WORDPRESS MAINTENANCE

For expert, hassle-free maintenance and support, your WordPress website is in safe hands with Digitize.

For any WordPress website, enjoy a smooth, fast, and secure online presence with the best WordPress support services, initial optimisation, and regular maintenance. We’re your one-stop shop for a healthy, fast website.

WordPress Updates, How Do They Work?

Stay ahead of the curve with our WordPress update services. We ensure your website is always running the latest version, benefiting from new features, improved performance, and crucial security patches. Don't let outdated software hold you back. Choose our WordPress update services for a smooth, secure, and enhanced website experience

The Importance of WordPress Updates

WordPress updates are crucial for the security, performance, and functionality of your website. They provide patches for known vulnerabilities, fix bugs, and introduce new features and improvements. Regular updates ensure your website remains secure, runs smoothly, and offers the best user experience. Neglecting updates can leave your site vulnerable to attacks and performance issues

What Is Difference Between WordPress Hosting and Web Hosting?

When choosing a WordPress hosting provider, consider factors such as performance, reliability, security, and customer support. The provider should offer fast loading times, high uptime, and robust security measures. Additionally, they should provide easy WordPress installation, automatic updates, and reliable customer support. Also consider pricing and scalability to ensure the hosting plan fits your budget and can accommodate your site's growth.

WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO MAINTAIN A WORDPRESS WEBSITE?

WordPress is the most popular platform to keep websites running smoothly, though it does take some attention and care to keep the system functioning fast, safe, and – importantly; live. For a small, simple website, many can manage with a simple maintenance plugin, but for a business where uptime is important and fast load times are make-or-break, maintenance services may be required.

Your WordPress maintenance routine should include a variety of regular actions to maintain peak performance, including but not limited to:

Frequent security checks and malware removal.
Regular site backups.
Continuing site speed optimisation.
WordPress version upgrades as needed.
WordPress theme updates and plugin updates.
Broken link and redirect diagnoses.
Regular SEO check-ups.
Ongoing device and browser compatibility.
User Experience optimisation.

If you leave these chores too late or fall behind on maintenance, your website can become dysfunctional, or even worse – your business can fall into legal trouble. Business websites are priority targets for malware and bad actors online, and without regular maintenance and careful security updates, you’re left vulnerable.

Not only can private user data be retrieved from your website, but you can also become blacklisted from search engines if malware is present on your page, resulting in a steep decline in visitors.

WHY YOU NEED WORDPRESS MAINTENANCE SERVICES

For businesses of any size, professional WordPress maintenance services are an excellent investment. Not only do you protect your online presence from security breaches, outdated information, and poor experiences for your customers, but you’re also able to save money on on-site hosting, management, and plugin subscriptions.

Regular WordPress maintenance is a daily task, and the larger or more complicated your website, the more challenging and essential the job becomes. The simplest sites can often manage with a maintenance plugin through their WordPress dashboard. Still, when multiple plugins, themes, custom coding, or a large number of visitors are seen – professional management becomes essential.

SPEED OPTIMISATION FOR YOUR WORDPRESS SITE

Fast load speed is critical for any business’s online presence – too slow, and your customers will turn to your competitors. With the right web host and a site setup optimised by professional developers, you can improve your load speed significantly and keep your customers on your page.

Site speed relies on up-to-date plugins, website performance optimization, premium hosting with considerations for location and congestion during peak traffic timeframes, and intelligent security measures.

SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMISATION FOR YOUR WORDPRESS SITES

Poorly maintained WordPress websites are rife with several key indicators that flag search engines to blacklist or penalise your site. Malware, spam, and broken links are the main offender, but page load speed, fresh, relevant content, updated plugins, and safe, secure hosting are also noticed.

If you’re trying to make any gains on search engine results pages, a healthy WordPress site is an absolute requirement.

YOUR WORDPRESS SITE ACROSS MULTIPLE DEVICES

A simple website is likely to function by default across devices or different browsers. Still, custom development, complicated WordPress plugins, and some WordPress themes can cause conflicts on mobile or non-Chromium browsers. With professional WordPress website maintenance services, your site will run quickly and securely on any device, allowing you to reach more customers, and it’s great for SEO.

WORDPRESS MAINTENANCE TASKS SIMPLIFIED WITH DIGITIZE

Every business’s WordPress site is different, with custom layouts, plugins, core code, and SEO requirements, making optimisation and maintenance a mixed bag for providers – a one-size-fits-all solution just won’t cut it.

Digitize does it better; we go the extra distance to optimise and maintain your WordPress page, offering you a customized WordPress maintenance plan that meets your specific needs and keeps your site running healthily.

Digitize always goes above and beyond to see your business thrive and grow, offering premium WordPress maintenance services such as:

Free performance optimisation that can make significant improvements to your SEO ratings.
WordFence premium subscription ensures your site is always as secure as possible.
Premium hosting with uncongested servers and services ensures your website has the performance your clients expect.
24/7 Monitoring from experts who understand your technology stack.
Automated deployments for systems utilising a custom deployment stack like Sage and Bedrock.
Redundant databases that are backed up with a 5-minute point-in-time recovery.
Support requests are handled by locals who you can meet face-to-face, via phone, or email as needed.
Weekly reports, unlimited edits, and frequent health check and performance checks on your website.
Plugin, theme, and WordPress updates onto your live site without downtime.
Unlimited website edits to maintain up-to-date information and the best User Experience.

Our WordPress maintenance plan can be tailored to meet the needs of your business to build a secure, functional, and fast website to grow your business.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

How can Digitize speed up my WordPress site?

After customising your maintenance plan with Digitize, we get your site running, updated, and secure before we make performance enhancements on hosting and core file optimisation to ensure that your site loads as quickly as possible. We make changes on a staging server to reduce the downtime of your site, reduce security risks, and keep your page running smoothly through any transitions.

Our team are experts in WordPress development and are capable of maximising your site’s security, location-based hosting for speed and uncongested access, and back-end optimisations for fast load speeds and SEO opportunities.

What can you do if my site is hacked?

If your website is hacked, we can immediately revert to a recent backup before we engage in our security protocols to secure your data and keep your site live. We take security extremely seriously, so your website will always be up-to-date and never an easy target for bad actors online.

Does my business need a WordPress support plan?

For all businesses, we think there is a plan that suits your needs and will save you money on your online presence. Our business plans are customised for your website, and we’re happy to work with you to find the services you require to optimise your site and grow your business.

Can we change to you if we already have a maintenance provider?

Yes. We’re happy to take over from a previous provider, and we’ll quickly make any changes to your site to bring it up to our standards. We can accept back-end logins from you, or if you’d prefer, we can contact your previous provider and manage the handover.

Do you perform backups on my website?

At Digitize, we run an automated backup system to be 100% certain that your data is completely safe. With no possibility of human error, in the event of a catastrophic failure or hack of your website, we will have it live and running with minimal downtime.

Automated backups are far safer than manual backups and allow your business to be confident that a high degree of service can be provided to your customers.

Will my website be secure with your services?

Digitize takes a security first approach with everything we do. We constantly stay updated with industry best practice, research ways to improve, and rigorously apply security patches and mechanisms as they are released so your data always remains safe.

We ensure that all minimum requirements are met for security including SSL/TLS certificates, regularly updated security plugins, and secure hosting of your website and storage of your code. The majority of bad actors online target poorly maintained websites, meaning high-quality maintenance services with a customised plan is the best way to keep your business safe online.

Where is Digitize.au located?

We’re an Adelaide-based firm, but we manage hosting, maintenance, software, and hardware support all over the world. We value our relationships with our clients, and we prefer to enable contact with you to provide the best services possible.

Get In Touch

Why partner with Digitize?

At Digitize, we are a focused team that invest constantly in improving so that we can provide the best capabilities to our clients. Our processes and teams are built around being flexible so we can deliver tailored solutions instead of trying to make existing solutions fit.

Each client has a dedicated account manager that will ensure you are always getting the best service possible.

Locations

Adelaide | Head Office

Level 24, 91 King William Street, Adelaide SA 5000, Australia

Sydney

81-83 Campbell Street, Surry Hills NSW 2010, Australia

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Phone

+61 (8) 8486 1086