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Wanting to change your site's colours and fonts should not mean commissioning a new website. The gap between "make it look fresh" and "rebuild it" is wide, and most platforms have nothing comfortable in the middle.

Patchstack puts the median gap between a WordPress vulnerability going public and being mass-exploited at around five hours. Most maintenance plans run monthly. That arithmetic changes what maintenance is for.

Updating your site closes the door. It does not tell you whether anybody came through it first. This is the check we run, written so you or your developer can work through it in an afternoon.

The usual advice about WordPress security is to keep your plugins few and keep them updated. This time it did not help, because the flaw was in WordPress itself, and it had been in there long before July made it news. Which versions were exposed, and what to take from it.

Changing one small thing about your website's look has always been a surprisingly big job. Theme Studio in Motley CMS changes that: restyle your colours, fonts, spacing and content blocks yourself, preview it live, and publish it without code, plugins or a developer queue. Here's what it does, and how it compares to the usual WordPress route.

Turn on two-factor login in our CMS and the cursor is already waiting in the code box. It's a detail so small you'd never think to ask for it. Which is exactly why it tells you something about how the whole thing was built.

I have ADHD and autism. For most of my life I didn't know that, and for a while after finding out I kept it quiet. These days I think it's one of the better reasons to have me looking after your website. Here's the honest version, drawbacks and all.

A few weeks ago I wrote about the four names an AI assistant gave me, and the client it left out. The more I think about it, the more the list was the wrong thing to focus on. The real decision happens earlier, in a conversation you never get to see.

Most web agencies describe themselves as flexible. "We work across all platforms." "We tailor solutions to your needs." "We're not tied to any one technology."...

A few years ago we stopped leading with the thing that pays the bills. On paper it looks daft. In practice it changed the work that comes our way, and made the advice we give a lot more honest. Here's what happened and why.