WordPress Audits
WordPress Audits for Sites That Need Clarity Before the Next Decision
Technical WordPress audits that help organisations understand risk, performance, maintainability, security, content structure and the safest route forward.
Make Do helps teams assess existing WordPress websites before rescue work, supplier takeover, migration, rebuild planning, support onboarding or major investment.
Diagnose Before You Decide
A WordPress Audit Should Give You Evidence, Not Just a Long List of Problems
When a WordPress site feels slow, fragile, outdated or difficult to improve, it is easy to jump straight to a rebuild, migration or emergency fix. An audit helps you understand what is actually happening before committing budget to the wrong solution.
Our WordPress audits are designed to uncover technical risk, platform weaknesses, maintenance issues, performance bottlenecks, plugin debt, content structure problems and handover gaps.
The aim is not to criticise the site for the sake of it. The aim is to help your team understand what needs attention, what can wait, what is safe to improve and whether the next step should be support, rescue, migration, rebuild or retained development.
Useful Before Big Decisions
A good audit gives you a clearer decision point: stabilise the current site, improve it, migrate it, rebuild it, or move it into a more structured support model.
What We Review
A Practical Review of the WordPress Platform, Not Just Surface-Level Scores
Technical Health
Review WordPress core, theme structure, plugin usage, custom code, errors, update position, hosting fit and obvious technical risk.
Performance & Reliability
Assess speed, caching, database load, front-end weight, hosting configuration, recurring errors and areas that may affect stability.
Security & Access
Review access control, user roles, update risks, exposed tools, hosting security, plugin risk and practical hardening requirements.
Content & Editor Experience
Assess how easy the site is to edit, how content is structured, where templates are restrictive and where teams are blocked.
SEO & Site Structure
Review technical SEO basics, indexable content, redirects, URL structure, metadata, internal linking, archive behaviour and migration risks.
Integrations & Dependencies
Identify external systems, form handlers, CRMs, payment tools, APIs, plugins, embeds and business-critical dependencies.
Audit to Action
The Output Should Help You Decide What Happens Next
A useful WordPress audit should not leave your team with a vague PDF that nobody acts on. It should separate urgent risk from lower-priority issues, explain what matters commercially and show which route is most sensible.
That route may be technical support, rescue work, supplier takeover, a performance improvement phase, a migration, a rebuild or a longer-term retained development plan. The audit should make that decision easier.
- Understand what is broken, fragile or undocumented.
- Prioritise actions by risk, value and effort.
- Avoid spending heavily on the wrong next step.
- Create a clearer plan for support, rescue, migration or rebuild work.
Audit Routes
Different WordPress Problems Need Different Audit Depths
Some sites need a focused technical review. Others need a deeper audit before takeover, migration, rebuild or retained support.
Focused Review
Technical Site Audit
A practical review of the current WordPress setup, usually useful when the site has issues but the next step is not yet clear.
- Good for unclear performance, stability or maintenance issues.
- Useful before support onboarding.
- Helps separate urgent issues from general improvement work.
Takeover Review
Supplier Handover Audit
A takeover-focused review for teams inheriting a WordPress site from another supplier, internal team or unsupported legacy setup.
- Good before a new agency takes ownership.
- Useful when documentation, access or code ownership is unclear.
- Helps create a safer route into support or rescue work.
Strategic Review
Rebuild or Migration Audit
A deeper review when the site may need migration, replatforming, rebuild or a larger phase of platform improvement.
- Good before committing to a major rebuild.
- Useful when the current platform is old or unstable.
- Helps define whether to fix, migrate, rebuild or replace.
How We Audit
A Clear Process for Reviewing an Existing WordPress Site
A useful audit needs enough technical depth to be meaningful, but enough commercial context to help the organisation decide what happens next.
01
Clarify the Question
We start by understanding what decision the audit needs to support: support, rescue, takeover, migration, rebuild, performance or roadmap planning.
02
Review the Platform
We review the WordPress setup, theme, plugins, hosting, content structure, integrations, access, performance, security and maintainability.
03
Prioritise Findings
We group findings by severity, business impact, technical risk and effort so your team can see what matters first.
04
Recommend the Route
We recommend the safest next step, whether that is support, rescue, takeover, migration, rebuild planning or focused improvement work.
Good Fit
Best When the Site Matters, but the Next Move Is Unclear
A WordPress audit is most useful when the website is important enough to need a proper technical decision, but the team does not yet have enough evidence to choose the right route.
A WordPress Audit Is Usually Useful If You Need To:
- Understand whether your current WordPress site can be supported, improved or rescued.
- Review an inherited website before taking ownership or changing supplier.
- Assess technical risk before a rebuild, migration or major investment.
- Identify why the site feels slow, fragile, outdated or difficult to edit.
- Prioritise fixes, improvements and support needs around business impact.
- Create a practical roadmap instead of guessing what to fix next.
Related Services
WordPress Audits Often Lead Into Support, Rescue, Takeover or Migration Work
The audit is often the first step. Once the current position is clear, the next route can be planned with more confidence.
WordPress Rescue
For sites that need stabilising, fixing or bringing back under control after technical issues, poor handover or supplier problems.
WordPress Site Takeover
For organisations moving away from another supplier or taking ownership of an inherited WordPress website.
WordPress Support
For ongoing technical support, maintenance, retained development and continuous improvement after the audit is complete.
Need a Clearer View of Your WordPress Site?
Tell us what is happening with your site, what decisions you are trying to make and where the uncertainty sits. We will help you work out whether an audit is the right first step.