WordPress 7.0’s AI Features: What Actually Ships on a Real Site
WordPress 7.0 shipped an AI Client, a Connectors hub, and the Abilities API. Here is what actually exists on a production site, checked from outside.
Getting Started with Claude Code: Install, Setup, and the Habits That Actually Matter
Getting started with Claude Code: the install, the setup that matters, and the verification habits I learned shipping seven posts and one pipeline.
Every WordPress Failure That Reports Success
Five failures on one WordPress site, every one reporting success. The software was not lying — I was reading each status as an answer to the wrong question.
The Plugin That Was Network-Active and Doing Absolutely Nothing
Two plugins on my site were active and doing nothing at all. Here is how to tell whether a plugin is actually working, and what removing one let me close.
I Locked Myself Out Testing My Own Brute-Force Protection
I hid my login error messages for security, which also hid my login limiter’s warnings. The only way to know if it still worked was to attack my own site.
Your WordPress Is Publishing Its Admin Username in Five Places
WordPress leaks your admin login through the REST API, author archives, and your own theme’s byline. Here is how to find all five and close them.
WordPress Is Not Generating Your Thumbnails (And It Will Not Tell You)
If PHP’s image extension is missing, WordPress accepts every upload, returns success, and generates no thumbnails at all. Here is how to check yours.
Debugging a WordPress Fatal Error With No Error Log
WP_DEBUG is off and the PHP error log is unreachable, but one admin page keeps dying. Here is how I captured the real fatal error with a shutdown handler.
I Built an AI Publishing Pipeline: Obsidian to WordPress, With a Human Gate
How I built an AI publishing pipeline from Obsidian to WordPress that generates featured images and SEO metadata — but never publishes without my approval.