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WordPress Just Shipped an Official Browser Extension. Here’s Who Actually Needs It
On August 13, 2026, WordPress.org released an official browser extension for Chrome, Chromium-based browsers, and Safari on macOS. What is the WordPress…
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Namecheap’s 30-Hour Outage Is a Lesson in Why DNS and Hosting Shouldn’t Share a Single Point of Failure
Namecheap went down for 30 hours and 32 minutes on August 13-14, 2026, after a cooling system failure at the RadiusDC Phoenix…
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14 Trojanized npm Packages Are Dropping a Linux Backdoor
Fourteen npm packages published under names like streak-metrics-math, kit-map-vim, and streak-map-cache look like small calendar and streak-tracking utilities. Developers pull them in…
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CVE-2026-19478: What to Do If You’re Running GitLab on Your Own VPS
On August 17, 2026, GitLab shipped an emergency patch outside its normal twice-monthly release schedule. Three days later, security firm watchTowr had…
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WordPress 7.1 Ships August 19: What Actually Changes for Site Owners
WordPress 7.1 is scheduled for release on August 19, 2026, timed to land on the final day of WordCamp US in Phoenix.…
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WordPress 7.1: The Admin Change That Could Break Your Plugins
WordPress 7.1 ships today, August 19, 2026. While headlines focus on client-side media processing, a new Tabs block, and richer collaboration notes,…
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Hepsia vs cPanel: What the Feature Lists Don’t Tell You
Hepsia is a proprietary, consolidated control panel bundled by specific hosting providers to manage domains, billing, and site files in one place,…
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The Hidden Cost of Bot Traffic: Why Bandwidth Limits Matter When Choosing a Host
By one measure, automated traffic already made up 53% of all web traffic in 2025. That’s Imperva’s Bad Bot Report, which counts…
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What AI Crawlers Actually Read on Your Site: robots.txt vs. llms.txt Explained
Two files, both plain text, both sitting at your site’s root, both apparently about controlling what crawls your site. In practice, they…
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Why Legacy PHP Is a Security Risk for WordPress Sites (and How to Fix It)
If your WordPress site is still running on PHP 7 or earlier, it’s not just outdated. It’s sitting on top of thousands…
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