Choose your level of breach-response support. T2 is our recommendation -- meets the FIPA notification floor. T3 adds full protection + monitoring ($3,610 net after credit). Prices firm 30 days.

The house ad we pinned first-or-second on every page (26 papers + all articles) sends traffic to /advertise-with-us/ — and Susan (Miller-Panter Advertising) confirms the page and its form are dated and underperforming. Every impression we just won via the sidebar-ad restore lands on the weakest page in your funnel. This is a full redesign: modern layout, a rebuilt high-converting form, the red-button CTA Susan wants, and conversion tracking (GA4 + Meta Pixel) so results become measurable — not a guess. Pairs with the AI ad-sales chatbot (next).

Susan said 'half the form is faded out' on the advertise-with-us page. That sounds like a BUG (defect), not a design opinion. Cheap look confirms which. If it turns out to be a bug already surfaced during Get Current delivery, this diagnostic bills $0 (waived, folded into paid Get Current). If it's a design/UX gap, this confirms the $950 redesign quote QT-NEE-2026-005 is the right scope. Look before quoting a full redesign.

Reuse NeedAWebNow's existing Netlify Functions + Claude chatbot pattern (already live on needawebnow.com) to close ad sales on the advertise-with-us page. Not a from-scratch build — pattern is proven. Trained on CN rate cards + ad services + booking flow.

12 inactive themes still sit on the server (per L2 scan) plus an unknown count of abandoned plugins (no updates in 12+ months). Each unused theme/plugin is a security footprint that gets scanned by every attacker — the same class of finding as the newsletter subsite. Audit + prune + document what stays and why.

Every risky change on communitynewspapers.com right now happens directly on production, at night, with backups as the only safety net. A staging site is what makes every future upgrade cheaper, safer, and testable BEFORE it touches the live papers. Eddy called this 'the most important line' in the scope-triage notes — quote it first regardless of which build path wins later.

Michael mentioned a China block was added at some point to stop scrapers on the RSS feed. TWO UNRELATED SYSTEMS share the 'RSS' name: (1) WP RSS Aggregator — INBOUND, pulls other sites INTO CN, paused since 2023 (already the $300 line in paid Get Current); (2) /feed/ — OUTBOUND, CN's OWN content going out, what China would hit AND what legitimate subscribers use. The real risk: an over-broad block on /feed/ silently kills syndication Michael thinks he still has. Investigation-only quote — answers 4 questions BEFORE any change. ⚠️ HARD CONSTRAINT: DO NOT touch or remove the block as part of this discovery. Removing a block holding off a real scraper, or leaving one starving legit syndication, are both expensive mistakes. Findings drive a follow-on fix quote (B-bucket) or a geo/bot-management strategy quote (C-bucket).

Choose tier by your backup footprint. Medium ($65/mo) is right-sized for CN's ~200GB with headroom. If your library grows past 250GB, we bump you to Large — no re-quote, transparent add-on. If CN takes T3 Fortify on the breach quote, Medium is INCLUDED FREE for the first 90 days.

Split out of the breach-response quote (QT-NEE-2026-002) on 2026-07-20. These three items — key rotation, abandoned subsite cleanup, and mail restoration — are ordinary operational hardening, billable independently of whichever breach-response tier is chosen.

Site Search Engine (Job 2)

Right now a search on your site takes 5–6 seconds — and it gets slower as you publish more, because WordPress is scanning decades of articles with no real search engine behind it. We fix that with our own search engine, licensed for your site — no third-party plugins to buy or renew, ever. Every tier is delivered within 1 week of your deposit. Pick your level:

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Susan raised concern the LiquidWeb server may be undersized. Eddy's sequencing is right: measure AFTER upgrades so the baseline reflects PHP 8.1 + Redis + purged 23GB error logs. Any pre-2026-07-15 reading is obsolete and understates the improvement — the box may well be fine now. Do NOT let anyone buy a bigger server before re-measuring.

2,849 CNEWSTV posts are organized BY HOST (Michael Miller, Fara Sax, Gloria Burns, etc.) — but programs have their own shows. Farasax and fara-sax exist as duplicate categories (same person, split). Reorganize into show-based taxonomy. This is the PREREQUISITE for the 24/7 broadcast channel (separate quote QT-NEE-2026-008) — you can't program a channel whose library is filed by host.

Michael reports the server 'gets slow' during newsletter sends. SendLayer already handles transactional WordPress mail — but the newsletter system is unknown (Mailchimp? Sendy? cPanel mail? plugin?). Also: revenue-facing infrastructure ('Reach Over 60,000 Inboxes' house ad = CN sells newsletter reach). Before proposing a migration to Resend/Postmark/Mailgun, discover what actually sends, list size, and bounce hygiene. Discovery-only quote — migration quote follows.

Eddy's own note: 'cnewstv should have its own channel and broadcast live 24/7 365 looping the pre-recorded videos and transmitting their own scheduled livestreams.' This is a PRODUCT, not a fix — a linear 24/7 channel with scheduled livestreams. Reframes CNEWS TV from 'a bunch of videos on a site' to 'a channel with programming.' Requires QT-NEE-2026-007 (taxonomy overhaul) as prerequisite.

One live login-scoped dashboard where Michael sees his whole publishing business in one place — powered by MC20 (already renders your reports.needawebnow.com/cn view). Three tiers, custom integration allowance included at each. Featured tier NETWORK flips the dashboard from your expense line to your OWN revenue product (advertisers pay YOU for the portal).