WordPress conversion · Secure business websites

Your WordPress site keeps getting hacked.

We convert it to a static site that can’t be hacked the way WordPress can, and never needs another plugin update at 2am. Same content, same Google rankings, none of the headaches. Done in one week.

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If your site is compromised right now, we handle the cleanup too.

Site infected, redirecting to spam, flagged by Google, or showing admin users you didn’t create? Don’t spend money on cleanup that won’t hold. We remove the malware and convert your site to static in the same week — so the same kind of attack can’t happen again.

One call. Cleanup plus permanent fix. Same week turnaround. Call (225) 366-8111 or use the form above. We’ll start today.

01 What’s actually happening to WordPress sites

The numbers from this year.

Not opinion. Not marketing. Real data from the past few months.

April 2026: Researchers found a backdoor planted inside more than 30 WordPress plugins distributed as part of a single popular package. The malicious code had been sitting dormant on hundreds of thousands of business websites since the previous summer, then started pushing spam pages and redirects to anyone running the affected plugins. Local businesses, regional media outlets, political campaigns. All compromised at once.

March 2026: Four of the most-installed WordPress plugins on the internet shipped emergency security patches in the same month — covering page builders, SEO tools, contact forms, and security utilities. Combined, the affected installations totaled roughly 29 million WordPress sites that needed fixing. Two of those vulnerabilities required no login at all to exploit. Attackers just needed to know the site existed.

One week in January 2026: Security researchers disclosed 333 new WordPress vulnerabilities. 253 of them in plugins. 80 in themes. 236 of them remained unpatched at the time of disclosure. That’s a typical week now, not a bad one.

2026 has so far seen 48,185 publicly disclosed vulnerabilities across the WordPress ecosystem. That’s a record, up 20.6% from 2024. 91% of them are in plugins. The average WordPress site runs between 15 and 30 plugins. Most owners couldn’t name them all.

If your business runs on WordPress and you’re managing it yourself, somebody at 2am is probably scanning your site right now, looking for a known vulnerability in one of your plugins. That somebody is a script. There are tens of thousands of them, running constantly, looking for sites exactly like yours.

02 What we do

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Capture every page exactly as it is.

We crawl your existing WordPress site and pull every page, image, and meta tag. The URLs stay the same. The headlines, copy, photos, services list, contact forms — all of it preserved. Your customers won’t notice anything has changed.

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Rebuild as static HTML and CSS.

No PHP. No MySQL. No plugins. No admin login. Just clean, hand-built code that can’t be hacked the way WordPress can. Hosted on infrastructure that costs $5 a month instead of $40, and runs forever without maintenance.

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Preserve your Google rankings.

Every URL redirects correctly. Every page keeps its title, meta description, and search ranking. Google sees the same site — same content, same structure — just on better infrastructure. We submit the new sitemap and monitor Search Console for the first 30 days to make sure nothing slips.

03 Selected work

We just did this on our own site.

Design 225 ran on WordPress for years. We got tired of plugin patches, security alerts, and managing a site that needed managing. So we converted it. Here’s what changed.

Reference migration

Design 225 design225.com

MigrationWordPress → static HTML

Pages5 (preserved + restructured)

Timeline1 week end to end

We took our own plugin-heavy WordPress site and rebuilt it as static HTML in one week. The maintenance disappeared.

Before the migration, design225.com was a typical small-business WordPress install: WordPress core, dozens of plugins, a page builder theme, and a hosting bill that crept up every renewal. Plugin vulnerabilities had required emergency patches more than once, breaking other parts of the site for hours each time. Every month, a new round of update notifications. Every quarter, a renewal invoice for security tools and managed hosting we wished we didn’t need.

What we did: Crawled every page, captured the content and structure, rebuilt the entire site as hand-coded static HTML and CSS. Same URLs. Same content. Same SEO-relevant tags. Stripped the plugins, the page builder, the database, and the admin login. Replaced WordPress hosting with static hosting. Every page now ships as plain HTML, served from a CDN.

The numbers:

Before (WordPress) 20+ plugins
Each a potential exploit After (static) Zero
No plugins, no PHP, no DB Before Monthly patches
Plugin updates & alerts After None
Nothing to patch, ever Before $40/mo
Managed WP hosting After $5/mo
Static hosting + CDN

Search rankings stayed exactly where they were. The homepage still ranks on page one for “Baton Rouge web design,” same as before. The site loads noticeably faster as a side benefit, but that wasn’t why we did it. Most importantly: nothing has broken since. No 2am emails about a critical patch. No plugin conflicts. No mysterious downtime. The site just works.

Note on hosting cost: The $5/month figure above is what static infrastructure actually costs. Our recurring engagement is $300/month, which bundles hosting with monitoring, daily backups, SSL, and unlimited small content updates (phone numbers, hours, copy fixes, new sections). It’s stewardship, not just storage. Most clients were already paying close to that for managed WordPress hosting plus a separate maintenance retainer — we just put it under one number with one phone call.

04 How we work

A one-week process, start to finish.

Five working days from kickoff to launch. No surprises, no scope creep, no “we hit a snag with the database.”

Day 1

Audit and capture

We crawl your existing WordPress site and capture every page, image, form, and meta tag. We catalog every URL, every redirect, and every search ranking you currently hold. Nothing gets lost.

Days 2–3

Rebuild as static

We hand-code your site as clean static HTML and CSS. Same design, same content, same structure. No PHP, no database, no admin. Mobile-first, accessible, ready to last a decade without maintenance.

Day 4

Stage and verify

You see the new site on a staging URL. We walk through every page side-by-side with the WordPress original to make sure nothing’s missing or misaligned. Half upfront, half on sign-off. You approve before we go live.

Day 5

Cut over and monitor

We push the new site live to the same domain. WordPress comes down. Every old URL redirects correctly. We watch Search Console for the next 30 days to make sure rankings hold. They will. They have on every site we’ve done.

05 Who this is for

A clear answer beats a polite maybe.

We do our best work with a specific kind of client. The list below is honest, in both directions.

You’re a fit if

Your WordPress site is the right size, scope, and content to convert cleanly.

Your site is roughly 5 to 50 pages of content, plus a contact form.
You’ve been on WordPress for years and you’re tired of plugin updates and security alerts.
Your site is mostly informational: services, about, contact, maybe a blog. No e-commerce, no membership, no booking system.
You have a real business with real customers and you can’t afford a security incident.
You don’t need to update your own site daily. You’d rather we handle changes for you, fast.

We’re not the right call if

Your WordPress site does something static can’t do.

You sell products through an online store plugin or e-commerce platform.
You run a membership site, paywalled content, or user accounts.
You take bookings, appointments, or reservations through a calendar plugin.
You publish multiple blog posts per week and need a self-serve admin to write them.
You’re looking for the cheapest possible option. We’re not it.

06 Pricing

Productized. Fixed scope, fixed price.

One number, one timeline, one outcome. No estimates, no “it depends,” no scope surprises mid-project.

$6,500 to convert. $300/month to host.

The conversion covers up to 25 pages of WordPress content rebuilt as static HTML, all URLs preserved, all SEO tags carried over, contact forms wired, redirects configured, and a 30-day post-launch monitoring period. Done in one week. Half upfront, half on sign-off.

The hosting covers static hosting on enterprise CDN infrastructure, SSL, automatic backups, uptime monitoring, and small content updates (a paragraph here, a phone number there) at no additional cost. No plugins to update. No vulnerabilities to patch. No 2am emails.

Sites larger than 25 pages, or with custom integrations (booking systems, simple databases, multi-language), are quoted separately. Most are between $7,500 and $12,000.

What’s included

In the conversion.

Full audit of your current WordPress site
Up to 25 pages rebuilt as hand-coded static HTML
All URLs preserved (no broken links, no SEO loss)
All meta tags, titles, and structured data carried over
Contact form wired to email or your CRM
301 redirects from old URLs configured in .htaccess
New sitemap.xml submitted to Search Console
30 days of post-launch monitoring and ranking checks

In the monthly

Hosting and stewardship.

Enterprise static hosting with global CDN
SSL certificate management
Automatic daily backups
Uptime monitoring with email alerts
Small content updates included (phone, hours, copy fixes)
Annual security audit (mostly nothing to find)
Quarterly Core Web Vitals report

What’s NOT included

Be honest about it.

E-commerce or online stores — needs a different stack
Membership sites or paywalled content
Booking systems or appointment scheduling
Self-serve admin to publish blog posts daily
Major redesign or rebrand (we’re preserving what you have)
Bespoke applications or interactive tools
If you need any of these, ask — we’ll point you to the right specialist

Optional add-ons

If you want more.

Light redesign during the conversion: +$2,500
SEO audit and optimization pass: +$1,500
Content rewriting (per page): +$300/page
Recurring full-service engagement: $3,000/month — replaces hosting fee, adds ongoing growth work

07 Common questions

What people ask before they call.

Plain answers to real questions — from the people whose sites just got hacked, and the ones who never want it to happen.

My WordPress site just got hacked. Can you fix it?

Yes. If your WordPress site is currently infected, redirecting to spam, flagged by Google, or showing admin users you didn’t create — we handle the cleanup as part of the conversion. One engagement, one price, one week. We remove the malicious code, rebuild your site as static HTML, and submit to Google to clear any deceptive-site warnings. The reason we can do this efficiently: we’re not painstakingly cleaning the WordPress install — we’re replacing it. Throwing out the infected codebase is faster than auditing every line of it. The result is a permanent fix, not a temporary cleanup that gets reinfected in three months.

Why does my WordPress site keep getting hacked even after we clean it up?

Because cleanup removes the malware but doesn’t close the door. The vulnerability that let attackers in the first time is usually still there — an outdated plugin, a weak admin password leaked in a breach, a backdoor file the cleanup missed, or a hosting environment shared with another compromised site. Within weeks, automated scanners find the same opening and walk back in. The only way to permanently end the cycle is to remove the surface attackers exploit. A static site has no plugins, no database, no admin panel. Nothing to come back to.

Google flagged my site as deceptive. How do I make sure that doesn’t happen again?

A “deceptive site” warning means Google detected malware, phishing, or unwanted software on your domain — usually because a plugin vulnerability let attackers inject redirect code or fake content. Cleanup gets the warning lifted. But the site is still WordPress, still has the same plugins, still vulnerable to the next exploit. After conversion to static HTML, the attack vectors that caused the warning don’t exist anymore. The site is just files. There’s no application running that can be compromised, no database that can be injected, no plugin that can fail. Google has no reason to flag a static site, ever.

Will I lose my Google rankings if I convert from WordPress?

No, if it’s done correctly. Every URL stays the same. Every page keeps its title tag, meta description, headings, and content. Google sees the same site, same content, same structure — just on a different platform underneath. We monitor Search Console for 30 days post-launch to make sure nothing slips. Across every conversion we’ve done, including this site, rankings have held or improved.

How is a static site safer than WordPress?

WordPress runs PHP code on every page request, queries a MySQL database, loads plugins, and exposes an admin login at /wp-admin/. All of these are attack surfaces. As of 2026, 91% of WordPress vulnerabilities are in plugins. A typical site runs 15-30 plugins, with 250+ new plugin vulnerabilities disclosed every week and most remaining unpatched at disclosure. A static HTML site has none of this. No PHP, no database, no plugins, no admin login. There’s nothing to hack the way WordPress can be hacked.

How much does it cost to convert a WordPress site to static HTML?

$6,500 for a standard conversion of up to 25 pages, plus $300/month for static hosting and small ongoing updates. Sites with more pages, custom integrations, or light redesign work are quoted separately, typically $7,500 to $12,000 total. Half upfront, half on sign-off. No hourly billing, no scope surprises.

How long does a WordPress to static conversion take?

One week. Five working days end to end. Day 1: audit and capture every page from your existing site. Days 2-3: rebuild as hand-coded static HTML. Day 4: stage on a private URL and walk through with you side-by-side. Day 5: cut over to your live domain, configure redirects, monitor for issues. Larger sites or those with custom requirements run 10-14 days.

Will my contact forms still work after the conversion?

Yes. We rebuild the contact form using a modern form delivery service that emails submissions straight to your inbox. No PHP backend required, no database. If you have an existing CRM or want to wire submissions somewhere specific, we can do that too. The form looks and feels exactly the same to your visitors.

What if I need to update the site myself?

If you need to update the site daily, this isn’t the right fit and we’ll tell you that. If you update the site occasionally — phone numbers, hours, a paragraph here, a service description there — that’s included in the $300/month hosting fee. Email us, we make the change, usually within one business day. For business owners who post weekly blog content, we recommend keeping WordPress for the blog and converting the rest. For most owner-operators, monthly updates are the reality, and they’re happy to skip the WordPress headache.

What about online stores, membership sites, or booking systems?

We don’t convert sites that depend on WordPress functionality static HTML can’t replicate: e-commerce, paid memberships, booking calendars, complex user accounts. If your site uses these, we’ll tell you upfront. Some pieces can be replaced with static-friendly alternatives (third-party payment links, embedded scheduling tools, and so on) but it’s a different scope. We’ll be straight with you about whether your site is a fit.

Convert your WordPress site

Tell us about the site we’re fixing.

Two ways in. Pick whichever’s easier. We’ll respond inside one business day with whether your site is a good fit for conversion and what the timeline looks like.

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