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Client work: Chasing Myths.
A lost blog,
brought back.
James Smith’s carp fishing blog. He wrote 84 posts on it from 2010 to 2014, then the blog was deleted, and from 2021 its address served a betting site. It came back from the Wayback Machine, word for word, on a WordPress site that looks the way it did in 2014. Started on 22 October, live on 23 October 2026.
Client work·WordPress·67 posts back·Every old link kept·Live 23 Oct 2026
Review
In the client’s words
Five stars on Google
Adam has managed to recover some of my old articles that I genuinely thought were lost forever.
Having those articles back has given me the kick up the backside I needed to start writing again.
James SmithChasing Myths · on LinkedIn, October 2026 His blog The recovery: Found in the archive,
word for word.
The blog had gone, and its photos with it: Blogger kept them on Google’s servers and deleted them with the blog. The Wayback Machine had saved its pages, so each post was rebuilt from the archive’s copies, a page at a time, without changing a word.
The photos came back where the archive kept them, which it did properly only once, in February 2011, and from his 2019 galleries, still on Wix’s servers. The rest are on James’s old cameras and phones, and every missing one is listed by its camera filename so it can be found.
- 100pages read from the Wayback Machine
- 84posts found, written from 2010 to 2014
- 67back, word for word
- 17kept as titles, for James to write back
- 23photos back in 15 posts, of the 129 they had
- 29photos in his galleries, at full size
Before: What was left
of it.
This is all there was: the blog in February 2011, as the Wayback Machine kept it. Dark, a sunrise banner, the sponsors down the side.
After 2014 the blog was deleted. Its address lapsed after a Wix site in 2019, and from 2021 it served a Chinese betting site, then spam.
The site: The way he had it,
easier to read.
Scroll both. It is the live site, captured the day it went up, with his own logo where the banner was.
- The 2014 look, keptBlogger’s Minima turned white: black Trebuchet, spaced capitals and dotted rules, as James had it.
- Easier to read16px text in a narrower column, and every post dated by its month and year.
- Nothing pretendingA photo that never came back is left out, rather than shown as an empty frame.
The addresses: Every old link
still lands.
Fifteen years of forum threads, other anglers’ blogs and bookmarks point at the old Blogger addresses. Every post kept its own, and the rest go where they now live.
- chasingmyths.com/2010/12/looking-back-on-2010.htmlThe same post, at the same address
- chasingmyths.com/2010_04_01_archive.htmlApril 2010, every post from that month
- chasingmyths.com/feeds/posts/defaultThe blog’s feed, for anyone still subscribed
- chasingmyths.com/angling-photographyThe Trophy Shots gallery
- chasingmyths.com/wildlifeThe Wildlife gallery
The galleries: His trophy shots
and his wildlife.
His 2019 galleries, Trophy Shots and Wildlife, in their 2019 order under his own introduction. Each photo opens full size, with the camera’s data taken out so no photo gives away where a swim is.
The small things: Done properly,
all the way down.
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A card for every share His logo at the size Facebook and LinkedIn draw a link, and a description for every page. -
Chasing MythsChasing Myths His compass in the tab Cut from the bottom of his logo, black on a light tab and white on a dark one. -
His Instagram, on the page His latest nine posts at the foot of every page, kept on his site, so a visitor’s browser loads nothing from Instagram.
The film: Chasing Myths
is back.
A minute for the relaunch: an old game, a phoenix waking, his kraken dancing, and what came back.
How long: Found on Thursday,
live on Friday.
- 22 OctFound100 pages from the Wayback Machine, 67 posts rebuilt word for word, and the photos matched to them.
- 22 OctThe mockupThe 2014 look, white, with the galleries from his 2019 site.
- 23 OctHis logoHis kraken in place of the banner, six ways round, and all white chosen.
- 23 OctLiveOn Rocket.net, the domain pointed at it, the certificates on, and search engines let in.
- 23 OctThe finishHis Instagram, a description and share card on every page, and the compass for its icon.
The services: The same work,
for your site.
Two services went into this one. Each has its own page with its price on it.
- Every page drawn first, at desktop and phone width
- A block theme built from the same file
- Every word and photograph editable
- Hidden from Google until it is ready
- On Rocket.net, in London
- Updates and backups
- The domain stays in your name
Moving a site of your own? Website migration is the same job for a site that still has visitors: every old address mapped to a new one before anything goes live.
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