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Linsey Knerl October 03, 2024 at 08:00 PM

Where are my WP people at? Working with a small business to add new content, and they are super short staffed, as well as have none of the people who created their blog 3 years ago still on staff. I was hired to write and add content directly into WP, with the understanding it would be plug-and-play like most of my other clients are.

But getting in there, it's a mess. We have outdated Divi and All in One SEO making each post a nightmare, even though nothing new has been added to the site in years. I am not a WP pro, and I can work around it enough to have posts show up OKish in search. We mostly use these posts as a landing page for our social and other outreach efforts and have no delusions that we will rank high for some of the more competitive terms. My essential question is, if I skip using Divi or other tools and just enter in basic editor will it mess things up later? (It shows up fine in Google's tools.) I can't see the team ever going back to Divi or reupping their license since none of the existing teams even know what these things are. This is beyond my paygrade. Thanks.

(Adding that they have dozens of outdated posts created with Divi. Difficult to edit at this point, may delete the whole bunch.)

Mike Funkhouser October 03, 2024 at 09:05 PM

Hey Linsey! Would they be interested in just rebuilding?

I've ran into a few similar situations this year and have just encouraged them to rebuild website (an exact copy) in Webflow. As it is a no code option it's easier for the client and since you're just duplicating the website the transition is usually quite affordable. I've had clients do that for less than $700.

Alexander Boswell October 03, 2024 at 09:50 PM

Like Mike said: I’d honestly just suggest rebuilding. If it’s a nightmare now, it’s not gonna get any better

Linsey Knerl October 03, 2024 at 11:55 PM

Thanks a bunch for your replies. They did hire a WP developer to create a landing page and also (eventually) clean up the site. These are pages, so no immediate plans to work at the post-level (hope I'm saying that right.) Guess it's something I can bring up at my next consultation. At least I know now before setting any expectations for traffic or discoverability on the content I've created for them. Cheers!