Five Hours
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.
Articles
Short, practical reads on websites, SEO, AI and running a business online. We write about what we've actually seen work, in plain English and without the jargon. The latest are below.
How to Tell If Your WordPress Site Was Hit
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 Cursor That's Already There
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.
Cookie Consent Is Not an Afterthought
Almost every website brief we see mentions analytics. Google Analytics 4, Google Tag Manager, conversion tracking, maybe a Facebook Pixel. All reasonable things...
The Real Cost of "Free"
"Free" is the most expensive word in web development. WordPress is free to download. That's true, and it's one of the reasons it powers such a large share of th...
7 Reasons Used Not to Use Social Media
Humans have been communicating for millennia using a variety of tools and platforms which have developed over the years into ever more sophisticated arenas, cul...
Follow or follow back - do you want to be part of a conversation?
I'm sure that you will have heard, from many sources, that it's not the quantity of followers on Twitter that counts but the quality and that your influence is...