About WP Pirates
Founder-led WordPress maintenance. One engineer on every ticket — no junior handoffs, no agency layers.
Andrew Ivanov
Founder & CTO
A practice, not an agency
I'm Andrew Ivanov. I started WP Pirates in 2020 after years of watching businesses lose customers to slow, unmaintained, and quietly hacked WordPress sites — usually because their previous "agency" had three layers between the site and someone who actually knew what was wrong.
WP Pirates is deliberately small. Every ticket comes to me. Every emergency rollback, every plugin audit, every Core Web Vitals tune — same engineer, same accountability, no junior bouncing your site between staging and prod at 11pm.
If that's the model you want — direct access, no upselling, plain-English reports — let's talk.
How I work
The vague stuff every agency claims (integrity, excellence) is table stakes. Here are the specific rules I actually run my practice by.
Every change is tested in staging first
No exceptions, even at 3am. If you don't have staging, the first thing I do is set one up.
You get a written report, not a sales call
Findings, prioritized fixes, what's urgent vs. nice-to-have — all in plain English, in your inbox.
Named access, never shared credentials
I get my own admin user with audit logging. When the engagement ends, that account is removed.
If I can't help, I'll tell you
Some sites don't need maintenance, they need a rebuild. I'd rather lose the deal than take it under false pretenses.
Cancel anytime, no contract lock-in
Maintenance plans are month-to-month. If I'm not earning the retainer, you should be able to leave without a fight.
Backup before every update
Off-site, encrypted, restorable. The plugin update that breaks your checkout shouldn't also lose you yesterday's orders.
Want to see what I'd do with your site?
Send me your URL. You'll get a written assessment back — performance, security, maintenance gaps — within a business day.