Glossary Terms

WordPress procurement

WordPress procurement is the business side of choosing and paying for everything a WordPress project runs on: hosting, themes, plugins, and development work. It covers picking the right hosting tier for your traffic and uptime needs, assessing plugin licenses (looking at update cadence, support, and end-of-life policies before committing to an annual fee), and budgeting for ongoing maintenance and new features. In organizations with formal IT governance it also means reviewing plugins against known vulnerabilities, checking vendor data-processing agreements, and setting uptime requirements in contracts. The risk of doing it poorly is procurement debt: a pile of contractual and technical obligations from vendors whose products end up abandoned, insecure, or too tangled to replace without a rebuild.