Website Admin Dashboard: What It Is, What You Can Manage and Do You Need One?
What an admin dashboard is, what you can manage from it, why every website should come with one, and what to ask a developer before you sign.
3 min readKing Devid
Quick answer: Website maintenance is what keeps a live site healthy after launch: scheduled updates, tested offsite backups, security and uptime monitoring, small content changes and fixes. Without it, small problems compound into hacking, downtime or a site that slowly stops working on new devices.
What Maintenance Actually Covers
- Core, theme and dependency updates
- Backups stored away from hosting and tested by restoring them
- Security and malware monitoring
- Uptime monitoring
- A monthly allowance of small content changes
- A short monthly report of what was done
What It Does Not Cover
New features, redesigns and big content projects are usually quoted separately. A maintenance plan keeps the site running; it does not grow the site. SEO work is separate again.
Taking Over an Existing Site
- A free health check to see what is broken or at risk
- Documentation of what exists: plugins, versions, hosting, DNS
- Domain and hosting moved to your name if they are not already
- Access to the code and dashboard, if you do not have them already
