Maintenance
Plugin Debt vs a Static Frontend
Every plugin feels like a shortcut. The debt shows up on update day, or on the day an update does not exist.
The marketplace becomes the architecture
WordPress plugins and hosted-builder apps each own a slice of the page: SEO, forms, sliders, security, backups, translations. They were not designed together. The site is their negotiation.
A static frontend has a dependency list a developer can read. It does not have a dashboard of twenty vendors who can break the homepage.
Abandoned add-ons are a business risk
A builder feature that the vendor stops supporting does not become your code. It becomes a migration you did not schedule.
Source you own can be patched. A proprietary widget you rent cannot.
Maintenance should be improvement
We would rather spend a maintenance hour on a better page than on a compatibility check between a theme and a form plugin.
Static sites still need care: content, dependencies, and the occasional integration. The care is aimed at the product.
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