Attorneys - WordPress Maintenance
An attorney website isn't a static brochure. It's a live system processing sensitive client information every day: intake form submissions containing personal details, LawPay transactions processing retainer payments, contact form messages that carry confidential communications before any formal engagement exists. A poorly maintained WordPress site creates risk on multiple fronts simultaneously.
Overview
Four reasons a generic WordPress care plan isn't good enough for a law firm site.
Prospective clients submit names, phone numbers, descriptions of their legal situation, and sometimes financial information through your intake forms before any attorney-client relationship is formally established. An insecure site that exposes that data creates bar ethics exposure and a trust problem that's very difficult to recover from.
LawPay integrations that fall behind on plugin versions or WordPress core updates can break in ways that prevent clients from completing online retainer payments. A payment failure at the intake stage loses the client. We keep payment integrations current and test them on a regular basis.
Attackers actively scan for known plugin vulnerabilities and target sites that haven't patched them. An attorney site with three-month-old plugins is a target. We update plugins, themes, and WordPress core on a scheduled basis and monitor for security disclosures that require out-of-cycle patches.
If your site is down at 10pm when a prospective client is searching for a DUI attorney after an arrest, that client calls the next firm in the search results. Uptime monitoring with rapid response isn't a nice-to-have for attorney sites. It's part of staying competitive.
What's included
Seven services that run in the background so your site stays fast, secure, and connected to your intake workflow.
Updates
Applied on a scheduled basis with pre-update backups so rollback is available if something conflicts. No surprise breakage from silent updates.
Backups
Full site backups stored in redundant off-site locations. If something breaks or the site is compromised, restoration is measured in hours, not days.
Uptime
Alerts when the site goes down. Rapid response to restore availability and investigate root causes before it costs you intake.
Security
Firewall configuration, malware scanning, login protection, and file integrity monitoring. We catch intrusions and vulnerabilities early, before they cause damage.
Performance
Load time tracking and Core Web Vitals monitoring. Site speed affects both search rankings and intake form completion rates. We flag degradation before it costs you leads.
Integrations & support
Regular verification that Clio, Lawmatics, LawPay, and other legal integrations are working. When something needs attention, the same team that built your site handles it -- no tier-one triage.
The risk
Three concrete failure modes we see on attorney sites that skipped ongoing care.
An unpatched WordPress site is a known attack target. A breach that exposes client intake data isn't just a technical problem -- it's a reputational event and, depending on your jurisdiction's rules, potentially a bar-reportable incident. Prevention through active maintenance is substantially less costly than remediation after a breach.
Legal software integrations break when APIs update and your plugins don't keep pace. A Clio or Lawmatics integration that stops routing leads can go unnoticed for weeks, during which every form submission disappears. We monitor integration health so you find out from us, not from a client who said they submitted a form and never heard back.
Core Web Vitals are a ranking factor, and a site that degrades in speed over time -- through plugin bloat, unoptimized images, or database overhead -- will see ranking impacts. A slow site also loses prospective clients to competitors with faster pages. Performance isn't a one-time setup.
Plans
Three tiers on top of managed hosting. Care plans are scoped on the intake call so you're not paying for a package that doesn't match your site.
Core
Essential coverage
Pro
Most attorney firms
Priority
High-volume firms
Managed hosting starts at $99/mo.
Deeper reads pulled from our blog, all written with attorneys in mind.
Good to know
Attorney sites process sensitive pre-engagement client data through intake forms, handle payment transactions through legal-specific processors like LawPay, and maintain integrations with case management platforms that carry client matter information. The security requirements are higher than a standard business website, and the stakes of a broken integration are higher because it directly affects your intake pipeline and, in some cases, your ability to receive client payments. We approach attorney site maintenance with the same security posture we apply to healthcare and financial clients.
We apply plugin, theme, and WordPress core updates on a regular scheduled basis, with backups taken before each update run so rollback is available if an update causes a compatibility issue. Security-critical patches that carry significant vulnerability risk are applied out of cycle as soon as they're released.
Uptime monitoring alerts us immediately when your site becomes unavailable. We investigate the cause, work to restore availability, and communicate with you throughout. For attorney sites, downtime outside of business hours is common and often the most damaging, since prospective clients searching for help in the evening or overnight won't wait for Monday morning. Our monitoring runs 24/7.
Content edits aren't bundled into the base plan. Attorney bio updates, practice area content, case results (with appropriate disclaimer handling), and contact information changes are scoped a la carte at our hourly rate, and we're happy to handle them as they come up.
We take on existing attorney WordPress sites for maintenance. We start with a site audit to understand the current configuration, identify any immediate security or performance issues, and bring the maintenance posture up to our standard before enrolling the site in an ongoing plan.
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