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A small UK removals website published a year of AI-generated "moving tips" posts. Google now refuses to index 220 of its 272 pages. Here are the GSC screenshots, what E-E-A-T actually means, what non-commodity content looks like in practice, and a five-phase recovery playbook.
Every WordPress 7 Abilities API tutorial ships the five-line `__return_true` pattern. It works on a laptop. It's also the shortest path to an AI-callable backdoor on production. Here's the hardened permission + input + output schema stack production sites need, plus a 12-point pre-ship audit.
WordPress 7 (due once the revised schedule is confirmed on 22 April) extends the Block Bindings API so every block can pull its content from a structured data source instead of holding it directly. Edit one field and every page that uses it updates. Cleaner maintenance, faster sites, stronger SEO, and content an AI can actually understand.
Anthropic's Claude Mythos model identified thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities in every major operating system and web browser. Twelve companies got advance access through Project Glasswing. Everyone else, including the businesses whose websites run on that software, will have to wait for patches.
WordPress 7.0 ships a Connectors API, a built-in AI Client, and an Abilities API. Configure your API key once, and every plugin on your site can use it. The catch: core has no per-plugin budget cap, no rate limit, no monthly ceiling.
WordPress 7 was supposed to ship live from WordCamp Asia today. It hasn't. The core team paused the release to rebuild the database layer for real-time collaboration. Here's what that quietly tells you about the state of the release.
A walkthrough of the free 365i WordPress Scanner, the eight checks it runs, and how to fix every issue it finds.
Protect your WordPress site from hackers with this step-by-step security checklist covering everything from updates to two-factor authentication.
Slow websites lose customers. Learn the expert techniques we use to achieve sub-second load times on every WordPress site we build.
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