Monthly Site Maintenance for WordPress & Drupal
Proactive updates, backups, and security monitoring keep your site running flawlessly. Plans from $500/month, scaling to enterprise SLAs.
When to hire us for this
Everythingthatshipswithevery engagement.
No surprise add-ons. No phase two for the basics. The list below is the floor, not the ceiling.
WordPress core, plugin, theme updates
Monthly WordPress core, plugin, and theme updates run on a staging environment first. We QA every visible page before promoting to production, so updates don't break the site you woke up to.
Drupal core and module updates
Drupal core and contrib module updates including security releases. As a Drupal Certified Bronze Partner we apply patches, run database updates, and clear caches the right way (no white screens, no lost configuration).
Daily off-site backups, one-click restore
Daily encrypted backups stored off-site (BlogVault, S3, or your provider of choice) with one-click restore. Files and database, retained 30 days minimum, longer on higher tiers.
Security monitoring
Wordfence, Sucuri, or custom rule sets depending on your stack. Continuous malware scans, brute-force protection, file integrity monitoring, and an alert path that goes to a human, not a forgotten inbox.
Performance monitoring
Real user monitoring and synthetic checks (uptime, Core Web Vitals, TTFB). Monthly report with what changed, what slowed down, and what we shipped to fix it. No vanity metrics.
Content and minor design changes
Each plan includes a block of monthly hours for content updates, copy changes, image swaps, new landing pages, and minor design tweaks. No nickel-and-diming for the small stuff.
Sixsteps,oneconversation.
Linear enough to plan around, flexible enough to do good work.
Discover
Audit of the current site (hosting, plugins, modules, performance, security posture, backups). We tell you what you actually have, not what you assumed.
Strategize
Maintenance plan tailored to your stack and risk tolerance. Update cadence, backup retention, monitoring tools, and the response SLA you need.
Design
Optional. Minor design refreshes, landing pages, or template tweaks roll into the monthly hour bank, no separate project required.
Develop
Updates and small features ship through staging with QA. Larger work moves to a separate engagement with its own scope and timeline.
Launch
Each promotion to production includes a smoke test, a backup checkpoint, and a rollback plan. We ship Tuesdays through Thursdays for a reason.
Support
Ongoing monthly cadence with a clear point of contact, monthly report, and quarterly review. Pause or cancel any month.
Tools we reach for, picked for fit (not fashion).
Siteswekeeprunning.
A few recent care plans, kept calmly under the hood.
Fourwaysin,one quality bar.
Pick the engagement that fits today. We will tell you honestly if a different tier is a better fit.
Essential care for a small WordPress or Drupal site.
- Monthly core, plugin, module updates
- Daily off-site backups, 30-day retention
- Uptime monitoring and security scans
- 1 hour of content or minor changes
Active care for business-critical marketing sites.
- Bi-weekly updates with staging QA
- Security hardening (Wordfence or Sucuri)
- Performance reports and Core Web Vitals work
- Up to 4 hours of content and design changes
Embedded retainer for multi-site or revenue-driving stacks.
- Weekly updates and proactive patching
- Drupal Certified and WP Engine partner support
- Up to 10 hours of dev and content work
- Same-business-day response SLA
Multi-site, multi-environment, or regulated workloads.
- 24/7 monitoring and on-call response
- Custom uptime SLA with credits
- Dedicated engineer and account lead
- Quarterly roadmap and security review
Thethingswegetasked most.
Real results from real engagements.
A snapshot of the site maintenance engagements where DoodleWeb owned strategy, design, and engineering end-to-end.
Ursa Major
Ursa Major delivers mission-ready aerospace and defense systems across hypersonics, solid rocket motors, and space-based defense, leveraging additive manufacturing and modular architectures to produce scalable all-up rounds, engines, and SRMs faster than legacy providers. From throttleable, storable hypersonics to tactically responsive satellite propulsion and extended-range solid rocket motors, Ursa Major is powering the joint force with flexible, American-made systems for any mission, in any domain. DoodleWeb replatformed them onto Drupal 10 — shipping a procurement-grade marketing site with significantly faster page loads, restructured navigation for defense and government stakeholders, and an editor-friendly CMS that lets internal comms publish at the pace of an engineering organization. Shipped in 16 weeks.
Amplify AI
Amplify AI, a B2B SaaS startup, replaced a slow custom WordPress site with a Webflow rebuild from DoodleWeb. Outcome: 4× demo bookings in the first 60 days post-launch, demo-to-customer rate up 60%, and a marketing team that ships pages independently without engineering involvement. Shipped in 10 weeks.
Young Americans Center
Young Americans Center, a nonprofit operating both a financial-education program and a youth-focused bank, unified two previously disconnected sites onto one WordPress platform on WP Engine. Outcome: a single high-impact brand story, editorial controls that respect the boundary between mission and product, and a platform an in-house team can extend. Shipped in 18 weeks. WCAG 2.2 AA conformant.
SiteSonar
SiteSonar is a DoodleWeb-built product: a no-code website performance adapter that lifts AI-search (GEO/AEO) visibility, identifies high-intent traffic, and converts more pipeline — without rebuilding the underlying site. Starts at $99/month, installs in 14 days, requires zero CMS migration. Used by marketing teams that need AI-search citation share without a replatform.
Got a site maintenance project in motion?
Tell us where you are and where you'd like to be. A senior strategist replies — not a sales BDR — usually within a business day.
- Reply within one business day
- Senior team only — no juniors, no offshoring
- Fixed-fee proposals, no change-order surprises