Working with Dardo from Minneapolis
Dardo is a three-person design studio in Bogotá, Colombia, led by its founder, Nicolás Cerón. We work with companies in Minneapolis remotely: there is no Dardo office in Minneapolis. Calls happen on video, in English or Spanish, and everything we agree goes into a written proposal.
Bogotá keeps UTC−5 all year, with no daylight saving time. Minneapolis is 1 hour behind Bogotá in January and on the same clock as Bogotá in July, so a nine-to-five day in Minneapolis shares 7–8 working hours with a nine-to-five day in Bogotá.
A project starts with a brief through the contact form, by email to hello@dardo.studio or on WhatsApp. Nicolás replies within one business day with the questions that set the scope. The proposal that follows lists the scope, deliverables, assumptions, exclusions, payment stages, a timeline and the people doing the work, by name.
Published starting prices: WordPress maintenance plan from USD 79 a month. Anything beyond that is quoted by scope, with no minimum budget. Pricing explains how a quote is built.
What a WordPress maintenance plan covers
A WordPress plan covers the parts of the site that WordPress itself leaves to you: the plugins and theme, the PHP version, the backups and the checks that catch a failure before visitors do. The proposal lists which of these are in your plan and how often each one runs.
- Core, plugin and theme updates, tested on a staging copy before production, with a rollback point
- PHP upgrades to a supported version, tested first on staging
- A plugin review: unused and abandoned plugins removed or replaced
- Security advisories tracked for every plugin and theme the site runs
- Off-site backups of the database and files, with scheduled restore tests
- Uptime, SSL certificate, domain and form monitoring with alerts
- A monthly report with updates, incidents, Core Web Vitals and the work done
The WordPress maintenance service page has the full scope, the process and the questions buyers ask.
How fast websites in the United States are on phones
In October 2026, 63.9% of the websites in the United States measured by Chrome's user experience report passed all three Core Web Vitals on phones, according to the HTTP Archive. The platform behind a site moves that number:
| Platform | Sites measured | Pass on phones |
|---|---|---|
| Wix | 34,241 | 88.8% |
| Shopify | 118,272 | 86.1% |
| Squarespace | 40,344 | 82.9% |
| Framer | 1,909 | 82.2% |
| Webflow | 15,239 | 80.9% |
| WordPress | 330,180 | 63.3% |
Speed comes from how a site is built more than from the platform, and Google uses Core Web Vitals in search. The platform speed report has the same numbers for other countries.
Work you can check
Projects from 2026, each with its published result:
- Janus Observatory (Science / Interactive storytelling, 2026). −47.9% 3D models: 8.2 MB instead of 15.8 MB.
- Hyper (AI / Customer intelligence, 2026). USD 10 per customer research report on hypers.dev.
- Gissi (Education / Music & arts, 2026). 34 → 416 Google clicks: 3 months before, 9 days after relaunch.
- superame.lol (Community / Digital products, 2026). 17 currencies in Spanish, Portuguese and English.
- Shiimain (Public data / Territorial intelligence, 2026). 4 days to build, 27 to 30 May 2026.
None of these clients is in Minneapolis. They are the projects we can show, with their numbers.
Questions before you choose
Does Dardo have an office in Minneapolis?
No. Dardo is a three-person studio in Bogotá, Colombia, and works with companies in Minneapolis remotely, on video calls, in English or Spanish.
What is the time difference between Minneapolis and Bogotá?
Minneapolis is 1 hour behind Bogotá in January and on the same clock as Bogotá in July. Bogotá keeps UTC−5 all year, so a nine-to-five day in Minneapolis shares 7–8 working hours with ours.
How much does WordPress maintenance cost with Dardo?
WordPress maintenance plan from USD 79 a month. Each project is quoted by scope in an itemized written proposal in US dollars, with no minimum budget.
How much does WordPress website maintenance cost?
Plans start at USD 79 a month for Monitor: monitoring, urgent security updates, backups with a restore test and a short monthly report. Tested scheduled updates, security scans and change hours come in the higher tiers. The price for a WordPress site is confirmed after the initial audit, because the number of plugins, WooCommerce and the hosting change the work.
Do you maintain WooCommerce stores?
Yes. A WooCommerce store gets the same plan plus checks that matter for selling: plugin and extension updates tested against a test order on staging, database updates run after WooCommerce updates, and payment and email notifications confirmed after each release. Stores usually need the Maintain tier or higher.
Sources & further reading
Sources behind this page, with further detail from the original publishers.
- HTTP Archive technology report (Core Web Vitals by platform and country)httparchive.org
- IANA time zone databaseiana.org
- WordPress.org: Requirementswordpress.org
- PHP: Supported versionsphp.net
- WordPress Developer Resources: Upgrading WordPress and automatic background updatesdeveloper.wordpress.org