Privacy, Compliance, and Community Protection Last updated: July 25, 2026 The reality: I face harassment online. When I stream, post, or create content, there are people whose explicit goal is to harm me and disrupt my community. So I built infrastructure to stop rewarding that behavior—and I did it legally. This article explains how […]

How We Fixed Missing SEO Data Across 7 Websites (Without Reading Every Page Ourselves) If you manage more than one or two websites, there’s a good chance some of them are quietly missing basic SEO metadata. That was exactly the situation we found ourselves in recently: seven different client websites, each with a mix of

🛡️ REST API Security: Why Bots Love Your Endpoints (And How to Make Them Pay)In the last 24 hours alone, we blocked over 300 automated attacks targeting REST API and XML-RPC endpoints. Not temporary bans. Not 4-day cooldowns. Permanent IP blocks. And every single one came back with a different IP address—because they had to.

  Advanced Themer 13 Complete rewrite from the ground up. Security-first management platform for WordPress agencies. A Complete Rebuild The previous version carried legacy code and architectural limitations. Advanced Themer 13 starts fresh with a clean, modern foundation designed specifically for WordPress agencies that need robust control over their client sites. Every module has been

Advanced Themer 13 Now Features Secure Plugin Updates A major upgrade improves security and keeps your site current. Advanced Themer 13 has been updated with a professional-grade plugin update system that makes staying current easier and safer than ever. Here’s what’s new. What Changed 🔔 Built-In Update Notifications Your WordPress admin now displays available updates

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Here’s a hard truth most website owners never think about until it’s too late: almost everything on your website is replaceable. Except the one thing that actually runs your business. What you can always get back Plugins and themes? Replaceable. Every plugin on your site can be re-downloaded in minutes. WordPress itself can be reinstalled

Advanced Themer 13: The Big Login, Access & Billing Update It started with a simple request — “can we change the login background color?” — and turned into the biggest Advanced Themer 13 release yet. A fully branded login screen, real agency-grade access control, and a complete client billing loop powered by Cash App. Here

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Advanced Themer 13 Dev Log: One Day, Fourteen Features, and a Three-Plugin Pileup Behind the scenes of a full day hardening our in-house Astra toolkit — filters, hooks, hotfixes, and one very satisfying bug hunt. Advanced Themer 13 is our ground-up rebuild of the toolkit we bolt onto every Astra site we ship. Today it