WP care plans, and a free daily check
A free plugin that checks your site daily and does the routine from a chat in your WP dashboard: nobody gets your login, and you see each change first.
Not an agency: a free plugin for your business site, with a daily check. A person at CMSHands approves every repair.
- Nothing changes without your OK
- Undo in one click, or a warning first
- No account, no password to share
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
Update Redirection and check my site after.
What you get, free
- A check of your site once a day on the free plan, and at once if the rescue files report a crash. Rescue files are 3 small files the plugin adds so we can reach your site even when WP can't start.
- Plugin updates when you ask, one card per plugin. It checks your site after, and puts the old version back on its own if the site got worse. For plugins from the WP plugin directory, the free plugins at wordpress.org.
- Nobody gets your login. It works inside your WP dashboard (the screens you log in to at yoursite.com/wp-admin) with your own login, and every change waits for your OK.
- A health report in one question. It loads your site the way a visitor would, looks for crashes and lists your plugins. Nothing on your site changes.
- Changes by asking: the words on your pages, plugins, and your header and footer on block themes (your dashboard has Appearance › Editor). You get 3 changes to try it, then 10 a month with your email.
- If your site breaks, we prepare the fix and a person at CMSHands approves it before it runs. Add your email and you get a plain-English note of what happened. Only for sites that had CMSHands before they broke. Tried on our test sites; hosts differ.
Watch it do this on a real site
When it works
You ask
You type it in the chat in your WP dashboard, the way you'd ask a person. You don't need the version number, and you don't open the Plugins screen.
Update Redirection and check my site after.
You see it first
It listed the site's plugins, loaded the home page the way a visitor would, and found the newer version. About 8 seconds after the request, a card showed the change: 5.10.0 out, 5.10.1 in. Nothing on the site had changed yet.
Ready for you to review — 5.10.1 is newer but hasn't been tried on your site yet; if anything breaks after the change, 5.10.0 goes back on its own, and the check afterwards is part of the card.
- 2 secondsListing your plugins and themes
- Loading a page the way a visitor would
- 5 secondsPreparing the change for your OK
You press the button
Only now does it touch the site. It checked the site, put 5.10.1 in, then checked the site again: the home page, the login page and the dashboard. That last check took about 5 seconds.
- 13 secondsChecking your site before the change
- 14 secondsUpdating Redirection to 5.10.1
- Checking your site
Updated and checked
All three loaded as they did before, so 5.10.1 stayed. The card turned green, with an Undo link that would put 5.10.0 back. We didn't press it this time.
Redirection is now on 5.10.1. I checked your homepage, login page and admin afterwards, and they load as they did before.
A real run on our test site, Quillmoor Pottery (WP 7.1.3, Twenty Twenty-Four), Oct 11, 2026. From asking to done, it took 19 seconds.
When an update breaks the site
You press the button
We broke version 5.10.1 on purpose for this run and set the plugin back to 5.10.0. Same request, same card. After the press it checked the site, put 5.10.1 in and started checking again.
- 27 secondsChecking your site before the change
- Updating Redirection to 5.10.1
- Checking your site
The old version goes back
The check found the site broken: the home page showed an error. About 20 seconds after the update, it put 5.10.0 back on its own, with no press from us. Right then the card said “Didn't work”; after a reload it says “Rolled back”, as here.
- 47 secondsPutting Redirection 5.10.0 back
Redirection 5.10.1 broke your site when I checked it, so I put 5.10.0 back straight away. It is running 5.10.0 again.
We broke the update on purpose. A real run on our test site, Quillmoor Pottery (WP 7.1.3, Twenty Twenty-Four), Oct 11, 2026. From asking to done, it took 48 seconds. Shortened: 6 steps left out.
That's the whole job. The plugin is free: 3 changes to try it, no account. Nothing changes until you press the button.
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
What a care plan does that this doesn't
- Backups. Keep your host's backups or a backup plugin.
- Malware cleanup and security scans.
- Speed work. It can tell you why a page is slow, but it can't make it faster.
- Updates to WP itself and to themes. It can tell you if a WP update looks safe; you run it yourself.
- Updates to premium plugins, the ones you bought outside the WP plugin directory.
- A person you can call, or hours set aside for bigger jobs. If you want those, a care plan is the better fit.
How they compare
| CMSHands, free | GoWP | FixRunner | WP Buffs | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $0 to start. A paid plan is coming; nothing costs money until you choose it | Free plan; Pro $39, Business $99 a site a month, month to month1 | Premium $69, Rocket $99, Advance $169 a month, their plans for small websites; 3-month minimum2 | Maintain $89, Protect $179, Perform $239, Custom $359 a month; each plan covers one site3 |
| Who gets your login | Nobody: it works inside your WP dashboard with your own login | You add GoWP's connector plugin and connect it to your account4 | Not listed on fixrunner.com/plans, read Oct 11, 2026 | You send your WP dashboard and hosting logins3 |
| You see each change first and can undo it | Yes: every change is a card you approve. Undo in one click, or a warning first | AI edits wait in a private preview until you approve them; a published change can be undone4 | Not listed on fixrunner.com/plans, read Oct 11, 2026 | Not listed on wpbuffs.com/plans, read Oct 11, 2026 |
| Where the work happens | A chat in your WP dashboard | A message from your GoWP dashboard, or email4 | Tickets by live chat, email or phone2 | Email, and their Ticket Center3 |
| Plugin updates | No schedule: you ask, and each plugin gets its own card. The site is checked after each one; if it got worse, the old version goes back on its own. Plugins from the WP plugin directory only | Automatic, with visual checks, on Pro; 1 manual update a month on Free1 | Plugin, theme and WP core updates on Premium2 | Weekly, by their team, on every plan3 |
| Site checks | Daily on the free plan, so a short outage between two checks can be missed. A crash the rescue files catch is seen right away | Uptime and SSL monitoring, Free plan included1 | Uptime monitoring on Premium2 | Uptime checks “hundreds of times a day”, every plan3 |
| Backups | None of its own. Ask “Is my site backed up?” and you get a straight answer, even when it's no | Daily, with 90 days of history, on Pro1 | Cloud backups on Premium2 | Cloud backups 4 times a day, every plan3 |
| When the site breaks | We prepare the fix and a person at CMSHands OKs it before it runs. Nobody to phone, and only if CMSHands was on the site before it broke | Helpdesk help from a real person, and security scans and cleanup, on Pro1 | Email and chat on Premium; phone on Advance, $169 a month2 | “24/7 Emergency Support”, every plan3 |
| Changes to your site | 3 to try it, then 10 a month with your email. Each change is one card you approve | 5 AI edits a month on Free, 15 on Pro, 50 on Business1 | 90 minutes of their team's time a month on Premium2 | “Unlimited Website Edits” from Protect, $179 a month3 |
- 1. https://gowp.com/pricing/, 2026-10-11
- 2. https://www.fixrunner.com/plans/, 2026-10-11
- 3. https://wpbuffs.com/plans/, 2026-10-11
- 4. https://gowp.com/, 2026-10-11
GoWP, FixRunner and WP Buffs are trademarks of their owners. CMSHands is not affiliated with them.
If your site breaks
A person checks every repair.
Updates put themselves back.
It checks your pages after the fix.
What it won't do here
Visitors may see the error while it checks
Plugins that are switched off
Each plugin counts as a change
Premium plugins, themes and WP itself
Some hosts block the rescue files
Questions
What is a WordPress care plan?
A monthly service where someone looks after your site for you: plugin and WP updates, backups, security checks and small fixes. Some call them care packages or maintenance plans. The paid plans in the table above cost $39 to $359 a site a month. Most come with a person you can email or chat with, and some ask for a minimum term.
Is CMSHands a care plan?
Not quite. It does the routine part in your WP dashboard when you ask, checks your site once a day, and a person approves repairs. It doesn't make backups, clean up malware or speed up your site. If you need those, a care plan is the better fit.
Does it work for an online store?
Yes, for the parts above: plugin updates, health checks, and questions like “Which products are out of stock?” Adding products from a spreadsheet is on the paid plan, which isn't open yet. Like everything else here, repairs need CMSHands on your store before anything breaks.
Can it check my site's security?
Partly. Ask, and it shows who can log in as an administrator and which plugins are out of date or no longer looked after. It warns you 14 days before your SSL certificate (what puts the padlock and https in front of your address) runs out. It doesn't scan for malware or clean it up.
What does a repair cost?
A person at CMSHands approves every repair. Nothing costs money until you choose it; we'll say what a repair costs before it's done. Repairs work only on sites that had CMSHands before they broke, so install it while your site works.
Will you fix my site if it's down right now?
Not if CMSHands isn't on it yet: the plugin can't be installed into a site that won't load. Ask your host first; they can see the server's error log. Install CMSHands once your site works again, and next time a person at CMSHands can step in.
Written by CMSHands team. Checked on WP 7.1, Oct 11, 2026.
Try it on your own site
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
Download the plugin.
It's free: 3 changes to try it. No account, no card.
Upload and activate it.
In your dashboard: Plugins › Add Plugin › Upload Plugin (Add New Plugin on older WP). Choose the file, press Install Now, then Activate Plugin.
Press Turn on.
Press Turn on CMSHands. No account, no key, no password.