If the fix is always another plugin, the platform is the problem

WordPress people love pretending plugins are “power.” They’re not. They’re duct tape. Every time something breaks, the answer is another plugin. Need a form? Plugin. Need a slider? Plugin. Need basic security so your site doesn’t get folded by a bored teenager? Plugin. It’s a culture of patchwork. A never-ending cycle of stacking random code on top of random code until the whole thing collapses under its own weight.

Here is the part no one likes hearing. The problem isn’t your agency. It’s not your developer. It’s not even the dodgy plugin that hasn’t been updated since 2019. The problem is the platform. WordPress was never built for designers or modern builders. It was built for bloggers two decades ago, then mutated into a Frankenstein CMS where every simple feature requires a third party to glue it on.

Meanwhile… Webflow ships with the stuff professionals actually need, already native, already stable, already fast. No plugin Russian roulette. No updating ten random add-ons hoping the site survives. No mystery code buried six layers deep. You build the thing you want. You design the thing you imagined. You ship it. It works. Every time.

That’s why serious builders have moved on. That’s why the sites I build run cleaner, load faster and break less. Because the platform is engineered for the work. Not patched together by a marketplace of strangers.

If the answer to every problem is another plugin, the platform is the problem. And the fix is choosing a platform that doesn’t need fixing in the first place.