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For agencies managing portfolios of WordPress client sites

Your clients’ WordPress sites. Rebuilt without the redesign.

White-label website reconstruction for agencies managing aging WordPress sites. Same design. Same content. A modern foundation.

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Lower maintenance complexityFewer layers under each site, so fewer updates to test and less to break when one ships.
No unnecessary redesignYour client keeps the site they already approved. There’s nothing to re-pitch.
Production capacity without hiringI do the rebuild under your agency’s name, and your developers stay on billable work.

PHP security release, 21 October 2026

The latest PHP security updates are a reason to review your WordPress portfolio.

The PHP project fixed two critical flaws that can allow remote code execution on servers running PHP for the web. A site already on a patched version has the fix. The portfolio question is which sites can’t get there.

Fixed in
PHP 8.2.35, 8.3.36, 8.4.27 and 8.5.12 (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619).
No official release
PHP 8.1 and older. Some hosts and vendors backport fixes; otherwise a site whose theme or plugins won’t run on a supported version has to be made compatible first.
Next date
Security support for PHP 8.2 ends on 31 December 2026.

Patch first, through your host, on every site that can take it. A reconstruction doesn’t replace that, and a rebuilt site still needs security updates. It just has fewer layers to update.

Sources: PHP security announcement, 21 October 2026; PHP supported versions. Checked 22 October 2026.

Managing 30 WordPress sites shouldn’t mean managing 30 technical liabilities.

None of these sites is broken. Each one costs a little more to keep running every year, and the cost lands on your team.

  1. Themes and pluginsA premium theme that stopped getting updates, and plugins nobody remembers installing.
  2. PHP and hostingThe host retires the PHP version the site needs, and the theme won’t run on the next one.
  3. Maintenance historyThree developers over the years. No notes.
  4. IntegrationsForms, newsletter syncs and booking widgets, each one plugin update from breaking.
  5. CapacityYour developers are on billable work, so maintenance waits for a quiet week that never comes.
  6. Client budgetsThe client likes the site and won’t pay a redesign to fix what they can’t see.

It’s ordinary technical debt, and it compounds across every site you manage.

Same website. Different foundation.

I reconstruct qualifying WordPress sites so your client opens the site they already approved, and your team inherits much less to maintain underneath it.

What your client sees

Stays

  • Visual design and brand identity
  • Content and imagery
  • URL structure, wherever it’s feasible
  • Essential functionality
  • Responsive behavior on phones and tablets
  • Search requirements: titles, metadata, redirects
What your team maintains

Changes

  • The architecture underneath the pages
  • Hosting and deployment, where that helps
  • What it takes to keep the site running
  • Legacy plugins and dependencies the site no longer needs

I won’t promise identical rankings, or identical behavior I haven’t tested. Every reconstruction is compared against the live site, and anything that can’t carry over goes on a written list you see before launch.

How a reconstruction runs.

You stay between me and your client the whole way. You approve each stage, and I don’t contact your client unless you ask me to.

  1. 01

    Send

    You send the URL of a site you’re authorized to change, plus any files, a database export where it’s needed, media, and a list of what the site has to do. Through a secure handoff I set up for the project, never an email attachment.

  2. 02

    Assess

    I inventory the pages, templates, plugins, integrations and anything risky, then tell you whether the site qualifies and what reconstructing it involves. If it doesn’t qualify, you hear that first.

  3. 03

    Reconstruct

    I rebuild the approved site on the architecture that suits it and keep everything your client sees.

  4. 04

    Verify

    I test visual parity page by page, responsiveness at every width, forms and functionality, accessibility, search requirements, redirects and performance.

  5. 05

    Launch

    You and I agree staging approval, migration timing and a rollback plan. You sign off, I launch, and the handover goes into accounts you and your client control.

A faster track, for the simplest sites.

I’m testing a quicker production route for straightforward sites. If speed matters to you, ask about it, and I’ll tell you honestly whether your site is a candidate.

Built for agencies with WordPress portfolios.

Usually agencies with somewhere between 20 and 200 WordPress sites under management and no developer free to deal with them. The first sites to move are the ones that should be simple, and most portfolios have plenty of those.

A good fit now

  • Professional services sites
  • Brochure and marketing sites
  • Portfolios
  • Small business sites
  • Simple content-driven sites
  • Straightforward blogs

Assessed separately

WooCommerce stores, membership sites, learning platforms, booking engines and custom applications each need their own assessment.

They aren’t part of the faster track. Some of them can still be reconstructed; it depends on what’s inside them.

Your client relationship stays yours.

I work behind your agency. Your client still talks to you.

  1. Behind the scenes

    I do the production. Your client never needs to know my name.

  2. Your communication

    You decide what the client hears. I write updates you can forward.

  3. Confidential

    Files, access and project details stay between us. Nothing goes in my portfolio without your written permission.

  4. Clear milestones

    Written deliverables at assessment, staging, verification and launch.

  5. One site, then the list

    Start with one. If it goes well, you and I plan the rest in batches.

Who does the work.

I do. I’ve spent five years on the agency side, most recently as Fractional VP of Operations at R\ND, where I’ve overseen web project delivery for 50+ clients. How I work with agencies

Which of your WordPress sites should be rebuilt first?

Send up to three site URLs for a free preliminary review. I’ll come back with a brief written summary: which ones look like reconstruction candidates, any major limitations I can see, and the next step I’d recommend.

The review is a high-level check of reconstruction suitability. It isn’t a security audit, a vulnerability scan or a full migration plan, and nothing in it commits you to migrating anything.

Please don’t send passwords, database files or client data through this form. If a site goes ahead, I’ll set up a secure handoff for that.