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The articles that apply to the websites these organizations run, in one place, with a feed of their own. The market page is here.
Every website has four plain-text files no visitor ever sees: robots.txt, sitemap.xml, security.txt, and llms.txt. Search engines, security scanners, and AI agents read them on every visit.
What each one is, who actually reads it, what to put in it, and the one rule that keeps all of them safe. We went through this list on our own site this week and found gaps, so the free audit now checks for them.
For weeks the hero on three of our own pages vanished for a second and a half on iPhones, on a cold load only. Nothing reproduced it in a lab.
A fifty-line field trace found it in three page loads: an ad blocker was hiding any element whose class started with ad-.
The media library is not a private folder, in WordPress or anywhere else. What that means for the drafts and packets that get uploaded to grab a link, why switching the API off is the wrong fix, and how to mark a file private without breaking anything.
Why a 2.6 MB hero reaches a phone that needs 33 KB, how srcset and sizes let the browser choose, when you actually need the picture element, what WebP buys you, and where WordPress themes quietly undo the work it already does for you.
What layout shift is and why it registers as brokenness, the four causes behind nearly every case (images without dimensions, embeds without reserved space, fonts swapping, banners injected late), and the exact fixes, including where WordPress already knows every image's width and height.
Simple category-based recommendations, YARPP, Jetpack Related Posts, and when a site needs a more deliberate content relation engine.
RSS is the web's oldest, quietest subscription mechanism: no account, no algorithm, no inbox. What it is, how to pick a reader, and how to follow any site that offers a feed, this one included.
Color contrast, image headers, link behavior, and the small interface choices that determine whether a page works for everyone.
Once a month: one number from our census of sites like yours, one fix, and what we published. No sequence, no sales calls.
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