A company site rebuilt by more than one vendor. Editors avoided publishing because the layout broke. There were many plugins, and no one list of which ones the site actually used.
What was wrong
- No stable way to build a page.
- A text change needed a developer.
- Updates waited, because the last one had broken a template.
What was done
- A small set of section templates, instead of a new design language.
- Plugins reduced to the ones the pages used.
- A short note for editors: how to assemble a page, and what not to install.
What works now
- The team publishes pages without calling a developer first.
- An update is a checklist, not a project.
- Less custom PHP left with no owner.
What this case is not
- No client name, and no traffic claims. It is a composite.
- Not a move onto a page builder, and not a new language version of the site.
- The service behind it: WordPress.