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UK locksmith group
brand-site rebuild + technical seo operations
A multi-branch auto locksmith on a page-builder site, rebuilt as a bespoke theme without losing a URL — and, mid-engagement, a live compromise found and closed the same day.
- sector
- UK auto-locksmith group · three branches
- period
- jun – aug 2026
- role
- engineer of record — rebuild, cutover, incident response
readouts — measured, sourced
03 on the record · every one names its source
238 / 238
URLs verified at cutover
read from — URL manifest + fetch sweep
6
rogue administrators removed, same day
read from — user table audit
17 × 46 × 28
services × towns × manufacturers, one template set
read from — theme data
the file — read in order
01
the brief
Same content, same 238 URLs, a design worth the phone call: live reviews in the schema, quote-only, three branches, 28 manufacturers, 46 towns.
02
the engineering
The 238-URL inventory frozen before a line of theme code. Programmatic pages for about 17 services × 46 towns × 28 manufacturers from one template set.
Cut over on a 238/238 verified contract — every old URL fetched, every one answering.
03
the hard part
The live site was found minting administrators. Two doors: public registration switched on with the default role set to administrator, and a nulled automation plugin with a known SQL-injection route. Six rogue admins removed, registration closed, sessions destroyed, four nulled plugins deleted, core verified clean — and the nine sibling sites on the same box checked and found untouched. Same day.
provenance
- surfaces touched
- bespoke theme · URL contract · programmatic templates · schema with live reviews · the live site's user table
- numbers read from
- URL manifest and fetch sweep · user table audit · theme data
- tags
- rebuild · programmatic local seo · incident response
identity sealed — the sector is on record; the name publishes only with the client's written approval. every readout above was read at source.
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the same hands
The person who diagnosed this file is the person who ships the fix. Two plain sentences beat a brief.