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The perils of proprietary plugins

June 12, 2023 by Robert Lodi

Just sit right back
And you’ll read a tale
A tale of an old web site,

That launched back in
Twenty-fourteen
With plugins full of plight.

The site was working fine one day
Until the plugins crashed.

The pages used to work ok,
But now the site is trashed,
Now the site is trashed.

The home page is a freakin’ mess,
The templates have gone bust.

If not for the stable WordPress back-end code
The website would be dust,
The website would be dust.

I got a call just after five,
Asking me to join a Zoom,
With marketing,
The sales team too,
The president,
And his wife,
The IT guy,
The interns and the HR folks,
All with faces full of gloom.

So this is the tale of an old web site,
It’s down for a long, long while.

We’ll have to hack our way through things
And make it work, new-style.

Our web team and developers
Will do their very best,
To bring this website back to life,
And get problems addressed.

No posts,
No links,
No SEO,
No functionality.
Like something from the 90s,
It’s primitive as can be.

So listen here and plan ahead,
If your site has special bytes,
If your plugins can’t 
Be updated,
It’s time to fix your site!


Your website needs to work in the real world, and for longer than a three hour tour.

If your site is older, wonky, or you see a lot of this:

or this:

and would like help making it work the way you need – contact RPS today.

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