Plugins are how most WordPress users solve problems, and for good reason. But there’s a point where adding another one starts to hurt. Performance gets shaky, updates break things, and your site ends up depending on a chain of small tools nobody fully understands.
This talk is about recognizing that point. How do you tell when a workflow has outgrown its plugin? How do you move that logic somewhere else without losing what made WordPress easy in the first place? We’ll work through real examples, like a membership flow that started as three plugins and became one automation, and a CRM sync that stopped breaking once it left the plugin world.
Most WordPress talks assume the right answer is always to find the right plugin. This one is honest about when the right answer is to stop adding plugins.
