What’s the worst part of maintaining WordPress sites for you?

Hey, Frederic here. I make SitePulse.

I’ve been doing WordPress work for clients for years, and honestly the part I hated most was never the building. It was the maintenance. A site gets slow and you spend an hour turning plugins off one by one to find the guilty one. Or you run updates on a bunch of sites, one of them breaks, and you only find out when the client emails you.

So I ended up building my own tool for it. SitePulse tells you which plugin or piece of theme code is slowing a page down, and when it updates a site it takes a backup first and rolls back by itself if a page breaks.

We’re launching here tomorrow (Nov 11), but that’s not really why I’m posting. I’m curious what this looks like for other people.

What’s the thing about maintaining WP sites that annoys you the most? And is there a plugin or add-on you pay for that you wish you didn’t need?

Would love to hear it, even if it’s something SitePulse doesn’t do. Especially then, actually.