The WordPress Technical Debt Audit Guide

Technical debt is the silent killer of marketing ROI. When it takes 3 weeks to launch a landing page because of “CSS conflicts,” you are paying a technical debt tax.

Measuring the Debt Score

• Plugin Count vs. Task Complexity: Are you using 3 plugins for one feature?
• Theme Inheritance Logic: How many “hacky” fixes are in your child theme?
• Database Query Weight: Identifying the 40% of queries that serve zero user value.
• Redundant Scripts: The cost of 4 tracking pixels firing on the same event.

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