Reliable Support & Maintenance for your WordPress Website
Professional, client-centered technical care and security monitoring of your WP site so you can focus on creating the website you want.
WP Babysitter Website Care Includes
Website Backups
Bi-Monthly backup of your WordPress files & database content to the cloud
WordPress Core Updates
Intelligent Maintenance
Intelligently update core software as new stable versions are released
Efficiency Monitoring
Monitor, optimize & perform database repair for site running efficiency
Security Checkups
Perform security scans for malware, code injections & comment spam attacks
Websites are like kids: They need a LOT of care and things can go wrong.
While fun to create, WordPress websites require monitoring and maintenance, much like a baby needs regular care and feeding. What was supposed to be simple can become frustrating and time consuming very quickly!
If this sounds like your experience with WordPress, my symapthies.
My WP Babysitter service will give you time back to enhance your content, work on your marketing strategy and have the website you want… and maybe even get some time away from your website to recharge and re-inspire.
Like parenting, without help, you can be left overwhelmed and overworked. …Let a WordPress expert help.
Have you ever had a problem on your site, but didn’t have a backup? Do you get overwhelmed with all the alerts and notices you’re supposed to be keeping up with as a site owner? Does the sound of the phrase “WordPress Core Update” send shivers down your spine? Have you ever been paralyzed by the dreaded WHITE SCREEN OF DEATH? As a fellow WordPress user, I feel your pain!
I spend each year!"
- Shiny Penny
what I should be doing: creating!"
- Martin Bridge
Who knew a do-it-yourself website could be so time consuming? …I’ll free that up for your creativity.
I work with a lot of DIY shop owners and service providers who want to create their own content, but who aren’t technical and don’t want to be burdened with mundane tasks like site backups, software updates, spam comments or malware monitoring. They started their websites for many reasons other than to learn how WordPress works and how to keep it running smoothly.
I offer affordable website maintenance so you can stop worrying and do what you love!
Website Care
WP Babysitter Basic Service
Backup and Maintenance of one WordPress site for one year
What is a “Website Care Plan”?
WordPress websites need care and feeding, just like children do. Regular website asset upkeep (keeping the core, plugin and theme files up to date) keeps your website secure and regular backups safeguard you from losing data if something does go drastically wrong. I can help by keeping an eye on those things while you enjoy creating your content and promoting your products and services.
• Bi-monthly backup and offsite storage of your WordPress database and files
• Core updates to WordPress as required or recommended for security purposes
• Updates to plugins and themes as new versions are released
• Monitor, optimize and perform database repair keeping your site running efficiently
• Perform periodic security scans for malware, code injections and comment spam attacks
• Clear spam comments and monitor backlinks
• Service Term: 1 Calendar Year
Like any good babysitter, I know my limits! See Also: What I don’t do.
Local website management offered with friendly, accessible customer service with your Northampton-area neighbor, in New England and beyond. See Also: My other services.
WP Babysitter Basic Service
$333.00 / year
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NOTE: All premium plugins and themes must be up-to-date and paid for. Nulled plugins, or those with security vulnerabilities, are not immediately eligible for WP Babysitter care.
However, the sites I build are created with professional tools I trust, and I can assist with getting your website to sturdy ground.
The babysitter you can trust with your WordPress website
I’m Emily Sparkle, a web dev in Western MA, and I’m here to help! I’ve been creating, coding, developing, maintaining, updating, and troubleshooting websites since the mid-1990s. My experience in the corporate marketing world, as a small business owner, and ultimately as a freelancer has led me to being a WordPress Solopreneur. My focus is helping hobbyists, small businesses, artists, and entrepreneurs bring their website ideas to life, safely and reliably.
When I started working with WordPress in 2008, it all seemed so big and daunting: plugins, themes… core updates?! My heart would drop at the The White Screen of Death (WSOD) and the lessons of restoring to backups are ever etched in my psyche. But since then, I’ve learned to anticipate the plugins that will cause update issues and how important it is to pay close attention to website security news.
Over the last two decades of building and caring for websites large and small, the most valuable lesson learned is that maintaining your WordPress website is an absolute must.
A website left to decline will most certainly suffer in speed, user experience and can become a security risk — to you, your visitor or your customers. My methods for WordPress backup and maintenance work and have been proven and perfected on dozens of websites.
Awesome, thanks! Best money I spend each year! You are the best!
Shiny Penny, Florence MA
Artist / Small Business Owner
Thanks for the clarity, I get it now 🙂 I should know such things but somehow this stuff flies over my head, thus Emily with her tech cape arrives, thank you!
Asherah Allen, Western Massachusetts
Lic. Ac., Dipl. OM, L.M.T.
Emily @ WP Babysitter is very competent and extremely conscientious of her work as a “techy”. Give her a very deserved shot and see for yourselves. I can personally testify to her work ethics and responsibility, and would recommend her highly.
Suzane Northrop, New York
Professional Medium, Author
WP Babysitter enables me to place my full attention on my artistic work and content creation. There is never any opportunity for serious issues to arise because Emily is absolutely on top of the inner workings of every web presence she curates, with an attention to detail and upgrade potentials that keep things running smoothly and growing with you. I cannot recommend her and her services highly enough. Every creative with a web presence would do well to engage her for the long haul.
Charon Henning, Vermont
Artist / Small Business Owner
It is such a relief to know that my website is in good hands. Emily at WP Babysitter is very professional and easy to deal with. I am not techie at all and she explains everything to me in a very thorough way. Emily is very knowledgeable when it comes to websites and web maintenance. I am content knowing that my website is backed up on a regular basis if there should ever be a problem.
Teresa Grant
Artist / Small Business Owner
Emily at WP Babysitter totally takes care of the constant code updates and malware attacks that impact my business' site. I can't imagine how much time I'd lose, frustration I'd gain and clients I'd p*ssed off if I tried to manage the technology running my website. Thank you, WPB!!!
Bucky Sparkle, Leeds, MA
Civil Engineer
Emily at WP Babysitter takes a huge load off of my mind and lets me concentrate on what I should be doing; creating!
Martin Bridge, Chesterfield, MA
Visionary Artist
Your website is worth it!
I hear from a lot of small website owners that the peace of mind they get from having a regular ‘babysitter’ for their website allows them to focus on the original purpose of their website. It’s a value-add to allow them freedom to spend time in other ways than troubleshooting a website issue they don’t understand. Further, I keep up with what’s current in the WordPress product and security arenas, so you don’t have to.