Portfolio gallery degradation
Gallery plugins and image optimization tools update frequently. Left unmaintained, your project photos load slowly or break entirely, taking the most persuasive part of your site down with them.
Carpenters - WordPress Maintenance
WordPress Maintenance for Carpentry Contractors
Your website is a sales tool that runs 24/7. An outdated plugin, a broken form, or a slow-loading gallery costs you leads you'll never know you lost. We manage 800+ WordPress sites, keeping carpentry websites secure, fast, and functioning while you focus on the job site.
Why it matters
Why WordPress Maintenance Matters for Carpentry Sites
Four risks that show up specifically on portfolio-heavy contractor websites.
Form failures no one notices
An inquiry form can break silently after a plugin update, and you won't know unless someone's actively monitoring it. Every day it's down is a day of leads going nowhere.
Plugin conflicts
Carpentry sites often run gallery plugins, booking tools, and integrations with platforms like JobTread or Buildertrend side by side. Updates to any one of them can break another if nobody's testing the interactions.
Security vulnerabilities
WordPress is the most widely used website platform in the world, which makes it a constant target. An unpatched vulnerability can lead to a hacked site, blacklisting, or lost customer trust.
What's Included in Our Care Plans
The work that happens behind the scenes every month, whether you notice it or not.
Updates
Plugin, theme & core updates
Every update tested before it goes live on your production site, so a routine plugin update never becomes a broken gallery or a down form.
Backups
Daily off-site backups
Full daily backups stored off-site, so if anything ever goes wrong, we can restore your site quickly instead of rebuilding from scratch.
Security
Security scanning & hardening
Ongoing malware scanning, firewall rules, and hardening measures that keep your site off the list of easy targets.
Uptime
Uptime monitoring
Continuous monitoring that alerts our team the moment your site goes down, not the moment a customer tells you it's down.
Forms
Form & integration health checks
Regular checks on inquiry forms and integrations like JobTread, Buildertrend, and Gravity Forms, so leads keep flowing where they're supposed to.
Performance
Speed & performance monitoring
A portfolio-heavy site accumulates image weight over time. We monitor load speed and optimize as needed to keep pages fast for mobile visitors.
What Happens If You Skip It
We see the same three outcomes on unmaintained carpentry sites.
A site that quietly stops converting
Forms break, galleries slow down, or a plugin conflict breaks mobile rendering. Nobody notices until leads have already dropped for weeks.
A security incident
An unpatched vulnerability gets exploited. Best case, it's a cleanup job. Worst case, your site gets blacklisted by Google and your rankings disappear with it.
An expensive emergency rebuild
Sites that go years without maintenance often accumulate enough technical debt that a rebuild ends up cheaper than a repair. Ongoing maintenance costs far less than either outcome.
Plans
Carpentry WordPress Maintenance 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
- Plugin, theme & WordPress core updates
- Daily off-site backups
- Uptime monitoring
- Security scanning & hardening
Pro
Most carpentry contractors
- Everything in Core
- Integration health checks (JobTread, Buildertrend, Jobber)
- Performance monitoring
- Monthly report
Priority
Multi-location & commercial firms
- Everything in Pro
- Priority response SLA
- Quarterly content updates
- Accessibility monitoring
Managed hosting starts at $99/mo.
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FAQ
What happens if my site breaks outside business hours?
Our uptime monitoring runs around the clock and alerts our team the moment something goes down, not just during business hours. Response times depend on your plan tier, with Priority plans getting the fastest turnaround.
Do I need a care plan if my site is already hosted somewhere else?
We can provide care plans independent of hosting, but we generally recommend moving hosting to us as well. It gives our team direct access to fix issues immediately rather than working through a third-party host's support process, which slows everything down when something breaks.
How often do you update plugins and WordPress core?
We run updates on a regular schedule and test each one before it goes live on your production site. Critical security updates get applied faster, sometimes the same day they're released, depending on severity.
What if my portfolio gallery or a form breaks?
Our care plans include regular checks on forms and key integrations, so most issues are caught before they cost you leads. If something does break between checks, our team fixes it as part of your plan, and Priority clients get a faster response SLA.
Can I switch plans as my business grows?
Yes. Many carpentry clients start on Core or Pro and move up to Priority as they add locations, expand into commercial work, or add more integrations that need monitoring. We'll revisit your plan whenever your needs change.
Do you handle hosting migrations from our current provider?
Yes. We handle the migration from your current host as part of onboarding, and we schedule it to avoid downtime for your site. We'll also do a full review of your existing plugins and setup during the move so we understand exactly what we're taking over.
Still have questions? We're happy to answer them, let's connect.
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