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by johng 640 days ago
This really doesn't sound believable, on your part. You can't run pngquant on the images directory to shrink down the images? Should take 2 seconds of shell script. Honestly a lot of things you mention seem like pretty trivial to do... Wordpress is so well understood and there are so many utilities and integrations for it, it's one of the simplest things to integrate with something else. This comment sounds like you were mad they made something that the rest of the company wanted and got mad and didn't want to play ball.... could just be misinterpretation over text, who knows.
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* yes the images would be an easy fix

* their CRM plugins did not support Salesforce

* even if it did, they didn't realize that was like an extra $1500/month for API connection (something like that), which was also balked at, but just a plain fact

* they already built everything out and changing plugins was not an option

* I have almost no experience with WordPress and 0 time to figure it out alongside the myriad of other projects on my plate

* 0 thought went into authentication and that was also something I couldn't change

* this was not built by a team with WordPress experience, or any technical experience

They said "it's set up like this, make it work". I couldn't, not without dropping everything and hiring someone to do it, and managing a contractor(s) which was also not an option.