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WordPress vs WordPress

There’s been a lot of drama in the WordPress community this week, as people are questioning the relationship of wordpress.org and wordpress.com in Google’s search results.

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16th September, 2023

Silence is golden; security vs SEO?

One of WordPress' most basic security features creates a tricky SEO challenge. Empty files designed to protect against directory traversal leave behind dozens of dead end and headaches.

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27th February, 2021

Tackling toxic profile spam on WordPress.org

I've discovered something rotten at the core of the WordPress.org website, which is poisoning the whole web.

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3rd October, 2019

Website Security: Sensitive docs, robot blocks, and file-system locks

There’s a potential security flaw buried deep in millions of websites. Is yours exposing sensitive business information and documents?

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19th October, 2018

My WordPress ‘cleanup’ script

Code to standardise awkward behaviours, remove superfluous settings, and enhance some default functions and approaches.

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13th May, 2015