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Refactoring strategies for legacy code

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Refactoring strategies for legacy code

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- [Instructor] Legacy code can be difficult to manage, but refactoring improves maintainability, security, and performance. In this video, we'll explore techniques for refactoring WordPress code while minimizing risk. Let's get started. Legacy code is outdated or unstructured code that lacks documentation or follows old practices. Common issues include no clear structure or consistency, outdated function and deprecated features, limited or no testing, and security vulnerabilities. Refactoring improves your WordPress project by enhancing readability and maintainability, eliminating unnecessary dependencies, improving performance and scalability, and fixing security vulnerabilities. By refactoring regularly, you can reduce technical debt and make future development easier. Refactoring involves multiple strategies, including extracting reusable functions and components, removing duplicate code, think Don't Repeat Yourself, or the DRY principle, upgrading to modern PHP standards and…

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