CanBoat Oakville
A slow, bloated WordPress site that had become impossible to manage was replaced with a clean custom PHP build.
The Problem
CanBoat Oakville’s website — a volunteer-run boating education organisation serving Oakville and the surrounding area — had been built on WordPress and had become slow, cluttered, and difficult to maintain. The site had accumulated plugin conflicts, layout inconsistencies, and template issues that made routine updates a problem and left the site performing poorly for visitors looking to register for courses.
For a volunteer organisation, the overhead of keeping WordPress functional — updates, plugin compatibility, security patches — was an ongoing burden with no clear benefit.
What Was Fixed
The WordPress site was replaced entirely with a custom PHP build — no CMS, no plugins, no database overhead. The new site was built around the organisation’s actual needs: clear course information, easy registration, and content that could be maintained without technical knowledge.
The result was a leaner codebase with none of the template or plugin conflicts that had made the old site difficult to manage.
The Result
A fast, stable site with no maintenance overhead. The plugin conflicts and layout issues that had accumulated on the WordPress install are gone. The site loads quickly, works correctly on mobile, and requires no ongoing updates to stay functional.
CanBoat Oakville
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