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.
Salvage Operations · How It Works
Anatomy of a website rescue
Most rescue jobs walk in the same door: a site that's slow, crashing, or quietly losing leads — and nobody left who understands how it was built. Here's exactly how we run a salvage operation, from first look to handoff, so you know what you're signing up for before you sign anything.
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.
Got a site taking on water?
Tell us what's slow, broken, or unexplained. We'll survey it, tell you honestly what it takes to fix — and quote you a fixed price before any work starts.
No ransom required. First consultation is free.