Evidence: real WordPress recoveries, with the artifacts attached
Every case below is a real engagement. Read what was wrong, the exact steps we took, and the measurable outcome. No vanity metrics, no stock screenshots.
Reviewed by Ali Yasin Jatoi, Founder & Lead Engineer· Updated 2026-07-03
In one month we took webcarestudios.com from 2 clicks and 33 impressions in Google Search Console to 56 clicks and 13.3K impressions. Average position moved from 55.9 to 4.6. No paid ads, no link buying, no AI slop. Fewer, deeper pages. Real founder voice. Aggressive internal linking. A freshness ping loop. Schema on every money page. This is month 1 of a 3 month plan.
56 vs 2
Clicks in month 1 vs previous 3 months combined (28x)
13.3K vs 33
Impressions vs previous 3 months (approx 400x)
4.6 vs 55.9
Average Google position, moved onto page 1
Evidence on file
Before / after· on request
Server logs· on request
WordPress services and agency operations·30 days (month 1 of 3)
A live checkout broke during a paid traffic spike. Every minute was lost revenue. We triaged, isolated a plugin conflict, restored sales in under an hour, then hardened the stack so it could not happen again.
Aaron Golub is a professional speaker and entrepreneur. His existing site was slow, technically thin, and not converting traffic into bookings. We took over the site, fixed the technical SEO foundations, rebuilt page speed, and now run the ongoing digital strategy.
Everest Nevraumont is a young public speaker with a national profile. The brand needed a polished, fast, and reliable website that her father and manager Edward could trust without thinking about it. We delivered the rebuild and now run all ongoing care.
100%
Pixel level brand match on launch
0
Post launch downtime to date
24h
Standard response on every request
Evidence on file
Loom narration· on request
Before / after· on request
Server logs· on request
Speakers and Personal Brands·Rebuild plus ongoing care
Adam Mendler is a leadership speaker who has interviewed hundreds of CEOs. He has high standards and a clear vision. Other agencies declined the project. We met with him daily, refined every detail, and delivered a site that matched his vision exactly.
100%
Pixel perfect design match
Daily
Iteration calls through delivery
1
Round of post launch revisions, not 10
Evidence on file
Loom narration· on request
Before / after· on request
Server logs· on request
Speakers and Personal Brands·Multi week design and build
A UK agency network of 30+ WordPress sites was reinfecting itself faster than each site could be cleaned, because they all sat in the same shared hosting account. We treated the whole account as one cleanup, used WP-CLI in bulk, and stopped the reinfection cycle. Full recorded evidence is available on request during a discovery call.
30+
WordPress sites cleaned in one pass
0
Reinfections in 14 days post cleanup
1 night
Total downtime window across the fleet
Evidence on file
Loom narration· on request
Before / after· on request
Server logs· on request
Agency network·Single overnight cleanup window plus 14 day monitoring
A US professional speaker website had real audience demand but the technical SEO foundations were thin. We rebuilt page structure, fixed indexability, restructured internal links around booking intent keywords, and added 53 ranking keywords to Search Console in 30 days. Full recorded evidence is available on request during a discovery call.
+53
New ranking keywords in 30 days
Top 10
Positions for primary booking terms
30 days
From audit to first measurable lift
Evidence on file
Before / after· on request
Server logs· on request
Speakers and personal brands·30 days from audit to measurable lift, ongoing optimisation since
A UAE luxury real estate portal had 72,000 canonical and duplicate URL errors in Search Console against 1,200 real listings. Faceted navigation was indexing every filter combination. We mapped every URL pattern, set correct canonicals, blocked infinite combinations, and recovered indexing health in 6 weeks. Full recorded evidence is available on request during a discovery call.
72,000 → <1,500
Canonical errors cleared in Search Console
3x
Crawl frequency on real listing pages
6 weeks
From cleanup start to coverage recovery
Evidence on file
Loom narration· on request
Before / after· on request
Server logs· on request
Real estate (luxury, UAE)·6 weeks from audit to coverage recovery, ongoing maintenance since
A booking deposit gateway stopped charging cards after a payment plugin auto update. Enquiries kept coming in, none were converting. We restored payments in under 2 hours, recovered every pending enquiry, and shipped a permanent integration fix. Full recorded evidence is available on request during a discovery call.
<2 hrs
From first call to payments live
0
Lost enquiries during the outage
100%
Pending deposits recovered manually
Evidence on file
Server logs· on request
Before / after· on request
Real estate (luxury)·Single emergency window plus 30 day monitoring
A US furniture retailer had 57 active plugins layered over 4 years of patchwork. The team would not touch updates because every update broke something. We built a full staging clone, audited every plugin, removed 22, and stabilised the live storefront with zero downtime. Full recorded evidence is available on request during a discovery call.
57 → 35
Active plugins after audit
0
Storefront downtime during the rescue
38%
Faster admin load after cleanup
Evidence on file
Loom narration· on request
Before / after· on request
Server logs· on request
Ecommerce (furniture)·3 weeks audit and staged rollout
A SaaS marketing site froze on mobile menu tap right after a host migration. The team was about to roll the whole migration back. We traced it to two plugins loading conflicting jQuery versions, deduped the load order, and shipped a permanent fix in one session. Full recorded evidence is available on request during a discovery call.
A UK catering site looked healthy. The contact form said thanks. No enquiries arrived in the inbox for 11 days. We diagnosed a broken SMTP handoff, rerouted email through a proper transactional service, and recovered the lost messages from the database. Full recorded evidence is available on request during a discovery call.
<1 hr
From first call to working form
23
Lost enquiries recovered from the database
0
Future silent failures, monitoring now in place
Evidence on file
Server logs· on request
Before / after· on request
Hospitality and catering·Single emergency session plus ongoing monitoring
A SaaS marketing site was failing Core Web Vitals on mobile. The hero loaded a 1.4 MB unoptimised PNG above the fold and the theme blocked rendering with 9 synchronous scripts. We cut LCP from 4.8s to 1.6s in two weeks with no rebuild. Full recorded evidence is available on request during a discovery call.
An agency inherited a 32 site WordPress multisite network from a former partner. Three sites were down, four had silent form failures, and the network admin had not been updated in 18 months. We stabilised the entire network in one weekend window. Full recorded evidence is available on request during a discovery call.
32 sites
Stabilised in one weekend
0
Customer reported issues during the work
18 months
Of skipped updates safely caught up
Evidence on file
Before / after· on request
Server logs· on request
Agency networks·Single weekend window plus ongoing care
A WordPress membership site stopped provisioning new members. Stripe was charging cards. The site never granted access. We traced it to a broken webhook endpoint, restored it in 90 minutes, and manually provisioned every paid signup the site had missed. Full recorded evidence is available on request during a discovery call.
90 min
From first call to webhooks live
100%
Missed signups manually provisioned
$0
Lost to refund requests
Evidence on file
Server logs· on request
Before / after· on request
Membership and LMS·Single emergency window plus ongoing monitoring
A nonprofit donation site was hit with a Google deceptive site warning days before a major fundraising push. Donations stopped overnight. We removed the malware, hardened the site, and got the warning cleared by Google in 36 hours. Full recorded evidence is available on request during a discovery call.
36 hrs
From first call to warning cleared
100%
Of donation traffic restored before launch
0
Reinfections in the 90 days since
Evidence on file
Before / after· on request
Server logs· on request
Nonprofit·36 hour emergency window plus ongoing security care
Adam Mendler had spent years publishing on Squarespace: more than 1,500 CEO interviews, talks, media features, and articles. The archive was his brand, but Squarespace's export was incomplete and the platform capped what he could do next. We wrote a scraper to pull every record cleanly, built a custom plugin that mapped Squarespace fields to WordPress custom post types, redesigned the page templates in Elementor with dynamic fields, and then cut the domain over. Every URL, every article, every quote made it across.
1,500+
Articles and talks migrated with full fidelity
0
URLs lost during cutover, every old path redirected
100%
Original SEO metadata, dates, and authors preserved
Evidence on file
GSC screenshot· on request
Before / after· on request
Speakers and Personal Brands·Multi week migration plus 30 day post cutover monitoring