What’s the most frustrating part of managing existing WordPress sites?

Anyone else feel like modern WordPress work is mostly maintaining existing sites now?

Most projects I work on aren’t “build from scratch” anymore.

It’s usually:

  • fixing WooCommerce issues
  • updating existing client sites
  • testing plugin/theme changes
  • debugging conflicts
  • trying to deploy safely without breaking production

We kept hitting this problem repeatedly while working on WordPress projects, especially with client sites.

Curious how other developers/agencies are handling these workflows right now?

Posted May 12, 2026, 6:20 AM UTC

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