Update on staging
Updates go to a staging copy first. A plugin update that breaks checkout should break staging, not your store.
Service
Ongoing care for your website - updates, backups, security hardening, speed optimization, and a developer to call when something breaks.
A website is not finished when it launches. WordPress core, plugins and PHP all move, security issues appear, and performance quietly degrades as content accumulates. Maintenance is the difference between a site that lasts five years and one that has to be rebuilt in two.
Updates go to a staging copy first. A plugin update that breaks checkout should break staging, not your store.
Verify the critical paths still work, then push to production.
You get told what changed and why, not just an invoice.
If the site earns you money, yes. Outdated plugins are the single most common way WordPress sites get compromised, and the cleanup costs far more than the maintenance would have.
Uptime monitoring alerts me, and depending on the arrangement I investigate before you have noticed. That is most of what you are paying for.
Usually. I will audit it first and tell you honestly what shape it is in, including if the honest answer is that maintaining it is throwing good money after bad.
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