White Label WordPress Maintenance & Support for Agencies

Your agency builds the WordPress site. We keep it running. Monthly care plans covering updates, security monitoring, backups, performance, and support – all delivered invisibly under your brand. Your clients receive a branded care plan report from your agency every month. They never know we exist. NDA signed before we touch the first site.

800+ WordPress ProjectsThemes, plugins, WooCommerce
NDA on Day OneYour brand on every report
Staging Before Every UpdateNever break a live client site
40+ Agency PartnersUS, UK, AU, and CA

White label WordPress maintenance services
your agency can sell with confidence

WordPress Core, Theme, and Plugin Updates

Every update cycle starts with a full site backup. Updates are applied and tested on a staging environment before any change touches the live site. If a plugin update introduces a conflict on staging, we hold it back, flag the issue to your agency with a plain-English explanation, and proceed with all other updates in the meantime. We use WP-CLI for reliable, scriptable updates rather than the admin panel, and log every version change. The update schedule is documented and reported in the monthly branded PDF your agency receives.

WordPress 6.xWP-CLIStaging WorkflowVersion LoggingPlugin CompatibilityTheme Updates

Security Monitoring and Malware Removal

Continuous security scanning with Wordfence or iThemes Security, real-time threat monitoring, login protection with brute-force lockout, file integrity monitoring, and vulnerability detection for installed plugins and themes. When a vulnerability is identified in a plugin, we assess its severity and either update immediately, apply a workaround, or recommend removal with an alternative. If a site is compromised, emergency malware removal is included in Standard plans and above – site cleaned, entry point identified, hardening applied, and a post-incident report delivered to your agency within 24 hours.

WordfenceiThemes SecurityMalware RemovalLogin ProtectionFile IntegrityCVE Monitoring

Backups and Restore Testing

Daily or weekly backups to off-site storage – not the same server the site lives on. Backups include the full WordPress installation: files, database, media library, and active theme and plugin files. Backup logs are monitored for failures. Every month we run a restore test: the backup is restored to a staging environment and the site is verified as functional. This restore test result is included in the monthly report your agency sends to the client. When something goes wrong, you have an actually tested backup, not just a file that was never verified.

UpdraftPlusOff-Site StorageDatabase BackupsMonthly Restore TestS3 / Google DriveBackup Monitoring

Uptime Monitoring and Incident Response

External uptime monitoring from multiple global locations, with alerts firing within one minute of a confirmed outage. We investigate downtime, contact the hosting provider where needed, and keep your agency informed until the site is back online. Uptime percentage for the month is reported in the monthly branded report. For Professional and Agency plans, we hold a four-hour response SLA for active incidents and will diagnose and resolve server-side configuration issues where hosting access is provided. Agencies with clients on managed hosting should provide us with reseller or support access at onboarding.

UptimeRobot1-Minute AlertsIncident ResponseHosting Liaison4-Hr SLA (Pro+)Monthly Uptime Report

Performance Optimisation and Core Web Vitals

Monthly performance checks against Core Web Vitals targets – LCP, CLS, and INP – using Google PageSpeed Insights and manual testing. Where a site's scores drift due to plugin additions, image uploads, or theme changes, we investigate and address the cause: image compression and conversion to WebP, caching configuration with WP Rocket or W3 Total Cache, database cleanup of post revisions and transients, removal of render-blocking scripts, and CDN configuration via Cloudflare. Performance recommendations that require developer work are scoped separately and quoted before action is taken.

Core Web VitalsWP RocketW3 Total CacheWebP ImagesCloudflare CDNRedis Object Cache

WooCommerce Store Maintenance

WooCommerce requires more careful update management than a standard WordPress site. A WooCommerce or payment gateway plugin update that breaks checkout is not a minor inconvenience – it stops revenue. Our Professional plan includes dedicated WooCommerce care: WooCommerce core, extensions, and payment gateway plugins are tested in a staging environment that mirrors the live store, including a test purchase flow through to order confirmation. Email notifications and transactional emails are tested after each update cycle. Cart and checkout performance is monitored separately from the main site. We flag any WooCommerce-specific issues in the monthly report with clear explanations.

WooCommercePayment Gateway TestingCheckout Flow QAExtension UpdatesEmail TestingCart Performance

Content Updates and Minor Changes

A monthly allocation of content changes and minor site work – text updates, image swaps, menu changes, contact details, form field edits, and small style adjustments – is included in Professional and Agency plans. Requests come through your agency to us and are completed within two to three business days. All changes are made on staging first if they affect templates or layout. Content changes are tracked in the monthly report. This allocation covers routine client requests without the need for a separate development retainer, making the care plan a complete managed service your agency can resell at margin.

Text and Image UpdatesMenu ChangesForm EditsStyle Tweaks2–3 Day TurnaroundTracked in Report

Emergency WordPress Support

Sites break outside business hours. A plugin conflict, a PHP version change pushed by the hosting provider, or a failed auto-update can bring down a site on a Friday evening. Emergency WordPress support is available on Professional and Agency plans. Your agency contacts us via a priority support channel and we respond within four hours to begin investigation. Emergency work is handled by a senior WordPress developer, not a first-line support team. We document what happened, what we did to fix it, and how to prevent it recurring – all included in the next monthly report to your client.

4-Hour ResponseSenior WP DeveloperPlugin Conflict ResolutionPHP CompatibilityWhite Label RCA ReportPriority Support Channel

What makes our white label WordPress
maintenance service different

Four things that separate us from every other white label maintenance provider.

Staging Before Every Single Update

Most white label WordPress maintenance providers apply updates directly to the live site. We do not. Every update cycle begins with a complete backup, followed by staging environment testing where every update is applied and the site is checked against a functional test list before anything touches production. If a plugin update breaks the staging environment, your client's live site is never affected. This process takes longer than clicking "update all" in the admin panel. It is worth the time when you consider a broken live site at 2am on a client who runs a retail business.

Zero live site breakages on updates

Branded Reports Ready to Forward

The monthly care plan report your agency receives is branded with your logo and your agency name. It covers every action taken on the site that month – updates applied, security scan results, backup status and restore test outcome, uptime percentage, and any performance changes. It is written in plain English, not technical jargon, so you can forward it to your client without any editing. Your client pays your agency for the care plan. Your agency pays us. We do not appear anywhere in the document or the communication chain.

White label reports, zero editing required

The Agentic Agency Production Backbone

Care plans are one of the most profitable services an agency can offer – predictable monthly revenue, minimal client-facing work, and strong retention. Most agencies avoid offering them because the operational overhead of managing updates, backups, and security across 10 or 20 client sites is significant. We remove that overhead entirely. Your agency sells the care plan under your brand at whatever margin suits your business. We handle every site. You collect recurring revenue without running a maintenance operation in-house.

Recurring revenue without the overhead

15 Years of WordPress Experience

We have been working in WordPress since 2011 and have delivered over 500 WordPress projects across custom themes, WooCommerce stores, plugin development, and maintenance. That depth of experience matters when something goes wrong. A WordPress developer who has seen hundreds of plugin conflicts, PHP compatibility issues, database corruption cases, and hacked sites responds to an incident differently from someone who reads the WordPress Codex. We have seen most failure modes before. We fix them faster, and we explain them clearly to your agency without the alarm.

500+ WordPress projects since 2011

From site onboarding to monthly report
in four clear steps

Full Partnership Guide
Step 01
Site Audit and Onboarding

We start with a WordPress health audit: current core and plugin versions, known vulnerabilities, backup status, security configuration, performance baseline, and any existing issues. You receive a plain-English audit report before the first maintenance cycle begins. NDA is signed before we see any site credentials. Onboarding typically takes two business days from credential receipt.

Step 02
Monthly Maintenance Cycle

Each month we back up the full site, apply and test all available updates on staging, push tested updates to production, run a full security scan, verify backup integrity with a restore test, check uptime data for the month, and run a Core Web Vitals check. Work is completed and logged by the 10th of each month unless a site issue pushes the schedule.

Step 03
Continuous Monitoring and Alerts

Between maintenance cycles, uptime monitoring runs continuously from multiple locations. Security scans run on a weekly schedule. If an alert fires – site down, malware detected, security vulnerability in an installed plugin – we investigate and notify your agency within the response time for your plan. Emergency situations on Professional and Agency plans receive a four-hour response regardless of time zone.

Step 04
Branded Monthly Report Delivered

By the 15th of each month you receive a branded PDF care plan report for each site under management. The report covers every action taken, security status, backup confirmation with restore test result, uptime percentage, performance metrics, and any recommendations. Forward it directly to your client as part of your care plan service – no editing, no rebrand required. We have never appeared anywhere in the process.

WordPress maintenance capabilities
across security, performance, and support

Security and Threat Response

Real-time malware scanning with Wordfence or iThemes Security, login protection with two-factor authentication support, file integrity monitoring to catch unauthorised changes, CVE vulnerability alerts for installed plugins and themes, OWASP-aligned hardening on new site onboarding, firewall rule configuration, and emergency malware removal with post-incident root cause analysis and recommendations to prevent re-entry.

WordfenceiThemes Security2FA SupportFile IntegrityCVE AlertsFirewall Rules

Backups, Updates, and Performance

Daily or weekly off-site backups to S3, Google Drive, or Dropbox with automated failure alerts, monthly restore tests with documented results, staging-first update workflow for all core and plugin updates using WP-CLI, database cleanup of post revisions, auto-drafts, and expired transients, Redis object cache configuration, image optimisation and WebP conversion, caching plugin configuration, and Cloudflare CDN setup and management for improved global load times.

UpdraftPlusWP-CLIRedis CacheWP RocketWebP / SmushCloudflare CDN

Monitoring, Reporting, and Support

Uptime monitoring from multiple global check locations with one-minute alert intervals, Core Web Vitals monitoring for LCP, CLS, and INP with monthly trend reporting, white label branded PDF reports delivered by the 15th of each month, priority support channel for Professional and Agency plan clients, four-hour emergency response for active site incidents, WooCommerce-specific checkout and order flow monitoring, and content update allocation for routine client changes managed through your agency.

UptimeRobotCore Web VitalsWhite Label PDF Reports4-Hr Emergency SLAWooCommerce QAContent Updates

The agencies that use our white label
WordPress maintenance service

Web Design Agencies

Agencies Who Build WordPress Sites but Don't Want to Maintain Them

You build WordPress websites for clients and want to offer a care plan at handover – but managing updates, backups, and security monitoring across a growing portfolio of client sites is not something you have capacity for in-house. We handle the maintenance under your brand, and you keep the client relationship and the monthly recurring revenue. Most agencies we work with started with a handful of sites and now manage 20 or more under a single agency agreement with us.

WordPress Development Agencies

WordPress Specialists Who Need Maintenance Capacity at Scale

Your agency builds on WordPress full-time and you offer care plans as a standard post-launch service. The problem is that your developers are expensive to keep on maintenance tasks when they could be building new sites. We take the maintenance work off your team's plates entirely. Your developers stay focused on billable builds. We handle the monthly update cycles, monitoring, and reporting for your existing client portfolio under your name.

Marketing and SEO Agencies

Marketing Agencies Managing Client WordPress Sites

Your agency manages SEO, content, and campaigns for clients whose websites run on WordPress. You are not a development agency, but your clients turn to you when something breaks or needs updating because you are their main digital contact. We give you a complete white label WordPress maintenance service to offer alongside your marketing retainer. Your clients get professional site care, and you add a new recurring revenue stream without taking on technical work in-house.

IT Consultancies and MSPs

IT Teams Managing Client Web Infrastructure

Your managed service clients have WordPress sites that need the same level of care you apply to their servers and software. You want to extend your managed service offering to cover website maintenance under your brand, but WordPress-specific care is outside your team's core expertise. We provide dedicated WordPress maintenance under your name, work within the security and access protocols you have in place for each client, and report back through your existing client reporting structure.

Axis Web Art by the numbers

800+
WordPress projects delivered
40+
Agency partners across US, UK, AU, and CA
98%
On-time delivery rate across all projects
15+
Years of WordPress development experience

What agencies say about our
white label WordPress maintenance

"Axis Web Art has been an exceptional white label agency partner for us. They delivered a complex Shopify Plus build exactly on spec and on time. Our client had no idea we had a partner team involved – which is exactly what we needed. We will be working with them on every future project."

John Huey
Nexonta Technologies · Canada

"We have used several white label development partners over the years. Axis Web Art stands apart – the communication is proactive, the code quality is consistently high, and they understand what it means to work under our brand. They feel like an extension of our own team, not a vendor."

Martey Quaye
Digital Movement · Australia

"Reliable, skilled, and completely invisible to our clients – that is everything we ask for in a white label agency. The Axis Web Art team handled a full WooCommerce migration for one of our most demanding clients. Delivered clean, on time, and without a single revision request."

Shaw Walas
Unify Interactive · USA

"The level of professionalism and technical depth at Axis Web Art is impressive. We brought them in on a WordPress build with tight timelines and multiple stakeholders. They navigated the complexity with ease, communicated clearly at every stage, and delivered work that genuinely impressed our client."

Damian Coyle
Dream Digital · Australia

WordPress maintenance care plans
your agency can resell at margin

All plans include white label branded reports, NDA, and staging-first updates. Per-site pricing – add as many client sites as you need. Volume discounts available for 10+ sites.

Essential Cover
Basic
$199/mo
 
Start Care Plan
Per WordPress site
  • Core, theme, and plugin updates
  • Staging-first update workflow
  • Weekly off-site backups
  • Uptime monitoring
  • Security scanning
  • White label monthly report
  • NDA on day one
Advanced Cover
Professional
$699/mo
 
Start Care Plan
Per WordPress site
  • Everything in Standard
  • WooCommerce maintenance
  • 4-hour emergency response
  • 1 hr content updates / mo
  • Speed optimisation included
  • Priority support channel
  • OWASP hardening audit
Portfolio Cover
Agency
$1299/mo
 
Talk to Us
Per WordPress site
  • Everything in Professional
  • 3 hrs content updates / mo
  • Custom branded report design
  • Quarterly site health audit
  • Volume portfolio pricing
  • Dedicated account manager
  • Custom contract and NDA

Prices shown in USD per site, per month. Volume discounts available for 10+ sites. Contact us for portfolio pricing.

White label WordPress maintenance:
questions agencies ask us

White label WordPress maintenance means we look after your agency clients' WordPress sites – updates, security, backups, performance, and support – entirely under your brand. Your clients receive care plan reports, invoices, and communications from your agency. We stay invisible. You set the price you charge your client, and we handle all the technical work behind the scenes. We sign a mutual NDA before onboarding any site.
Our WordPress care plans cover core, theme, and plugin updates on a tested staging workflow; security scanning and malware monitoring; daily or weekly off-site backups with monthly restore tests; uptime monitoring with alert response; database optimisation; and a monthly branded report delivered to your agency. Higher plans include WooCommerce maintenance, performance optimisation, emergency support, and a content update allocation.
We never run updates directly on the live site. Every update cycle starts with a full backup, followed by staging environment testing where the update is applied and the site is checked against a functional test list. Only after staging passes do we apply the update to production. If a plugin update breaks functionality on staging, we roll it back, flag the issue to your agency, and proceed with all other updates in the meantime.
Emergency malware removal is included in Standard plans and above. We respond within four business hours. The process involves restoring from a clean backup, scanning and removing malicious code, identifying the entry point, hardening the site to prevent re-entry, and re-submitting to Google Search Console if the site was flagged. We deliver a post-incident report to your agency under your brand.
Yes. Our Professional plan includes full WooCommerce maintenance: WooCommerce core and extension updates tested in staging, payment gateway plugin compatibility checks, a test purchase flow through to order confirmation after each update cycle, order notification and email function testing, and WooCommerce performance monitoring for product and checkout page load times.
Yes. All plans include uptime monitoring from multiple global check locations with one-minute alert intervals. For lower plans we investigate and notify your agency within two business hours of a confirmed outage. For Professional and Agency plans we hold a four-hour response SLA and will actively diagnose and resolve hosting and server-side issues where access is provided. Uptime data is included in the monthly report.
Monthly care plan reports are delivered as a branded PDF with your agency logo, agency name, and your client's site name. The report covers all updates applied, security scan results, backup and restore test status, uptime percentage, any incidents and their resolution, and performance data. The report is ready to forward directly to your client with no edits required. Axis Web Art does not appear anywhere in the document.
Each plan covers one WordPress installation. For agencies managing multiple client sites, per-site pricing reduces significantly at volume. Agencies running 10 or more sites typically receive custom agency pricing. The Agency plan is designed for agencies who want to manage a portfolio of client sites under a single retainer with bundled reporting. Contact us to discuss volume pricing for your portfolio.
Yes. To manage a WordPress site properly we need SFTP or SSH access, WordPress admin access, and access to the hosting control panel for backup management and server-level tasks. All credentials are stored securely and are only used by the assigned maintenance team member. Our NDA covers all client site access and data from onboarding onwards.
Yes. Most sites we onboard are already live. The onboarding process starts with a site health audit covering the current WordPress version, theme and plugin versions, existing security configuration, backup status, known vulnerabilities, and performance baseline. We provide your agency with an audit report before the first maintenance cycle begins. If the site has existing issues, we flag them with recommended fixes and costs before we start.

Ready to offer white label WordPress maintenance
as part of your agency's service?

Tell us about your first site. We will onboard it within 48 hours and deliver the first branded report before the end of the month.

Month-to-month plans · NDA on day one · 48-hour onboarding