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The excluded-plugin setting that Playwright ignored — fixing browser-mode updates and false residual warnings
The symptom In browser-mode maintenance (Playwright, no SSH), plugins marked as “excluded from update checks” were still being…
Beyond WooCommerce.com’s Selective Plugin Loading
Why the final plugin filter is only half of the architecture https://developer.woocommerce.com/2026/07/21/selective-plugin-loading/ WooCommerce Engineering recently published a useful…
Locked out of wp-admin? Why WP-CLI works when `wp-login.php` doesn’t
A forgotten password, a security plugin that blocked your own IP by mistake, a plugin bug that turns…
Why phpMyAdmin migrations break plugin settings — and why `wp search-replace` doesn’t
After a domain migration or HTTPS switch, “all plugin settings are gone” or “Elementor layouts are broken” is…
Another day, another VPS breach
I woke up to two emails that immediately caught my attention. One was from my website monitoring service…
Edge vs. Endpoint Bot Blocking: A Developer’s Guide to Cloudflare and Wordfence
Edge vs. Endpoint Bot Blocking: A Developer’s Guide to Cloudflare and Wordfence The Real Cost of AI Bot…
When SSH to Xserver suddenly stops working, it’s fail2ban — the official confirmation and a safer reconnection check
If you run WordPress maintenance for clients on Xserver, sooner or later you hit this: SSH was working…
WordPress 7.0 is here: AI in Core, a modern dashboard, and what it means for your hosting
The open-source ecosystem has just taken one of its most important steps since the launch of the Gutenberg…
OpenFields can be the new go-to ACF Plugin for WP ( 2026 )
The short version Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) is great. But the free tier lacks repeaters, and the Pro…
I shipped a website-to-PDF SaaS on WordPress — here’s the stack
Last month I launched Site2PDF — converts any website to PDF, PNG, JPG or ZIP. Here’s the entire…
