WordPress takeover and support

Take over your WordPress
without starting over

Your site depends on a team that misses dates, answers late and leaves security for later. We audit it, fix what puts the business at risk first, and then run it with you every month, against goals you set.

Sound familiar?

The site works, until you need something from it

  • Dates that keep moving.

    Launches wait on a team you don’t control, and every deadline slips.

  • Messages that go unanswered.

    You hear about problems from your customers before you hear from the people running the site.

  • Security nobody owns.

    Updates wait, plugins pile up, and nobody can tell IT which PHP version the server runs.

  • Answers that skip you.

    When buyers ask ChatGPT, Perplexity or Google’s AI for an answer, your pages aren’t the ones it cites.

Who it’s for

For sites that carry the business

Takeover works best when the site is too important to wait on anyone. Our clients usually have at least one of these:

Traffic that matters

50,000 or more visitors a month, or a site that feeds the sales pipeline directly.

A team that publishes often

Marketing or editorial teams shipping pages, posts or campaigns every week.

More than one team on the site

Marketing, IT, legal or regional teams that each need a say in what goes live.

Risk you can't carry

Logins, gated content, regulated data or a CRM that depends on the site.

Smaller site, or changes a few times a year? A managed hosting plan is usually enough. Our guide to the October PHP flaws covers what to check yourself.

21 October 2026

PHP patched two critical flaws. Updating WordPress doesn’t fix them.

The PHP team released 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35 to close two vulnerabilities rated 9.2 that can let an attacker run code on the server without logging in. The fix lives on the server, not in WordPress or its plugins. If nobody can tell you which PHP version your site runs today, that is the gap we close first.

Fixed in 8.5.12 8.4.27 8.3.36 8.2.35

Source: php.net security advisory, 21 October 2026.

The plan

From a site you depend on to a site you control

Three steps. You decide whether to continue after the first one.

  1. Step 1

    Diagnose

    We audit the code, hosting, PHP and plugin versions, security, deployment, and how search engines and AI assistants see the site. You get it in writing: what is at risk, what is worth keeping and what to fix first.

  2. Step 2

    Build or migrate

    We fix what puts the business at risk first: server and PHP updates, vulnerable plugins, backups and the deployment process. If replacing the site is cheaper, you get that plan instead.

  3. Step 3

    Operate

    Every month we agree goals with you and work against them. The month closes with a report on what moved, and every quarter we review the platform’s health.

Monthly, by goals

A monthly plan built around goals, not tickets

Each month starts with goals you agree with us and ends with a report on what moved. We staff it from the same modules we build enterprise sites with, so the work follows the goals.

Security and updates

Core, plugins and PHP kept current, the site hardened, environments protected and backups tested.

Monitoring and incidents

Uptime, speed, Core Web Vitals and security posture watched continuously. Incidents go to engineers who know your code, within the response times set in your SLA.

Found, read and cited

Structured content, schema and a crawlable architecture, so search engines and AI assistants can find and cite your pages.

Speed

Core Web Vitals work on the pages that matter: loading, response and layout stability.

Campaigns and pages

New landing pages, blocks and integrations your marketing team needs, without waiting in someone else's queue.

One team, one channel

Senior engineers in Argentina and LATAM, working US hours. A report on what moved, every month.

A heavily customized theme that made every update a risk, slow pages and developer support they couldn't rely on. We took over the codebase, made it safe to update and faster, and kept improving it with their team for two years. Editors now publish without calling a developer.

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FAQ

What teams ask before handing over a site

Bring us the site nobody wants to touch

In 30 minutes we look at what you have, including which PHP version your server runs, and tell you what taking it over would involve.