WordPress maintenance for businesses that can’t afford to be down.

Founder-led WordPress operations — staging-tested updates, written assessments back within one business day, and a 30-minute emergency SLA on Premium plans.

150+
Sites under management
7 min
Avg emergency response
99.98%
Aggregate uptime
0
Ransomware in 6 yrs
Trusted by businesses across DTC ecommerce· SaaS marketing sites· Membership communities· Editorial publications· Agency white-label
Four disciplines

Everything WordPress needs, under one roof.

Pick à la carte or bundle them into a maintenance plan. Each pillar has its own page with full scope and pricing.

Maintenance

Keep your site updated, monitored, and backed up — without you ever logging in.

  • Staging-tested core, plugin, theme updates
  • Daily off-site encrypted backups
  • Uptime monitoring with alerts
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Emergency Help

Site down, hacked, or broken after an update? Triage starts immediately.

  • Hacked-site recovery and malware removal
  • Downtime diagnosis and restore
  • Broken-update rollback
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Performance

Get into Core Web Vitals “Good” territory and stay there.

  • Lighthouse + CrUX audit, prioritized fixes
  • Caching, image, and CSS/JS optimization
  • LCP / INP / CLS tuning to green
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Security

Hardening, monitoring, and incident response for WordPress.

  • WAF / firewall (Cloudflare, Wordfence)
  • Login protection, 2FA, file integrity
  • Audit logs, role cleanup, hardening
Learn more →
How it works

From first call to first report — in two weeks.

Specific commitments, not "integrity" and "excellence" platitudes.

i.

Send your URL

Fill in the form, tell me what's going on. No call required to start.

ii.

Written assessment

Within one business day: scan results, top issues, prioritized fixes, plain-English summary.

iii.

Quote & scope

Written scope and a fixed fee or plan recommendation. No surprises after.

iv.

Implementation

Staging-first work, change log shared as it lands, post-engagement report.

Why teams switch

Hosting support vs. WP Pirates.

Typical "managed" hosting support

Response
Tier-1 ticket queue, hours to days
Scope
Server-level only — "your code is your problem"
Updates
Auto-updates that break themes silently
Backups
Server snapshots only — restore everything or nothing
Security
Generic WAF rules, no app-level hardening
Reports
Status badges, not actionable summaries

WP Pirates

Response
Same-day pickup, 30-min SLA on Premium
Scope
App + server, end-to-end — your stack, our problem
Updates
Staging-tested before anything touches prod
Backups
Daily off-site, file-level + DB — restore just one page if you want
Security
App-level hardening, custom rules, audit-logged admin
Reports
Plain-English monthly reports a non-developer can read
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From the founder

“I started WP Pirates because too many small businesses were getting burned by hosting companies that don’t actually fix problems and freelance dev shops that disappear when you need them. We run your WordPress site like it’s our own — because if it’s down, your business stops.”

— Andrew
Andrew Ivanov · Founder & CTO · Portland, OR
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Plans & pricing

Plans priced for businesses that depend on their site.

Month-to-month, no annual lock-in. Start where you need, change tier any time.

Essential

Hands-off maintenance for low-traffic sites.

$149 /mo
  • Monthly core / plugin updates
  • Daily off-site backups
  • Uptime monitoring
  • Monthly written report
  • Email support, 24h response
Choose Essential
Most popular

Growth

Maintenance + performance + security for revenue sites.

$349 /mo
  • Everything in Essential
  • Weekly staging-tested updates
  • Quarterly performance tuning
  • Wordfence Premium / Patchstack monitoring
  • Same-day urgent support
  • 1 small change request / mo
Choose Growth

Premium

Mission-critical sites with a contractual emergency SLA.

$799 /mo
  • Everything in Growth
  • 30-min emergency SLA (contractual)
  • Monthly performance + security audit
  • Up to 2h dev work / mo
  • Quarterly strategy call
  • Dedicated incident channel
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Custom

Multisite, headless, heavy WooCommerce, or unusual stacks.

Talk to us
  • Scoped to your infrastructure
  • Custom SLA and on-call coverage
  • Multi-site / multi-tenant support
  • Headless WP, decoupled architectures
  • Pricing after intake call
Start a conversation

All plans include US business-hours support · 14-day money-back · cancel any month

From the field

Latest WordPress operations notes.

Practical guides — written, not generated.

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Performance

The Complete Guide to Core Web Vitals for WordPress (2026 Edition)

Learn how to optimize your WordPress site for Google's Core Web Vitals — including INP, the metric that replaced FID — and improve your search rankings.

April 8, 2026 · Andrew Ivanov Security

10 Essential WordPress Security Tips for 2026

Protect your WordPress site from hackers with these essential security measures that every site owner should implement.

March 4, 2026 · Andrew Ivanov Performance

Advanced WordPress Speed Optimization Techniques

Take your WordPress performance to the next level with these advanced optimization techniques that go beyond the basics.

February 12, 2026 · Andrew Ivanov
Common questions

Questions, answered honestly.

Don't see yours? Just ask.

What does the free site assessment include?
A Lighthouse + Core Web Vitals scan, a plugin and theme vulnerability check, and a top-issues list with what's urgent vs. nice-to-have. Sent as a written report — no obligation, no sales call required.
Do you work on sites you didn't build?
Almost always — that's most of my work. I take over WordPress sites built by other agencies, freelancers, or in-house teams every week.
How fast do you respond to emergencies?
Routine inquiries get a written reply within one business day. New (non-client) emergencies are picked up the same day where possible. Existing Premium-plan clients have a 30-minute response SLA written into their agreement.
Are maintenance plans month-to-month?
Yes. No annual lock-in, cancel any month. If I'm not earning the retainer, you should be able to leave without a fight.
Do you support WooCommerce and headless WP?
Yes. WooCommerce is a regular part of the work. Headless / decoupled WordPress (Next.js, Astro, etc.) is supported under the Custom plan.

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