Whose licence is your Beaver Builder site running on?
Often not yours. On a white-labelled install the builder is usually registered to the agency that built the site, and while that holds, your updates depend on somebody else's subscription and can stop without warning. The first month of Beaver Builder maintenance is partly administrative: finding out whose key is in use, and if it is not yours, moving you onto one that is. It is a dull piece of work and it is the difference between a site you control and one you rent from someone who has stopped answering.
How do you clear two years of missed updates safely?
In sequence, on a staging copy, never all at once on the live site. WordPress core and PHP compatibility come first, then plugins in dependency order, with the builder itself last so any layout change can be pinned to a cause. Beaver rarely causes trouble here, which means when something does move it is almost always another plugin and we can name it. The live site is only touched once the staging copy is clean.
What happens in a monthly Beaver Builder update?
Each month the builder, Themer, the theme and the other plugins are updated on staging, and the Themer templates plus the busiest pages are looked at before anything reaches production. On this builder the visual check is quick precisely because its output is stable, so the time goes where it is useful: the contact form still sending, the checkout still completing, the header still rendering correctly at phone width.
Do Beaver Builder Lite, the paid plugin and Themer need different handling?
Yes, slightly. The free Lite version updates from wordpress.org like any plugin; the paid versions and Beaver Themer update through a licence key; and a site running the Beaver Builder Theme has a third component on its own release cycle. Mixing them up is how sites end up with Lite installed beside a lapsed paid copy, or Themer layouts silently ignoring a newer builder. We record which pieces are installed, which key each one uses, and when each renewal falls due, so updates arrive for all three.
What should a Beaver Builder backup actually contain?
The database, the uploads, the theme and child theme, and the builder installed with its licence state intact. A restore that returns the files but leaves you with an unlicensed builder is one you discover the limits of on the worst possible day. We keep a fresh copy before every update run, hold several weeks of history for problems spotted late, and every so often rebuild the site from a backup on a throwaway server so we know the process works rather than hoping it does.
Can your team keep editing pages themselves?
Yes, and Beaver Builder website support should protect that rather than replace it. Copy edits, new staff, a price change, a seasonal banner: we make these in the builder rather than in code wherever possible, so your team can do the same job next time. Where a change keeps recurring, we convert the piece into a global module once, which turns a repeated forty-page edit into a single one. Plan hours cover this work.
What does monitoring catch on a quiet site?
Mostly the failures that make no noise. A form stops delivering after a host changes its mail settings, or an SSL certificate lapses, and nothing on the site announces it. We watch availability and certificate expiry and send a real enquiry through your contact form on a schedule, because on a small business site a form that quietly died a month ago usually costs more than any outage.
What does the first month of care involve?
An inventory before any routine starts. We list every plugin with its version and last release date, confirm whose licences are in use, take and test a full backup, check the PHP version the host runs against what the site supports, and push a test enquiry through each form. You get that written down, with anything urgent flagged at the top. Most sites we take on turn out to have one thing nobody knew about: a backup job that died, a plugin pulled from the directory, a form going to a former employee's inbox.
How much does a Beaver Builder care plan cost?
Plans begin at $159/mo a month for Essential, which includes monitoring, weekly off-site backups, a malware check and a monthly report, with no development time. Staged updates and changes are done on the development plan at $700/mo, which carries a monthly allowance of developer hours. Anything past the included time is billed at our published rates: $100 an hour, with prepaid blocks of five ($500) or ten ($1,000) hours bringing the rate down. There is no minimum term.
