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Thoughts, notes and things worth sharing.
AI Search Has Arrived. Your Website Is Now Being Interviewed
AI search is changing how people find and trust businesses. A practical field note on GEO, AI visibility, websites, workflows and useful AI.
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Fix ACF PRO to output unfiltered HTML
Notes from 2024 on ACF's HTML escaping changes, with field-output examples and security cautions for allowing unfiltered HTML in selected fields.
Securing Your Website: Cloudways Vulnerability Scanner Alerts
A 2023 guide to understanding Cloudways vulnerability alerts, checking outdated plugins and testing updates on staging before changing a live site.
WooCommerce 6 Released
A December 2021 overview of WooCommerce 6.0, including block templates, product attribute filtering, rate-limit storage and the release changelog.
Off The Shelf vs Bespoke Wordpress themes
A comparison of off-the-shelf and bespoke WordPress themes, covering cost, design, performance, flexibility and future development.
Block Specific WooCommerce Spam Orders
The story behind a small WooCommerce plugin I created in 2020 to block a recurring pattern of spam orders.
Cache issues with Forwards and Back history in Safari
A 2019 debugging account of Safari's back-and-forward cache, using pagehide, pageshow and HTTPS to reset a page's interface.