Harold M.

Slow, hacked or broken WordPress site? I find the real cause, fix it without breaking what works, and show you the numbers before and after. US-based in Pensacola, FL, native English. Top Rated, 100% Job Success, 5.0 from 29 reviews. RECENT RESULTS, ALL ON UPWORK ✅ WooCommerce speed: product pages took 19 seconds to show on a phone. Mobile PageSpeed 27 to 84, LCP 19.3s to 3.9s, same store, same checkout. ✅ Law firm speed: Search Console flagged 237 slow mobile pages. Blog main content 14s to 5.2s, homepage mobile 36 to 53, then a dead enquiry popup fixed. ✅ Google Ads landing pages: sped up 8 ad pages after a malware clean, main content on screen 4 to 9 seconds sooner on mobile, with every gclid and utm still reaching the tracking. ✅ Malware: found a webshell during a routine backup, checked 2,729 core files and 703 theme files, rotated every credential, written report the same day. ✅ Hacked store: removed 10,614 spam posts left by an old break-in and restored a checkout no US address could complete. ✅ Login down: a company intranet's Microsoft 365 sign-in was broken for 18 days. Fixed at the root, then 16 plugins updated with no regressions. ✅ Email fixed: a firm's website email had failed on every send since 2021. Traced to a broken SMTP login, moved sending to the site's own domain with SPF, every form email verified. ✅ Technical SEO: 546 URLs crawled, duplicate city pages folded into one with 301s, homepage mobile 54 to 82. Another site: orphan pages 74 to 7 with 130 links verified live. ✅ Prototype to WordPress: a site built on Replit recreated on WordPress in 2 days, against the client's 7 to 10 day estimate. ✅ Theme rescue: an outdated iThemes Builder theme replaced with a modern theme and a 502 error fixed. The client picked this profile out of 100+ proposals. WHAT I DO ✅ Speed and Core Web Vitals. LCP, layout shift, render-blocking scripts, images, caching (LiteSpeed, WP Rocket, Cloudflare). Measured on Google's PageSpeed before and after, mobile and desktop, tracking left intact. ✅ Security and malware removal. Webshells and backdoors, core and theme files checked against clean copies, vulnerable plugins, credential rotation, firewall, Google warnings cleared, written incident report. ✅ Fixes and recovery. White screens, 500 errors, broken layouts after an update, PHP upgrades, logins and SSO, forms and email that stop arriving. ✅ Migrations. New host or new domain without losing traffic: redirect map tested first, DNS, SSL, staging, rollback ready. ✅ Email and domains. Website and business email that stops arriving: SMTP, SPF, DKIM, DMARC, Google Workspace and Microsoft 365, domain and DNS moves. ✅ Technical SEO on WordPress. Search Console errors, sitemaps, canonicals, hreflang, schema, internal linking, GA4 and Tag Manager. ✅ WooCommerce. Checkout and gateway failures, shipping and tax, Stripe, slow product and cart pages. ✅ Elementor and builds. Elementor, Divi, WPBakery, Kadence, Beaver Builder. Fixing, rebuilding or building pages that load fast. ✅ Monthly care. Updates on staging first, backups, security scans, form checks, small fixes, one developer who knows your site. HOW I WORK Backup first. Baseline measured. Every change logged and reversible. Tested on phone and desktop. Plain-English report at the end. Fixed-price milestones or a monthly retainer, agreed up front. Fast replies, US Central time, 30+ hrs/week. Send me the site and tell me what's broken. WordPress Website Developer | Elementor Expert | WordPress Developer | WordPress Expert | WordPress Development | WordPress Speed Optimization | Page Speed Optimization | Core Web Vitals | WordPress Malware Removal | WordPress Security | WordPress Migration | WordPress Maintenance | WordPress SEO | WooCommerce Developer | Elementor Pro | WPML | PHP | Web Development | API Integration | Stripe | Bug Fix