Care & Maintenance Plans
Weekly core, theme and plugin updates on a staging copy first, off-site backups, uptime monitoring, database cleanups and a monthly report you can actually read.
What's included →★★★★★ 4.9 average from 118 client reviews · Lexington, KY
Your WordPress site, quietly looked after by people who answer the phone.
WP Clerks is a Kentucky-based WordPress care studio. We handle updates, backups, security, speed and the endless small edits — so you can get back to running your business instead of babysitting plugins.
- No long-term contracts
- US-based team
- Same-day response
Uptime 99.98%Last 30 days · 412 sites
218 updates appliedTested on staging first
Trusted by independent businesses across Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee and Indiana
Bluegrass OutfittersWhitfield DentalNorthPoint HVACAlvarez StudioKeeneland Feed Co.Third Street Law
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What we do
Six services that cover everything a WordPress site needs
Pick a monthly care plan, a one-off project, or both. Every engagement starts with a written scope so you know the cost before we touch anything.
Security & Malware Cleanup
Hardening, firewall rules, login protection, file-integrity monitoring and emergency malware removal — including Google and Bing blacklist removal requests.
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Speed Optimization
Core Web Vitals work: caching, image compression, script deferral, database tuning and hosting advice. Most sites come back 40–70% faster on mobile.
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Migrations & Hosting Moves
Zero-downtime moves between hosts, domain and DNS changes, SSL setup, staging environments and post-move QA on every template of your site.
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Design Tweaks & Rebuilds
Landing pages, layout fixes, accessibility improvements and full rebuilds on clean, lightweight themes that your team can edit without a developer.
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Technical SEO & Indexing
Sitemaps, robots.txt, structured data, canonical tags, redirect maps and Bing Webmaster Tools / Google Search Console setup and troubleshooting.
What's included →How we work
A four-step onboarding that takes about a week
No long contracts, no lock-in, no mystery invoices. You always know what was done to your website and why.
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Free audit
We run a 20-point review of your site: performance, security, backups, plugin health, SEO basics and accessibility. You get the report even if you never hire us.
- 02
Stabilize
Backups off-site, updates applied on a staging copy, vulnerabilities patched, monitoring switched on. Usually finished within the first 72 hours.
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Improve
Speed work, technical SEO fixes and the small design changes you have been putting off. Prioritized by impact on your customers, not by what is easiest for us.
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Maintain & report
Weekly maintenance, unlimited small edits on eligible plans, and one clear monthly report with uptime, updates applied and hours used.
Why owners trust us
A small US studio, not an offshore ticket queue
WP Clerks is owned and operated by Jennifer Karen Patterson from our office on Redding Road in Lexington, Kentucky. When you call (689) 238-8054 during business hours, you reach the same small team that works on your website.
- Named account lead — you always know who is handling your site
- Transparent, flat monthly pricing published on our pricing page
- Cancel any time with 30 days' notice — no termination fees
- You keep full ownership of your site, hosting and domains
- Written scope before any project work begins
- Documented change log for every maintenance window
Jennifer Karen Patterson
Founder & Owner, WP Clerks
Client feedback
What business owners say after a year with us
Every quote below is from a client on an active care plan. We ask for feedback at the 12-month mark, not on day one.
★★★★★
“Our storefront went down on a Saturday during a sale. I called the number on their site and a human picked up. Back online in 40 minutes.”
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“We had 63 outdated plugins and no backups. Jennifer's team sorted it in a week and now I get one short report a month. That's exactly what I wanted.”
★★★★★
“Page speed went from 3.9s to 1.4s on mobile and our ad landing pages finally stopped getting flagged. Worth every dollar.”
★★★★★
“They migrated 11 client sites for us over one weekend with zero downtime. Communication was excellent the entire time.”
Recent work
Results we can point at
Four representative engagements from the last eighteen months, with the numbers our clients agreed to share.
WooCommerce · Lexington, KY
Bluegrass Outfitters
The problem. A 1,400-product outdoor retailer whose checkout timed out during weekend sales.
What we did. We moved the store to a tuned host, replaced four overlapping plugins with one, rebuilt the product image pipeline in WebP and added real-time order backups.
- Mobile LCP cut from 4.8s to 1.6s
- Checkout errors down 96%
- Weekend sale revenue up 23% year over year
Lead generation · Louisville, KY
Whitfield Dental
The problem. A three-location practice with 63 outdated plugins, no backups and a hacked contact form.
What we did. Emergency cleanup, full hardening, a rebuilt appointment form with spam protection, and an ongoing Professional care plan with monthly reporting.
- Malware removed in 6 hours
- Bing & Google blacklist cleared in 2 days
- Form submissions up 41%
Paid search landing pages · Cincinnati, OH
NorthPoint HVAC
The problem. Ad landing pages loaded slowly and were being disapproved for poor destination experience.
What we did. We rebuilt six landing templates on a lightweight framework, added structured data, fixed canonical tags and set up Bing Webmaster Tools monitoring.
- Page speed 3.9s → 1.4s
- Ad quality issues resolved
- Cost per lead down 28%
Agency partnership · Nashville, TN
Alvarez Studio
The problem. A design studio needed a technical partner for eleven client websites.
What we did. White-label maintenance, a shared change log, monthly consolidated reporting and a single escalation contact for their account manager.
- 11 sites migrated in one weekend
- Zero downtime recorded
- Support load on the studio down 70%
Insights
Practical WordPress advice, written by our team
No fluff and no jargon — the same guidance we give clients on the phone.
Core Web Vitals in plain English (and how we fix them)
A practical walkthrough of LCP, INP and CLS for business owners — what each metric actually measures, why it affects your ads and rankings, and the fixes that usually move the needle.
Read the article →Nine WordPress security habits that prevent 90% of hacks
Most compromised sites we clean up were breached through a known, patchable weakness. Here are the habits that keep small-business sites out of trouble.
Read the article →Getting indexed in Bing: a checklist for small business sites
Bing rewards clean technical signals. This is the exact checklist we run for every client site, from sitemap submission to structured data and crawl diagnostics.
Read the article →Not sure what your website needs? Start with a free 20-point audit.
We review speed, security, backups, SEO basics and plugin health, then send a plain-English report — no obligation, no sales pressure.