Alliance virtual museum: taking over and growing a 3D web museum
I took over a 3D web museum in three languages from an earlier team and led it through two versions: links to every exhibit, new halls, a floor map, lighter media.
Service
Taking over a site or app
Your developer left, or nobody wants to touch the code any more. I read it, make it stable and keep it moving.
A big part of my work started as someone else’s code: a cooking community’s React Native app, a 3D museum, a UK publisher’s five separate WordPress installs. Each time the product had to keep moving while I fixed what was under it.
How I take over
- Access and a full copy. Code, database, media, DNS, mail. Everything goes under version control and onto a staging site.
- A written audit, in plain words. What is fragile, what is already broken, and what each fix would take.
- Make it stable. Backups and updates first, then the bugs your visitors already see.
- Keep shipping. New work on the same codebase, in the order you decide.
Result
What you get
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You know what you have
Code, hosting, plugins, access and risks, written down in plain words before anything changes.
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It stops breaking
Backups, a staging copy and updates first. Then I fix what already fails, broken installs and hacked sites included.
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It moves again
New pages, features and releases on the codebase you already paid for. I rewrite only what really needs it.
In practice
Where I did this: 21 clients
A Hebrew recipe app: React Native takeover and its web server
I took over a stalled recipe app and its small web server, brought the app in line with store rules and shipped eight iOS releases.
A German WooCommerce shop: theme migration and hack clean-up
I moved a small shop off an abandoned theme to Flatsome. Two years later I found a hack hidden since 2019 and cleaned it out with the catalogue intact.
A safe working copy and a type map for an inherited WordPress site
I made a full local working copy with dated restore points of a surveying firm's inherited WordPress site, and mapped its theme typography into CSS variables.
ExpertSure & Ecopreneurist: WordPress sites, plugins and a store
Since 2023 I've been the developer of a UK publisher's comparison sites: merged installs, custom plugins, fixes and a domain store.
A cosmetics shop rebuilt from scratch after the old one went dark
The brand's hosted store went offline. I rebuilt the shop on WooCommerce with a German-law checkout and brought back its old links and reviews.
A manufacturer's old WordPress site, new TYPO3 site and domain move
I looked after a metalworking company's old WordPress site, filled and tested its new TYPO3 site, and moved the domain to the new site with the mail intact.
A tax advisor's site finished for launch, page by page
I took over a tax advisor's Elementor site and finished it for launch: ten pages fixed for phones and tablets, the client's questions answered and a video post template added.
FAQ
What clients ask me
The code is messy and has no documentation. Is that a problem?
No. That's the usual start. I have taken over WordPress themes, a React museum and a React Native app in the middle of their life. Reading someone else's code is part of the job.
Will you rewrite everything?
Only if that is cheaper than fixing it, and then I'll show you why. Usually it isn't. Most of the value is in what already works.
We only have hosting access, no repository.
That's enough to start. I take a full copy, put it under version control and set up a staging site before I touch production.
Jobs start at €100. For a site I don't know yet, a Site check is €100, and it counts toward the work.
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