A Nelson Arts and Events Site Running Elementor, Two Sliders and Four Form Plugins Is One Update From Down

A rescue focused on performance and plugin reduction is NZ$6,000 to NZ$14,000 over three to five weeks. A custom theme rebuild with content migration runs NZ$14,000 to NZ$30,000. Adding events, memberships and integrations takes it to NZ$55,000 for a larger organisation with a full programme to publish.

Partly. Content can be extracted programmatically for consistent page types such as event listings or exhibition pages, which is most of the work. Genuinely bespoke landing pages usually need rebuilding by hand, so the quote should be driven by a page audit rather than a guess. Ask for that audit before agreeing a price.

Almost always a combination of unoptimised images, too many plugins loading scripts on every page, and shared hosting that cannot absorb a spike. All three are fixable, and for a Nelson organisation with a predictable annual launch day the fix is worth doing well before the date. Performance work alone often costs less than NZ$10,000.

Event listings and programme content belong in WordPress. Ticketing generally does not, because ticketing platforms handle payment, refunds and door scanning far better than a plugin will. Publish the programme on your site and link to the ticketing system, unless you have a genuinely unusual requirement.

Yes, when it is maintained. The vulnerabilities that get exploited are almost always outdated plugins and weak admin accounts rather than WordPress itself. Fewer plugins, enforced two factor authentication on admin accounts, a staging environment and a real update routine handle the practical risk.

If you are publicly funded or serve the community broadly, you should be building to recognised accessibility guidelines regardless of whether anyone is auditing you. It affects design decisions, so raise it before the design phase rather than after. Retrofitting accessibility into a finished custom theme is materially more expensive.

You do. Domain, hosting account, content management logins and theme code should all be in your organisation's name. This matters more for community organisations than commercial ones, because staff and volunteers change and institutional knowledge walks out the door with them.

Expect NZ$200 to NZ$800 a month depending on site complexity, covering core and plugin updates tested on staging, backups, uptime monitoring and a small allowance for content changes. Compare that to the cost of a compromised site, which for an organisation taking donations or bookings is a bad week rather than a bad afternoon.

Yes, with defined roles that let them publish content without touching layouts, settings or plugins. This is one of the strongest reasons for a custom theme over a page builder: contributors cannot accidentally break a page they were only meant to add text to. Ask for role setup to be part of the handover and training.

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