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Just started working for an organization with a painfully out of date website. Working on a ground-up rebuild, but in the meantime trying to make it more efficient and keep it running.
Step one is removing the MANY plugins they installed over the years that are not needed, not supported, etc. But because of how the site is built I can’t figure out which of the plugins are still being used. Especially the ones that add shortcodes, editors, and widgets.
Is there a way to run a search on the site or should I just deactivate and see what breaks?
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Best practice, clone the site and experiment. So you won’t break any live site by accident.
You can disable every plugins and compare what is missing between live and testing site. That’s all.
The easiest part, just revamp the whole site to save your time, technical debts and worries. Get the shit done as efficient as possible.
This is a shortcoming in WordPress when no one is documenting what has been done and someone else doesn’t know how to deal with it. You got to solve the puzzle!