Project
Bigfoot Food Products
Bigleaf maple syrup, Sheridan OR
Type
Clean rebuild of an online store after a security compromise
When
August to September 2026
Scope
Store plus eight recipe pages
71 to 92
mobile page speed on the homepage, before and after.
100
accessibility score before launch.
8
recipe pages built alongside the store, each on its own page.
3 to 1
old product listings consolidated into one product with three sizes.
Where it started
A small store that could not be trusted anymore.
Bigfoot sells maple syrup tapped from bigleaf maples in Oregon. Half the year’s orders arrive in November and December. In July the store was compromised, and one malicious file survived two cleanups.
Rather than keep patching an install we could not vouch for, we started fresh on an isolated account and moved only the data across.
Inside the site
Four of the pages.
The shop.
One product, three sizes, and every old product address redirected to it.
Recipes hub
Eight recipes, each on its own page.
Our Story
Facts gathered from the company’s own profiles, so the site says what the family says.
FAQ
The questions customers actually ask, answered once.
What went into it
The work, item by item.
Eight things we would point to if you asked what the money bought.
01
A fresh WordPress under its own isolated system account, hardened from the first minute, with two-factor login for every admin.
02
Every order, customer, note, and refund migrated, with new passwords issued to every account.
03
Three old product listings consolidated into one product with three sizes, and every old address redirected.
04
Home, Contact, Our Story, FAQ, and Press pages built natively, plus a recipes hub with eight recipe pages.
05
Facts and reviews gathered from the company’s Facebook and Google profiles, so the site says what customers actually say.
06
Stripe tested with a real order and refund on staging before live keys were installed, and store email re-authorised through Gmail.
07
Launch with a final data sync and domain move, and the old install backed up and retired.
08
Email authentication repaired: a duplicate record that was failing every message removed, and signing added, so order confirmations reach the inbox.
Google AI search
Built to be read by Google’s AI, not just people.
Google’s AI Mode answers questions on the results page, and its new ad agents answer from the business’s own website and Business Profile. A thin site gives those agents nothing to say. Every site here ships with structured data and service pages that answer real customer questions, the raw material for the knowledge catalog Google’s AI reads. The SyncShepherd team keeps that catalog current as new questions come in.
Product and FAQ pages the AI can quote instead of guessing.
The result
Verified with a real order.
On launch day a real order was placed through Stripe, the confirmation emails arrived, and the order was refunded. That is the test that matters for a store.
Mobile page speed on the homepage went from 71 to 92, with the main image loading in under three seconds.
Accessibility scored 100 before launch.
Runs on
Native Kadence WooCommerce with Stripe SEOPress Gravity Forms Gmail delivery LiteSpeed caching (cart and checkout excluded)
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