Client data flows through your site
Intake forms often collect sensitive personal information. Outdated plugins and unpatched vulnerabilities turn that intake form into a liability, not just an inconvenience.
Law Firms - WordPress Maintenance
WordPress Maintenance for Law Firms
A law firm website going down or getting compromised is a client-facing problem, not just a technical one. We keep your site secure, updated, and online with managed hosting and maintenance built around what's actually at stake for a legal practice.
Why it matters
Why Law Firm Sites Need Dedicated Maintenance
Four reasons legal websites carry more risk than the average small business site, and why we treat them differently.
Downtime costs consultations
A prospective client searching for an attorney at 11pm doesn't wait around for your site to come back online. They call the next firm on the list.
ADA lawsuits target law firm sites
Legal websites are frequently named in ADA web accessibility lawsuits, in part because plaintiffs' attorneys know how to find non-compliant sites. Ongoing accessibility monitoring isn't optional anymore.
Compliance changes don't wait
Bar advertising rules and data privacy requirements shift over time. A maintained site can absorb content and disclosure updates quickly. A neglected one falls behind and stays exposed.
What's included
What Our WordPress Maintenance Covers
Watching for threats around the clock
Firewall management, malware scanning, and brute-force login protection tuned to WordPress-specific attack patterns.
Tested before they touch your live site
WordPress core, theme, and plugin updates applied on a regular schedule, tested in staging first so an update never breaks your intake forms without warning.
A recent, restorable copy at all times
Automated daily backups stored off-server, so a compromised site or a bad update can be rolled back quickly instead of becoming a multi-day emergency.
Alerts before your clients notice
Continuous uptime checks with immediate alerts, so outages get caught and addressed before they cost you consultations.
Fast pages, fewer abandoned visits
Caching, image optimization, and database cleanup to keep practice area and bio pages loading quickly on both desktop and mobile.
WCAG 2.1 AA, checked regularly
Ongoing accessibility scans and fixes to help reduce ADA lawsuit exposure, not a one-time audit that goes stale.
A real team, not a ticket queue
Direct access to our support team for the day-to-day requests every growing firm runs into. Attorney bio updates, practice area changes, and other content edits are scoped a la carte.
Care plans
Our WordPress Care Plans
Three levels of ongoing care, scaled to how much your firm's site needs to be actively managed versus just kept secure and running.
Essential Care
Security and stability fundamentals
- Core, theme, and plugin updates
- Daily automated backups
- Security monitoring and firewall management
- Uptime monitoring with alerts
- Monthly site health report
Growth Care
Everything in Essential, plus active support
- Everything in Essential Care
- Performance tuning and speed optimization
- Accessibility monitoring and fixes
- A monthly bank of content edit requests
- Priority support response times
Priority Care
Everything in Growth, plus dedicated attention
- Everything in Growth Care
- Dedicated support contact
- Expanded monthly content edit allowance
- Quarterly strategy check-ins
- Fastest available response times
Managed hosting starts at $99/mo.
Infrastructure
Hosting Built for Law Firm Websites
Managed WordPress infrastructure
Our hosting environment is tuned specifically for WordPress, not a generic shared hosting setup running your site alongside thousands of unrelated sites.
SSL and secure form handling
Every site is served over HTTPS, and intake forms collecting client information are configured for secure data handling from day one.
Staging environments
Changes and updates get tested on a staging copy of your site before they touch the live version attorneys and clients see.
800+ sites under management
We currently host and maintain 800+ WordPress websites, giving us broad visibility into emerging security threats and performance issues across the platform.
How we work
What Onboarding Looks Like
01
Site audit
We start with a full audit of your current site: plugin versions, security posture, backup status, and performance baseline. This tells us exactly where your site stands before anything changes.
02
Migration or setup
If you're moving from another host, we handle the migration on a staging environment and switch over during a low-traffic window. If it's a new build, we configure hosting alongside launch.
03
Baseline hardening
We apply security hardening, set up monitoring, and establish your backup schedule so the fundamentals are in place from week one.
04
Ongoing care
From there, your care plan runs in the background. Updates, monitoring, and support requests happen on schedule, and you get a regular report showing what's been done.
Related Law Firm Services
No lock-in
Your Site, Your Ownership
You own your WordPress site and its content at all times. If you ever decide to move to a different host or provider, we'll help make that transition smooth rather than making it difficult to leave. Our goal is to earn your business every renewal, not trap you into staying.
From our blog
Reading for law firms
Deeper reads pulled from our blog, all written with law firms in mind.
Good to know
FAQ
How much does WordPress maintenance cost for a law firm site?
Managed hosting starts at $99/mo, billed every six months with no onboarding fee. Care plan pricing on top of hosting depends on your site's complexity, the integrations you're running, and how much active support and content editing your firm needs month to month. We'll walk through the right fit during a consultation rather than quoting a number blind.
What happens if our site goes down or gets hacked?
Uptime monitoring alerts our team immediately if your site goes down, and we work to restore service as quickly as possible. If a site is compromised, we have recent backups to restore from and a process to identify and close the vulnerability that allowed the breach, rather than just patching the symptom.
Can you help make our site ADA compliant?
Yes. We monitor sites against WCAG 2.1 AA standards and address issues as they come up, rather than treating accessibility as a one-time fix. Law firm websites are a frequent target for ADA web accessibility lawsuits, so ongoing monitoring matters more here than in many other industries.
Do you handle content updates, like new attorney bios or practice area changes?
Yes, our Growth Care and Priority Care plans include a monthly allowance of content edit requests, covering things like adding a new attorney bio, updating practice area content, or making changes to existing pages. Larger content projects, like adding an entirely new practice area page, are scoped separately.
Can you migrate our existing law firm site to your hosting without downtime?
Yes. We handle the migration process, test everything on a staging environment first, and switch DNS during a low-traffic window to minimize any disruption. In most cases, clients don't notice the migration happened until it's already done.
Still have questions? We're happy to answer them, let's connect.
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