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WordPress Maintenance Heywood

WordPress maintenance keeps a business website current, backed up and watched, so faults are caught by our team instead of your customers. We look after sites for Heywood manufacturers, logistics companies, trades, shops and takeaways that rely on their website but have nobody to run it.

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Security and care

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What ongoing care looks like for Heywood businesses

Plenty of firms treat the website like the boiler: nobody thinks about it until it stops. On a distribution park near junction 19, the person updating the vacancies page often does it between other jobs, and when they move on, the logins and know-how leave with them. Manufacturers often have sites built by an agency that has since closed, still running on a PHP version the host is about to retire.

Takeaways and shops in the town centre need something else: frequent small changes to menus, opening times and offers, made without waiting for a developer to have a free week.

Maintenance covers both, with scheduled updates and backups in the background and a team on hand for edits and faults. It is preventive care, separate from the clean-up we carry out on hacked sites. Our WordPress maintenance service in Manchester covers the monthly routine.

From our M8 office to Heywood, mostly online

Day-to-day care needs no visits. We hold our own WordPress login, work through your hosting panel, and handle edit requests sent by email or WhatsApp, even a phone photo of a new menu. Each month you receive a written summary, and we can go through it on a video call. When meeting helps, perhaps to agree who in the firm can request changes, we are about 25 to 30 minutes away via the M60 and M66 or through Middleton, traffic permitting, and you are equally welcome at our office.

Setting up care for your site

1

Take stock of the site

We record every plugin, theme, user, licence and hosting detail, and tell you about anything outdated or abandoned before we take it on.

2

Agree who requests changes

For firms with several staff, we note who can ask for edits so instructions do not conflict.

3

Put backups and alerts in place

Backups go to storage away from your host, and downtime, certificate and domain expiry alerts are set to reach our team.

4

Update on a schedule

Each month updates run on a staging copy first, then live after a fresh backup, with forms and any ordering system tested afterwards.

5

Report and plan ahead

Your summary lists changes and checks, and flags coming jobs such as a PHP upgrade or a plugin due for replacement.

Included every month

  • Tested updates for WordPress core, your theme and plugins
  • Backups held away from your hosting, restorable on request
  • Alerts for downtime, expiring SSL certificates and domain renewals
  • Test submissions of contact, quote and job application forms
  • An up-to-date inventory of plugins, licences and logins
  • Content edits within an agreed monthly allowance
  • A written summary in plain English

A year of upkeep for a Heywood firm’s website

A typical calendar looks like this:

  • Every few minutes. Uptime checks, so a site that goes down is noticed by us.
  • Weekly. WordPress security releases and urgent plugin patches applied after a backup.
  • Monthly. The full update round on staging, form tests, a broken link scan and a database tidy.
  • Quarterly. User accounts compared with your current staff list, and unused plugins removed.
  • Yearly. A restore test of a full backup, PHP version planning with your host, and a check of licence and domain renewal dates.

Some owners start with a one-off website security audit before handing the site over, and firms whose pages have grown sluggish can add WordPress speed optimisation.

Frequently asked questions

We are a manufacturer in Heywood and our web developer has retired. Can you take over?

Yes, and it is one of the most common starting points. We ask for hosting and domain access, or help you recover it through the registrar if nobody has the details, then carry out the onboarding check before any updates run.

Could we meet in Heywood to agree how this will work?

Yes, by arrangement. A short meeting at your premises suits firms where several people use the site, such as a recruitment lead and an office manager. Otherwise a video call does the same job, and you can always visit our office in M8.

Our takeaway changes its menu often. How do edits work?

Send the change by WhatsApp or email, with photos if needed, and we make it within the allowance agreed at the start. If you use an online ordering plugin, we place a test order after the edit to confirm the basket and totals still behave correctly.

Why does the PHP version matter?

PHP is the language WordPress runs on, and each version only receives security fixes for a set period. Hosts eventually remove old versions, and a site never tested on the new one can break when they do. We test the upgrade on staging and plan the switch with you.

What sits outside a maintenance plan?

Redesigns, new features and large content projects are quoted separately. A site already hacked when care begins needs a clean-up first, and speed work beyond routine housekeeping is its own job.

Upkeep for neighbouring towns

Firms along the M66 and M62 can find the same service in Bury, Rochdale and Middleton. The Manchester WordPress maintenance page explains the plan in full, and our Heywood print and signage page covers the other work we do in the town.

Tell us what your site runs on and what keeps going wrong, and we will look it over and quote for monthly care. Get a maintenance quote, ring 0161 315 1151 or message 07737 902425 on WhatsApp.

WordPress maintenance across Greater Manchester and nearby

The same service, for businesses in other towns we work with from our Manchester office.

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