A cleanup and modernization of the Summit Park Line site following its move to the new host — a lighter, faster database, redundant and orphaned tools removed, and screen-reader accessibility improved, with the site's look and content untouched.
The database carried years of accumulated debris that slows every page load and every backup — none of it actual site content.
Removed old page revision history, expired temporary data, and stale security-scan caches. Every page and — importantly — all 7,251 stored form submissions were preserved and verified intact.
Every plugin was assessed. The goal was a leaner, more secure site — without disturbing forms, email, or content.
The site still carried ManageWP remote access, tied to the previous developer's account — a standing security exposure. It has been removed.
Jetpack was installed but not actually connected to anything (dead weight), and UpdraftPlus (host handles backups) and WP Rocket (caching moves to the network edge) were redundant. All removed. Forms, email marketing, cookie consent and security were left active and working.
A light accessibility pass focused purely on screen-reader usability, with no change to the site's appearance.
Social-media and icon links that previously had no readable label now announce their destination (“Facebook,” “Instagram,” and so on) to screen readers. Nothing changed visually. For a community organization, this reduces exposure to accessibility-related legal claims — a more real risk than most realize.
The heaviest photographs were resized and recompressed with no visible change in quality — a 6 MB image down to 2 MB, for example.
As migrated, the staging site was fully indexable — a duplicate-content risk to the real site. Search indexing was switched off.
Search indexing is now switched off on the staging copy and must be switched back on when the site moves to its permanent address, or the finished site won't appear in Google.