Old WordPress site. Web guy long gone.

You inherited or built a WordPress site years ago, well before 2020, nobody has touched it since, and the person who made it stopped answering. Maybe a form quietly quit sending. Maybe you can't even log in. We've worked in WordPress since 2011 and have pretty much seen it all. If we haven't hit your exact problem, someone in our developer network around the country has.

Tell us what's broken
WordPress Rescue · $125/hour

WordPress Rescue is hourly help for an old or inherited WordPress site that's stopped cooperating: you can't log in, a form quit sending, a page is throwing errors, or the developer who built it has gone quiet. We diagnose the real cause first, tell you what it will take, and fix it by the hour. No retainer, and no rebuild unless you actually need one.

Most of these sites were built well before 2020, launched once, and never touched again. That's not a crisis. It's a site that's been running on its own for years with nobody watching it, so things drift: plugins go stale, a host quietly changes a setting, an email address the site depended on gets shut off.

The hard part is usually access, not the fix itself. Once we can get in and see what's actually happening, most problems are an hour or two of work. We start by finding the cause, not by quoting you a rebuild.

We've seen this exact site before.

01 /

You can't log in anymore.

The login you were handed doesn't work, and the password reset goes to an email nobody can get into. Getting owners back into their own site is the single most common rescue we do.

02 /

A form quietly stopped sending.

Your contact or booking form still looks fine, but the submissions haven't been arriving. Leads were going nowhere and nobody noticed until now.

03 /

The developer disappeared.

Whoever built the site years ago has stopped answering, moved on, or closed up shop, and took the only working knowledge of your site with them.

04 /

Nothing's been updated in years.

WordPress, the theme, and the plugins are years behind, and now you're afraid to click update on any of it in case the whole thing falls over.

05 /

The site is down or throwing errors.

A blank white screen, a plugin error, a page that won't load, and no idea who to call to make it stop.

06 /

You don't know who holds what.

Hosting, domain, logins: you're not sure who actually controls them, or how to get back in if something breaks again.

The stuff that breaks on old WordPress sites.

01 / Access recovery

Get you back into wp-admin

We help you regain control of your own site, reset credentials the safe way, and recover the admin account even when the original email is dead.

02 / Forms

Fix forms that stopped sending

We track down why Contact Form 7, Gravity Forms, WPForms, or a theme form quit delivering, and get submissions landing in your inbox again.

03 / Errors

Clear broken pages and white screens

We find the plugin, theme, or PHP conflict behind the error and get the site back up and loading.

04 / Updates

Bring a neglected site current, safely

We update core, theme, and plugins carefully, on a staging copy first, so a ten-year-old site doesn't collapse mid-update.

05 / Ownership

Sort out who actually holds what

We untangle your hosting, domain, and logins so you own your site outright and aren't stranded the next time something breaks.

06 / Honest verdict

Tell you if it's worth saving

If we get in and the site is genuinely past saving, we say so, instead of quietly billing hours against a rebuild in disguise.

When the honest answer is that a site is past saving, a clean rebuild makes more sense than pouring hours into a build that old. That's exactly what Foundation Start is for, and whatever's worth keeping comes with you.

Once the site is healthy again, getting it cited by ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, and Perplexity is a separate step. That's the work we do next, and it only works on a site that isn't broken underneath. If your site already runs fine and just isn't showing up, start with WordPress, Unstuck instead.

Fifteen years in WordPress, and a network behind it.

We've been working in WordPress since 2011, back when a lot of these sites were first built. We know the themes, the page builders, and the plugin habits of that earlier era of the web, because we were using them at the time. That matters when you open up a site nobody bothered to document.

01 /

We fix the actual problem.

No forced rebuild, and no monthly contract you didn't ask for. Small problems stay small.

02 /

There's a network behind us.

When something's outside what we've personally run into, we lean on developers around the country. If we haven't seen it, someone we know has.

03 /

You approve before we bill.

We diagnose the cause and estimate the hours before any fix work starts. No surprise invoices.

Diagnose first. Fix second. Bill as we go.

01 / Tell us

Tell us what's broken

Send a short note about the symptom: locked out, form dead, white screen, whatever it is. A screenshot helps. You don't need to know the cause.

02 / Diagnose

We find the real cause

We get into the site, or figure out how to, find what's actually going on, and tell you what it'll take in hours before we start. You approve it first.

03 / Fix

We fix it at $125/hour

Billed as you go, no retainer, no monthly contract. Most rescues are a couple of hours, not a project.

WordPress rescue, answered.

I'm locked out of WordPress and the password reset goes nowhere. Can you still get in?

Usually, yes. There are several ways back into a WordPress site even when the login is dead and the reset email points to an inbox you can't reach, as long as you can show the site is yours. Getting owners back into their own site is one of the most common rescues we do.

My WordPress contact form stopped sending emails. Can you fix that?

Almost always. Forms that quietly stop sending are usually a mail delivery or plugin problem, not a lost cause. We find out whether it's Contact Form 7, Gravity Forms, WPForms, or your host blocking the mail, and get submissions landing in your inbox again.

The developer who built my site disappeared. Can you just take it over?

Yes. Inheriting a site from a developer who has gone quiet is exactly what this is for. We get you proper access, document what you actually own, and take it from there. You don't need anything from the original developer to start.

Is it worth fixing an older WordPress site that hasn't been updated in years, or should I start over?

It depends on the site, and we'll tell you honestly after we look. Plenty of older WordPress sites are worth keeping with a few hours of cleanup. Some are held together with abandoned plugins and cost more to nurse than to replace. You get a straight answer before you spend on either path.

How does the hourly rate work, and will I get a surprise bill?

It's $125 an hour, billed as you go, with no retainer or monthly contract. We diagnose the problem first and give you an estimate in hours before any fix work starts, so you approve the number before the meter runs. Most rescues are a couple of hours.

Do I need to be in St. Petersburg or Tampa Bay?

No. We're based in St. Petersburg and love working with Tampa Bay businesses in person, but WordPress rescue work happens remotely. We can help wherever your site and your hosting live.

Tell us what's broken. We'll tell you what it'll take.

Send over the symptom and we'll diagnose the cause before anything gets billed. If your site works fine and just isn't showing up in AI search, the Unstuck path is the better fit.

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