A cleanup of the Get Mic Vibes online store on the new host — a lighter, faster database, redundant tools removed, tracking brought under consent control, and accessibility improved — with every order, product, and payment setting left exactly as it was.
Because this is a live store, the cleanup was done conservatively — only disposable data was touched.
All 51 orders and 21 products were verified intact before and after, and the PayPal and card-payment settings were left untouched. The database was halved by clearing only expired shopping-cart sessions, completed background-task logs, and stale security-scan caches — never order or customer records.
The store was running a Facebook advertising pixel that loaded on every visit, with no consent mechanism at all.
The Facebook pixel ran the moment a page opened — a privacy gap that matters more for a for-profit store using retargeting than it would for a nonprofit.
A consent banner (matched to the store's branding) was added. We verified it: zero tracking requests before consent, and the pixel fires normally once a shopper accepts. This addresses both California privacy rules on sharing personal information and — for any EU customers — GDPR.
The store carried ManageWP remote administrative access tied to the previous developer's account — a standing exposure, now removed. A leftover caching plugin from a different host and a redundant backup plugin were also cleared. A deprecated store API was switched off but left in place, in case a future integration needs it.
Social-media and icon links that had no readable label now announce their destination to screen readers. No visual change.
The staging copy was open to Google (a duplicate-content risk to the live store) and has been set to no-index. This must be switched back on at go-live.