A WordPress audit is a comprehensive technical and content review of a WordPress installation that identifies security vulnerabilities, performance bottlenecks, outdated software, plugin conflicts, and SEO deficiencies — delivering a prioritized remediation roadmap. A complete WordPress audit covers: core, plugin, and theme version status (anything more than 2 versions behind is a risk); PHP version compatibility; database health (orphaned post meta, excessive revisions, transient bloat); security posture (login protection, file permissions, exposed debug logs, active malware scan); Core Web Vitals performance; broken links and redirect chains; structured data validity; and crawl coverage in Google Search Console. Audits are most commonly performed when inheriting a legacy site, before a major redesign, after a Google ranking drop, or as a scheduled annual health check. The deliverable is a scored checklist with effort/impact ratings so the developer or site owner can work through the highest-priority fixes first without getting lost in lower-value cleanup.
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