WordPress procurement is the business process of evaluating, selecting, budgeting, and contracting for WordPress-related software, hosting services, themes, plugins, and development work. It encompasses platform selection decisions (which managed hosting tier fits the traffic and uptime requirements), plugin licensing assessment (reviewing update cadence, support responsiveness, and end-of-life policies before committing to an annual license), and cost planning for ongoing maintenance and feature development. For organizations with formal IT governance or procurement departments, WordPress procurement also includes plugin security review against published CVEs, vendor GDPR data processing agreements, and SLA requirements for hosting uptime. The risk of poor WordPress procurement is 'procurement debt': accumulated technical and contractual obligations from vendors whose products are abandoned, insecure, or impossible to replace without a complete rebuild.
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