01What the work actually is
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Core updates. Plugin updates, then testing that the plugin updates did not break the site. PHP version upgrades on the hosting. Backups, and occasionally proving a backup restores. Malware scans. Cache tuning. A staging pass before anything big. Different people order the list differently. Nobody finishes it.
We are not being dramatic to sell hosting. This is the standard care plan checklist every WordPress agency sells back to you, because the alternative is a site that quietly rots until the week it does not.
02The recurring list, for your own audit
03Two honest ways out
04Two honest ways out
The first is paying someone. A decent care plan runs $30 to $100 a month and the list genuinely gets done. If you have one and never think about it, that might be money well spent and this page is not your problem.
The second is removing the work. A static site has no PHP to patch, no plugins to update and no database to back up on a schedule. The server hands visitors files. That is the whole runtime. Changes happen when you change something, through a commit. With a coding agent, "commit" means you describe the change out loud and review it after. The comparison with WordPress covers what that editing shift costs you, because it does cost something.
05The test, before you move anything
Does the site take logins, payments or member accounts on the system serving pages? Then stay. That is application hosting and a static host cannot do the job. Do non-technical people edit the site in a browser every week? Then the maintenance is the price of that workflow, and the fair comparison is care plans, not hosting. Is the site pages people read? Then the list can actually end, and what the move involves is smaller than three years of postponed updates.
06Frequently Asked Questions
Can I just stop doing the maintenance?
Plenty do. Then an update conflict, a break-in or an expired certificate finds them. An unmaintained WordPress site is not sitting safely still, it is accumulating risk with a delay on it.
Is managed WordPress hosting good enough?
Good ones do the patching and backups properly. You still have the plugin ecosystem, the update cycle and an admin login. The work gets done by someone else, but it never stops being needed.
What happens to my contact forms?
They post to a form endpoint instead of a plugin. LoomWeb ships one that lands in your inbox. You lose the plugin settings screen, not the form.
How long does the move take?
A small site is an afternoon. The step by step assumes one evening of real work and one week of watching before you cancel anything.
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