WordPress rescue and repair

YOUR WEBSITE SHOULD NOT BE
COSTING YOU CUSTOMERS.

Broken, hacked, slow or abandoned by the last developer. We find out what is actually wrong, tell you in plain English, quote a fixed price, and fix most of it inside 48 hours.

48 hours most fixes turned around
No fix no fee
Free diagnosis before you commit
16+ years on WordPress

WordPress rescue and repair

MOST WORDPRESS EMERGENCIES ARE ONE SMALL THING.

A site that will not load, a checkout that fails, a white screen after an update. It feels catastrophic, and the quotes that come back often assume a rebuild. In our experience most of it is a single plugin conflict, an outdated PHP version, a database that has stopped coping, or a backdoor left behind by an old infection.

So we diagnose before we quote. You get a written answer about what is actually wrong, what it will cost to fix, and whether fixing is even the right call. If a rebuild genuinely is cheaper, we will show you both numbers and say so.

This work is remote, which means we can start today. We work with businesses in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, the Gold Coast, Perth, Adelaide and regional Australia, and we have been doing it on WordPress since 2009.

THE SIGNS YOU NEED THIS FIXED.

If any of these sound like your situation, this is the right page.

It is painfully slow

Visitors leave before the page paints and Google quietly moves you down.

It crashed or got hacked

White screen, malware warning, or a plugin update that took the whole site with it.

It looks a decade old

The design dates the business and nobody trusts a site that looks abandoned.

The developer vanished

No logins, no handover, no documentation, and nobody answering email.

Checkout is broken

Payments fail, carts empty themselves, orders never arrive.

No enquiries are coming in

The form posts into a void, or there is no clear next step on any page.

EXACTLY WHAT IS INCLUDED.

No vague scope. This is what you get for the number on the quote.

01

Free diagnosis

We look at the real site, not a guess, and write down what is wrong before you pay anything.

02

Fixed-price quote

One number, agreed before work starts. No hourly meter running in the background.

03

The actual fix

Server, theme, plugin or database, whatever the cause turns out to be.

04

A full backup first

Nothing is touched until there is a restore point we have tested.

05

Plain-English report

What broke, why it broke, what we changed, and what to watch for.

06

Handover and logins

Every credential in your name, written down, yours to keep.

The honest technical bit

WHAT USUALLY CAUSES THIS.

Written out properly, because the cause decides the price and most quotes skip it.

Plugin and theme conflicts

Most WordPress emergencies are two pieces of code disagreeing after an update. The fix is rarely deleting the plugin; it is finding which hook or script collides and resolving it so you keep the feature.

Outdated PHP or a stale core

Hosts move PHP versions and old themes stop working. We check the PHP version, the extensions it loads and the error log before changing anything, because switching versions blindly can take every site on the account down.

A database that has stopped coping

Years of revisions, orphaned metadata and expired transients can make a perfectly good site crawl. Cleaning that up safely is usually faster and cheaper than a rebuild.

Compromised files from an old vulnerability

A backdoor left behind by an earlier infection reinfects the site days later. Removing the symptom is not the same as removing the way in.

DOING IT YOURSELF VS CALLING US.

There is no shame in trying first. This is what usually happens either way.

Doing it yourselfCalling us
Finding the causeHours of forum threads and guessworkA written diagnosis, usually the same day
Risk while fixingLive site, no restore pointTested backup taken first
CostFree until it is notFixed price, quoted up front
If it does not workYou are back where you startedNo fix, no fee
After the fixSame setup, same riskReport plus what to watch for

Swipe the table sideways on a phone.

HOW IT RUNS.

Four steps, and you can stop after the second one at no cost.

01

Tell us what is happening

A message on WhatsApp or the form, in your own words. No form full of fields you do not understand.

02

Free diagnosis

We look at the real site and write down what is actually wrong, before you have paid anything.

03

Fixed-price quote

One number, agreed before any work starts. If we cannot fix it, you do not pay for it.

04

Fixed, tested and handed back

The work done, tested, and a plain-English note on what changed and what to watch.

QUESTIONS, ANSWERED.

The ones people actually ask before they hand over a login.

How fast can you actually fix it?

Most jobs are done inside 48 hours of you approving the quote. Emergencies like a hacked site or a dead checkout get looked at the same day. If something needs your host to act, we tell you up front, because that part is outside our control.

What does no fix, no fee mean?

If we cannot fix the problem we quoted for, you do not pay for it. It does not cover work you later decide you did not want, or problems created after we hand back.

Do you need my hosting login?

Usually yes, or at least WordPress admin. We never ask for your personal passwords, and every credential you give us can be revoked the moment the job is done.

Will I lose content or rankings?

No. We back up before touching anything, keep URLs intact unless you ask otherwise, and set up redirects where a URL genuinely has to change.

Can you take over a site built by someone else?

Yes, that is most of this work. We do not need the original developer's cooperation, only access to the hosting and the domain.

Do you work outside Sydney?

Yes. Almost all of this runs remotely by email, WhatsApp and screen share, so we work with businesses in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, the Gold Coast, Perth, Adelaide and regional Australia.

What if the site is beyond saving?

Sometimes a rebuild is cheaper than a repair. We say so, show you the numbers both ways, and you choose. We do not quote a rescue we do not believe in.

LET US LOOK AT IT BEFORE YOU PANIC.

Free diagnosis, a fixed-price quote, and most work finished within 48 hours. Tell us what is happening and we will tell you what it takes.

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