Wordpress's greatest feature is also its Achilles heal

WordPress is a wonderful platform for publishing to the web. I've been using it since nearly the beginning (circa 2007+/-) both personally and professionally. In fact, I went on to build a successful business around it that was acquired a few years back. Thankfully, we only had a handful of major security incidents over nearly a decade of helping folks in real estate, legal, and financial services with their websites. However, I can tell you with great certainty that there was one issue with WordPress that was the culprit of 85-90% of our issues: Plugins The Main Benefits of WordPress Plugins 1. Enhanced functionality WordPress plugins enhance the functionality of your website. This was revolutionary in the early 2000s because you didn't need to know how to code or Dreamweaver to launch a website. This trend continues to be a popular method of customizing WP sites today even with AI (we'll talk more about this later). 2. Created an ecosystem The fact that WordPress was extendable invit