WordPress Rescue & Migration: Broken Sites, Malware, Zero-Downtime Moves
Zak
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What I fix
Most WordPress emergencies fall into a handful of shapes, and I have worked through all of them - on my own sites and on other people’s.
The site is down or broken
- White screen of death, 500 errors, critical error after an update
- Plugin or theme conflicts, fatal PHP errors
- Database connection failures
- Malware cleanup, injected spam links, compromised admin accounts
The site needs to move
- Host to host, with no downtime
- Domain change, HTTP to HTTPS, with redirects and internal links rewritten so nothing 404s
- Staging to production
- Email and DNS kept working through the move
WooCommerce is losing money
- Checkout failing, payment methods not appearing
- Apple Pay and Google Pay setup
- Bulk product import, catalogue restructuring
- Speed, and mobile layouts that break the buy button
How I work on a broken site
- Backup first. Always, before touching anything.
- Find the actual cause - error logs, not guesswork. Guessing on a live site is how you break it twice.
- Fix, verify, and write down what was wrong so it does not come back.
You get the fix plus a short plain-English note explaining what happened. No calls to schedule, no meetings - which usually means your site is back sooner.
Pricing
Fixed price agreed before I start, so you know the cost up front. Send me the symptoms and the access, and I will tell you what it is and what it costs.