Plugin updates do not patch the image libraries your server uses. How to check your stack and harden member uploads, with libheif as the example.
Security14 min read
Six checks to run before customers use an app an AI builder made: access rules, keys, dependencies, a tested restore, migrations, and monitoring.
Security15 min read
Test a PHP upgrade on staging: debug log, money paths, forced cron and imports, reading the log, and a PHPCompatibilityWP scan.
Debugging & Profiling15 min read
Security releases go out the same day, automatically, with proof. Feature releases get a copy first. A decision table, a three-step check and a rollback plan.
Security15 min read
Some attacks create an admin account the Users screen cannot show. Run this 15-minute WP-CLI and SQL audit, then clean up and prevent a repeat.
Security16 min read
A week-by-week staging plan for WordPress 7.2, the PHP 8.2 deadline and MySQL 8.0, from 12 October to early January, with commands and rollbacks.
Security14 min read
A firewall filters requests that look like a known attack; an update removes the bug. Real WordPress releases where the bug needed a login, which layer filters what, how to test your own protection on staging, and a one-page response plan.
Security12 min read
A ten-minute review for any AI-written WordPress code snippet: hooks, capability checks, nonces, escaping, $wpdb->prepare, autoloaded options, per-request cost, deprecated functions, PHP 8.x, where to put it, and how to roll it back.
Code Snippets14 min read
Code stored in a database row has no diff, no deploy and no review. Here are the WP-CLI commands that find every snippet, shortcode and unauthenticated AJAX action on a site you inherited, and the order to migrate them safely.
How To12 min read
Recovery steps first, then what actually broke, three corrections to the coverage, and a timeline showing the fault was reported with its own fix six weeks before the release that made it universal.
Performance12 min read
WordPress publishes usernames through five separate paths, most of them core behaviour. Each one tested against a live install, with the fix, the fleet audit, and what to do first instead.
Performance11 min read
An authenticated Author+ RCE via file upload on sites using Imagick and Ghostscript. Three checkable preconditions, the WP-CLI to answer each across a fleet, and what the CVE record does not yet say.
How To10 min read
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