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In November 2018, a developer sent an email to all parties about an industrial business that ran its entire operation through a custom intranet system
In November 2018, a developer sent an email to all parties about an industrial business that ran its entire operation through a custom intranet system
It was January 2024, peak summer season in the Bay of Islands. For a regional tourism information site, that fortnight carries more bookings and enquiries
An automatic update ran at 10pm on a Wednesday. Nobody knew. Nobody had authorised it. Nobody was watching. The update notification had been going to
Updated 28 September 2026. This article went out on 1 September as “Poor Passwords Are the Attack Vector, Not WordPress”. It rests on one incident,
In 2017, Caldera Forms was one of the most widely recommended contact form plugins for WordPress. It had a clean codebase, responsive developers, a loyal
There are roughly 60,000 plugins in the WordPress directory. For a trades business in New Zealand — a plumber, a flooring installer, a welding shop
A New Zealand tourism site went down because of a slider. The hosting environment moved to PHP 7.4. The homepage slider plugin was incompatible. The
Open Source Guarantees Longevity That No Proprietary Platform Can Let me walk you through a graveyard. Not a metaphorical one — an actual list of
Most hosting comparisons focus on storage, bandwidth, uptime percentages, and support labels. The expensive failures usually happen somewhere else.
Someone recently posted on LinkedIn about a client site that broke after a theme update. The reason? All the custom code had been added directly