Methodology and process documentation for AI-assisted technical writing and review — a practical exploration of how AI can help without sacrificing rigor, accuracy, or editorial judgment.
What if a fresh WordPress install just started out sensible?
Sane WordPress defaults that explain themselves in Site Health—covering security, privacy, UX, performance, and core updates, including same-line security patches.
Keel asks WordPress.org whether the installed core release is known to be vulnerable, names the patched release on the site’s own line, shows what WordPress would select, and lets an administrator deliberately install that same-line patch through WordPress’s upgrader. Nothing installs without a click.
Agentic tools and processes to help humans write, review, and maintain technical documentation. Don't sacrifice — increase — your rigor, accuracy, and editorial judgment.
WordPress operations runbook template: production procedures for deployment, maintenance, backup, incident response, and recovery.
WordPress security architecture and hardening guide: enterprise practices for threat mitigation, authentication, and supply chain defense.
WordPress security benchmark: prescriptive full-stack hardening controls for current supported WordPress releases on the LEMP/LAMP stack.
WordPress security style guide: terminology, voice, and editorial standards for accurate security communication.
Block themes built on core blocks and plain HTML, with no build step standing between you and the markup.
Dirtbag is for people who want to learn WordPress theme design and front-end development by stripping down to fundamentals and building up from there. It favours plain HTML markup, as little CSS and JS as possible, core WordPress blocks, the fonts everyone already has, visible feeds, and old open-web habits over front-end machinery.
Out of the box it is a plain, unstyled, brutalist foundation with a 1990s view-source feel, packaged with Web 1.0-inspired page templates, block patterns, and six global styles: Amber CRT, Blueprint (or BSOD), Hi-vis (No-Name), Minimalist, Newspaper, and Terminal. Unlike the default no-style style, those variations open the door to the full powers of the site editor if you want to go there.
Block editor plugins that bring specialized content types and structured data to WordPress.
WordPress bibliography block that transforms DOI, BibTeX, and citation input into static, semantically rich, reference-manager friendly bibliographies.
Orchestrate your WordPress admin menus in place: rename and reorder items, swap icons, and hide items or sub-items from roles or named people.
Risk-based pricing tools for global agencies and B-Corps built around the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) adapted from financial economics. Main App · Small agency and freelancer version
Exploring structured author identity that travels with the work — across feeds, search, the fediverse, and AI — from one source of truth in WordPress.
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Other things I've been working on.
A finished experiment in making WordPress ask for your password again before something dangerous happens. It did not work, and the seven ways around it are written up rather than patched, because the write-up is the point. Archived read-only — not for installation.
PHP framework for creating write-only ActivityPub fediverse bots. Based on Terence Eden’s (@edent) model.
This is a developer reference exploring how major WordPress 2FA plugins store secrets, detect users, and validate codes. It includes Sudo bridge examples for WP 2FA, Wordfence, and AIOS.
A Frank Lloyd Wright-era architect's notebook FSE block theme for WordPress — aged parchment, dot-grid overlays, blueprint borders, and refined architectural typography.
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