Agent Digital an online marketing and web design agency with offices in Dublin and Limerick, has launched WP Carers, a new service aimed at WordPress website owners around the world.

Kevin Meaney of AGENT Digital explained the importance of maintenance and support for WordPress users. “WordPress is by far the most popular website engine on the market, powering almost 23% of the web. There are over 75 million WordPress sites online today. We created WP Carers to service the needs of WordPress website owners.”

AGENT Digital identified a need to develop a separate product to provide, and to easily explain, maintenance and support to WordPress users. WP Carers allows website owners to purchase plans that will suit their companies, thereby allowing them to do what they do best: run their businesses.

“Hacks and bugs are the most common issues WordPress users have with their website,” Meaney said. “WordPress is an engine. If that engine is out-of-date, it is wide open to be preyed upon by hackers from around the world.”

Meaney added: “It is vital that WordPress engines are regularly updated to ensure a secure business platform. Bugs are also a major issue. If you do not update your plugins sites will be prone to suffering problems. Bugs can actually be more time consuming and costly to fix in the long run.”

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WP Carers has developed a range of plugins in their maintenance packages aimed at solving and preventing issues related to WordPress hacks, bugs, speed and optimisation. The product is geared toward SMEs or businesses that do not have a dedicated website support team in-house.

“Business owners typically don’t want to get involved in the maintenance of their website,” said Meaney. “WP Carers allows business owners to give their WordPress website the care it needs without the hassle.”

He added: “We have created our own suite of maintenance and support packages for our WP Carers clients. We have engineered our own unique plugin products to help effectively perform certain WordPress maintenance tasks.”

WP Carers said it has more than 200 international customers signed up to the service. "Aside from providing a second to none WordPress Support Service, our main goal with WP Carers is to establish Ireland as a European hub for WordPress maintenance and support," he stated.