plan, included.
  • Monthly Edits: 1 hour of text, image, link, or menu changes each month.
  • Link Audits: Regular scans for broken links and missing images.
  • Instant Alerts: Real-time notifications for immediate security threats.
  • Health Reports: Monthly summary of uptime, security, and updates.
  • Priority Support: Direct email access with a 24-hour response target.
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Every new site starts with a Website Onboarding & Health Check, $199 one time. I inspect the site, identify existing issues, establish a baseline, configure the care process, and make sure the site is ready for ongoing maintenance. Significant cleanup, malware removal, migrations, and major remediation are quoted separately.

Getting Started Is Simple

1. Free Health Check

Submit your URL below. I will run a safe, public scan of your website and email you a free summary of my findings.

2. Website Onboarding

If we're a good fit, I start the $199 setup to understand your site's technical setup and establish a baseline before taking responsibility for its ongoing care.

3. Ongoing Care

Choose your monthly maintenance tier. Pick Starter ($99/mo) for essential care, or Professional ($199/mo) if you also want hands-on support and monthly website edits.

Inside the $199 Website Onboarding

The onboarding fee isn't a mysterious setup charge. It's the work required to understand the site before taking responsibility for maintaining it.

1. Full Technical Picture

I manually review your site's themes, plugins, and server settings to find hidden conflicts and fragile code before they cause problems.

2. Written Baseline

You get a clear, plain-English report detailing your site's health, applied fixes, and any recommendations for major repairs.

3. Backups and Monitoring

I set up your automated backups and 24/7 uptime monitoring so your site is protected before ongoing care begins.

Frequently Asked Questions

You're paying for someone to take responsibility for the routine technical care of your WordPress website. That includes updates, backups, security monitoring, uptime checks, maintenance, troubleshooting, and, on Professional, one hour of website edits each month.

The point is simple: you have an experienced developer looking after it.

Starter ($99/month) provides essential maintenance: automated safe updates, daily encrypted cloud backups, proactive firewall protection, 24/7 uptime monitoring, and email support with a 24–48 hour response time. It also includes instant rollback protection if a routine update fails.

Professional ($199/month) adds more hands-on support. It includes everything in Starter plus regular scans for broken links and missing images. Any fixes you request will use your monthly edit hour. You also get real-time threat alerts, a monthly health report, priority 24-hour support, and 1 hour of website edits every month for text, images, links, menus, or other minor content changes. Unused edit time does not roll over to the next month.

Before taking responsibility for a website, I need to understand what I'm inheriting. The Website Onboarding & Health Check establishes a baseline, identifies existing risks, configures the care process, and gets customer-owned backups and monitoring in place.

If the site needs significant cleanup, malware removal, a migration, or major remediation, that work is quoted separately before it begins. The standard onboarding fee covers the baseline assessment and does not include major repair or remediation work.

For routine maintenance updates, I make sure a current backup is available before the work. If an update causes a problem, I can roll the site back to the last known working version and investigate the issue.

This protection is included in both plans. It doesn't mean every possible website outage can be prevented, but it does mean you're not expected to troubleshoot an update-related failure on your own.

Included: WordPress core/plugin/theme updates, backups (which you can request from me at any time), security monitoring, firewall configuration, malware scanning/alerts, uptime monitoring, ongoing website health monitoring, and troubleshooting related to routine maintenance. Professional also includes one hour of content edits per month and a faster, priority support response time.

Outside the monthly plans: custom development, redesigns, major feature work, migrations, major remediation, malware cleanup, and non-WordPress projects. These can be quoted separately. Hourly consulting/development work is available at $125/hour with your approval.

Meet Your Site Steward

I'm John Cahill. I've been building and maintaining websites around Boston for more than 25 years. Most of my work has been with small businesses, and I've seen how easy it is for the website to get pushed aside when there are a hundred other things that need attention.

That's really where Site Stewards came from. I take care of the WordPress updates, backups, monitoring, and whatever little problems happen to come up. If something needs fixing, I'll fix it. If something needs your attention, I'll let you know and explain what's going on in plain English.

It's pretty straightforward: I look after the website and you get on with running your business.

John Cahill, Site Stewards web developer

Start With a Free Website Health Check

Send me your website and I'll take a look at what's publicly visible: performance, security basics, and a few other health signals. No obligation, no sales pitch disguised as a report.

Your free check is informational. If Site Stewards is a good fit, the next step is the $199 Website Onboarding & Health Check.

Have a quick question first? Email me directly at hello@sitestewards.com