MaYo Holdings and Construction, Inc. Corporate Website

Overview

Full corporate website for MaYo Holdings and Construction, Inc. — built end-to-end during OJT, from local NAS staging to live Namecheap cPanel hosting. The project spanned 6 pages, 8 department email routing targets, and a full production deployment with Cloudflare CDN.

Final audit score trajectory: 61 → 66 → 70 → 74 → 76 → 78 → 80 → 87/100 (B+)

Tech stack

• CMS: WordPress 6.8
• PHP: 8.2.21
• Database: MariaDB 10.11.11
• Web Server: Apache 2.4.58
• Page Builder: Elementor 4.0.6
• Caching: WP Super Cache 3.1.0
• Security: Wordfence 8.2.0 + Cloudflare
• Email: WP Mail SMTP (Gmail OAuth)
• SEO: SureRank SEO 1.7.1
• CDN / SSL: Cloudflare

What was built

Six fully live pages, all SureRank SEO optimized:

• Home — Hero, animated stats counter, services grid, founders section, featured projects
• About — Company profile, founders story, executive bios, principles, objectives
• Services — 8 service cards with CTA buttons and JS dropdown pre-selection, tabbed gallery
• Projects — 12 project photo cards with lightbox
• Work With Us — Benefits section (13th Month, HMO Philcare, Maternity/Paternity leave, etc.), job postings
• Contact — Google Maps embed, tap-to-call phone numbers, routed contact form

Key engineering achievement — PHP email routing system

The most technically complex feature. When a visitor submits the contact form, the system:

1. Assigns a unique ticket number (e.g. MaYo-1007: Juan Cruz)
2. Uses Double-Lock routing — URL parameter first, then Field 6 keyword match fallback
3. Routes to the correct department email automatically
4. Sends an independent plain-text audit backup to the IT email via wp_mail() — Phantom Drop protection
5. Falls back to the default WPForms recipient if no service is matched

This was built using a custom PHP filter hooked into wpforms_entry_email_to, with an atomic database increment for ticket numbers to prevent race conditions. All 3 WPCode snippets must remain active for routing to function.

Each service type routes to a dedicated department email automatically:

• HVAC & Air Handling → hvac.dept@mayoholdings.com
• Custom Air Ducting → ducting.dept@mayoholdings.com
• Kitchen Exhaust (KES) → kitchen.dept@mayoholdings.com
• Metal & Steel Fabrication → msf.dept@mayoholdings.com
• Mechanical Equipment → mech.dept@mayoholdings.com
• Electrical & Fire Safety → efs.dept@mayoholdings.com
• General Contracting → gc.dept@mayoholdings.com
• Piping & Sanitary Systems → pss.dept@mayoholdings.com
• No selection → WPForms default recipient (null-state fallback)

Performance & security results

• Audit score: 87/100 (B+) — up from 61 at project start
• SEO: 100/100 via seoptimer.com — all 6 pages optimized
• Security: A+ via securityheaders.com — all 6 headers confirmed (HSTS, X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy, CSP)
• SSL/CDN: Cloudflare — DMARC/SPF confirmed
• Caching: WP Super Cache — page + browser + CDN caching configured
• Images: WebP sitewide via Elementor Image Optimizer
• Wordfence: 0 issues across 19,279 files

Deployment process

Migrated from local XAMPP to live Namecheap cPanel hosting:

1. Full site export via All-in-One WP Migration
2. Database search-replace to update all localhost URLs to live domain
3. WP Mail SMTP Gmail OAuth re-authenticated on live domain
4. Cloudflare SSL and all 6 security headers configured
5. Elementor CSS & Data regenerated post-migration
6. WP Super Cache configured for production caching
7. All email routing tested end-to-end across all 8 departments

What I'd improve

• Replace WP Super Cache with LiteSpeed Cache if moved to a LiteSpeed server
• Add LocalBusiness JSON-LD schema markup for richer Google search results
• Submit sitemap to Google Search Console
• Add UptimeRobot monitoring for automated downtime alerts
• Add category filters to the Projects page using Essential Addons Filterable Gallery