Packing list · clear before the truck rolls
How a careful move runs.
Inventory first. Quarantine second. Native rebuild third. Diffs before anyone unlocks the new front door.
Think movers, not magicians: label the boxes, refuse the mystery crates, rebuild the rooms, then walk the house with a measuring tape.
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Inventory — what actually belongs
Crawl and list real pages, posts, media, and navigation. Spam URLs, hacked injects, and abandoned drafts stay on the curb. You get a packing list before anything moves.
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Quarantine — malware doesn’t ride along
Source HTML and assets are handled malware-safe. No source JavaScript is executed. Compromised WordPress gets the gloves: we rebuild clean, we don’t transplant the infection.
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Rebuild native — Keel parts, not a paste dump
Pages become Keel pages. Forms become native forms. Layouts use regions. Theme CSS carries the look — never inline style attributes that publish will reject.
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Words + SEO — exact, then filled
Copy stays exact. Every SEO field gets packed: title, description, social cards, alt text. “We’ll do meta later” is not on this packing list.
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Diff proof — 1440 and 390
Screenshot before and after at desktop and phone widths. Label the match %. Chase the misses until pixel-close is honest, not marketing.
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Publish — no surprises
Theme → layout → pages. Verify Live — not only Coming soon. Hand you the inventory. Then we unlock the door.
House rules
No source JS on the truck. Rebuild clean; don’t execute the old neighborhood.
Exact words. Paraphrase is a different job. This job is relocation.
Publish order: theme → layout → pages. Parents first. Live verified.