I Stopped Treating WordPress Like a CMS (And My Projects Improved)
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For years, I built WordPress websites the traditional way. Install a theme. Add a few plugins. Customize where needed. It worked... until the projects became products. Once I started building larger WordPress applications, I realized the biggest limitation wasn't WordPress—it was the way I was thinking about it. WordPress Is More Than a CMS Today, WordPress powers much more than blogs. I've used it to build: SaaS dashboards Customer portals WooCommerce applications Internal bus