Estate Planning Lawyers - WordPress Maintenance
Your website carries sensitive family financial information through every intake form, well before an attorney-client relationship even exists. A security lapse or a broken integration isn't just an inconvenience for an estate planning firm. It's a trust problem with clients who chose you specifically because they needed someone reliable.
Why it matters
A browser security warning or an out-of-date SSL certificate is enough to make a cautious prospective client close the tab and call a different firm. For a practice built on trust, that first impression matters more than almost any other industry.
Intake forms, Calendly scheduling, Clio and LawPay connections all create additional points where outdated plugins or unpatched software can be exploited. Each one needs to stay current, not just your core WordPress install.
Clients evaluating an estate planning attorney are making a judgment about competence and attention to detail from the first page they see. A slow, outdated, or broken site undercuts the credibility your practice has built.
Plugin updates, theme changes, and new content can quietly break accessibility features over time. Ongoing monitoring catches drift before it becomes a compliance risk or a barrier for an older client base that depends on assistive technology.
What's included
Core updates
Every update tested before it goes live on your production site. Outdated software is the single most common way law firm sites get compromised.
Security hardening
Protecting a site that handles sensitive intake data requires more than a plugin left on default settings. We configure and monitor security tools built for that responsibility.
Uptime monitoring
We know before you do if your site becomes unreachable, and we're already working on it by the time you'd have noticed on your own.
Backups
If something goes wrong, we can restore your site quickly instead of rebuilding from scratch. Backup frequency scales with your plan.
Performance monitoring
Site speed affects both user experience and SEO. We monitor load times and address slowdowns before they hurt your rankings or your conversion rate.
Integration health checks
We check that your intake forms, scheduling, and payment integrations are actually working, not just that the site loads. A broken form can go unnoticed for weeks without this.
The risk
Every skipped update is another known vulnerability sitting on your live site. Attackers actively scan for outdated WordPress installs, and law firm sites holding sensitive intake data are a meaningful target.
Without monitoring, bloated plugins and unoptimized images slow a site down gradually. By the time it's noticeably slow, it's often already affected your search rankings.
A WordPress update can silently break your connection to Clio or your Calendly embed. Without regular checks, you may not find out until a client mentions they couldn't book a consultation.
Plans
Three tiers, scaled to the size and complexity of your practice's website.
Core
Updates, security monitoring, backups, and uptime checks for a single-attorney or small firm website.
Most popular
Everything in Core Care, plus integration health checks and performance monitoring for firms with active intake and scheduling tools.
Priority
Priority support response, expanded backup frequency, and dedicated attention for multi-attorney or multi-location firm websites.
Managed hosting starts at $99/mo.
Deeper reads pulled from our blog, all written with estate lawyers in mind.
Good to know
Managed hosting starts at $99/mo, billed every six months, with no onboarding fee. Care plan pricing beyond hosting depends on your site's complexity, the number of integrations you're running, and your support needs. We confirm exact pricing during a free consultation.
Our integration health checks are designed to catch this before you do. If something breaks between checks, our support team responds quickly to diagnose and fix the issue. Practice Care and Full Practice Care plans include faster response windows for exactly this reason.
Yes. Malware removal, restoring from a clean backup, and hardening the site against the exploit that caused the issue are all covered under our care plans. Prevention is the priority, but recovery is part of the service if something does happen.
Yes. We handle the full migration, including DNS changes, SSL setup, and testing every integration and form after the move to confirm nothing breaks in the process. Most migrations happen with no visible downtime for your visitors.
We build every site to WCAG 2.1 AA standards at launch and monitor for accessibility drift as part of our ongoing care plans, particularly after content updates or plugin changes that could affect compliance. This matters more for estate planning firms than most verticals given how many older clients rely on assistive technology.
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