Proposal Pipeline
Community Newspapers
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What's Next — Optional Proposals

Community Newspapers — a menu of scoped-but-not-yet-purchased work. Nothing here is due; pick what's useful whenever you're ready. Have an open bill instead? See invoices & payments.

Speed RECOMMENDED

Mobile Speed — Critical-CSS Extraction

Inline above-fold CSS per template (home / article / category) and defer the 1.1MB stylesheet — the fix that moves your mobile speed-test score. Delivered as a one-file mu-plugin (survives theme updates).

$900–$1,500 · 4-7 business days · 50% depositFinal price confirmed at kickoff

Breach Follow-Up

Forward-looking work to close out the July 2026 breach. Each tier includes the one below it.

T1 · Contain
$950
  • Reset all named admin passwords
  • Rotate SMTP / mailing-list / integration credentials
  • Rotate backup-encryption passphrase
  • Written containment report
RECOMMENDED · FIPA FLOOR
T2 · Scope
$2,450
  • Everything in T1
  • Determine whose data was exposed (FIPA affected-party report)
  • Attribute access to exposed sources
  • Full persistence / backdoor audit
T3 · Fortify
$3,950
  • Everything in T1 + T2
  • Client-owned off-site backup destination
  • Verified disaster-recovery restore test
  • 24/7 uptime + security monitoring

Review full breach follow-up →

Site Search

Own search engine, licensed for your site — replaces the 5-6 second stock WordPress search.

FAST
$600
  • Modern indexed search engine
  • Smarter ranking (titles, recency, per-paper)
  • Styled results page
  • 30-day warranty
RECOMMENDED
SMART
$1,250
  • Everything in FAST
  • Autocomplete-as-you-type
  • Filter by publication
  • Monthly reader-search report
AI
$2,500
  • Everything in SMART
  • AI semantic search + related articles
  • Typo / natural-question handling
  • 30 days hands-on tuning

Review site search →

Staging Site PRIORITY

Staging Site — full mirror + prod-sync + one-click deploy
Removes the ‘change lands on live papers at 2AM’ risk. Eddy flagged this as the most important line — the safety net every future upgrade builds on.
$1,200 + $75/mo hostingReview →

CNEWS TV

Taxonomy Overhaul — reorganize 2,849 posts show-first
Prerequisite for the 24/7 channel below.
$1,850Review →
24/7 Broadcast ChannelFLAGSHIP
Playlist scheduler, live-stream ingest, public player. Depends on the taxonomy overhaul completing first.
$4,500 + $295/mo streamingReview →

Backups

Your current on-server backup volume has been full and silently failing since Feb 2026 — this replaces it with off-site, encrypted, monitored backup.

Small · up to 50GB
$195 + $25/mo
  • Weekly backup + restore test
  • 30-day retention
  • AES-256 encrypted
RECOMMENDED FOR CN
Medium · 50-250GB
$195 + $65/mo
  • Daily rotation
  • 90-day retention
  • Quarterly DR drill
  • Right-sized for CN's ~200GB
Large · 250GB-1TB
$295 + $145/mo
  • Point-in-time snapshots
  • 1-year retention
  • Multi-region option

Review backups →

KPI Dashboard

One login-scoped view of your whole publishing business — powered by MC20.

Essentials
$2,500 + $195/mo
  • Audience (GA4)
  • Search visibility (GSC)
  • Site health monitor
  • Your MC20 project view
Publisher
$3,995 + $395/mo
  • Everything in Essentials
  • Ad performance + fill-rate
  • On-site search intelligence
RECOMMENDED
Network
$7,995 + $795/mo
  • Everything in Publisher
  • Newsletter + CNEWS TV metrics
  • Per-advertiser sub-logins

Review dashboard →

Security Hygiene

Plugin + Theme Hygiene Cleanup
Audit all installed, remove 12 inactive themes, retire abandoned plugins.
$650Review →
ManageWP Key Rotation + Audit
Full remote-admin channel that bypasses wp-login — rotate + verify.
$350Review →
Abandoned Subsite Triage
Newsletter subsite is live, open login, 34 unmaintained plugins — highest residual risk.
$650Review →
Server-Mail RestorationBLOCKED
DNS fix + relay of 2,965 frozen messages.
$250Review →

Advertise Funnel

Advertise-With-Us Landing Page + Form Redesign
Red-button CTA + rebuilt form + GA4/Meta Pixel conversion tracking.
$950Review →

Discovery

China Block / RSS Feed Discovery
Investigation only — no changes to the block during discovery.
$295Review →
Newsletter Sending Discovery
Audit current mail setup before any migration proposal.
$395Review →

Questions on anything above? Text or call Eddy directly — 786-426-4902.