Our business emphasis has shifted to WordPress mentoring and training.
We no longer offer the maintenance plans below, but do WordPress maintenance on a limited basis for existing clients until July 1, 2024.
The remainder of this page is for historical archival purposes only; these plans are no longer available:
Intent Design Studio offers three monthly maintenance plans to keep your website’s performance optimized. In addition, we offer as-needed website care with our normal hourly billable rates.
“Think of web maintenance the way you would think of home maintenance and cleaning. It doesn’t preclude the possibility of vandalism, fire, floods or earthquakes, but having your home well-maintained may minimize the likelihood and/or impact of such events.”
For extra peace of mind, our proactive monthly small business website upkeep plans help you focus on what you do best. We keep your sites in the best working order with a combination of automated and routine updates, tests and continuous research so you don’t have to keep track of all those details.
All of our monthly maintenance packages/plans include:
- WordPress updates – infrequent but important
- Theme updates – also usually infrequent but important
- Plugin updates – frequent and can be important, depending on various factors
- Backups – automated, off-site, secure full backups of both files and database
- Security monitoring – prompt alerts if there are any issues requiring new software and/or outside services such as malware eradication, etc.
- No long term contracts. – cancel any time
- … and much more (see below) …
Copper Plan –> $19/month includes:
- The Copper Plan is optimal for staging, development, private, inactive, or infrequently updated sites; e.g. “online business cards” – perfect for sites not wanting or needing SEO performance or marketing to bring in new visitors
- Monthly WordPress updates and testing (as needed)
- Monthly Theme updates and testing (as needed)
- Monthly Plugin updates and testing (as needed)
- Our basic maintenance and performance plugins
- Security Monitoring with a monthly report of all security issues, fixes, and recommendations*
- Automated, Redundant DropBox backups (monthly or more frequently as needed, in addition to any hosting-provided backups)
Silver Plan –> $39/month includes:
- Everything in the Copper Plan, plus:
- A monthly detailed report of all updates, issues, and recommendations
- Our standard (best practice) maintenance and performance plugins, plus those specifically selected for your site
- Monthly uptime reports emailed to you
- Monthly “executive summary” SEO performance reports emailed to you
- SSL (requires hosting by BlueHost, WP Engine or – at a minimum – a free SSL like Let’s Encrypt)
- Yearly: 30-minute screen-sharing client meeting (video conference for mentoring/brainstorming/action plans for both IDS and client): Annual review and suggestions
- Contact us for discounts for multiple sites.
Gold Plan –> $59/month includes:
- Everything in the Silver Plan, plus:
- Twice a month: WordPress updates and testing (as needed)
- Twice a month: Theme updates and testing (as needed)
- Twice a month: plugin updates and testing (as needed)
- Enhanced (better) maintenance, speed and performance plugins, and configuration
- Updated master spreadsheet of all online customer assets (See example )
- Twice a year: 30-minute screen-sharing client meeting (video conference for mentoring/brainstorming/action plans for both IDS and client) Semi-annual review and suggestions
- Contact us for discounts for multiple sites.
Platinum Plan –> $79/month includes:
- Everything in the Gold Plan, plus:
- Weekly: WordPress updates and testing (as needed)
- Weekly: Theme updates and testing (as needed)
- Weekly: plugin updates and testing (as needed)
- Enhanced (best) maintenance, speed and performance plugins, and configuration
- 4 times a year: 30-minute screen-sharing client meeting (video conference for mentoring/brainstorming/action plans for both IDS and client) Quarterly review and suggestions
- Contact us for discounts for multiple sites.
* ADDITIONAL SERVICES (not in maintenance package scope but available at our normal billable hourly rate): Setup of features noted above if not already in place and requiring extensive configuration, content updates, copywriting, extensive proofreading, graphics clean up, photography, stock photo additions, theme customizations, Gutenberg (WP 5.0 block editor) conversion, Gutenberg training, repairs needed due to site modifications by prior/other consultants or client, malware removal, extra work due to registration, hosting, non-recommended plugins, non-recommended WP themes, other customizations including custom code or style sheet modifications.
Please let us know which package works for you as you fill out our Maintenance Request Form here.
(Please send a separate form for each website. Contact us about additional discounts for maintenance plans for multiple websites and automated bill payments.)