Justice of the Peace - WordPress Maintenance
A broken booking form on a Saturday in September doesn't announce itself. It just sits there, quietly turning interested couples away while you're at a ceremony. We handle updates, backups, security, and integration monitoring so your site's still booking ceremonies through peak season and off-peak alike.
Overview
Wedding season peaks hard in May, September, and October. Engagement announcements cluster in December and January, right when couples start researching officiants for dates 12 to 18 months away. Those are exactly the months when a slow site or a broken contact form costs the most.
HoneyBook, Dubsado, Acuity, and Calendly embeds break more often than most officiants realize. A plugin update can conflict with an embedded booking form, and these breaks happen quietly until a couple gives up and books someone else.
Your site collects names, dates, addresses, and sometimes payment details from couples. A security breach in that data is a reputational disaster for a practice that runs almost entirely on trust and word-of-mouth.
Gallery-heavy pages and unoptimized databases accumulate over time. A site that was fast at launch can slow down by the next wedding season, and couples who hit a slow-loading page on mobile don't wait around.
What's included
Updates
Applied carefully, tested after each update, and rolled back immediately if something breaks. We don't push updates blindly and walk away.
Integrations
We actively check that your HoneyBook, Dubsado, Acuity, Calendly, and payment integrations are working correctly after every update cycle.
Security
Continuous monitoring with immediate response when anything suspicious surfaces, plus managed firewalls and login protection beyond default WordPress hardening.
Reliability
We get alerted when your site goes down, not you. Response happens before most couples ever notice an outage.
Performance
Image optimization, caching, and database cleanup keep your site fast. We also monitor and renew SSL certificates well in advance, since an expired one kills trust with couples instantly.
Backups & support
Backups stored independently from your hosting environment, and access to a real support team that knows your site, not a ticket queue with a two-day response time.
An outdated plugin conflicts with a theme update and your inquiry form stops sending emails. Couples fill it out, hear nothing, and assume you're unresponsive. You never know they reached out.
Outdated WordPress installations are the primary entry point for malware and unauthorized access. If couples' personal information is exposed, the damage to your reputation may not be recoverable.
What was a fast site at launch becomes a slow one by the second wedding season. Couples who hit a slow-loading site on mobile don't wait. They leave, and they book someone else.
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.
Essential
Solo officiants and small ministries
Growth
Most officiant sites
Pro
Multi-officiant and complex sites
Managed hosting starts at $99/mo.
Deeper reads pulled from our blog, all written with justices of the peace in mind.
Good to know
Yes, and especially so right after launch. WordPress, your plugins, and your integrations will all receive updates within weeks of going live. Without a plan in place, those updates may go unmanaged, or get applied carelessly, until something breaks. Starting maintenance at launch is the right time, not after a problem appears.
We monitor your key integrations as part of our maintenance work. If something breaks, we catch it, investigate the cause, and fix it. For CRM embeds specifically, we know the common conflict points between these platforms and WordPress updates, so we can often prevent breaks rather than just react to them.
All hosting starts at $99/mo. Maintenance scope on top of that depends on your site's plugin count, integration load, and how often content needs to change, so we'll give you a specific number after reviewing your setup.
Yes. Small content changes, new ceremony package pages, and photo swaps can be handled as part of ongoing care. Larger projects are scoped separately so you always know what you're paying for.
We review and apply updates on a regular schedule, typically monthly for most plugins and immediately for critical security patches. We test after each update round and have backups in place before we touch anything, so rollback is always available if an update causes a conflict.
We work with most major WordPress hosting environments. During onboarding, we review your current hosting setup and make recommendations if we think a change would meaningfully improve your site's performance or reliability. We're not tied to a single hosting provider.
Still have questions? We're happy to answer them, let's connect.
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