6 ways an unmaintained WordPress site can cost you dearly

WordPress powers a large share of the world's websites. That's exactly why it's the favourite target of automated attacks. Here's what can happen when nobody looks after it.

## 1. An old plugin becomes the way in
Most WordPress security holes come from outdated plugins. A bot finds the old version and gets in, without anyone targeting your business in particular.

## 2. The site starts sending spam or redirecting
A hacked site can send visitors to shady pages. Google notices and flags it as dangerous, and customers see a red warning instead of your site.

## 3. An update breaks everything
You update one plugin and another stops working with it. The order form disappears or the page looks broken, sometimes for days before anyone notices.

## 4. It gets slower and slower
Plugins piled up over the years, unresized photos, heavy themes. Every extra second pushes you down in Google.

## 5. There's no recent backup
When something breaks, it turns out the last backup is a year old. Or there isn't one.

## 6. You pay for an emergency fix
Cleaning a hacked site and getting it back into Google usually costs far more than looking after it would have.

## Our approach
We build hand-written sites without third-party plugins, so an update won't break them. Monthly care runs automatically: daily backups, monitoring, security scans and a monthly report. See how we work.