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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. Platform Architecture 9 min read

    Building a custom WordPress event calendar: when The Events Calendar isn’t the right answer.

    The Events Calendar (TEC) is one of the most widely deployed plugins in the WordPress ecosystem, and on paper, it’s easy to see why. It...

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  4. Accessibility 6 min read

    Where to start when your WordPress accessibility audit comes back ugly.

    The accessibility audit deliverable is a spreadsheet. 400+ rows. Every row has a severity label assigned by the scanner, a WCAG criterion reference, a code...

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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. Platform Architecture 6 min read

    The integration debt every WordPress CRM connector accumulates.

    Every WordPress site that talks to a CRM does it through some kind of connector. They all start simple. Two years in, the integration is doing six jobs it wasn't designed for, and nobody quite knows what triggers what.

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  9. Platform Architecture 6 min read

    Stop configuring giant plugins. Build a small one instead.

    The default WordPress problem-solving instinct goes like this: identify the need, search the plugin directory, pick the option with the highest install count and decent...

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