Asset ICT WordPress - Standard Care, £ 85.00/mo.

Standard Care is the highest level WordPress care option on this page and is designed for sites where downtime or poor performance has a direct business impact. It includes everything from the lower tiers and adds more frequent checks and practical help with content and optimisation. You receive one hour of content editing each month, which can be used for updating pages, adding blog posts or tidying layouts so that you do not have to log in to make routine changes. Uptime monitoring moves to one minute intervals, SSL monitoring continues and layout change monitoring is performed every hour to catch visual problems quickly. The plan explicitly supports WooCommerce and other more complex sites, and includes quick restore if anything goes wrong so that the team can roll the site back promptly from backups. Initial security hardening is included rather than optional, with additional plugins and support tools applied to reduce attack surface, and ongoing work focuses on search engine best practices, alt text on images, metadata, broken link checking and improvements to usability and consistency.

All of the WordPress care plans are built around the idea that modern websites require ongoing attention rather than being a set and forget asset. Asset ICT emphasises that running on current plugin, theme and core versions is one of the most effective ways to reduce the risk of compromise, and they operate a policy of applying updates as soon as they are available even though this occasionally exposes compatibility issues in poorly maintained themes or extensions. They would rather help you resolve a temporary technical issue caused by an update than have to repair a compromised site that has been left unpatched. The service makes use of premium monitoring, security and optimisation plugins which remain active while you subscribe, and if you ever stop the service they will provide a list of tools so that you can license and reinstall your own copies. Combined with responsive support via ticket, live chat and telephone, the care plans act as an extra layer of operational monitoring around your website so that basic housekeeping, checks and updates no longer depend on you remembering to log in.