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Case studies from real projects

Domains are anonymized. Metrics are not. Start with archive restoration (parametric URL recovery is what most tools skip), then browse migrations, maintenance networks, and speed wins.

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Case studies

Restores first, then the rest of the stack

Featured: archive restoration with parametric URL recovery. Plus fixes, migrations, maintenance networks, and speed work. Domains anonymized; metrics are real. Full references on request.

fashion-retailer.*
Archive restoration
Lost site back online

Agency client's shop went dark when their developer disappeared. Catalog used ?id= URLs across 1,800 product pages - every other service said those were lost.

Outcome: Full archive capture recovered all 1,800 parametric product pages into WordPress. Site live on the client's domain with SSL + Cloudflare in 2 days.

1,847
Pages recovered
1,812
Parametric URLs
2 days
Delivery
1 / 2
Revisions
?id= recoveryWordPress importSSL + Cloudflare
online-store.*
Bug fix - WooCommerce
Checkout broken after update

Store checkout stopped working after a WooCommerce update. Cart total showed $0, payment gateway returned errors, sales halted for 36 hours.

Outcome: Diagnosed a deprecated hook in a custom payment plugin. Patched the compatibility issue, tested on staging, deployed within 4 hours. Client received a root-cause explanation.

0 (after fix)
Downtime
4 hours
Fix time
Same day
Delivery
0 needed
Revisions
WooCommercePayment gatewayRoot-cause fix
agency-client.*
Migration - host to host
Move 12 sites to WP Engine

Agency needed to migrate 12 client sites from a shared host to WP Engine without downtime. One site had 8 years of blog posts with SEO rankings to preserve.

Outcome: Migrated all 12 sites over a weekend. 301 redirect maps for URL structure changes, SSL pre-configured, DNS cutover with zero downtime. All rankings preserved.

12
Sites moved
0
Downtime
2 days
Delivery
None
SEO impact
WP Engine301 redirectsZero downtime
pbn-network.*
Maintenance - site network
50-site network retainer

Investor had 50 WordPress sites with no maintenance routine. Updates applied blindly broke sites monthly. Backups never tested. Two sites were hacked in one quarter.

Outcome: Set up staged update workflow, daily off-site backups with monthly restore tests, uptime monitoring with Telegram alerts. Zero incidents in the 6 months since.

50
Sites managed
0 (6 mo)
Incidents
0
Update breaks
Monthly
Backup tests
NetworkStaged updatesUptime monitoring
news-portal.*
Speed optimization
Core Web Vitals to green

News site had 38 mobile PageSpeed score. Core Web Vitals failing LCP and CLS. Ad scripts and heavy images dragging performance. Traffic dropping.

Outcome: Image optimization, lazy loading, critical CSS extraction, ad script deferral. Mobile score went from 38 to 91. LCP dropped from 4.2s to 1.8s.

38
Score before
91
Score after
1.8s
LCP
2 days
Delivery
Core Web VitalsImage optimizationCritical CSS
health-blog.*
Expired domain recovery
Restore authority content for SEO

Investor bought an expired health domain with 12 years of authority. Needed original topical content restored - not AI filler that would trip Google's expired-domain abuse policy.

Outcome: Restored 3,200 original archived articles as WordPress pages, preserving the exact topic structure. Footer dates refreshed, archive artifacts stripped, 404 to 301 redirects mapped.

3,200
Articles restored
12 yrs
Years of content
3 days
Delivery
All 301
Redirects
Topical preservationAI cleanupPolicy compliance

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