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About WP Buffs
WP Buffs offers 24/7 WordPress website management and support services that power digital growth. That means WordPress maintenance services for serious website owners and white-label WordPress website management for WordPress agencies and freelancers. Boom!
WP Buffs (wpbuffs.com) has 73 customer reviews on The Fair Hearing, with an average rating of 4.6 out of 5.
We've had hiccups, but overall a good experience for me.
I have been working with WPBuffs for 6 months or so (how time flies). My experience with them is overall very good.
I did run into a similar issue as Alex (May 4, 2021) did below. In my case, a plugin broke because it didn't work with the current PHP version. I feel that is something that should not escape testing. WPBuffs and I got through that, but it did cast a shadow on their updating flow.
I also think WPBuff's ticket ordering should be revisited, because my high priority tickets don't get attention before tickets with a lower priority — date of submitting a ticket seems to be the rule). WPBuffs have given me a hack to highlight urgent tickets, for which I am truly thankful, but I'd prefer them to just respect their own priority labels.
Having said that, communication has been clear and good, and tickets generally resolved quickly. I am happy to have them handling my site speed, help me solving errors, and take the load of finding and killing CSS issues off my back — all great time-savers for me.
Once I learned how to seperate my issues into different tickets, we settled into a nice workflow.
By Þorlákur L.
Response from WP Buffs· Aug 24, 2023
Hi Thorri, we appreciate your review here! It's great to see that you're overall happy with the workflow and relying on our team to fully manage your website.
Your tickets are generally handled in the order they're received, but we're happy to prioritise one over another. In general, it's best to send in a ticket when you need the work done.
In regard to PHP versions, that's something that our team handle for you. It looks like you reported an issue with 2 plugins working with the PHP version and our team ran the updates successfully for you. You had other tickets active at the time, which is why that request was handled after your other active tickets.
Our Client Success Team are always around if you need any further help. Thank you again for taking the time to leave us a review!
The whole team is very supportive &…
The whole team is very supportive & knowledgeable . In fact I want to put 4.5 star , but can't . Weekend Saturday or Sunday seem like nobody answering the "ticket request" .
By Annie
Response from WP Buffs· Aug 21, 2023
Thanks so much for your review, Annie! Thank you also for your feedback about weekend coverage. We're available to 24/7 so you shouldn't see any slowness during the weekend hours. We're taking a look to see what we can improve there. Thanks again!
WP Buffs consistently passes my zero-tolerance policy
Like many others, my business depends on my website and I have a zero-tolerance-on-errors policy with respect to the servicing and maintenance of the site. I've been 100% satisfied with WP Buffs for over a year now. They are highly responsive, and communicative, and get support tickets resolved quickly.
100% recommend WP Buffs.
By Jonathan C.
Response from WP Buffs· Aug 21, 2023
Thank you for this great feedback, Jonathan! We're super happy to see that you're able to trust us 100%. Onward and upward!
False advertising
False advertising. The company sells a 24/7 edit service and, when edits are requested, they are denied.
By Gianfranco C.
Bravo
Bravo, bravissimo for the Buffs! Thank you SO much for making our site operational again. It was the first time in its young life that it became untethered and drifted out of sight. You have brought it back to the harbor and anchored it again. Yeay Buffs❣️🎉🎈🥂❤️
By Bob H.
Response from WP Buffs· Mar 1, 2023
Hi Bob, thanks so much for taking the time to leave you feedback. We really appreciate it! We're so glad that your website is back up and running! Onward and upward!
WOW, Nightmare Customer Service and Slow
WOW, Nightmare Customer Service and Slow
I usually don't take the time to write reviews, but this business' customer service has been a nightmare.
We were paying a large amount for a premium service from WP Buffs. However, I had an urgent ticket request that I posted within their ticket system, and then after 4 days of not hearing from them, they closed the ticket. I expressed my frustration that this was an urgent ticket, and marked appropriately and that I didn't receive a reply, and when I did they cancelled the ticket and started over.
At this point, I received an email I found insulting from the CEO of the company. It was a long rambling email where he said I was probably the type of person to openly email passwords to hackers. The whole experience was surreal.
Then after all that, he decided to cancel my account with them with 5 days warning (trust me I was already costing out other services, lol). However, he continued charging me, even though he locked us out of the account and closed all our tickets out.
At this point I had to go back and point out how this was fraud, then they finally refunded the rest of the month's payment.
Overall, they've been doing updates on our website for about a year now, and they've been slow (3-4 day response time on urgent tickets) and a little low on the technical competence (can't handle anything server related, or do more advanced wordpress edits without repeated feedback and high costs). I'd recommend you looking for a different service provider.
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*Response to the CEO's misleading statements*
Well it looks like the drama is continuing. I edited my review to respond to the CEO giving false info below.
The email I sent first came from an email that wasn't approved on the account, so the next day I added it into the customer ticket portal. My response above is about the ticket actually raised from the approved email within their customer portal.
Furthermore, there was only one ticket raised after they cancelled my original ticket with no response where I highlighted clearly, but not aggressively their shortcomings in customer service.
You can see the type of customer service you'll receive from the response of the company to this message. I pointed out a clear issue in their customer service and rather than resolve it or offer a verification process (if he had a security concern) he flew off the handle, wrote an angry email, and cancelled our account without giving us time to look for a new service provider (5 days notice). He's doubling down with that same poor customer service. I did try to post a review under a pseudonym, but at his lambasting me via email, I decided to happily change it to my real name (as you can see on this review). Who wants the crazy coming after you online? Well, here we are.
Make the decision for yourself, I'm washing my hands of this company.
By Joseph T.
Response from WP Buffs· Jan 20, 2023
We would like to set the record straight that this is false and is the result of someone who was aggressive towards our team and is taking revenge because we canceled their account due to their aggressive emails. This person also left another review with a fake name, which is a good indication of their truthfulness.
This person emailed us from an email address with a domain that was not connected to their website, had never emailed us before, and was never approved by the account owner to send in requests. They asked us to send them usernames and passwords for the website and server. Our team did not do this because this would obviously be a very big security failure.
Only after emails to multiple people at the company were we able to verify that this person was connected to the company, at which point we were able to discuss the account with him.
During that time of trying to verify this person he sent several aggressive emails to our team because we would not send over the usernames and passwords to him by email. That is why he received an email from the CEO about his inappropriate behavior.
We stand by our team 100% for not handing over usernames and passwords and also not subjecting our team to aggressive people.
Excellent experience
Very responsive and turnaround time is excellent! Highly recommend!
By Andee G.
Response from WP Buffs· Sep 19, 2022
Hey Andee, thank you for taking the time to leave us a review here, we really appreciate it!
Awesome to hear how happy you are with our turn around times and responsiveness - we've got your back!
Extremely professional & Prompt
Extremely professional & Prompt is what I will define Wp Buff Care plan! For a soloprenueur like me, these guys are God send:) They literally have your back! I have been with them for years and have always slept peacefully knowing that my Wordpress backend is Safe and Secure. Thanks again guys, you rock. Highly recommended.
By Akash S.
Response from WP Buffs· Aug 29, 2022
Hey Akash! We've really enjoyed working with you over the years and we're glad that you've felt confident while working with us! We wish you all the best, and thank you for taking the time to leave us a review. Onward and upward!