Dead client site or a drop → live WordPress. ?p= and ?id= in the capture. Original URLs stay live.
Wayback Machine to live WordPress. Original URLs. ?p= and ?id= in the capture. 3 domains $399. Not a ZIP of HTML.
You send a domain and a Wayback link if you have one. Same job if you bought a drop. I check the last-good snapshot and name what will not come back before capture. That is a scope, not a written CDX report.
Capture walks the archive to that date, including ?p= and ?id=. Then I strip Wayback chrome, previous-owner contacts and shop pages, logo and favicon. No generated filler. Gaps stay gaps.
What you get is live WordPress on your domain. Original archive URLs stay 200. WordPress permalinks 301 to those originals. Admin access. Archive HTML in the dashboard — not a ZIP, not a theme rebuild. SSL, Cloudflare, nameservers you change. I tell you what came back and what did not. Rankings are not a promise.
What you send
Domain name and a Wayback Machine link. Hosting access if you already have it. For a roster, paste the list.
What you get
Live WP, original URLs, admin access. Archive HTML in the dashboard — not a ZIP, not a theme rebuild. Wayback chrome, old contacts/shop, logo stripped. SSL, Cloudflare. What came back and what did not.
What is not promised
Rankings. Traffic. Pages the archive never captured. A written CDX audit. I name gaps before capture.
How a restore runs
Same sequence for one domain or a batch. Every step produces something you can check.
- 01
CDX check
I walk the Wayback CDX index for your domain, pick the last date the site actually worked, and flag parking pages and host suspension stubs. You get named gaps before anything is captured — not after payment.
- 02
Coherent capture
The full archive walk runs to one coherent date, so you get one era of design instead of a 2019 homepage glued to 2016 inner pages. Parametric URLs (?p=, ?id=) are first-class citizens in the manifest. Raw snapshots come down without Wayback chrome.
- 03
Gap-fill gate
Broken internal links are re-fetched automatically, up to five rounds. The pipeline refuses to ship while content URLs are still missing — it stops and lists them. If the archive never captured a page, you get that URL on a missing list, never a filler page.
- 04
Scrub
Wayback artifacts (toolbar, web.archive.org links) are stripped, with a hard QA fail if any survive. Previous-owner traces go next: contacts, mailto links, shop prices and BUY buttons, author socials, stale copyright years. Logo and favicon regenerated.
- 05
Live WP + URL router
Archive HTML goes into live WordPress 1:1. A routing plugin keeps original URLs canonical: ?p=42 answers 200 at /?p=42, WP slugs 301 to their originals, and sitemap.xml lists only recovered original URLs. Static-era .html trees survive the move too.
- 06
Verify + handoff
A machine-generated verify report samples live URLs, checks parametric permalinks, drafts, sitemap contents, and old-owner traces before delivery. You get admin access, hosting on SSL behind Cloudflare, nameservers to switch, and a handoff note: what came back and what never will.
What's included
Batches
Same job if you bought a drop. Original topic. No filler. Gaps stay gaps. 3 domains $399. 10+ $1,299. Same page cap per domain as Standard, after I check the archive.
Pricing
Fixed price. No surprise add-ons. Payment terms agreed upfront.
Standard
One domain. Page cap after I check the archive — up to 3,000 pages on this tier. Same cap if you bought a drop.
- 1 domain
- Up to 3,000 pages after scope
- 3-day delivery
- 2 revision rounds
- Parametric URLs (?p=, ?id=)
- Live WP + admin, original URLs
- Hosting, SSL, Cloudflare
- Wayback / PII / logo strip
Advanced
10,000+ pages. Same pipeline. 4-day delivery. 3 revision rounds.
- Everything in Standard
- 10,000+ pages recovered
- 4-day delivery
- 3 revision rounds
- Full quality pass on every page
- Priority Telegram channel
Portfolio (3 domains)
Three domains, same restore. Same page cap per domain as Standard. $133/domain vs $149.
- 3 domains, one pipeline
- Same page cap per domain as Standard
- Original topic. No filler
- 4-day delivery
- Everything in Standard, per domain
Network (10+ domains)
Ten or more domains. Same restore on each. Weekly delivery batches. Quote if the list is larger.
- 10+ domains
- Same page cap per domain as Standard
- Per-domain cost drops at this volume
- Dedicated project channel
- Weekly delivery batch
From a delivered job
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Delivered on live WP with a machine-checked verify report attached.
2,722 pages recovered. 50/50 sampled URLs 200. ?p= permalinks intact.
See all casesBefore we start
Send the domain and the archive link.
Scope and price before any work. Packs if you have a list: 3 domains $399.
