Simply put, plugins are the work horses of WordPress websites.

We have never seen a WordPress site that required absolutely no plugins to function in the ways that clients want their WordPress websites to function.

With more plugins there is potential for more problems, so we base our pricing on how likely it is there will be more work to do when clients have more plugins.

Whether that be conflicts between plugins or hackers trying to exploit vulnerabilities in plugins, there is just more work to be done on a WordPress website that has lots and lots of plugins.

This is why we base our pricing no the number of plugins on your WordPress site, to include those that are active and those that are inactive.