Matt Dorman is co-founder of Ndevr, a technology-agnostic web development agency with a preference for open-source platforms. Over more than 20 years building enterprise web platforms, Matt has led engineering teams supporting Bloomberg, Johnson & Johnson, Forbes, Hearst, and Penske Media — work that spans WordPress, Drupal, and the messy real-world architectures that connect them. He co-hosts “Boozy Browsing: Pour Decisions in Web Development” with Ndevr co-founder Meeky Hwang. Matt is based outside Denver, CO, and is most interested in the practical, unglamorous work of keeping enterprise content estates running long after the launch press release has been forgotten.
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Surviving the Plugin Stack: A Practical Playbook for Auditing and Simplifying Complex WordPress Sites
Track: Technical WordPressEvery mature WordPress site accumulates plugins the way a garage accumulates boxes… one at a time, each for a reasonable purpose, until the whole thing is load-bearing and nobody wants to touch it. The problem is not that plugins exist. The problem is that most teams have no repeatable method for evaluating what they actually…