Scaling Without the Skeletons: How Enterprises Are Shedding WordPress Technical Debt
Most WordPress sites cost Irish businesses far more than the hosting invoice. The visible costs — a developer retainer to handle updates, an annual theme licence, premium plugin subscriptions — are at least legible. The invisible costs are harder to quantify but easier to feel: the afternoon lost when a plugin update breaks the homepage; the security alert at 11pm on a Friday; the three-hour task of changing a phone number because it lives inside a proprietary page-builder block that nobody on the team can locate.