WordPress Rescue · Northeast Ohio
Get off WordPress for good, without losing the Google rankings you spent years earning.
Updated October 21, 2026
On October 21, 2026, the FBI and NSA warned about two critical flaws in PHP, the code that WordPress and most small business websites run on. Attack code is already public.
WordPress itself didn't cause this, but every WordPress site is at risk until the server underneath it is updated. Sites on PHP 8.1 or older get no fix at all, and upgrading them often breaks old themes and plugins.
Most good hosts are patching now. Older sites on cheap hosting, or sites nobody has touched in years, are the ones at real risk.
Sources: FBI Cyber Division, DigitalOcean advisory
If any of these sound familiar, send me your website. I'll tell you where you stand, and if you're fine, I'll say so.
Get a Free ConsultationTwo businesses moved off WordPress, and a third launched on what the second left behind. None of them threw away what Google already knew.
Farm attraction · Medina
10×
search reach from new visitors, and holding
A page-builder WordPress site with 14 plugins logged 318,042 PHP warnings in its last 17 days. After the move, searches from people who didn't know the farm's name went from about 1,700 impressions a day to about 17,300.
Read the case study →Insurance agency · Retiring
61
dead links turned into permanent redirects
The agency was retiring, but Google still knew its articles. I rebuilt the 27 pages worth keeping as a lightweight archive at their original addresses (3.5 GB down to 0.56 MB), hosted by us. Every recovered link now lands on the successor's site.
Insurance agency · Canton
#1
on Google for “turning 65 canton ohio”
A new domain with no history, launched on our platform instead of WordPress. After about 2 months of SEO work, 4 of 7 tracked searches are on Google's first page, including #3 for “medicare part d canton oh.”
Visit befrankagency.com →Every page Google has seen, including old ones from web archives. Nothing that still earns visitors gets lost.
Fast pages built ahead of time, with no plugins. Forms, email, and analytics come built in, not bolted on.
Every dead address goes to its closest matching page, never just the home page. Each one is tested live.
Search markup so Google reads your business correctly, one page per search, and rankings tracked every day.
No plugins, and no PHP for attackers to exploit.
Pages are built ahead of time and served instantly.
You own your website and all of your data.
Want the long version? Read Is WordPress (or GoDaddy, or Wix) Holding Your Business Back?
Not if the move is done right. Before anything changes, I inventory every page Google already knows, keep what's working, and redirect what's broken to its closest match. When Majestic Meadows Alpacas moved off WordPress, searches from new visitors grew 10× and held.
The October flaw is in PHP, the code WordPress runs on. WordPress didn't cause it, but every WordPress site is exposed until the server underneath it is updated. That's the deeper problem: your site's safety depends on layers you don't control.
Probably, for this flaw, and that's good news. A rescue is about never needing an emergency patch again. The sites I build have no plugins and no PHP for attackers to exploit.
It depends on what your business needs. A simple site can be up within days, but custom features and protecting your search rankings take longer. A free consultation gets you a real answer for your site.
Yes. You own your website and all of your data. I host and operate the platform it runs on.
Every business is different, so pricing is a conversation, not a menu. Contact me for pricing, and the first consultation is free.
Serving Northeast Ohio
I'll tell you exactly where you stand, free. If your site is fine, I'll tell you that too.