From Building Tools for 1 Million Sites to Protecting Them: Why I Built MaintPress
I have spent the last few years building tools that help you grow your WordPress site.
If you’ve been in the WordPress ecosystem for a while, you probably know my work. My plugins—like Advanced Page Visit Counter, UltimaKit, and Hide Admin Bar Based on User Roles—are running on over 1 million websites across the globe.
I loved building those tools. I loved seeing you use them to build community portals, e-commerce stores, and business portfolios.
But over the last 18 months, I noticed a disturbing pattern.
While I was busy building “features,” many of you were struggling with the foundation. I would receive support tickets not about my plugins, but about broken sites.
- “Ankit, I updated a plugin and my checkout page is white.”
- “Ankit, my site got hacked and I lost 2 weeks of data.”
- “Ankit, I haven’t updated my WordPress version in 8 months because I’m scared it will break everything.”
I realized something important: I was selling you a high-performance engine, but nobody was checking the tires.
Giving you great tools doesn’t matter if your website crashes because of a bad update or gets blacklisted by Google because of malware.
That is why I decided to pivot. That is why I built MaintPress.
The “DIY” Trap is Costing You Money
Most business owners treat WordPress maintenance like a chore they can ignore. They think, “I’ll just click ‘Update All’ once a month.”
In 2026, that is dangerous.
- Automated attacks are smarter. Bots scan for vulnerabilities within hours of a patch being released.
- Plugin conflicts are common. With the complexity of modern page builders (Elementor, Bricks, Gutenberg), one tiny CSS conflict can take down your whole layout.
You didn’t start a business to become a SysAdmin. You shouldn’t be spending your weekends looking at error logs.
Enter MaintPress: Security on Autopilot
I wanted to build a solution that was “High-Automation, Low-Touch.” A platform where you could connect your site once and never worry about it again.
We didn’t just build a maintenance service; we built a protection layer powered by AI.
- Visual Regression Testing (AI): When we update a plugin, our system takes a screenshot before and after. If the pixels don’t match (meaning your layout broke), the AI rolls back the update instantly. No broken sites. Ever.
- Off-Site Cloud Backups: We don’t store backups on your server (which is useless if your server goes down). We send them to a secure, encrypted cloud vault every single day.
- Real-Time Monitoring: We check your site every minute. If it goes down, we know before your customers do.
A Special Invitation to My Previous Users
I am not launching MaintPress as a stranger. I am launching it as a developer who has already earned the trust of 1 million+ users.
To celebrate this new chapter, I am launching the Founder’s Club.
For a limited time, if you subscribe to any MaintPress maintenance plan, I am including my entire premium plugin suite—xWPStack Pro (worth $199/year)—for FREE.
You get the tools to build your site (xWPStack) and the team to protect it (MaintPress) for one low monthly price.
Click here to secure your site and claim your Founder’s Bonus.
To the next 1 million secure sites,
Ankit Founder,
MaintPress