--- title: "WordPress Maintenance for Montreal Businesses | SIB" description: "Social Influence Builder maintains your WordPress site: updates, backups, security, uptime monitoring and fixes, for businesses across Greater Montreal." canonical: "https://socialinfluencebuilder.com/en/services/wordpress-maintenance/" lastmod: "2026-09-19T04:40:33+00:00" lang: "en-CA" format: "markdown" --- HTML version: # WordPress Maintenance for Greater Montreal Businesses Social Influence Builder maintains WordPress sites for businesses across Greater Montreal: clinics, salons, restaurants, shops and service companies. A site left without maintenance builds up overdue updates, plugin conflicts and slowing speed, until the day a page breaks or a form stops working and nobody notices. Our maintenance covers WordPress core, theme and plugin updates, a backup before every change, security, uptime monitoring and fixes when something breaks. The site keeps doing its job: staying online, staying fast, and continuing to generate calls and bookings. ## Why does a WordPress site left without maintenance end up costing you customers? Many WordPress core, theme or plugin updates patch security flaws that are already public knowledge. A site that lets updates pile up becomes an easier target for bots that scan the web for those exact flaws, no matter how small the business behind the site. A plugin update applied without testing can break a layout, disable a booking form or remove the phone number from a page. That kind of breakage often goes unnoticed until a customer tries to reach you and gives up, quietly costing you calls and bookings. An infected or offline site generally costs more to fix than it costs to maintain. Cleaning up a hacked site, restoring a backup or rebuilding a lost page takes longer than routine maintenance, and while that happens, the site stops accepting calls and bookings. ## Featured case study [Chez Coco Esthétique](https://socialinfluencebuilder.com/en/case-studies/chez-coco-esthetique/) - **100 / 100 / 100 Lighthouse mobile (accessibility, best practices, SEO)**, after the redesign, 2026-06-11. Source Lighthouse mobile, SIB post-fix QA, recorded in the SIB CRM on 2026-06-11 - **8 → 17 FAQ questions**, 2026-06-11 redesign. Source SIB CRM theme_updated entry, 2026-06-11 ## What we do ### Updates and backups We update WordPress core, your theme and your plugins, testing each update before it goes live on the production site. A backup of the database and files is taken before every update, so the site can return to its previous state if something goes wrong. - WordPress core, theme and plugin updates - Database and file backup before every update - Checking the rendered site after every update, not just the dashboard ### Security and uptime monitoring When hosting allows it, your site sits behind Cloudflare, which filters out a share of malicious traffic before it reaches the server. We monitor whether your site is reachable and get alerted if it goes down, then apply security patches as soon as they are released for WordPress, your theme and your plugins. - Site protected behind Cloudflare, when hosting allows it - Uptime monitoring for the site - Security patches applied for core, theme and plugins ### Speed and fixes We track your site's load speed over time and clear the cache after every update, so visitors are never served an outdated version. When something breaks, a form, a booking button or a phone number missing from a page, we fix it. - Load speed tracked over time - Cache cleared after every update - Fixes for broken forms, buttons, links and layout ## Case studies - [Chez Coco Esthétique](https://socialinfluencebuilder.com/en/case-studies/chez-coco-esthetique/) ## Our method A backup taken before every update means you don't lose the site if a plugin breaks something along the way. 1. **Audit**: We review the version of WordPress, your theme and every plugin, the state of any existing backups, site speed and any signs of a security issue, so we know exactly where things stand before touching anything. 2. **Update and secure**: We apply overdue updates one at a time, backing up the site before each one and checking every page after, then set up uptime monitoring and ongoing security patching. 3. **Ongoing tracking**: Every future core, theme or plugin update gets applied and tested the same way, with a report showing what was done and the site's current state. ## Frequently asked questions ### What does WordPress maintenance actually include? Maintenance covers WordPress core, theme and plugin updates, a backup before every update, uptime monitoring for the site, security patches as they are released, and fixes for breakage like a form or a button that stops working correctly on a page. ### Why does a WordPress site need regular maintenance? WordPress, themes and plugins release updates that patch known security flaws. A site that lets updates pile up becomes an easier target, and an untested plugin update can break a page without anyone noticing until a customer tries to reach you. ### Does maintenance only work on sites Social Influence Builder built? No. We also maintain existing WordPress sites built by another team. We start with an audit of the WordPress version, the theme, the plugins and the backups already in place, so we know exactly where to start before touching the site. ### Do you back up my site before every update? Yes. A backup of the database and files is taken before every core, theme or plugin update, so the site can be rolled back to its previous state if an update causes a problem instead of leaving you stuck with a broken page. ### Do you monitor if my site goes offline? Yes, we monitor whether your site is reachable and get alerted when it goes down. We step in to find the cause, whether it's a plugin conflict, a hosting issue or an update gone wrong, and bring the site back online. ### What happens if my site gets infected or hacked? We identify how the infection happened, clean up the affected files and restore a clean backup if needed, then apply the security patches that would have prevented it. Regular maintenance lowers this risk, but no site connected to the internet is ever fully immune. ### Does maintenance make my site faster? Regular updates and a well managed cache help keep a site fast, but speed also depends on hosting, images and the original theme. We track load speed and flag issues that maintenance alone cannot fix, like hosting that is too slow. ### How much does WordPress maintenance cost with Social Influence Builder? Cost depends on the number of plugins, the site's complexity and its condition at the time of the audit. We give you an exact price after reviewing your site, on the initial call, instead of a generic number that may not fit your situation. ### How often do you apply updates? Frequency follows the pace of updates released by WordPress, your theme and your plugins, which varies month to month. Critical security patches are prioritized as soon as they are released, instead of waiting for a fixed schedule that would delay a known flaw. ## Discover the system [The website system that makes the phone ring](https://socialinfluencebuilder.com/en/systems/website-that-converts/) ## Book a call [Book a call](https://socialinfluencebuilder.com/en/book-a-discovery-call/)