I’ve been building a side project to work through headless WordPress properly – Next 16 on the Pages Router, WordPress serving content over the REST API. Every page rendered correctly. Nothing was broken. And it was still shipping several seconds of avoidable wait on the paths a real reader would take. That combination is the… Continue reading Headless WordPress Performance: 3 Next.js Bottlenecks to Fix
Month: September 2026
Mitigating XSS Attacks in WordPress: A Practical Guide for Owner-Developers
Cross-site scripting (XSS) remains one of the most common vulnerabilities affecting WordPress sites, largely because WordPress’s flexibility – themes, plugins, user-submitted content, custom fields – creates so many places where untrusted data can slip into a page and execute as code in a visitor’s browser. An attacker who successfully injects a script can steal session… Continue reading Mitigating XSS Attacks in WordPress: A Practical Guide for Owner-Developers
Validation, Sanitization, and Safe Queries: The Three Layers That Actually Stop SQL Injection
Most developers can define SQL injection. Far fewer can say, precisely, which line of their code is the one preventing it. That gap matters. SQL injection has been on the OWASP Top 10 since the list existed, and it survives not because the fix is hard but because the fix is easy to believe you’ve… Continue reading Validation, Sanitization, and Safe Queries: The Three Layers That Actually Stop SQL Injection