I rebuilt planningtobehappy.com from the ground up migrating from a Kadence page builder setup to a custom Underscores-based WordPress theme with WooCommerce integration. No page builders, no drag-and-drop just clean PHP templates, SCSS, and vanilla JS. The rebuild delivered an 82% faster mobile LCP, pushed desktop performance to 97, and took security headers from an F to an A+.
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