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  1. Legacy Modernization 9 min read

    Consolidating multiple WordPress domains into one site: the 301 strategy that protects SEO.

    The scenario is common enough to count as a category: a business has five or six domains, each with a WordPress site of various vintages,...

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  2. Legacy Modernization 8 min read

    Migrating WordPress off Bedrock and other custom frameworks: when re-standardization is the win.

    Custom WordPress frameworks were a reasonable answer to a real problem. Vanilla WordPress, circa 2015, didn’t have built-in environment management, didn’t compose well with Composer,...

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  3. Legacy Modernization 7 min read

    WordPress 6.7 fixed (some of) the autoload problem.

    The Options API in WordPress underwent a meaningful architectural shift across the 6.6 (July 2024) and 6.7 (November 2024) releases. Core now actively manages the...

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  4. Legacy Modernization 7 min read

    Replacing 47 plugins with 12: a consolidation playbook.

    A common opening question on legacy WordPress engagements: “How many of these plugins do we actually need?” The site has 47 active. The honest answer...

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  5. Legacy Modernization 7 min read

    What a real WordPress technical-debt audit actually finds.

    The standard WordPress audit deliverable is a list of about 30 findings, mostly catalogued from automated tools. Plugin count, last update dates, PHP and WordPress...

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  6. Legacy Modernization 12 min read

    The real cost of WordPress plugin sprawl.

    Every plugin you add to WordPress doesn't just add features — it adds technical debt, performance overhead, and another vendor relationship to manage. After twenty years of cleaning up plugin debt, here's what compounds, what's recoverable, and where the real cost lives.

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  7. Legacy Modernization 5 min read

    Autoloaded options: the silent WordPress performance killer.

    Update (January 2025): WordPress 6.6 (June 2024) and 6.7 (November 2024) introduced significant changes to how the Options API handles autoloading, including new autoload values...

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