Premium WordPress Plugins Included with Your Managed WordPress Hosting

When you host your website with us (including through our Rapid Website Design Service), you get more than a place for your site to live—you get a professionally managed WordPress environment built for performance, reliability, and long-term growth.

As part of that environment, we include a suite of premium plugins and supporting services at no additional cost. These are tools agencies rely on to build websites that load faster, generate more leads, and stay stable over time.

What makes this different from a typical “plugin bundle” is management. We handle licensing, renewals, setup, configuration, updates, and compatibility checks. You get the capability—without the overhead or vendor juggling.

Below is what’s included, what each tool helps you accomplish, and why this approach matters.

What’s Included with Your Managed WordPress Hosting

Premium WordPress Plugin Licenses (Included)

These plugins help us build a stronger foundation—so your site is easier to maintain, easier to expand, and less likely to require expensive workarounds later.

Tool	What it helps you do	Typical annual cost
Gravity Forms (Elite)	Create advanced forms with conditional logic, integrations, payments, and automation	~$259/year
Advanced Custom Fields Pro (ACF Pro)	Build structured content (directories, staff pages, resources, services, FAQs) with flexible layouts	~$49/year
WP Rocket	Improve site speed with caching and performance optimization	~$59/year
Admin Columns Pro	Manage content faster inside WordPress (sorting, filtering, editing)	~$79/year
OllieWP Pro	Enhance the block editor with a design system for consistent layouts and styling	~$99/year
Pie Calendar Pro	Run professional event calendars and event listings	~$59/year

Estimated plugin value: ~$604/year

External Services We Provide (Included)

These services improve performance and reliability in ways that many website owners don’t notice until problems appear.

Service	What it helps you do	Typical annual cost
Imagify	Compress and optimize images so pages load faster without sacrificing quality	~$120/year (moderate usage)
Mailgun	Improve deliverability for website email (form notifications, password resets, order confirmations)	~$60–$120/year (typical small business usage)
Cloudflare (Free Tier)	Add CDN, DNS management, and baseline security protections	Free tier (we handle configuration and optimization)

Estimated external services value: ~$180–$240/year

Total Included Value: $800–$850 Per Year

That estimate is intentionally conservative and will vary by usage. The more your site relies on forms, email notifications, content publishing, or event listings, the more this toolset saves you—both in direct costs and in time spent managing multiple vendors.

Why This Approach Helps in Real-World Terms

1) It reduces complexity (and the risk that comes with it)

A typical WordPress site can easily become a stack of subscriptions: separate plugin licenses, separate accounts, separate renewal dates, and separate support queues. That complexity creates risk:

• licenses expire and features break
• updates get delayed because no one wants to “touch what’s working”
• plugin conflicts appear unexpectedly
• performance suffers due to inconsistent configuration

By bundling a proven toolkit into the hosting relationship—and managing it centrally—we reduce that risk and keep your website more predictable.

2) You get capability that supports growth, not just today’s needs

Many websites start simple and quickly outgrow their original setup. The difference between a site that scales easily and one that becomes painful is usually the foundation.

This toolset supports growth like:

• Better lead capture and automation
  Forms that route leads by topic or service, trigger follow-ups, send internal notifications, and connect to email marketing or CRM systems.
• Structured content that’s easy to expand
  Instead of one-off pages, you can build content that behaves like a system—resource libraries, staff directories, service catalogs, location pages, FAQs, or portfolios.
• Professional event management
  If you run workshops, community events, or scheduled programs, you have a solid calendar foundation already in place.
• Performance improvements that persist
  Speed isn’t a one-time fix. It’s the result of ongoing configuration, image optimization, caching strategy, and careful updates.

3) The value isn’t just the software—it’s the management

Premium plugins are powerful, but they can also be misconfigured or left unmaintained. That’s where costs pile up: slowdowns, broken forms, deliverability issues, and time spent troubleshooting.

We manage:

• license procurement, activation, and renewals
• configuration and best-practice setup
• updates and compatibility checks
• performance tuning over time
• ongoing oversight of site stability

This means you don’t need to track license keys, watch renewal dates, or troubleshoot vendor-specific issues. The goal is simple: your site keeps working, and improvements are easier to implement.

A Note on Email Deliverability (Why Mailgun Matters)

One of the most common “invisible” website problems is email. Many sites send mail directly from the server (or rely on basic hosting mail setups), which can lead to:

• contact form messages going missing
• password reset emails not arriving
• confirmations landing in spam

Mailgun helps ensure your website’s email is authenticated and reliably delivered—especially important for lead generation, customer communication, and account-related messaging.

The Two Requirements (And Why They Exist)

To provide these premium licenses under our agency agreements:

1. You must maintain hosting with us
2. We must have designed your site or made major structural improvements to it

This is necessary due to plugin licensing terms and agency distribution policies. The licenses are tied to our hosting and development environment and are provided as part of the managed service.

Practically, this ensures:

• correct setup from day one
• licensing compliance
• long-term compatibility
• consistent performance and stability

If You Ever Leave: What to Expect

If you move hosting elsewhere, you can absolutely do that. What changes is the licensing and managed toolset.

In most cases:

• the plugins may remain installed, but premium updates and features may require your own licenses
• we can provide a clean transition path (and recommend which licenses you’d need to purchase based on how the site is built)
• nothing is held hostage—this is simply how premium licensing works when tools are included under an agency environment

This transparency helps clients plan with confidence.

The Bigger Picture: A Website That’s Managed Like an Asset

This approach reflects how we think about long-term website ownership.

We’re not just offering hosting. We’re providing:

• a managed WordPress foundation
• vetted premium tooling
• performance and reliability engineering
• ongoing technical oversight

The result is a website that’s easier to run, easier to grow, and less likely to surprise you with preventable problems.

If You’re Evaluating Hosting Options

A simple way to compare is to ask:

• “What software will I need to buy separately?”
• “Who manages renewals and updates?”
• “Who ensures performance and email reliability?”
• “If something breaks, who is responsible for diagnosing it?”

With our hosting, those answers are built into the relationship—along with approximately $800–$850/year in included premium tooling value.

If you want your website treated like an asset—not a DIY stack—this is the next step.

Let’s review your current site, your growth plans, and your tooling needs. We’ll recommend the best-fit hosting plan and outline exactly what we’ll manage for you.

Contact us, or schedule a call to get a clear plan and a confident path forward.