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Case Study: Cleaning Up a Plugin-Heavy Service Business Site

A field note on reducing plugins, replacing brittle forms, and making a small service site easier to update.

Case Study: Cleaning Up a Plugin-Heavy Service Business Site
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The problem

The site had separate plugins for forms, popups, tracking, redirects, table blocks, page speed, and backups. No single plugin was the villain, but together they made every update risky.

The cleanup

We grouped features by job, removed duplicate tracking, replaced one-off popups with email forms, and documented which plugin owned each business function.

The result

Editors could update service pages again without calling a developer for routine changes.

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