StateWP Elite Plan
Advanced WordPress Maintenance for $700/month
Our Elite maintenance plan is built for business-critical WordPress sites. Sites running eCommerce, memberships, LMS platforms, or multi-location workflows where downtime costs real money. Staging, expanded development hours, reliable email delivery, and compliance support, all handled by your team at StateWP.
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Elite Plan
From $700/mo
- Staging site for zero-downtime deployments
- 5 hours of monthly editing and development
- SMTP setup and monitoring for reliable email delivery
- Disclosure policies license for compliance coverage
- Dedicated account manager and premium hosting
- Everything included in the Premium plan
Backed by a 30-day money-back guarantee!
Advanced Website Maintenance for Business-Critical Sites
StateWP Elite is the plan for business-critical WordPress sites. It covers everything in Premium and adds the infrastructure required for sites that carry real operational weight: a staging environment, expanded development hours, reliable email delivery, and built-in compliance.
You get a dedicated account manager, custom code support, and 5 hours of monthly editing to keep your site moving forward. Changes go through staging first, so you approve what ships before it reaches production. No surprises.
Advantia Health runs a high-traffic WordPress site that supports multiple practices and patient-facing workflows. They use their 5 monthly hours every month, and staging gives their team a clean way to review changes before anything touches the live site. Elite is built for organizations like Advantia, where the website is business-critical and the margin for error is thin.
Is the Elite Plan Right for You?
Elite is the right call if your site is business-critical. Compare it with our Starter plan for basic informational sites or our Premium plan for standard commercial sites.
STARTER
$110/mo
Setup & assessment: $199 one-off
Premium hosting + CDN: $34/mo
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PREMIUM
$349/mo
Best for commercial sites that drive leads, sales, or donations.
Everything from Starter +
Ongoing performance and mobile optimization
Dedicated account manager
Content edits (2 hours/mo)
Custom code support
Google Analytics and Search Console
Free setup & assessment
Free premium hosting + CDN
ELITE
$700/mo
Best for companies that have complex sites with custom code, advanced functionality, and require a staging environment.
Everything from Premium +
Website editing hours (5 hours/mo)
Staging site to eliminate maintenance downtime and streamline content approval
SMTP setup and monitoring for reliable WordPress email delivery
Compliance made easy with a disclosure policies license
Free website setup & assessment
Free hosting & migration
STARTER
$99/mo
Best for informational websites.
Core, plugin, and theme updates
24/7 monitoring and proactive threat management
Malware scanning
Daily backups and site restores
Hack remediation
Setup & assessment: $199 one-off
Premium hosting + CDN: $34/mo
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PREMIUM
$314/mo
Best for commercial sites that drive leads, sales, or donations.
Everything from Starter +
Ongoing performance and mobile optimization
Dedicated account manager
Content edits (2 hours/mo)
Custom code support
Google Analytics and Search Console
Free setup & assessment
Free premium hosting + CDN
ELITE
$630/mo
Best for companies that have complex sites with custom code, advanced functionality, and require a staging environment.
Everything from Premium +
Website editing hours (5 hours/mo)
Staging site to eliminate maintenance downtime and streamline content approval
SMTP setup and monitoring for reliable WordPress email delivery
Compliance made easy with a disclosure policies license
Free website setup & assessment
Free hosting & migration
The Perks of StateWP Elite
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Ship changes without breaking production.
Staging gives your team a full copy of your site to test updates, content changes, and custom development. Review, approve, and push to live when you’re ready. Nothing goes to production until you sign off.
Five monthly hours, handled by WordPress experts.
Use your hours for content edits, custom development, new features, or anything that moves your site forward. Five hours is enough capacity to ship real work every month without pulling in an outside agency.
Make sure your WordPress emails actually arrive.
Contact forms, order confirmations, and transactional emails often fail quietly when WordPress tries to send them from your web server. Elite includes SMTP setup and ongoing monitoring so the emails your business depends on land in the inbox.
Compliance, built into your site.
Your Elite plan includes a disclosure policies license covering privacy policy, terms of service, cookie policy, and more. Policies are generated for your site, hosted on your domain, and kept current automatically as privacy laws and regulations change. One less vendor to manage, one less risk to track.
A dedicated account manager who knows your site.
Raise a ticket through Proto and you’ll hear back from the same person every time. They know your stack, your team, and your history. Expect an initial response in hours and most requests completed within one business day.
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StateWP Elite Plan: Frequently Asked Questions
Is the Elite plan the right website maintenance plan for me?
Elite is built for companies running business-critical WordPress sites that require a staging environment, extended development support, or advanced functionality like eCommerce, memberships, or LMS platforms.
If your website is mission-critical to your operations, if you push regular updates and need a safe place to review them first, or if you need reliable email delivery and compliance coverage, Elite is the right fit.
If you’re not sure whether your site qualifies, book a demo with Garrett and we’ll walk through it together.
What's included in the StateWP Elite package?
Elite includes everything in our Premium plan plus:
- A staging environment that mirrors your live site
- 5 hours of monthly editing and development
- SMTP setup and ongoing email deliverability monitoring
- A disclosure policies license covering privacy policy, terms, cookies, and more
You also get all Premium features: performance and mobile optimization, a dedicated account manager, custom code support, Google Analytics and Search Console integration, premium hosting and CDN, 24/7 security monitoring, updates, backups, and hack remediation.
What's the disclosure policies license?
Your Elite plan includes a license for a standard set of website compliance policies: privacy policy, terms of service, cookie policy, disclaimers, and more.
Policies are generated to match your site, hosted on your domain, and updated automatically as privacy laws and regulations evolve. It’s a simple way to stay current on compliance without taking it on internally or managing another vendor.
Can you also handle my hosting and CDN?
Yes. Elite runs on our premium WordPress hosting stack with CDN included, and migration from your current host is handled for you at no extra cost.
Elite sites also get a separate staging environment built on the same infrastructure, so development and production share the same performance profile. No surprises when you cut over.
For any site where speed, uptime, or time-to-deploy matters, consolidating hosting with StateWP is how we keep the full stack in sync.
Can I sign up if my site has been hacked?
Yes. A compromised site is often the reason companies move to Elite, and we handle the full remediation cycle as part of onboarding.
Our team runs malware scans, reviews server logs, and audits recent activity to identify the breach. From there we clean out infected files, rotate credentials, update or replace affected plugins and themes, and apply hardening at the hosting, application, and DNS layers.
Because Elite includes staging, we can rebuild and validate the site in isolation before cutting over. Your visitors don’t see a degraded or quarantined site while cleanup is in progress.
Do I have to sign a contract?
Yes. A contract ensures transparency and sets clear expectations on both sides. The Elite contract outlines the scope of your plan so you know exactly what to expect from our team.
How do I get started with the Elite plan?
Request a proposal on our website. Our team will respond within one business day. Once you sign the contract and your first payment clears, we’ll onboard your site, migrate your hosting, set up staging, and begin the hardening and optimization process.
What do Elite clients love about StateWP?
Elite clients tell us they finally stopped worrying about their website.
They get a staging environment for safe deployments, a dedicated account manager who knows their site, and enough monthly hours to actually move projects forward. Their emails reach the inbox. Their compliance policies stay current. Their site stays fast and secure.
The combination removes the usual WordPress fire drills and gives their internal teams real time back.
How does the staging workflow work?
Every Elite site gets a full staging environment: a complete copy of your production site, hosted separately, that mirrors the live version exactly.
Updates, custom code changes, redesigns, and content edits go to staging first. Your team reviews, tests, and signs off. Only then do we promote the change to production.
It removes the two things most teams dislike about WordPress maintenance: hoping an update doesn’t break something in production, and having to roll back after it does.
What is SMTP, and why do I need it?
By default, WordPress sends email directly from your web server. That approach is unreliable: messages get flagged as spam, blocked by recipient mail servers, or dropped entirely. You often don’t find out until a customer tells you they never got a confirmation.
SMTP routes your WordPress email through a dedicated email service with proper authentication. We set it up, monitor deliverability, and alert you if messages start bouncing. For any site that depends on contact forms, order confirmations, or transactional email, it’s essential.
What is Proto, and how does it improve my experience?
Proto is our real-time dashboard. It shows your site’s performance, traffic, security status, and active requests in one place, and it’s how you communicate with your dedicated account manager.
For Elite clients, Proto also surfaces your current month’s hour usage and the status of any staging work in flight.
Is there a one-time setup fee?
No. Elite customers pay no setup fee and no migration fee. Onboarding, hosting migration, and assessment are all included.
Do you have a guarantee or refund policy?
Elite comes with our standard 30-day money-back guarantee. If something isn’t working inside the first month, tell us and we’ll refund you in full, no debate.
After that window, your plan continues until the end of the current billing period. To avoid renewal into the next period, give us 30 days’ notice before your billing date.
Elite clients tend to stay. Our retention rate across plans is around 97%. The option to leave is there from day one, but it’s rarely used.
Business-Critical Sites Deserve a Complete Plan
Elite gives your team the infrastructure, hours, and support to run a business-critical WordPress site, without the fire drills.