WordPress, From Someone Who Lives In It

It's the wrong question. Quality matters far more than the number. Fifteen well built, well maintained plugins can run leaner than three bloated ones. What actually hurts sites is overlapping plugins doing the same job, abandoned plugins that no longer get security updates, and "does everything" plugins loading their entire toolkit on every page. The guides here cover how to audit what you're running and what to keep.

Yes. Outdated software is how the overwhelming majority of WordPress sites get hacked, and it's almost always a known vulnerability that had a patch available. But updating blindly on a live site carries its own risks, which is why sites end up frozen in fear instead. The answer is a simple routine. Backup first, update, check the site. These guides walk through doing it safely.

Usually a combination of the same few culprits. Oversized images, too much plugin and theme code loading on every page, cheap hosting, and no caching. The good news is that most of it is fixable without a developer. WordPress sites are rarely slow because of WordPress itself. The Page Speed Section covers the fixes step by step. The guides here cover the WordPress specific causes.

Yes — it runs well over 40% of the web for good reason: you own your site outright, you're not locked into a platform's pricing or limits, and there's an answer for practically every need. The hosted builders like Squarespace and Wix trade that freedom for convenience, which suits some people. But for a business site you intend to grow, keep and control, WordPress remains the strongest choice — run properly, which is what this section is for.