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Stop making admins with a SQL INSERT, give every person and script its own account at the lowest role that works, and switch off the dashboard's file editor. A short hardening list for WordPress.
Thread: The WordPress toolbox ↗What I set up before writing a line of theme or plugin code: a local copy, the debug switches, WP-CLI's scaffolding and a profiler. Condensed from a very long page of old notes.
Thread: The WordPress toolbox ↗My old notes had a pipeline that wrote and published WordPress posts on a schedule. What I'd keep from it, what I'd throw out, and how I'd use AI for a client's site copy now.
Thread: Building a site for someone ↗The WordPress database is where sites actually break. Back it up first, clean it with WP-CLI instead of raw SQL, and never swap URLs with a plain REPLACE, because serialized data won't survive it.
Thread: The WordPress toolbox ↗One script that dumps a WordPress database and zips the site files into a dated folder, with the password kept off the command line and a -WhatIf that really works.
Thread: The WordPress toolbox ↗Every WordPress site since 5.6 can be driven over HTTPS with an application password and nothing else installed. Here's how to read, create and update content from PowerShell.
Thread: The WordPress toolbox ↗The short list of WP-CLI commands worth knowing by heart, the few that bite, and what I fixed in my own old notes after checking them against the current docs.
Thread: The WordPress toolbox ↗