Professional WordPress
Website Support

For those responsible for the website, but don’t have time to babysit it.

The Burden of Maintaining a Website

If you’re responsible for your organization’s website, you’re likely stretched thin. You’re juggling security, performance, updates, and unexpected issues while trying to stay focused on higher-priority work.

Common challenges include:

  • Security risks from outdated plugins or themes

  • Time-consuming updates that distract from strategic goals

  • Unreliable support that leaves you chasing fixes or waiting too long for help

We’re here to make your website one less thing to worry about.

WordPress website maintenance and plugin management for Genome Canada by 1dea Design + Media, supporting accessibility and security for Canadian organizations.
1dea Design + Media web support team meeting in Kingston, Ontario, discussing ongoing website management and performance optimization for clients across Canada.
Website support specialist managing WordPress updates, backups, and technical maintenance for Canadian businesses.
Facilitated speaking session where Karen from 1dea Design + Media discussed services what make the best WordPress website support in Canada, emphasizing the importance of ongoing maintenance, security, and accessibility for organizations.

WordPress Maintenance Services That Work

1dea is a Canadian web agency with more than 15 years of experience supporting WordPress websites. Our dedicated web support team keeps your site healthy, secure, and aligned with your communication and marketing goals.

We help you:

  1. Prevent issues before they affect your audience.
  2. Get help quickly when something needs fixing.
  3. Handle content updates, design and layout changes, and new features.
  4. Take control of backups and enhanced security.
  5. Keep your plugins and integrations secure and stable.

WordPress Support & Maintenance Plans

We offer two levels of supporting, including a foundational maintenance plan for ongoing site care and optional monthly support hours for hands-on content, design, and technical help.

Just the Basics Monthly Support

The base level of professional care your WordPress website needs. The most suitable place to start for many organizations.

$100/month CAD

Plan includes:
  • Plugins, theme and core updates (min 3x per week)
  • Daily website backups
  • Enhanced website security
  • Uptime monitoring and restore support
  • Web and domain host support
  • WordPress guidance & troubleshooting
  • Plugin, bugs & error Resolutions (15 minutes per incident)
  • Malware removal & cleanup
  • Migration, subdomain & staging setup
  • Weekly website care report delivered to your inbox

This plan keeps your WordPress site secure, stable, and supported. It’s the foundation that gives our clients peace of mind and keeps their websites running like they should.

Flexible Monthly Support Add-ons

When you need more than maintenance, add monthly support hours for updates, improvements, and new builds. Unused hours roll over for up to three months.

See which monthly support level matches your pace
Plan Name
Monthly Hours
Price (CAD)
Rollover Cap
Best For
Support5
5 Hours
$500​
Up to 15 Hours​

Best for small websites that require a few content edits, image swaps, or layout adjustments each quarter.

Support10
10 Hours
$1,000​
Up to 30 Hours​

Best for teams who publish new pages, update content across multiple sections, and make routine design or functionality improvements each quarter.

Support20
20 Hours
$2,000​
Up to 60 Hours​

Best for busy teams that regularly manage campaigns, build new sections or features, and keep the site evolving quarter over quarter.

Plan Name
Support5
Monthly Hours
5 Hours​
Price (CAD)​
$500​​
Rollover Cap​
Up to 15 Hours​​
Best For​

Best for small websites that require a few content edits, image swaps, or layout adjustments each quarter.

Plan Name
Support10​
Monthly Hours
10 Hours​
Price (CAD)​
$1,000​​
Rollover Cap​
Up to 30 Hours​​
Best For​

Best for teams who publish new pages, update content across multiple sections, and make routine design or functionality improvements each quarter.

Plan Name
Support20
Monthly Hours
20 Hours
Price (CAD)​
$2,000​
Rollover Cap​
Up to 60 Hours​
Best For​

Best for busy teams that regularly manage campaigns, build new sections or features, and keep the site evolving quarter over quarter.

How It Works

Get monthly access to our team for updates, fixes, design tweaks, and more.

Flexible, Monthly Support

Use your hours for content updates, technical fixes, performance improvements, analytics setup, design tweaks, and more.

Time Rolls Over (Up to 3 Months)

You can bank your unused hours for up to 3 months, giving you flexibility when timelines shift or big updates are needed.

Use More When You Need It

If you’re on Support10 for example, you can use up to 30 hours in one month by drawing from your rollover balance.

Flat, Predictable Pricing
$100/hour, always. That’s a 33% savings from our standard $150/hour project rate.
No Long-Term Commitment
Plans can be cancelled anytime with 30 days’ written notice.

Need More Details or Flexibility?

If your website needs go beyond our standard plans, or you’d like to learn more about our existing plans, let’s start with a quick conversation. We’ll learn more about your goals, assess the technical details, and recommend a support approach that works for your team.

WordPress Website Support Plan FAQs

Do I really need monthly WordPress maintenance?

Without regular updates and monitoring, your website becomes more vulnerable to errors and plugin conflicts, which can cause both security and layout issues on your website. Our maintenance services keep things running reliably behind the scenes.

Support (our Just the Basics plan) covers proactive maintenance like updates, backups, and security. Development (our service add-ons) is for hands-on tasks like content updates, layout changes, or building new features.

If an urgent issue like a site outage occurs, email our support address. We prioritize emergencies and our team will begin WordPress troubleshooting right away to resolve the problem.

Of course. We have a team of front and backend developers, as well as graphic designers and project strategies ready to assist.

Unlike larger more mainstream WordPress support and maintenance providers, the service you’ll receive from 1dea is more personalized. Our team can handle any aspect of your website include new design requests, front or backend development, conversion strategy, copywriting, digital marketing and more. 

Yes. We frequently support WordPress websites that were built by other agencies or developers. Before starting any plan, we conduct a quick backend audit to understand the site’s current condition. If there are issues like outdated plugins, security vulnerabilities, or technical debt, we’ll flag them and provide you with recommended cleanup steps first (that our team can help with). Our goal is to make sure your site is stable and support-ready before we step in.

Any time. Most clients enrol at launch, but you can join later. If the site is live, we run a one-time audit to bring it up to our standards before starting monthly care.