Agencies Should Publish Their WordPress Defaults
Opinion: if every project starts from a secret stack, you do not have a practice. You have folklore.
by Alex Harlan·June 6, 2026·0 Comments
A public defaults page — PHP version, theme starter, form plugin, backup, and what you refuse to install — is a gift to clients and to your future hires.
It also stops the Friday argument about whether this one site needs a page builder “just this once.”
Folklore does not scale. A defaults page does.
