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How To Create WordPress Child Theme? Common Mistakes To Avoid, and Advance Customizations

Integrate or adapt a theme without losing updates or established URLs.

WordPress Theme Integration & Development

<p>Help integrating or adapting a WordPress theme: homepage, article templates, navigation, archives, or product pages.</p>
<h2>What is included</h2>
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<li>A supported customization approach so updates do not silently overwrite the work.</li>
<li>Desktop and mobile checks, including long titles, menus, and forms.</li>
<li>Care for established URLs, canonicals, and redirects when templates change.</li>
<li>Staging review and a rollback point when we have that access.</li>
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<p>Theme licenses and third-party costs are not included. Broader application work belongs on the Web Development product.</p>
<h2>Frequently asked questions</h2>
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<h3 class="rank-math-question ">Will a theme update overwrite the work you do?</h3>
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<p>No, when the change goes somewhere updates do not touch. Template and style edits live in a child theme, and behaviour changes go through the theme&#8217;s own hooks and filters. You get a written list of every file we added so a future developer can find them. If a theme only supports edits inside its own files, we say so before starting instead of making the change quietly.</p>
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<h3 class="rank-math-question ">Can you integrate a theme I bought from ThemeForest or another marketplace?</h3>
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<p>Yes. You supply the licensed files and, where the theme needs one, the purchase or licence key. Licence and renewal costs stay with you u2014 they are not part of this fee. We do not redistribute or reuse a licence across sites.</p>
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<h3 class="rank-math-question ">Will my existing URLs change?</h3>
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<p>Templates change; URLs should not. Permalinks, canonical tags, and internal links are checked before and after the work. If a template genuinely forces a new URL, we agree the redirect first and put the 301 in place in the same pass, so search engines and existing links keep working.</p>
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<h3 class="rank-math-question ">How is this different from the WordPress Web Development service?</h3>
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<p>Theme integration adapts templates a theme already ships: homepage, archives, single posts, navigation, product pages. Web Development is for behaviour that does not exist yet u2014 custom post types, new workflows, a plugin, or an integration with another system. If a request needs both, we quote the development part separately.</p>
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<h3 class="rank-math-question ">Do you work on block themes and the Site Editor?</h3>
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<p>Yes. Block themes are handled through theme.json, block template parts, and a child theme where one is needed, rather than the classic PHP template files. The approach differs but the rule is the same: the work has to survive a theme update.</p>
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<h3 class="rank-math-question ">What do you need from me before you start?</h3>
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<p>Administrator access to the site, the theme files and licence, a staging site or permission to create one, and the list of templates you want changed. If there is no staging environment we take a restore point first and tell you what we are about to touch.</p>
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<p>Integrate or adapt a WordPress theme without losing updates and URLs.</p>

Integrate or adapt a WordPress theme without losing updates and URLs.

How to Set Up a WordPress Staging Site (Without Breaking Production)

One month of agreed updates, backups, and checks. Buy again for another month.

WordPress Maintenance Service

<p>A one-month maintenance engagement for an existing WordPress site. WooCommerce Subscriptions is not used; buy again when you want another month, or ask about a longer retainer.</p>
<h2>Typical coverage</h2>
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<li>Core, plugin, and theme updates you approve.</li>
<li>A recoverable backup before risky changes.</li>
<li>A check of public pages and any login, form, or checkout you name.</li>
<li>A short record of work and open issues.</li>
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<p>This is not continuous 24/7 monitoring and does not include new feature development. Outages should be described in the order notes (no passwords).</p>
<h2>Frequently asked questions</h2>
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<h3 class="rank-math-question ">Is this a subscription?</h3>
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<p>No. This is one month of agreed work, bought once. There is no Subscriptions plugin on this store and no recurring charge, so nothing renews on its own u2014 buy another month when you want another month.</p>
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<h3 class="rank-math-question ">Do you update plugins without asking?</h3>
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<p>Routine security and point releases go ahead as agreed at the start of the month. Major version jumps, anything that changes how the site behaves, and anything that touches a paid plugin licence get raised with you first. Every update is listed in the short work record at the end of the month.</p>
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<h3 class="rank-math-question ">What happens if an update breaks the site?</h3>
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<p>A backup point is taken before any risky change, so the first step is rolling that change back and telling you. Then we find out whether the conflict is in the plugin, the theme, or the hosting stack, and give you options rather than repeating the same update.</p>
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<h3 class="rank-math-question ">Does this include hosting or a backup service?</h3>
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<p>No. Hosting, your backup provider, and any paid plugin or theme licences stay on your accounts and your billing. We work inside what you already have and flag it if a plan or licence has lapsed.</p>
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<h3 class="rank-math-question ">Can you maintain a site you did not build?</h3>
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<p>Yes u2014 that is the usual case. The first month usually includes a look at what is installed, what is abandoned, and which users still have access, because that is where most maintenance surprises come from.</p>
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<p>One month of agreed WordPress updates, backups, and checks.</p>

One month of agreed WordPress updates, backups, and checks.

WordPress Web Design Guide: Layout, UX & Mistakes to Avoid

A scoped development project. The listed price is the starting project fee.

WordPress Web Development

<p>Use this product to book a WordPress development project with WPArena. The listed price is a starting project fee for a clearly bounded piece of work — for example a template, integration, or editorial workflow — not an unlimited build.</p>
<h2>What happens after purchase</h2>
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<li>We confirm the pages and workflows in scope.</li>
<li>We agree acceptance checks, staging, and rollback.</li>
<li>Larger builds are quoted before extra work starts.</li>
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<p>Hosting, licenses, and third-party apps are extra. If the work is mainly visual, the Theme Integration service may be a better fit.</p>
<h2>Frequently asked questions</h2>
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<h3 class="rank-math-question ">Is $1,499 the full price of a project?</h3>
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<p>It is the starting project fee, not a flat rate for unlimited work. It covers a scoped piece of development with confirmed pages, workflows, and acceptance checks. Anything outside that agreed scope is quoted before it starts, so the number never moves without you approving it.</p>
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<h3 class="rank-math-question ">Do you write custom plugins or edit the theme&#8217;s PHP?</h3>
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<p>Custom behaviour goes in a small site-specific plugin or a must-use plugin wherever it can, not in theme files. That way a theme change or a theme switch does not take your functionality with it. Template-level work belongs in a child theme.</p>
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<h3 class="rank-math-question ">Can you build on top of WooCommerce, an LMS, or a membership plugin?</h3>
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<p>Yes, and the usual answer is to extend what the plugin already exposes through its hooks rather than to fork it. We check whether the plugin supports what you want before quoting, because an unsupported change becomes a maintenance bill later.</p>
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<h3 class="rank-math-question ">Will the work be tested somewhere other than my live site?</h3>
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<p>Yes. Development happens on staging with a defined list of acceptance checks, and the deployment plan and rollback point are agreed before anything reaches production.</p>
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<h3 class="rank-math-question ">Do you do headless or API work?</h3>
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<p>Yes. WPArena&#8217;s own frontend is a headless Next.js app talking to WordPress over GraphQL and REST, so headless builds, custom endpoints, and third-party API integrations are in scope. Expect a frank conversation about whether headless is worth it for your site first.</p>
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<p>A scoped WordPress development project, starting at this project fee.</p>

A scoped WordPress development project, starting at this project fee.

WordPress SEO Guide: A Practical Workflow for 2026

Technical SEO review and fixes for WordPress, including headless frontends.

WordPress SEO Services

<p>A scoped technical SEO engagement for WordPress, including sites that use a separate frontend.</p>
<h2>What is included</h2>
<ul>
<li>Crawlability, canonicals, robots, sitemaps, and representative URL checks.</li>
<li>Metadata and structured-data review on key templates.</li>
<li>Redirect and URL-migration advice when a redesign or host move caused issues.</li>
<li>A prioritized list with the evidence for each item.</li>
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<p>Rankings and traffic depend on more than repairs. There is no promised position or recovery date. Fees cover the agreed review and implementation scope, not ongoing content production unless you add that later.</p>
<h2>Frequently asked questions</h2>
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<h3 class="rank-math-question ">Do you guarantee rankings?</h3>
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<p>No, and nobody honestly can. What you get is a prioritized list of technical problems with evidence for each one, the fixes applied where we have access, and the same checks re-run afterwards so you can see what changed on your side of the line.</p>
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<h3 class="rank-math-question ">Is this technical SEO or content writing?</h3>
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<p>Technical. Canonicals, robots directives, sitemaps, indexation, template metadata, structured data, redirects, and crawl issues. Content strategy and writing are separate work and we will say so rather than billing keyword research as a technical fix.</p>
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<h3 class="rank-math-question ">Do you work on headless WordPress sites?</h3>
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<p>Yes, and that is one of the harder cases. On a headless build the metadata, canonical tags, sitemaps, and structured data are produced by the frontend, not by the SEO plugin, so the audit has to cover the templates and the cache behaviour as well as WordPress.</p>
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<h3 class="rank-math-question ">I already use Rank Math or Yoast. Is this still useful?</h3>
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<p>Usually yes. An SEO plugin fills in defaults; it does not tell you that a template emits the wrong canonical, that a redirect chain lost its referrer, or that a whole archive is noindexed by accident. Those are exactly the problems this review looks for.</p>
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<h3 class="rank-math-question ">Will you touch my redirects during a migration?</h3>
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<p>We map and advise on redirects, and we implement them when you want us to. A migration check covers the old-to-new URL map, chained and looping redirects, canonical tags on the new URLs, and whether the sitemap reflects reality.</p>
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<p>Technical SEO review and fixes for a WordPress or headless WordPress site.</p>

Technical SEO review and fixes for a WordPress or headless WordPress site.

WordPress Security Guide 2026: Complete Step-by-Step Checklist

A one-time hardening and review pass for an existing WordPress site.

Professional WordPress Security Service

<p>WPArena has offered a professional WordPress security service since the early 2010s. The 2026 product is a one-time hardening and review engagement.</p>
<h2>What is included</h2>
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<li>Review of users, plugins, themes, and obvious malware or leftover admin accounts.</li>
<li>Hardening of login, file permissions where we have access, and unused software removal you approve.</li>
<li>A backup point before changes, and a written list of what was changed.</li>
<li>Recommendations for monitoring and updates you still own.</li>
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<p>This is not a 24/7 SOC, malware insurance, or a promise that the site cannot be compromised later. Incident retainers can be quoted separately after the review.</p>
<h2>Frequently asked questions</h2>
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<h3 class="rank-math-question ">My site is already hacked. Is this the right service?</h3>
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<p>This is a hardening and review pass for a site that is currently working, not an emergency malware cleanup. If we find an active compromise during the review we stop, tell you what we found, and agree the cleanup separately u2014 a hardening pass over live malware just hides it.</p>
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<h3 class="rank-math-question ">Is this a one-time job or ongoing monitoring?</h3>
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<p>One time. It is a single pass: user and plugin review, hardening you approve, a backup point before changes, and a written list of what changed. Ongoing updates and checks are the Maintenance service.</p>
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<h3 class="rank-math-question ">Will hardening break my plugins?</h3>
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<p>It can, which is why nothing is applied without your approval and a backup point. Disabling file editing, restricting XML-RPC, or tightening login usually costs nothing; the changes that do carry risk are raised with the trade-off spelled out first.</p>
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<h3 class="rank-math-question ">Do I need a security plugin as well?</h3>
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<p>Sometimes, but a plugin is not the first move. Abandoned plugins, leftover administrator accounts, shared logins, and an out-of-date PHP version cause far more real incidents, and a security plugin does not fix any of them.</p>
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<h3 class="rank-math-question ">What do you actually check?</h3>
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<p>Users and their roles, the plugin and theme inventory including anything abandoned or no longer receiving updates, file and directory permissions, login exposure, WordPress and PHP versions, and whether backups exist and can be restored. You get the findings in writing whether or not you ask us to apply the fixes.</p>
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<p>A security review and hardening pass for an existing WordPress site.</p>

A security review and hardening pass for an existing WordPress site.

How to Reduce Time To First Byte (TTFB) for Improved WordPress Performance

Measure a slow WordPress site, agree a scope, then apply the performance work.

WordPress Optimization Service

<p>WPArena historically sold this as a $149 optimization package (CSS/JS minify, cache, CDN setup, database cleanup, and updates). The 2026 service is a measured performance engagement at $299.</p>
<h2>What is included</h2>
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<li>Baseline measurements of the pages or actions you name.</li>
<li>A written scope before changes: caching, images, scripts, database, or server response.</li>
<li>Implementation of the agreed items and a repeat of the same tests.</li>
<li>A short report of what changed and what still needs hosting or code work.</li>
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<h2>What is not promised</h2>
<p>No guaranteed PageSpeed score, search ranking, or “fastest site” claim. Checkout, accounts, and other personalized flows are treated carefully so a cache change does not break them.</p>
<p>After payment, send the public URL, host, and the slow pages. Do not include passwords in the order.</p>
<h2>Frequently asked questions</h2>
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<h3 class="rank-math-question ">How do I know the site actually got faster?</h3>
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<p>Because the same tests run before and after. Baseline measurements are taken first, the agreed work is applied, then the identical tests are repeated and you get a short report of what changed. No before-and-after numbers, no claim of improvement.</p>
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<h3 class="rank-math-question ">Which numbers do you optimize for?</h3>
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<p>Field-relevant ones: Largest Contentful Paint, Interaction to Next Paint, Cumulative Layout Shift, and server response time. A green synthetic score on an empty homepage is not the goal, and we will say so if that is what a tool is rewarding.</p>
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<h3 class="rank-math-question ">Can you fix a slow site on cheap shared hosting?</h3>
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<p>Partly. Caching, image handling, script loading, and database cleanup all help regardless of host. But if the server&#8217;s own response time is the bottleneck, the honest answer is a hosting change, and we would rather tell you that than sell more tuning.</p>
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<h3 class="rank-math-question ">Will you install a caching plugin and call it done?</h3>
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<p>No. Caching is one item on a list that also covers images, render-blocking scripts, database bloat, plugin overhead, and the theme&#8217;s own templates. Which of those we touch depends on what the baseline measurements point at.</p>
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<h3 class="rank-math-question ">Does this include ongoing performance monitoring?</h3>
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<p>No. This is a measured, one-time engagement. If you want the numbers watched over time, that belongs with the Maintenance service or your own monitoring.</p>
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<p>Measure a slow WordPress site, then apply an agreed performance scope.</p>

Measure a slow WordPress site, then apply an agreed performance scope.

WordPress 101 – Installing WordPress Locally

A confirmed WordPress install on hosting you control, with HTTPS, login, and a launch check.

WordPress Installation Service

<p>Have WPArena install WordPress on hosting you control. This is a hands-on setup, not a generic hosting signup.</p>
<h2>What is included</h2>
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<li>WordPress installed on your existing host or a host you already purchased.</li>
<li>HTTPS checked on the public address you specify.</li>
<li>Administrator login created for you, with a short handoff of what to keep private.</li>
<li>A launch check of the homepage, login, media upload, and permalinks.</li>
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<h2>What we need from you</h2>
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<li>Who controls the hosting account and domain DNS.</li>
<li>Whether this is a new site, a replacement, or a move from another platform.</li>
<li>Any required theme or must-have plugins.</li>
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<p>Domain registration, hosting fees, premium licenses, and custom theme work are not included. After checkout we email you a short intake so access can be arranged separately — do not put passwords in the order notes.</p>
<h2>Frequently asked questions</h2>
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<h3 class="rank-math-question ">Do you provide the hosting and domain?</h3>
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<p>No. The install goes on hosting you already control, and the domain stays registered to you. Keeping both in your name means you can move or hand the site to anyone later without asking us for anything.</p>
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<h3 class="rank-math-question ">What is actually installed and checked?</h3>
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<p>A current WordPress install, HTTPS working on the real domain, permalinks set to a sensible structure, and an administrator account handed to you. Before handoff we confirm the homepage loads, the login works, and a media upload succeeds u2014 a lot of broken installs pass the first two and fail the third.</p>
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<h3 class="rank-math-question ">Will you install my theme and plugins too?</h3>
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<p>A theme and a short list of plugins can go in during the install. Configuring them, migrating content, or adapting templates is theme integration or development work, and we quote that separately instead of folding it into the install fee.</p>
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<h3 class="rank-math-question ">Can you move an existing site instead of installing a fresh one?</h3>
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<p>A migration is not the same job as an install, because it involves content, URLs, and redirects. Tell us what exists now and we will quote the move rather than starting a clean install over the top of it.</p>
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<h3 class="rank-math-question ">Who holds the administrator password afterwards?</h3>
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<p>You do. The administrator account is handed over at the end, and any temporary access we used is removed. Please do not send passwords in the order notes u2014 we email a proper intake after payment.</p>
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<p>A confirmed WordPress install on your hosting, with HTTPS, login, and a launch check.</p>

A confirmed WordPress install on your hosting, with HTTPS, login, and a launch check.

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