October 23, 2017 — Drew Poland is a freelance WordPress developer in the Baltimore area specializing in custom theme design & development. He is also a regular WordCamp speaker.

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November 14, 2014 — Every developer inherits technical debt, whether it is a codebase built by a third party, a codebase at a new job, or even ones own codebase that they have not touched in a few years. Some of the things I explained are, how I code audited the codebase and came up with some key major fixes that would greatly increase performance and load time, came up with a strategy and prioritized how to go about executing the fixes, and lastly how I executed the strategy and what the overall outcome (performance, load times, etc.) of the site was when finished.