Sources
Every statistic on this site links here. Most industry figures come from hosting and maintenance companies, so they are rounded and phrased as what they are: typical, not guaranteed. The TLC results are from real projects; client names are shared on request.
- WordPress Maintenance Cost in 2026: What You’ll Actually Pay · Verlua
- Source for the “hand it back after one preventable outage” observation and the $100–$250/month maintenance-plan range.
- WordPress Hosting Renewal Pricing: What Happens After Year One · FatLab Web Support
- Renewal multipliers at budget hosts (e.g. $2.95 → $10.99/mo) and managed hosting starting points.
- 40+ WordPress Hacking Statistics & Security Data (2026) · Colorlib
- Share of hacked sites running an outdated plugin; average plugin counts.
- WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities: 250+ Weekly Disclosures in 2026 · Webmastered (Patchstack data)
- 11,334 vulnerabilities disclosed in 2025, +42% year over year, 91% in plugins.
- PHP End-of-Life Dates: Support Timeline for Every Version (2026) · HeroDevs
- PHP 7.4 EOL Nov 2022, 8.0 Nov 2023, 8.1 Dec 2025, 8.2 Dec 31 2026.
- 7 Best WordPress Events Plugins in 2026 (Compared) · EventKoi
- The Events Calendar moved to bundled premium pricing after its acquisition; Pro from $149/year.
- Wise Women Botanicals AI consultant (“Ask Connie”), 2026 · TLC Web
- Retrieval-based assistant (answers from supplied material; the model itself is not retrained): Cloudflare Worker + Supabase pgvector + Claude. Knowledge layers: 475-item product catalog, ~80 oil profiles, ~60 herb profiles, blends and protocols, owner philosophy, transcripts. Product links come only from the catalog. Safety cautions and human handoff by email are built in. Live as a soft launch (September 2026) after a store-wide compliance pass (about 180 product pages rewritten); conversations logged for improvement.
- Griffo Distillery event calendar, Petaluma, 2024–2026 · TLC Web
- 260 events published through the admin page as of September 2026; edits deploy in roughly 90 seconds; embedded on a Shopify site; iCal/RSS/JSON feeds; images on Cloudflare R2.
- Four Worlds International Institute, WordPress → static rebuild, 2026 · TLC Web
- Simply Static export of the Elementor site: 633 MB, ~21 stylesheets and 14 scripts per page, noindex on 317 of 318 pages. Rebuilt in Eleventy (281 posts, 17 pages), 328-URL parity sweep, cut over to Cloudflare Pages 2026-08-31. Substack sync every 2 hours.
- TLC PHP 8 rescue, 2017-era commercial theme, 2026 · TLC Web
- 16 fatal errors across theme and plugins found and fixed in about one working day, then verified on a PHP 8.2 staging copy.