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WordPress Maintenance Oldham

WordPress maintenance keeps a business website patched, backed up and checked every month, so it keeps working without you touching the dashboard. Our team provides it for Oldham retailers, restaurants, manufacturers, trades and care providers, including many family-run firms where the website has never had a clear owner.

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Security and care

Every job is a fixed quote, agreed in writing before any work starts. No obligation.

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Who keeps the website running in an Oldham family business?

In plenty of family firms the honest answer is nobody in particular. A son or niece built the site, someone else holds the hosting login, and the person who pays the domain renewal has never seen the admin area. Updates pile up because no one wants to be the person who breaks it.

That gap shows up in different ways. A manufacturer at Hollinwood, by junction 22 of the M60, may rely on product pages and spec downloads that buyers check before placing an order. A restaurant near Spindles needs its booking widget and menu to work on a Friday night. A care provider needs vacancy and enquiry forms to reach the office.

The routine is the one behind our WordPress maintenance for Manchester businesses, fitted to your site and your hours.

Working together between your premises and Cheetham Hill

Day-to-day care is remote. Once access is set up we handle updates, checks and small edits from our side, and you send changes by email or WhatsApp, as a photo or a few lines of text, whichever is easiest.

We also meet people. The drive in along Oldham Road through Failsworth takes roughly 20 to 25 minutes depending on traffic, so you can call in at our office, or we can visit you by arrangement.

How each month runs

1

Access and licence check

At the outset we confirm every login, list premium plugins with their licence status, and record the hosting and PHP setup.

2

Snapshot before any change

Files and database are copied to off-site storage so any update can be reversed.

3

Staging trial of updates

Updates run on a private copy first, and the key pages are compared against the live site.

4

Apply and test live

Updates go live in an agreed quiet slot, then we test forms, bookings or the basket and confirm the emails arrive.

5

Edits and housekeeping

Your requested small changes are made, spam comments cleared and the database tidied.

6

Plain-English summary

You receive a short note of what was done and anything waiting on a decision.

Your monthly care covers

  • Checked updates to WordPress, your theme and every plugin
  • Scheduled off-site backups, kept apart from your host
  • Downtime and certificate alerts sent straight to our team
  • Licence renewals tracked so premium plugins keep updating
  • Email delivery checks on contact, booking and order forms
  • Small content edits within an agreed allowance
  • Handover notes and backups if you ever move on

Getting a scattered website back under one roof

Before we can maintain anything, we need to know who controls what. For many Oldham firms this first tidy-up turns out to be the most valuable part of the whole arrangement.

  • Domain registrar We confirm the domain is registered to the business, not a former developer, and that auto-renew and registrar lock are switched on.
  • Hosting account It should be in the company’s name with two-factor login, and the billing contact kept current.
  • DNS and email We record where DNS lives and which records handle email, so a change to one does not silently break the other.
  • WordPress users Old staff and ex-developers lose admin rights, and everyone gets their own login instead of one shared password.
  • SSL certificate We check it renews automatically and covers both the www and plain domain, with help from our SSL and HTTPS setup service where it does not.
  • Premium plugin accounts Licence keys are moved to an email address the business controls.

If the tidy-up shows deeper problems, a one-off website security audit gives you a full written picture before care begins.

Frequently asked questions

We trade at Tommyfield Market and only need a simple site. Is maintenance worth it?

A small site still runs plugins that need updates, and an unpatched brochure site is as easy to break into as a large one. For simple sites we keep the routine light and quote accordingly. What matters is that someone checks it every month.

Could you meet the family at our Oldham premises before we sign up?

Yes. We can arrange a visit so everyone involved hears the same explanation and agrees who holds which logins. Alternatively call in at our Cheetham Hill office, or we can cover it all on a video call if that suits everyone better.

Is maintenance the same as fixing a hacked site?

No. Maintenance keeps a clean site in good order. A site already infected needs a thorough clean first, through our WordPress malware removal service, and maintenance then helps stop the same thing happening again.

What if we want to leave later?

You take everything with you. The site, domain and hosting stay in your name throughout, and we hand over recent backups, a list of plugins and licences, and notes on anything unusual, then remove our own accounts.

Monthly WordPress care in Middleton, Ashton, Rochdale and Droylsden

We look after sites for businesses in Middleton, Ashton-under-Lyne, Rochdale and Droylsden as well, and the main maintenance page covers the service in more depth. Browse our services in Oldham for anything else.

Let us know what your website does and who currently looks after it, even if the answer is nobody, and we will reply with a fixed monthly quote and no obligation. Ask about WordPress care, call 0161 315 1151 or WhatsApp 07737 902425.

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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