New Local Media logo New Local Media Work in Progress Open projects, products, and experiments.
Back to collection
Owner projects

dknauss

Curated Dan Knauss project pages on WordPress security, technical documentation, identity, automation, and publishing experiments.

Projects

  • Sudo
    WordPress risky-action gating with mandatory reauthentication, time-bounded sessions, 2FA support, rate limiting, and policy controls across wp-admin, REST, WP-CLI, Cron, WPGraphQL, and XML-RPC.
  • AI-Assisted Docs
    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.
  • WordPress Runbook Template
    WordPress operations runbook template: production procedures for deployment, maintenance, backup, incident response, and recovery.
  • WordPress Security Hardening Guide
    WordPress security architecture and hardening guide: enterprise practices for threat mitigation, authentication, and supply chain defense.
  • WordPress Security Benchmark
    WordPress security benchmark: prescriptive full-stack hardening controls for current supported WordPress releases on the LEMP/LAMP stack.
  • WordPress Security Style Guide
    WordPress security style guide: terminology, voice, and editorial standards for accurate security communication.
  • Author Identity
    Exploring structured author identity that travels with the work — across feeds, search, the fediverse, and AI — from one source of truth in WordPress.
  • Fedibots
    PHP framework for creating write-only ActivityPub fediverse bots. Based on Terence Eden’s (@edent) model.
  • WordPress 2FA Ecosystem
    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.
  • The Drafting Table
    A Frank Lloyd Wright-era architect's notebook FSE block theme for WordPress — aged parchment, dot-grid overlays, blueprint borders, and refined architectural typography.
  • Borges Bibliography Builder
    WordPress bibliography block that transforms DOI, BibTeX, and citation input into static, semantically rich, reference-manager friendly bibliographies.
  • Admin Menu Maestro
    Orchestrate your WordPress admin menus by editing them in place. Rename, reorder, swap icons, and hide items per role, right on the menu.