WORDPRESS MAINTENANCE

We are all aware of why a well-structured website is important, best proven by a recent eye-opening study showing that a staggering 63% of Canadians will not buy from a subpar website. Nonetheless, it's not enough to just have your WordPress site going. Regular updates, troubleshooting, and maintenance of your website are essential to ensure that your website is fully protected and runs smoothly.

Just like your car, maintenance needs to be done properly on websites, including WordPress sites. Proper maintenance of your website contributes to its security, the increase in visitors, the growth of traffic and more.

Today, most websites are complex software programs, even if they are easy to edit. These need to be kept up to date for security and efficiency purposes, just like the operating system on your computer. This means that the core software and all plugins and themes are regularly updated on WordPress websites.

You invested money, effort and time to get your WordPress website ready. Now you have to keep your investment. Our highly qualified WordPress experts help you harness the power of WordPress and maximise your online investment, from a business website to an e-commerce store.

Today, websites are never "really complete". They have to be constantly updated to fresh content so that your audience can be involved and grow.

We don't simply leave you high and dry even after you have finished a WordPress website development project. We help you take care of your website by providing WordPress Support Services.

Need a WordPress support? Work with our industry-leading WordPress web development and support agency in Toronto.

To get started, we’ll carry out an audit on your WordPress website. The result of the examination includes a report detailing areas that need improvement, and a plan on how we can get your site to reach its peak performance.

If you have a big WordPress website then you should be expecting to update your website daily with new items, prices and product lines (in the case of an e-commerce) and new content. An out-of-date website will have a detrimental impact upon visitors, most of whom will choose not to visit it again.

How long it will take to maintain a large WordPress website per day or per week will depend on your website. It could take from a few hours per week to several hours per week. Time frames will be included in your quote.

Web design is a tricky industry when it comes to prices and costs because it can range from very cheap to very expensive. As a client, we feel your pain trying to navigate costs and figure out how to budget for it! Our prices are listed above and are based on which package you're interested in. We're quite transparent and honest about our pricing, unlike many web design agencies who prefer to keep it hidden and basically make up a price when you call them, based on how much they think your business can afford to pay :). Based on our research, costs for a simple static website can range from $500 to $20,000 depending on which company you speak with. Crazy huh? Why such a humongous difference, you ask? It's because there are several ways to design a website.

Here is what you want to know when you're talking to a web design agency in Toronto or anywhere else:

Question #1: are they designing the website from scratch or using a pre-existing theme? This is especially true if they are using WordPress, Joomla, Drupal or any other CMS. Designing a website from scratch takes much longer than using a pre-existing theme, but the advantage is that you end up with a 100% unique layout that doesn't exist anywhere else.

Question #2: is the agency designing the website in-house or outsourcing the design and development of it? It's way cheaper to hire web designers in New Delhi or Karachi than it is in Toronto.

Question #3: is the agency or company you're working with offering professional advice when it comes to what how your website should be designed for maximum conversion rates and ROI or are they simply executing your orders without offering their expertise? That's a big one. We at Little Dragon Media will bluntly tell you if we feel like your idea sucks, and will recommend best practices to ensure that your website brings you business. Our goal is for your website to pay for itself basically. If your website is not bringing you any new business, we won't be happy. Be careful if you choose an agency that simply asks you to provide a mockup and executes it without offering advice or feedback.

Yes, there's your domain name and web hosting. We at Little Dragon offer FREE hosting and domain name if you also buy a web maintenance package from us, which includes malware protection, daily backups, uptime monitoring and core security updates to ensure your website is always online and doesn't get hacked. If you choose NOT to buy a web maintenance package, budget an additional $150 per year for domain and hosting which you'll buy from an external company such as GoDaddy, Hostgator or any other reputable company.

No we don't. We offer a 5-day support phone and 7-day email support. 24-hour support can be offered an additional fee.

WordPress support can include SEO assistance at an additional fee. We have a team of SEO experts able to help improve your WordPress website's organic traffic.

We feel your pain! We totally understand that there are a lot of options in this city and that you might be struggling to choose the right one to provide WordPress support for your business. The reality is that it depends on many things, such as reputation/reviews, price, previous work examples and how comfortable you felt with them on the phone. You also want to make sure you hire a local Torontonian company and not a company that "pretends" to be here but outsources all their services offshore.

You want to be able to speak to the WordPress support team directly and not have to deal with communication or time zone issues. Check the agency's reviews and ratings online from its previous clients too. It never hurts to speak to a few different companies before making a decision. We at Little Dragon Media are totally transparent when it comes to our physical location, and you can find our prices, reviews and examples of our work on our website as well. Nothing is hidden! We're confident about our abilities and are one of the rare companies that have a 100% satisfaction or money back policy.

Little Dragon Media offers an extensive 30-day website warranty and maintenance policy for the solutions we build and host. If after 30 days you’re not completely satisfied with your new site, we’ll either keep working on it until you’re happy, or refund your money, no questions asked.