SiteCare alternative for one site

A free plugin adds a chat to your business site's WP dashboard. It checks the site daily, updates plugins you pick, and undoes an update that made it worse.

Checked once a day on the free plan, and at once if it crashes.

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Needs WP 6.3 to 7.1 and PHP 8.0 or newer. What it installs

Needs WP 6.3 to 7.1, PHP 8.0 or newer, and an administrator login. One site per install.

The download is a plugin. Turning it on connects your site to cmshands.com and adds 3 small rescue files. Deleting the plugin removes them and everything it stored. What we send

Plugins are installed from a computer. Get the plugin here instead

Nothing changes without your OK
Undo in one click, or a warning first
No account, no password to share

SiteCare is a trademark of its owner. CMSHands is not affiliated with it.

What it does here

It checks your site once a day on the free plan, and at once if the site crashes.
It updates a plugin when you ask, checks the site after, and puts the old version back on its own if it got worse.
If a plugin crashes your site, a person at CMSHands approves the fix before it runs. Install it first.

More it does here (2)

Ask “Give me a quick health report” and it answers in about 8 seconds, without changing anything.
Undo on the card puts the plugin version from before back.

How they compare

	CMSHands	SiteCare
Built for	The one site you run yourself	“B2B marketing teams and digital publishers who depend on their WordPress site for leads and revenue” (Gold)¹
Who does the work	The assistant in a chat in your WP dashboard, the screens you log in to at yoursite.com/wp-admin. You press the button on each card, a box in the chat that shows exactly what would change	A team of WordPress pros, reached by phone and email¹
Plugin updates	One at a time, by asking, on your live site. It checks the site after and puts the old version back on its own if it got worse. Free plugins from wordpress.org only	“WordPress Updates”, “Staging-Tested Updates” and “Visual Regression Testing”, a check that pages still look the same, on both plans¹
WP itself and themes	No. It can tell you if a WP update looks safe. You run it yourself	“WordPress Updates” are listed on both plans¹
When the site goes down	A daily check on the free plan, and one at once if the site crashes. A person at CMSHands approves every repair. Only on sites that had CMSHands before they broke	Uptime monitoring and a Rapid Response Team on both plans. After-hours urgent support and a one-hour response promise on Diamond¹
Health check	Ask in one sentence. In our run the report came back in about 8 seconds and nothing changed	A “Monthly Site Review” on Gold and Diamond¹
Backups	None. It keeps a plugin's old files so it can put the old version back. That isn't a copy of your site	Daily remote backups on both plans, and more often on Diamond¹
Hacked site clean-up	No, not yet	“Hack Cleanups & Site Restores” on both plans¹
Hosting	No. It's a plugin on the site you have, for WordPress 6.3–7.1	Their CoreSpeed hosting is part of both plans¹
Price	Free to start: 3 changes, then 10 a month with your email. A paid plan is coming	Gold $435 a month or $4,680 a year. Diamond $2,190 a month or $23,880 a year. Full refund within 30 days¹

Built for

CMSHands: The one site you run yourself
SiteCare: “B2B marketing teams and digital publishers who depend on their WordPress site for leads and revenue” (Gold)¹

Who does the work

CMSHands: The assistant in a chat in your WP dashboard, the screens you log in to at yoursite.com/wp-admin. You press the button on each card, a box in the chat that shows exactly what would change
SiteCare: A team of WordPress pros, reached by phone and email¹

Plugin updates

CMSHands: One at a time, by asking, on your live site. It checks the site after and puts the old version back on its own if it got worse. Free plugins from wordpress.org only
SiteCare: “WordPress Updates”, “Staging-Tested Updates” and “Visual Regression Testing”, a check that pages still look the same, on both plans¹

WP itself and themes

CMSHands: No. It can tell you if a WP update looks safe. You run it yourself
SiteCare: “WordPress Updates” are listed on both plans¹

When the site goes down

CMSHands: A daily check on the free plan, and one at once if the site crashes. A person at CMSHands approves every repair. Only on sites that had CMSHands before they broke
SiteCare: Uptime monitoring and a Rapid Response Team on both plans. After-hours urgent support and a one-hour response promise on Diamond¹

Health check

CMSHands: Ask in one sentence. In our run the report came back in about 8 seconds and nothing changed
SiteCare: A “Monthly Site Review” on Gold and Diamond¹

Backups

CMSHands: None. It keeps a plugin's old files so it can put the old version back. That isn't a copy of your site
SiteCare: Daily remote backups on both plans, and more often on Diamond¹

Hacked site clean-up

CMSHands: No, not yet
SiteCare: “Hack Cleanups & Site Restores” on both plans¹

Hosting

CMSHands: No. It's a plugin on the site you have, for WordPress 6.3–7.1
SiteCare: Their CoreSpeed hosting is part of both plans¹

Price

CMSHands: Free to start: 3 changes, then 10 a month with your email. A paid plan is coming
SiteCare: Gold $435 a month or $4,680 a year. Diamond $2,190 a month or $23,880 a year. Full refund within 30 days¹

CMSHands and SiteCare, for one site. SiteCare facts read Oct 14, 2026.

1. sitecare.com/pricing, Oct 14, 2026

Which one fits

Who should keep SiteCare

Keep SiteCare if your site brings in leads or sales and you want a team on it. Its plans include their hosting, daily backups, hack cleanups, content edits, and updates tested first on a staging site, a copy of your site for trying changes. We read this on sitecare.com/pricing on Oct 14, 2026. CMSHands updates plugins on your live site, doesn't update WP itself, and doesn't make backups.

Can you use both?

You can, but you may not need to. If SiteCare's team already runs your updates, let them keep doing that, and ask the chat questions such as a health report. We haven't tested the two side by side, so don't update plugins from both, or you won't know which one changed what.

Why it won't wreck your site

Nothing changes until you press the button. Every change comes as a card that names it. Nothing happens until you press the button or Not now.
It checks your pages after the fix. It loads your home page, login, dashboard and a post again before it calls the repair done.
Updates put themselves back. After a plugin update it checks your site. If the site got worse, the old version goes back on its own.
A person checks every repair. When your site is down you can't reach the chat, so a person at CMSHands approves the fix before it runs.

What it won't do here

BackupsIt doesn't make backups. Keep your host's backups or a backup plugin for that.
A site that is already downIt can't be installed into a site that is already down. Install it while the site works, so it's there when something breaks.
Hacked sitesIt can't clean up a hacked site yet. A team like SiteCare's lists that in its plans.
WP itself and themesIt can tell you if a WP update looks safe, but you run that update yourself. It doesn't update themes.
Premium pluginsUpdates cover plugins from the WP plugin directory, the free plugins at wordpress.org. A plugin you bought updates through its maker, not the chat.

Free to start

No account: 3 to try it
With your email: 10 every month
Paid plan: Coming. Nothing costs money until you choose it.

A change is one card you approve. A job that touches several pages or plugins is several changes.What's free

Questions

Is CMSHands part of SiteCare?

No. CMSHands is a separate product from a separate company, and it isn't affiliated with SiteCare. If you're a SiteCare customer looking for your account or for support, go to sitecare.com.

Is WP SiteCare the same as SiteCare?

They lead to the same place. wpsitecare.com now sends you to sitecare.com (checked Oct 14, 2026). Today SiteCare sells 2 plans, Gold and Diamond, for businesses whose WordPress site brings in leads and revenue.

Where can I read SiteCare reviews?

On sitecare.com, under Why SiteCare, you'll find Case Studies and Testimonials. SiteCare picks those, so also look for reviews that customers post on their own. Ask how fast they got help the last time their site went down.

What does SiteCare cost?

Gold is $435 a month, or $4,680 a year. Diamond is $2,190 a month, or $23,880 a year. Both include their CoreSpeed hosting, and you get a full refund within 30 days if you're not happy. We read these prices on sitecare.com/pricing on Oct 14, 2026, so check there for today's.

Is there a free SiteCare alternative for one small site?

For watching the site and updating plugins, yes. CMSHands is a free plugin for business sites: 3 changes with no account, then 10 a month once you add your email. Questions are free, up to 30 a day. On the free plan it checks the site once a day, and at once if it crashes. It doesn't make backups, host your site or clean up a hacked site.

What happens when a plugin crashes a site that has CMSHands?

On our test site (a WP site we run to try every task before we write about it), every page showed “There has been a critical error on this website.” 80 seconds later CMSHands was on it. A person at CMSHands approved switching the plugin off, and pages loaded again 2 minutes 35 seconds after the crash. That person was the engineer running the test, so it went fast. Only on sites that had CMSHands before they broke.