Case Studies

From 100+ Plugins to a Purpose-Built Machine

Client Brooklyn Bridge Park Visit site
From 100+ Plugins to a Purpose-Built Machine
100+ → ~15 Plugins consolidated
0 Publishing bugs since launch
Weekly Maintenance cadence

The site was carrying 100+ WordPress plugins accumulated over years of ad-hoc additions. Cascading conflicts caused events to 404 on publish when timezone edge cases hit, donation confirmation pages were mislabeling GiveWP forms, and every plugin update was a roll of the dice. Compliance requirements around image usage were going unmet.

DevQ rebuilt the site from the ground up on WP Engine with a consolidated plugin stack — The Events Calendar Pro and GiveWP at the core — migrated DNS to Cloudflare, and built a custom Mapbox integration for the interactive park map on a dedicated subdomain. Every remaining plugin passed a three-way filter: must stay, can be replaced by code, or delete. Image right-click protection was added to meet legal’s copyright requirements.

The site stopped breaking on publish. Plugin update anxiety is gone. The communications team now ships events and donation campaigns on their own schedule without developer intervention, and DevQ handles a weekly maintenance cadence backed by detailed client-side QA.

Brooklyn Bridge Park’s website serves as the primary public touchpoint for one of New York’s most visited waterfront parks — event calendars, donation flows, an interactive park map, and ongoing compliance-sensitive content. When DevQ took over, it was one plugin update away from going down at any moment.

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