Home Theater - WordPress Maintenance
Your website is your portfolio. When it runs slow, breaks, or gets hacked, you're not just dealing with a technical problem. You're losing the attention of buyers who had every intention of reaching out. We keep your site fast, secure, and current so it's ready every time a serious prospect shows up.
Overview
Portfolio lightboxes and gallery plugins are among the most update-sensitive plugins in WordPress. A single core update can break a gallery plugin that hasn't been maintained, leaving your best project photos inaccessible exactly when a prospect is evaluating your work.
Media-heavy sites accumulate database bloat, unoptimized image metadata, and plugin overhead every month. A site that loaded in two seconds on launch day can be loading in five seconds a year later with no obvious trigger. Affluent buyers browsing on mobile leave before it finishes loading.
An integration firm's website collects prospect contact information and project inquiries. An outdated WordPress install is the most common vector for site compromise. Many integrator sites were built 3 to 5 years ago with minimal maintenance since, which makes them targets.
If your contact form stops routing to D-Tools, Jetbuilt, Portal.io, or HubSpot, you won't know immediately. You'll just stop receiving leads. Regular form testing and integration checks are the only reliable way to catch those failures before they cost you a project.
What's included
Updates
We apply updates on a regular cycle, testing in a staging environment first when a major version release warrants extra care. Gallery and portfolio plugins get particular attention for visual and functional testing after every update.
Security
Active monitoring for malware, unauthorized file changes, and known vulnerability exposure. If something flags, we act on it, not just notify you and wait.
Reliability
If your site goes down, we know before you do. Uptime is checked at regular intervals, and we respond to outages without waiting for you to report them.
Performance
Periodic page speed reviews catch load time degradation before it affects your portfolio presentation. We address the common culprits: unoptimized images, plugin overhead, and database bloat.
Backups
Regular automated backups stored off-site. If a site failure or compromise happens, we can restore from a clean backup without starting from scratch.
Integrations
We test your contact and consultation forms regularly to confirm they're routing correctly to your CRM or project management platform. A broken form is a silent lead killer.
Gallery plugins break quietly. A prospect clicks into your best project, sees a broken layout or missing images, and closes the tab. You never know the visit happened.
An outdated WordPress install with unpatched plugins is an active vulnerability. The most common outcome is a site compromise that serves malware to visitors or redirects your domain to spam. Cleaning up a compromised site costs significantly more than preventing the problem.
A site that loaded in 2.5 seconds at launch and now loads in 6 seconds isn't just a technical problem. It's a lead problem. Buyers don't wait. They go to the next integrator in their search results.
Plans
Three tiers on top of managed hosting. Care plans are scoped on the intake call so you're not paying for coverage that doesn't match your site.
Essential
Stable sites, fundamentals covered
Professional
Active integrators adding projects regularly
Premium
High-volume firms & multi-audience sites
Managed hosting starts at $99/mo.
Deeper reads pulled from our blog, all written with home theater in mind.
Good to know
Plugin and theme updates are reviewed and applied on a regular monthly cycle, with security-critical patches applied as soon as they're released. Major WordPress core version updates are handled with additional testing to avoid compatibility issues with your gallery plugins and integrations.
We test updates in a staging environment before applying them to your live site whenever a major update warrants extra care. If something breaks after an update, we fix it. That's included in the maintenance plan. You don't get a separate invoice for resolving a conflict caused by an update we applied.
Yes. We onboard existing WordPress sites regularly. The process starts with a site audit where we assess the current state of core, plugins, theme, backups, and security. Once we have a clear picture of what we're working with, we bring the site up to our maintenance standard and begin the ongoing care cycle.
Content update support is included in the Professional and Premium plans. Adding new project gallery entries, updating team bios, and making minor page edits fall within the monthly content allowance. If you need a significant amount of new content added at once, such as a large portfolio refresh after a busy project season, we can scope that separately.
Yes. Form and integration testing is included in the Professional and Premium plans. We submit test inquiries through your forms regularly to confirm they're routing correctly to your CRM or project management platform. A form that silently stops working is one of the most common and most costly maintenance failures for an integrator's website. We catch it before it costs you a project.
Still have questions? We're happy to answer them, let's connect.
Tell us about your project and we'll take a look. No pushy sales, no wasted calls.