Tampa Forge
A decade of accumulated plugins
WordPress installs stacked with abandoned plugins and page builders nobody on staff knows how to use. Every one is drag on speed and a hole in the hull for security.
WordPress rescue
Anatomy of a WordPress rescue.
Most rescues look the same from the outside: the site is slow, something broke after an update, and nobody knows which of the thirty-one installed plugins is responsible. Here's how we work one — and why the fix usually ends with replacing a stack of plugins with one you own.
The Usual Suspects
What a sinking site looks like
Four failure patterns show up on almost every rescue we're called in for. If any of these sound familiar, your site is a candidate.
Forms that fail without telling anyone
The most expensive failure is invisible: a contact form that stopped delivering months ago. The owner assumes business is slow. The leads were sinking in transit.
Hosting that buckles under real traffic
Bargain shared hosting holds fine until local search actually sends visitors — then pages time out exactly when someone's ready to buy.
Nobody knows how it was built
The developer moved on, the passwords are scattered, and there's no documentation. Touching anything feels dangerous, so nothing gets fixed.
The Salvage Operation
How we refloat it, step by step
Same course every time — so you always know where things stand and what it costs before we start.
Leg 1 — Survey
Dive the wreck
We audit what's actually there: hosting, code, plugins, forms, backups, and who controls which accounts. You get a plain-English map of what's broken and what it costs to fix — as a fixed price, in writing.
Leg 2 — Stabilize
Stop the leaks first
Before any rebuild: security patches, working backups, and a form that actually delivers. The bleeding stops in the first days, not at the end of the project.
Leg 3 — Rebuild
Rebuild alongside the old
The new site takes shape on a preview URL while the old one keeps running. Your domain, branding, and content come across — you click through the replacement before anything switches.
Leg 4 — Handoff
Cut over, hand back the keys
Launch happens with no downtime, and every credential, repo, and account lands in your hands. We'll stay aboard for upkeep if you want us — but you'll never need us to hold your own keys.
What You Get
What "rescued" means, concretely
A site that loads fast Lean pages, optimized images, and hosting sized for your real traffic — measured before and after, so the improvement is a number, not a feeling.
A form you can trust Every lead path tested end to end and confirmed delivering, with a record of submissions so nothing silently disappears again.
Documentation and keys A written map of how the site works, where everything lives, and every login — owned by you, not by whoever built it.
A fixed price, honored The number we quote after the survey is the number you pay. If we find something unexpected mid-job, you hear about it before it costs you anything.
How a rescue runs
The four stages of a WordPress rescue
Same order every time, because guessing on a live WordPress site is how you make things worse.
Inventory the install
Every plugin, its version, its last update date, and whether its author still exists. Abandoned plugins are the single most common root cause we find.
Reproduce on staging
A clone of your site where we can deactivate things without taking your business offline. Nothing gets diagnosed on production.
Find the actual conflict
Bisecting the plugin list until the culprit is named — not a guess, a demonstration you can watch.
Rebuild or replace
Sometimes an update fixes it. Often the right answer is one custom plugin replacing the four that were fighting.
Is your WordPress site the one in this story?
Send us the symptoms and a list of what's installed. We'll tell you what we think is wrong and what a fix would cost, at a fixed price.
No ransom required. First consultation is free.