# WebCultured

> WebCultured is a WordPress care and development agency in Ontario, Canada, working with clients across North America. We fix, maintain, speed up, secure and build WordPress websites for businesses with 5 to 30 people and no in-house developer. Urgent help is answered within one business hour; every engagement is quoted up front.

WebCultured works on existing WordPress sites: emergency fixes and hack clean-up, monthly maintenance, performance work, rebuilds and WordPress development. It does not build static websites for trades businesses; that is a separate business at https://webfoundry.ca. The blog articles are written for business owners, in plain language, and use Canadian context (PIPEDA, CASL, Ontario).

## Services and company

- [What we do](https://webcultured.com/what-we-do/): Urgent help, monthly maintenance, development and audits, with the common questions answered
- [WordPress maintenance plans](https://webcultured.com/services/wordpress-maintenance/): Monthly care: updates, tested backups, monitoring and fixes
- [WordPress security and hack repair](https://webcultured.com/services/wordpress-security-and-hack-repair/): Emergency fixes, hacked-site clean-up and hardening
- [WordPress speed optimization](https://webcultured.com/services/wordpress-speed-optimization/): Core Web Vitals and load-time work on existing sites
- [WordPress development](https://webcultured.com/services/wordpress-development/): Rebuilds, migrations and moving off page builders
- [About WebCultured](https://webcultured.com/about/): Who runs the agency and how the team works
- [Website audit](https://webcultured.com/audit/): A six-part audit of how a WordPress site performs for customers
- [Contact](https://webcultured.com/contact/): Phone, email and the contact form

## Website audit sections

- [Performance audit](https://webcultured.com/audit/performance/): Core Web Vitals, load time, images, scripts, hosting and caching
- [Security audit](https://webcultured.com/audit/security/): How exposed a WordPress site is to attack
- [SEO audit](https://webcultured.com/audit/seo/): Whether customers can find the site in search
- [Architecture audit](https://webcultured.com/audit/architecture/): Whether the site will hold up as the business grows
- [Quality standards audit](https://webcultured.com/audit/quality-standards/): Whether the site is built and coded properly
- [Business outcomes audit](https://webcultured.com/audit/business-outcomes/): Whether the site brings in calls, bookings and sales

## WordPress maintenance and care

- [WordPress maintenance: what "keeping it updated" actually means](https://webcultured.com/blog/wordpress-maintenance-explained/): The tasks in real maintenance and the cost of skipping them
- [Monthly website care plans: what you should expect for your money](https://webcultured.com/blog/monthly-website-care-plans/): What a care plan should include
- [Backups: the insurance policy most small businesses never test](https://webcultured.com/blog/website-backups-insurance/): Why untested backups fail and how to test them
- [Plugins: how too many add-ons slow you down and open the door to attackers](https://webcultured.com/blog/too-many-plugins/): Plugin overload, speed and security risk
- [The freelancer disappeared: what to do when nobody can update your website](https://webcultured.com/blog/when-your-web-developer-disappears/): Regaining control of a site after a developer leaves

## Security

- [How to tell if your website has been hacked](https://webcultured.com/blog/how-to-tell-if-your-website-was-hacked/): Warning signs and first steps
- [What a hacked website really costs a small business](https://webcultured.com/blog/what-a-hacked-website-costs/): Direct and hidden costs of a breach
- [SSL, padlocks and trust](https://webcultured.com/blog/ssl-and-trust/): What visitors notice before they read a word
- [Your website and privacy law: what Canadian businesses need to know](https://webcultured.com/blog/website-privacy-law-canada/): Privacy obligations for Canadian business websites

## Speed and performance

- [Why your website's speed is costing you customers](https://webcultured.com/blog/website-speed-costing-customers/): How slow pages lose enquiries and sales
- [Core Web Vitals for WordPress: a business owner's guide](https://webcultured.com/blog/core-web-vitals-for-business-owners/): What LCP, INP and CLS mean in plain terms
- [WordPress image weight: the easiest speed win](https://webcultured.com/blog/image-weight-easy-speed-win/): Cutting page weight with image fixes
- [What happens during a professional speed audit](https://webcultured.com/blog/what-happens-in-a-speed-audit/): The steps and deliverables of a speed audit
- [Mobile-first WordPress: customers judge you on a phone](https://webcultured.com/blog/mobile-first-customers/): Mobile experience and conversions

## Hosting, rebuilds and platform decisions

- [Should you rebuild or repair your WordPress site?](https://webcultured.com/blog/rebuild-or-repair-wordpress/): How to decide
- [WP Engine vs. shared hosting vs. a managed agency plan](https://webcultured.com/blog/wp-engine-vs-shared-hosting-vs-agency/): Comparing three hosting and support models
- [Why cheap hosting is expensive](https://webcultured.com/blog/why-cheap-hosting-is-expensive/): Hidden costs of bargain hosting
- [Elementor, Divi and friends: when a page builder becomes a liability](https://webcultured.com/blog/when-page-builders-become-a-liability/): Page builder bloat and lock-in
- [Will your WordPress site survive your best day?](https://webcultured.com/blog/will-your-website-survive-your-best-day/): Handling traffic spikes
- [The real cost of WordPress downtime for your business](https://webcultured.com/blog/real-cost-of-downtime/): What an outage costs

## Optional

- [Questions to ask before you hire a WordPress agency](https://webcultured.com/blog/questions-before-hiring-wordpress-agency/): A buyer's checklist
- [Speed, security, scalability: a one-page checklist for business owners](https://webcultured.com/blog/speed-security-scalability-checklist/): A short self-check
- [Local SEO on WordPress: the basics for Ontario businesses](https://webcultured.com/blog/local-seo-basics-ontario/): Local search fundamentals
- [How Google decides where your site ranks](https://webcultured.com/blog/how-google-ranks-your-site/): Search ranking in plain English
- [Turning a slow WordPress site into a lead-generating one](https://webcultured.com/blog/slow-wordpress-to-lead-generator/): From speed fixes to enquiries
- [Adding an AI chatbot to WordPress without slowing it down](https://webcultured.com/blog/ai-chatbot-without-slowing-wordpress/): Chatbot performance trade-offs
- [All articles](https://webcultured.com/blog/): The full blog index
- [Privacy policy](https://webcultured.com/privacy-policy/): How WebCultured handles personal information