Website Maintenance
Stop checking your website for broken things you can’t fix
Website maintenance is a monthly maintenance plan for Showit and WordPress websites. Plugin updates are installed and checked, Cloudflare DNS is overseen, tracking and compliance tooling is verified, and a written report lands in your inbox after every maintenance window.
What is website maintenance?
Website maintenance is the scheduled upkeep of a live website: installing plugin and software updates, checking that forms, tracking, and compliance tooling still work after each update, overseeing DNS, and recording what changed. Website Maintenance from Morris & Co. Marketing is the done-for-you version, run as a monthly plan for Showit and WordPress sites.
Website maintenance serves creative entrepreneurs, law firms, and wedding professionals across the United States. Plans cover Showit sites with the WordPress blog behind them and standalone WordPress sites, and every Morris & Co. Marketing plan runs on the same infrastructure standard: Cloudflare DNS, Google Tag Manager, and Termageddon consent management.
Your website needs watching, but you have a business to run
You have built something real. Your site is live, it looks the way you wanted, and it brings in the inquiries that keep the calendar full.
Underneath it sits a layer nobody sees: plugin updates stacking up, DNS records that drift, a Google Tag Manager container that quietly goes stale, a consent banner that falls out of sync. None of it is dramatic. It is slow, and it compounds.
The first sign is usually a client. A booking form errors out, an email stops arriving, analytics go silent for a month before anyone notices. By then the fix is urgent and the history is gone — and what you need first is a VIP Day, not a maintenance plan.
The gap is not the platform. The gap is a scheduled review, and nobody has been running one.
The site stays the same. Who is responsible for it changes.
Maintenance does not redesign anything — if the site needs a fresh start, that is a website design project. It puts a named person on the layer you have been meaning to check, and it leaves a paper trail. Here is what that looks like month to month.
- You stop opening your site to check whether something broke, and you stop learning tools you will never use again.
- Your contact and booking forms are checked after every update, so an inquiry never quietly stops arriving.
- Search Console and Analytics stay verified, so there is no silent gap in your traffic history when you go looking.
- Your Termageddon and Usercentrics tooling is verified every month, so your consent banner and policies keep doing their job.
- A written report arrives after every maintenance window showing exactly what was updated, checked, and changed.
Every one of those lines is tied to a cadence you can check against the report, not a promise you have to take on faith.
The things that break quietly are the ones a client tells you about first.
Maintain the site before someone else finds the gap
One setup, then a monthly rhythm
Every Morris & Co. Marketing maintenance plan moves through the same four phases: a short setup, then a maintenance window that runs every month for the life of the plan. You always know what was done and when.
Choose the plan that fits
A complimentary call about your current setup, then the plan that fits it. Your agreement and the setup invoice arrive together.
Environment baseline recorded
You hand off credentials through a secure link and keep ownership of every account. Cloudflare DNS is configured or verified, the approved plugin stack is installed and licensed, and your maintenance baseline is recorded.
Updates installed, everything checked
Plugin updates installed, compatibility and conflicts checked, DNS overseen, tracking and compliance tooling verified. On the Standard plan, your approved change requests run in the same window.
Proof that it happened
After every window you receive a written summary of what was updated, checked, and changed. Maintenance is invisible work, and the report is what makes it visible.
A site that stays current without you watching it
Updates installed, forms checked, domain and tracking verified, policies holding up, and a report in your inbox every month that says so.
What website maintenance gives you
Every item below names the technical work, but leads with what that work protects. The specifics are the proof, not the pitch.
Forms that reach you
Your contact and booking forms are tested after every plugin update, because updates are where form plugins most often break. An inquiry never quietly stops arriving.
Numbers you can trust
Google Tag Manager, Search Console, and Analytics properties are verified every month, so the scripts keep firing and the properties keep collecting. There is no silent gap in your traffic history when you go looking.
Policies that hold up
Termageddon and Usercentrics tooling is checked monthly to confirm the consent banner loads and the policies are current. Your privacy obligations keep being met without you tracking regulation changes.
A domain that stays put
Cloudflare DNS is overseen on the free tier with the account in your name, so records are verified rather than left to drift. Your site and your email keep resolving, and you keep ownership.
Licenses you skip buying
Rank Math Pro, WPCode Pro, and the Termageddon tooling run on Morris & Co. Marketing licenses, seated on your site for the life of the plan. You get the premium plugin stack without three more annual renewals to track.
Inquiring takes five minutes. The plan takes care of the rest.
Setup is scoped on your discovery call and begins within 24 hours of the setup fee processing. From there the plan runs on a 12 month term, one maintenance window a month.
Inquire and choose a plan
A five minute inquiry, then a complimentary discovery call about your current site, what has been left untouched, and what you would send over if someone were handling changes. You choose the plan that fits, and the agreement and setup invoice arrive together.
Setup
You send credentials through a secure link and keep ownership of every account. Cloudflare DNS is configured or verified, Google Tag Manager and Termageddon are connected, the approved plugin stack is installed and licensed, and your maintenance baseline is recorded so every later report has something to compare against.
The monthly rhythm
Your maintenance window runs each month: updates installed, compatibility checked, DNS, tracking, and compliance verified. On the Standard plan you send change requests through the maintenance form with final copy and images, approved work runs in that window, and the written report follows.
“I am so grateful for all of the work to this site and I’m so glad it is working better now and more possible to navigate through. I know you’ve put in so much work on it and I’m thankful for your time!”
Hannah Lee → NYC Live Wedding Painter
Showit and WordPress maintenance from Stefanie Morris
Stefanie Morris is the founder of Morris & Co. Marketing, the marketing agency behind MoCo.Marketing. The agency provides done-for-you SEO for creative entrepreneurs, law firms, and wedding professionals, with specializations in WordPress SEO, Showit SEO, image SEO, and generative engine optimization.
Stefanie spent nearly a decade working as a destination wedding photographer before founding the agency, during which she built SEO systems that produced bookings in competitive markets including Boston, Newport, and Aruba.
Those bookings depended on a site that kept working between shoots, and the plugin updates, DNS, and tracking behind it were hers to keep current. Website Maintenance is built from that decade: the same checks she ran on her own site, run on yours every month, with the person installing the updates being the same person who built the SEO systems that depend on them. Morris & Co. Marketing provides website maintenance remotely for clients across the United States.
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Built for the business that would rather not think about its website
Website Maintenance is for creative entrepreneurs, law firms, and wedding professionals on Showit or WordPress whose site works today and needs to keep working, so let us make sure it fits before you inquire.
12 month term → $450 setup fee → Annual prepay saves 10%
Website Maintenance Pricing
Investment and timeline
You are not paying for the task. You are paying for the responsibility, and for proof that it was carried.
The Essential plan starts at $97 a month and covers plugin updates, DNS oversight, tracking and compliance verification, and the written monthly report. The Standard plan is $445 a month and adds up to one hour of approved minor changes each month. A Premium plan is scoped on your call. Every plan carries a one-time $450 setup fee, and annual prepay takes 10% off the monthly rate.
What your investment includes
- A hands-on maintenance review of your site every month
- Plugin updates installed, with post-update compatibility checks
- Review for visible plugin conflicts after every update
- Cloudflare DNS oversight, with the account in your name
- Google Tag Manager, Search Console, and Analytics verified
- Termageddon and Usercentrics compliance tooling verified
- Premium plugin licenses seated on your site
- A written maintenance report every month
Change hours are included on the Standard plan and above. Hosting and server-level work sits with Showit or your host, and design changes, content strategy, and performance projects are separate engagements. Maintenance stays focused on keeping your foundation sound.
Your questions, answered
What is included in website maintenance?
Website maintenance with Morris & Co. Marketing includes a hands-on monthly review of your Showit or WordPress site: plugin updates installed with compatibility checks, a review for visible conflicts, Cloudflare DNS oversight, verification of Google Tag Manager, Search Console, and Analytics, verification of your Termageddon and Usercentrics compliance tooling, premium plugin licenses seated on your site, and a written report after every maintenance window. The Standard plan adds up to one hour of approved minor changes each month, so the small edits you would otherwise sit on get handled too.
What are the steps in a website maintenance plan?
The steps in a website maintenance plan with Morris & Co. Marketing are:
- Discovery call and plan selection
- Agreement and setup fee
- Access handoff through a secure link
- Maintenance environment setup and baseline
- Monthly maintenance window
- Change requests through the maintenance form
- Written monthly report
Steps five through seven repeat every month for the life of the plan, so the site keeps its footing and you keep the record.
How much does website maintenance cost?
Website maintenance with Morris & Co. Marketing starts at $97 a month on the Essential plan, and the Standard plan with an hour of changes included each month is $445 a month. Every plan carries a one-time $450 setup fee and a 12 month term, and annual prepay takes 10% off the monthly rate. The final plan depends on how often your content changes, whether you want change hours built in, and whether your site is Showit with a WordPress blog or standalone WordPress, so it is confirmed on your complimentary discovery call. Payment plans are available.
How long does website maintenance take to set up?
Website maintenance setup with Morris & Co. Marketing begins within 24 hours of the setup fee processing, when the onboarding request goes out and access is handed over. The setup itself, Cloudflare DNS, the plugin stack, tracking and compliance connections, and your baseline, is scoped on your discovery call, and your first maintenance month goes on the calendar as soon as it is complete. From there the plan runs on a 12 month term with one maintenance window a month, so you always know when the next review lands.
I can update my plugins myself. Why pay for it?
You can handle the tasks a website maintenance plan covers yourself, and if that is your strength and you make the time, that works. Most business owners find that once client work takes priority, updates become the thing they do not get to, and six months pass, then a year. Website maintenance from Morris & Co. Marketing removes the decision: the updates are installed, the forms are checked afterward, and the report tells you it happened. What you get back is the attention you were spending on wondering.
$97 a month for plugin updates seems high. What am I actually paying for?
Website maintenance at $97 a month would be high if plugin updates were the whole job. You are paying for someone to be accountable for the layer you cannot watch yourself: the updates, the DNS, the tracking, the compliance tooling, and the check after each one that nothing visible broke. You also get written proof each month that it happened. That is a shift in your relationship to your website’s infrastructure, and it frees you to focus on clients.
Why a 12 month minimum?
A 12 month minimum exists because website maintenance works better over time. A one-off update is useful, but a sequence of monthly reviews lets Morris & Co. Marketing see drift patterns, compare each month against your baseline, and keep the foundation in consistent health instead of rushing one-off tasks. If you prepay the year, you also lock in 10% off the monthly rate.
What happens if something breaks between maintenance windows?
If something breaks between website maintenance windows, the plan is a scheduled review rather than live monitoring, so it is worth being clear about how that works. Anything that surfaces during your window is fixed there if it is within scope, and the report flags it. If a third-party integration or a hosting issue causes a problem mid-month, you send it through the maintenance form, and Morris & Co. Marketing tells you plainly what is needed and the fastest path to a fix, whether that is inside your plan hours or as a separate piece of work. You are never left guessing who to call.
Do I really need Cloudflare, Google Tag Manager, and Termageddon?
You do need Cloudflare, Google Tag Manager, and Termageddon on a Morris & Co. Marketing website maintenance plan, because they are the infrastructure standard every plan is built on. Cloudflare keeps your domain pointing to the right place on a free tier, in your name. Google Tag Manager is the safest place to manage analytics and conversion scripts, and it is free. Termageddon keeps your privacy policies and consent banner current as the law changes. Setup includes configuring all three, so the standard arrives ready to use.
Is website maintenance worth it for a Showit site?
Website maintenance is worth it for a Showit site whenever there is a WordPress blog behind it, because the blog carries the plugin layer, the forms, and the tracking that break most often. Showit runs the hosting, so server-level work sits with their team, and Morris & Co. Marketing maintains everything in the layers it can reach. Your Showit subscription with the Advanced Blog Plan, your domain, and every connected account stay in your name, and the site keeps doing its job while you do yours.
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