Maintenance Add-Ons
Powerful add-ons to enhance performance and improve WordPress sitesAdd-ons give you options for services based on your exact needs at any given time. Once you sign up for a plan, you’ll have access to the following optional but very powerful add-ons.
WordPress Maintenance Add-Ons
Maintenance and hosting add-ons are special services we perform in addition to what’s included in your maintenance plan.
Unless specified, add-on pricing varies and is primarily subject to the unique requirements of each website. When you request an add-on, we’ll meet to confirm your needs and then provide an estimate for each add-on.
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Boost Update Frequency
If you want to change the frequency of your WordPress updates to weekly or daily, request this add-on.
- Weekly: Add $50 per month to your plan price
- Daily: Add $100 per month to your plan price
Configuration of Plugins and Themes
Some plugins and themes require a lot of knowledge to correctly configure. We’ll configure and optimize plugins to meet your site’s specific needs. We’ll also provide visual documentation on the configuration in case you need to duplicate it in the future. Then we’ll test your site and deploy it.
Custom Upstream Setup and Management (Pantheon.io)
Pantheon’s base upstream is great, but what if you want a custom configuration from which to create all new sites? Webidextrous.com will create and manage a custom upstream to your specifications.
Enable InnoDB on the Database (Pantheon.io)
To perform their best on Pantheon, all tables in your database should be using the InnoDB engine. Some plugins create tables that don’t use InnoDB. This can cause your database to become less performant over time. We’ll upgrade your non-compliant tables to InnoDB and test your site before making the changes go live.
Cost: $50 per site (one time)
Enable Redis Caching (Pantheon.io)
Redis caching makes a copy of frequently used data from the database and puts it into an “object” for faster retrieval each time a page is loaded on your site. This reduces the number of “expensive” database queries and speeds up your site. We’ll enable Redis on your Pantheon-hosted site and ensure it’s working properly.
Cost: $50 per site (one time)
Enable Solr Search Engine (Pantheon.io)
The WordPress search engine is very basic. It doesn’t provide a “Google-like” experience for users like a full-fledged search engine will. We’ll enable Solr on your Pantheon-hosted site.
Cost: $50 per site
Go-Live Website Launch
On the day your site is meant to go live for the first time, we’ll perform all of the migration and domain connection tasks so that you can focus on serving your new customers.
Installation of Plugins and Themes (Pantheon.io)
Some popular and useful plugins and themes have trouble running on Pantheon. That’s not because Pantheon is broken but because many plugins are not secure or performant. They require access that breaks Pantheon’s superior security and performance models. We’ll install and secure those insecure and inefficient plugins and themes using Pantheon’s recommendations and workarounds. (This add-on does not include the Configuration of Plugins and Themes add-on.)
Load Testing and Performance Reporting
Long-term Offsite Cloud Backups (Pantheon.io)
Pantheon only keeps backups for a month for automated backups and up to 6 months for manual backups. If you discover a problem that originates older than your oldest backup set, you don’t have a valid restore point. With this long-term offsite backups add-on, a separate copy of each Pantheon backup is sent to offsite cloud storage for as long as the add-on is active. When the add-on is deactivated, you are given 30 days to download your offsite cloud backups after which the backups are deleted. Your Pantheon backups remain as configured. If we instead send backups to your own cloud backup account, we won’t expire your backups.
Mobile View Testing
Cost: $70 per site
Notifications to External Messaging Services (Pantheon.io)
Cost: $200 per site
PageSpeed Review
As your site expands and evolves, page speed problems can creep in without becoming obvious. As needed, we’ll scan your site for page speed issues and provide human-written recommendations.
Cost: $50
PageSpeed Review + Optimization
If you want to go beyond just a review and recommendation for page speed enhancements, we’ll also go ahead and optimize your site’s page speed. Then we’ll test your site and deploy it.
Cost: Estimated based on optimization work required
Removal of Plugins and Themes
Cost: $50 per site
Retainer Plan
When you have a regular set of predictable tasks, it’s convenient to be on a retainer plan. Purchase a block of hours to use for doing miscellaneous development, security, performance, SEO, content, design, or hosting tasks. There are three available plans:
- Mini – 2 hours
- Medium – 8 hours
- Intensive – 16 hours
Plans and hours can be “stacked” in combination.
Sanitize User Data in Dev, Test, and Multidev (Pantheon.io)
NOTE: This feature carries risk! Even though it is usually rare to do so, if a sanitized Dev environment is cloned to a Live environment during a content redeployment or site redesign, sanitized user data will also clone to the Live site. We can disable sanitization prior to the redeployment and re-enable it after.
Cost: $100 per site
Security Review
Cost: $50
Security Review + Optimization
If you want to go beyond just a review and recommendation for security, we’ll also go ahead and optimize your site’s security. Then we’ll test your site and deploy it.
Cost: $100
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Installation or Renewal
Cost: $50 per site
Special Feature Testing
When we update a site, we automatically check up to 25 URLs to ensure that the visual integrity of the pages remains unchanged. However, there are additional tests you may want us to perform, such as filling out a contact form or purchasing a product, that will further validate that the site is fully operational after an update. With this add-on, we’ll talk with you about the requirements and then perform these additional tests each time we update your site.
Cost: Add $50 per month to your plan price
Training on the Pantheon Platform (Pantheon.io)
Cost: $1,000 per training session
Upgrade PHP Version
Cost: $50 per site
Pricing
To take advantage of the add-ons, you’ll need to sign up for a plan below. Every website has different needs. So, let’s chat for 15 minutes to work out your site’s maintenance setup. We’re happy to walk you through how Webidextrous can save you money and time on concierge-style WordPress maintenance.
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Basic
billed monthly per site- Monthly updates to WordPress core, plugins and themes
- Review of your Site Health report with each update
- Visual testing of your website before deploying live
- Report of updated core, plugins, and themes
- Regular vigilance of your site's stability
- Add-ons to enhance performance, disaster recovery, and productivity
- Website form support
Power
billed yearly per site- Pay yearly and save $120 per site per year
- Monthly updates to WordPress core, plugins and themes
- Review of your Site Health report with each update
- Visual testing of your website before deploying livee
- Report of updated core, plugins, and themes
- Regular vigilance of your site's stability
- Add-ons to enhance performance, disaster recovery, and productivity
- Website form and Slack channel support
Enterprise
billed yearly per site- Bundle 3 or more sites and save $720 or more per year
- Monthly updates to WordPress core, plugins and themes
- Review of your Site Health report with each update
- Visual testing of your website before deploying live
- Report of updated core, plugins, and themes
- Regular vigilance of your site's stability
- Add-ons to enhance performance, disaster recovery, and productivity
- Website form, Slack channel, email, and phone support
- Dedicated account manager