For the one WP site I have to maintain, I keep things as simple as possible. I avoid plugins as much as possible and push as much functionality as possible to t

For the one WP site I have to maintain, I keep things as simple as possible. I avoid plugins as much as possible and push as much functionality as possible to the frontend using Javascript. For stuff that requires collecting data I will send the form data to a separate Clojure server where I can store and process the data in a sane way and then redirect back to Wordpress as needed. It is probably over complicating things just for the sake of avoiding having to learn PHP and deal with stuff I don't (want to) understand - but on the whole it works quite well.