WordPress website maintenance & support
in Menlo Park

WordPress powers over 40% of the web but requires active maintenance — core, theme, and plugin updates must be applied regularly for security and functionality, third-party integrations evolve requiring code adjustments, performance tuning prevents slow degradation, security hardening resists constant attacks. Menlo Park companies running WordPress benefit from professional support — in-house teams rarely have time for proper WordPress care. Many Sand Hill Road VC firms themselves run WordPress marketing sites requiring professional maintenance.

Comprehensive WordPress support includes core, theme, and plugin updates with proper testing, security hardening and monitoring, performance optimization, backup management and disaster recovery testing, uptime monitoring and incident response, content support, plugin development and customization when needs require, emergency support for urgent issues, strategic advisory.

WordPress updates can break sites when incompatible with themes or plugins — we manage updates carefully: staging environment testing before production deployment, testing of critical site functionality after updates, rollback plans for problematic updates, ongoing relationships with theme and plugin vendors for support on issues, strategic decisions about update timing. For Menlo Park clients, update management discipline prevents the "we did updates and the site broke" problem.

Yes — WooCommerce is WordPress-based e-commerce requiring specialized expertise beyond general WordPress skills. We handle WooCommerce core and extension updates, payment gateway maintenance, inventory and order management troubleshooting, performance optimization, checkout and conversion optimization, subscription commerce support, WooCommerce-specific security hardening.

WordPress security layers: timely security updates, security plugin implementation (Wordfence, Sucuri, iThemes Security), Web Application Firewalls, proper credential management, file permission hardening, database security, secure hosting configuration, ongoing monitoring for unusual activity. For Menlo Park clients, proactive security investment prevents expensive incidents.

Yes — WordPress performance is often poor without active optimization. We implement caching strategies (page caching, object caching via Redis, CDN integration), image optimization (WebP conversion, lazy loading, responsive images), database optimization, plugin audit (removing bloat, replacing heavy plugins with lighter alternatives), code optimization, hosting evaluation.

Yes — most Menlo Park client engagements combine maintenance with ongoing development: new feature development, template and layout updates, custom plugin development for specific requirements, third-party integration work, landing page and campaign page development, site expansion. For Menlo Park clients with evolving WordPress sites, combined maintenance + development relationships produce both reliability and continued improvement.

WordPress support costs scale with site complexity and support tier. Emergency support engagements for clients without ongoing relationships: billed at higher hourly rates.