General Questions
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WordPress is great – it powers over 42% of the world’s websites. But that popularity means it’s also a target for hackers. Things can and do go wrong – just like with software on your laptop, or your car when you don’t get regular maintenance. This is what you need to protect your website:
- High-quality hosting.
- Regular backups of your site stored in a safe, offsite location.
- Regular software updates (plugins, themes, WordPress).
- Security through annual audits, malware scans, security plugins, quality hosting, and regular updates.
You can certainly take care of all of these things on your own. It’s time-consuming and requires technical expertise with WordPress – including knowing how to fix things when they break. Or, you can let us handle these tasks for you and feel confident your site is being well cared for.
No contract. Upon signup you agree to terms in the Website Management Agreement by ticking the box for this in the checkout page. You can cancel at any time with 30 days’ notice.
Absolutely! Contact us for more information and let us know how many sites you’d like to include and what plan you’re interested in.
Yes it does – a high-quality, fast host is especially important for business websites. This is why we include fast, reliable WordPress hosting with all of our Plans.
The answer is “maybe.” But it’s not likely they do them every day or even once per week, or they store them off-site away from your server, in case something happens to the server. Servers do fail.
Yes, you get a free SSL certificate with our hosting.
Yes we can. Support for complex sites using WooCommerce is included in our higher level Car Plans. We take special care when upgrading WooCommerce and its addons using a staging site and visual comparisons of before-and-after appearance.
We’re serious about strong security. Our Plans include features to safeguard your website like:
- Free SSL certificates
- Annual security audit
- Blocking users and hosts on industry blacklists, or who are caught scanning your site for openings
- Watching for unusual file changes
- Requiring strong passwords
- 2-factor authentication
- Daily malware scans
…and much more.
There certainly is! Agencies get discounts for multiple plans of any level billed monthly (annual plans not eligible, except for the first site):
- First site at full price
- Second site 20% discount
- Third-fifth sites at 25% discount
- Sixth and higher sites at 35% discount
Agencies get a white-labeled monthly PDF report for each site delivered to them to pass on to their clients.
Yes there is, and we’d be happy to have you. Go here to sign up. You’ll receive a 50% commission on the first payment for each referral you send to WP Minder (view the fine print).
For the first 14 days, a 100% refund is given. After 14 days, there are no refunds.
We accept credit cards for our subscriptions – VISA, Mastercard, American Express and Discover.
If it’s only the expiration date that changes, Stripe is usually able to make that change. But if you get a new with a new number, it’s your responsibility to change it in your account. Login here to change your payment information.
Monthly payments that are not able to be processed must be made within 7 days or the account will be temporarily suspended. We will attempt to recharge your card automatically. Once payment is made successfully the suspension will be removed.
After 30 days of non-payment, the account will be closed and a backup of the website will be placed for you on Dropbox for a period of one week. Please make sure your card information is current.
For New Clients
So glad you asked! Check out our onboarding process.
During the onboarding process we’ll request a few things from you, including an Administrator-level WordPress user account and a login for your hosting account control panel (if not using our hosting). If we will migrate your site to our hosting, we’ll also need access to your domain registrar in order to repoint your domain to the new hosting account. We keep this information safely stored in an AES-256-bit encrypted location.
Before we begin maintaining your site we first do a Site Audit to become familiar with your website, how it was built, and any potential issues that it may have. We want to make sure that there are no barriers to us maintaining your website properly and securely.
If we do find serious issues, we’ll provide you with details and you’ll have the option to fix them yourself or have us do the work at our hourly rate before we begin regular maintenance services.
In some very rare cases, we may determine that because of a site’s condition, age, or unusual structure we won’t be able to effectively maintain it, and if that’s the case, we’ll let you know right away and provide a full refund.
Your website is an important part of your business and deserves your attention. You agree that you’ll check in on it from time to time, and if you notice any problems you’ll submit a support ticket promptly. We rely on you to help us keep your site safe – often the client (or your customers) are the first ones to see a problem.
We provide support through our email support ticket helpdesk, which you can reach at [email protected].
Just send an email with a clear description of the problem to [email protected] and we’ll start a new ticket for you at our support helpdesk.
Please be as descriptive about the problem as you can, and attach a screenshot if you think it’s helpful. And we’ll be in touch as quickly as possible.
Submit a ticket when you notice any of the following:
- Your site is suddenly not loading in a browser.
- Your site pages appear to be defaced (the sign of a hack).
- You’re seeing an error or warning message when viewing pages on your site.
- Large parts of your site aren’t loading properly, like a sidebar.
- You’ve run a scan using your security plugin and it tells you there’s something suspicious.
- You see user accounts (admin-level) you don’t recognize.
- People who try to access your site or purchase something are seeing a warning.
If you’re canceling your WP Minder Care Plan and would like a complete backup of your website (including all files and your database), we can provide that as a one-time service.
This is not included in the standard cancellation process and is billed separately. The backup will be delivered via a secure link and can be used to restore your site with another host or developer.
Cost: $100
Get in touch for more information.
Care Plan Service Specifics
WP Minder manages DNS through Cloudflare to ensure faster updates, improved security, and more reliable performance. This allows us to resolve issues quickly without delays caused by access restrictions or verification steps.
Yes. You retain full ownership of your domain at all times.
We’re happy to provide Cloudflare access for transparency. To maintain stability, DNS changes are managed through our team as part of your Care Plan.
Yes, although Cloudflare is our standard setup.
When DNS is managed outside of WP Minder, DNS-related work is not included in the Care Plan and may incur additional charges due to the added time and coordination involved.
Like a retainer, the monthly time is there for you every month to reserve your place in our work queue, therefore it does not roll over. You can take comfort in the fact that support you request within your allotted minutes of time per month will be addressed by our team promptly.
No, it’s not. We charge a $250 flat fee for malware cleanup, and that rate will apply to all new sites that come in with malware already present. See the next question.
If your website ever becomes compromised, we offer a full security incident cleanup and restoration service for a flat $250 fee per incident. This covers malware removal, restoring the site from clean backups (when available), verifying files and user accounts, re-hardening your security settings, and providing a clear summary of what happened. If additional time is needed beyond the core cleanup – such as recovering custom content, repairing plugin/theme issues, or deeper troubleshooting – it’s billed at our current standard hourly rate.
We’ll update commercial themes and commercial plugins such as WooCommerce, but our sole no-charge remedy for breakages in heavily-customized (that is, custom programmed) sites is to roll back to the previous version. We recommend you contact your developer to get your customized theme or plugin working correctly. If that’s not possible, we may be able to address the problem at our normal hourly rate but your best course of action will be using your developer who did the original work for you.
If we identified critical security issues with your site during one of our Audits or other checks and you chose not to correct them, your account will be limited to one (1) full free or discounted restore per calendar year. Your site was identified as high-risk and therefore a much better target for hackers. It’s your choice if you want to risk your site, but after the first restore in a calendar year, the $75/hour fee applies.
If a plugin becomes abandoned because it’s not longer in active development, we’ll know about it, and can work with you to find a modern, active alternative.
Absolutely. Design and development work is done through our parent company Red Kite Creative. For projects like theme design and development, send us a note about what you need as we quote by the project.
Our support hours are 9am – 5pm MT Monday-Thursday, 9am – 3:30pm Friday. Any support tickets submitted after hours will be attended to promptly during our next regular support hours.
Simple adjustments or edits that take 15 minutes or less are included, like content changes, adding posts/pages, adding/changing images, adding new events or products, etc.
- Editing or troubleshooting of issues with custom or customized commercial themes such as Elementor and Divi is not included in Fast Task support – for this it’s best that you contact your theme developer first as they are the ones most familiar with your theme.
- Fixing premium plugin issues for things like shopping carts, membership management and other complex functionality is not included, they will be rolled back until the developer can be contacted.
- Talking with a commercial plugin or theme’s support on your behalf.
- Talking with or conducting any other activity related to your domain registrar, external host, or any other service provider on your behalf.
- Managing subscriptions or licenses for commercial plugins and themes you’ve purchased is your responsibility unless you’ve requested we handle these for you and invoice you.
- Design and development of custom themes or custom plugins is not included for discounted add-on hours, nor is repairing complex custom templates for commercial plugins such as WooCommerce.
- SEO, performance, and accessibility work is not included.
That’s not a problem at all! We’ll review your support request and provide a quote for you to approve, separate from your monthly Care Plan. However, many times we’ll evaluate your request and with your approval, just provide the extra time at our current support rate.
You can cancel your Care Plan at any time by submitting our cancellation form. Once we confirm your request, billing will stop at the end of your current paid period. We’ll send you a confirmation email so you have it for your records.
Please note that we don’t issue refunds for unused time if you cancel before your billing cycle is finished.
