| I used to build, host and manage Wordpress sites for a bunch of small businesses. Even though I stopped offering that service years ago, I continued to host a number of sites as a gesture of goodwill. Recently, I decided that I was paying way too much for the hosting and so decided to migrate... This is where I entered the doors to hell. The sites are running on old wordpress and PHP versions and are brimming with plugins I used to smooth over gaps in my programming knowledge. I cannot migrate the sites to a new server without first upgrading their wordpress/PHP versions. The problem is, when I do that, the sites break due to a host of unknown errors. It's actually comical at this point I feel like it's karma for cutting corners and not maintaining those sites correctly over the years. Anyway, just thought I'd share. Maybe it'll give someone a good laugh haha |
Sadly there aren't many good options at this point. You can try and fix the offending plugins yourself, though that can be far more difficult than even rebuilding them yourself. You can try and rebuild said plugins from scratch, but that's also a lot of work, especially if you have to keep some form of backwards compatibility. Or you can remove the features in question, which may not be practical if the plugin is deeply integrated into the structure of the sites.
Out of curiosity, what sort of things do these plugins do though? Maybe we can figure out if other solutions exist to replace them, or whether these particular features are still needed in 2023.