Tampa Forge
The developer disappeared
Emails bounce, calls go to voicemail, invoices stopped — and so did the updates. The site still runs, but no one alive-and-answering knows how, or holds the keys.
Inherited WordPress sites
You inherited a WordPress site nobody can explain.
The previous developer is gone, the site works until it doesn't, and there are thirty-something plugins installed with no note about why. We audit the install, document what every plugin is actually doing, flag the abandoned ones, and hand you back a WordPress site you can run without holding your breath.
Ships We Board
Four ways a website ends up orphaned
However it happened, the situation underneath is the same: a working business depends on a site nobody currently controls or understands. Here's what usually washes into our harbor.
The agency shut down
The company that built and hosted your site folded, got acquired, or "sunset" your plan. You may have weeks before hosting lapses and the site goes down with the ship.
The employee who ran it left
The site lived in one person's personal accounts — their email on the domain, their card on the hosting. They've moved on, and every renewal notice is going somewhere you can't see.
Someone's holding it hostage
A previous provider won't hand over the domain, the files, or the admin login without a fight or a fee. We help you establish what you rightfully own and get it back under your flag.
The Takeover, Step by Step
From mystery ship to documented vessel
Our promise on every takeover is the first article of our code: no hostage websites. Domain, hosting, code, and every account end up registered in your name, with credentials in your hands — including our own access, which you can revoke any day you like.
Recover & inventory the accounts We track down where the domain is registered, where the site is hosted, and every service it quietly depends on — then work the recovery processes to get access legitimately restored and transferred to accounts you own.
Document how it actually works Platform, plugins, integrations, deploy process, renewal dates, and who to call for what — written down in plain English, so the site's knowledge never again lives in one person's head.
Assess its health honestly Updates, backups, security, speed. We tell you what's solid, what's worn, and what's genuinely urgent versus what can wait — with plain-language priorities, not a scare-quote for everything at once.
Take over the care If you want us aboard afterward, we handle updates, backups, monitoring, and fixes on a steady monthly rhythm — and everything we touch stays yours.
The handover audit
What we document for you
You end up with a written map of your own site — the thing the last developer never left behind.
Every plugin, explained
What it does, whether the page you think depends on it actually does, when it was last updated, and whether the author still exists.
What's abandoned or nulled
The plugins that are a security incident waiting to happen, with a replacement plan for each.
Undocumented custom code
Snippets hidden in functions.php or a mystery must-use plugin, extracted and documented as a proper plugin you own.
Accounts and keys
Hosting, domain, DNS, and license keys traced and transferred into your name — not the last developer's.
Not sure what you've taken on?
Send us admin access or just a screenshot of your plugins page. We'll tell you what you're carrying and what it would take to make it safe.
Request a free consultationNo ransom required. First conversation is free.