Websites thrive when someone’s tending them.
Ongoing WordPress maintenance for nonprofits across Canada, from a Nova Scotia studio that treats it as a craft.
A neglected site doesn’t fail loudly. It fails slowly.
Then one morning the donation page is broken, the homepage is blank, or Google has flagged it — right as a campaign goes live. Spadewerk makes sure that morning never comes.
It never goes down quietly
Round-the-clock uptime monitoring, security hardening, and daily backups. If something slips, we know before your visitors do.
It’s always up to date
WordPress core, plugins, themes, and PHP — updated carefully and tested, so a routine update never breaks your site.
A real person answers
No ticket purgatory. You reach the same Nova Scotia studio that knows your site — and you get a plain-language reply, fast.
A small studio that treats maintenance as a craft.
Over 25 years, one pattern kept repeating: good nonprofits and NGOs left with websites nobody was actually looking after. Agencies built them and moved on. Updates piled up. Small problems quietly became big ones.
Spadewerk was built to be the opposite of that. From Nova Scotia, we tend a focused roster of WordPress sites the way a gardener tends ground — steadily, attentively, season after season. Our mission is to keep mission-driven organizations online and worry-free, so their energy and budget go to their cause, not their website.
Not an agency
You get the maker, not a middleman
The person who knows your site is the person who answers your email.
Plain words
Reports you can actually read
Monthly summaries in plain English — what we did, what we caught, what’s next.
Rooted here
Nova Scotia hours, Canada-wide care
Local and accountable — and used to working within real nonprofit timelines and budgets.
Everything it takes to keep a website healthy.
Pick ongoing care, a one-time tune-up, or a fresh build. Most nonprofits start with a monthly maintenance plan.
Proactive maintenance
WordPress core, plugin, theme, and PHP updates — tested before they go live, on a steady schedule.
Security & backups
Hardening, malware scanning, firewall rules, and daily off-site backups with fast, tested restores.
Speed & performance
Caching, image optimization, and Core Web Vitals tuning so pages load fast and rank better.
Uptime monitoring
24/7 monitoring with instant alerts. If your site hiccups, we’re already on it — often before you notice.
Content & small changes
New pages, copy edits, images, and the steady stream of small tweaks — handled on request, no fuss.
Website development
New builds, redesigns, and migrations — then we stay on to keep what we made in good shape.
How working together goes
Step 01
We dig in
A full audit of your current site — versions, security, speed, and the risks hiding under the surface.
Step 02
Tend & stabilize
Step 03
Ongoing care
Step 04
Grow over time
Before we chat.
Don’t see yours? Ask it in the form below — we answer every message ourselves.
Yes. Nonprofits and NGOs are exactly who we serve, and our plans are priced with that in mind. Tell us about your organization and your budget, and we’ll find a level of care that fits.
Core, plugin, theme, and PHP updates; daily backups; security hardening and malware scanning; uptime monitoring; performance checks; and a set amount of small content edits each month — with a plain-English report.
WordPress is our home turf and where we add the most value, but we’re happy to talk about other platforms. If we’re not the right fit, we’ll tell you honestly and try to make some other recommendations that might work.
Yes — that’s most of what we do. We start with an audit, document what we find, fix the urgent things, and bring the site to a healthy, well-maintained baseline.
Routine requests within the day. Anything urgent — a site down, a security issue — jumps the queue and we’re on it right away.
We’re based in Nova Scotia and work with organizations across Canada and beyond. You get an accountable, local studio working in your time zone during the workday.
We do — new builds, redesigns, and migrations. And because we stay on to maintain what we build, we have every reason to build it right the first time.
Let’s get your website
cared for.
Book a free 20-minute call. We’ll look at your site together and tell you honestly what it needs — no pressure, no jargon.
A Nova Scotia studio with 25 years of keeping WordPress websites fast, secure, and well-tended — for the nonprofits and NGOs doing important work across Canada.