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Digging deep to find an SQL error in a WordPress site migration

By David Innes, RealBasics.com | June 30, 2021

Syntax error in a WordPress database import - "Order" is a reserved keyword

We were approached to help a remote client recover their website after their in-house servers crashed. They had all the files and a recent database backup, which is great! We routinely reload websites from files and databases, so we didn’t see any problem walking the client through the steps over Zoom. But what could have…

Abracadabra Printing — Site Rescue

By David Innes, RealBasics.com | April 22, 2016

The folks at Abracadabra Printing have decades of experience and do meticulous work. In addition to top-notch printing, they offer a truly incredible array of promotional products — imagine your brand printed, engraved, or stitched into just about anything from a tiny decal to water bottles, sports jerseys, banners, or, for a successful after-IPO party,…

Shinn Mechanical – Site Rebuild

By David Innes, RealBasics.com | April 15, 2016

Shinn Mechanical is a large northwest mechanical contractor that specializes in custom pipe fabrication. Their old site was out of date and subject to several successful hacks that knocked their site completely offline. Basing our work on archived HTML content we rebuilt their site in WordPress, paying extra attention to security.