dknauss

Projects

• Keel
  Sane, individually-toggleable WordPress defaults across security, updates, privacy, UX, and performance — 37 switches in one place, nothing hidden and nothing all-or-nothing.
• 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.
• Dirtbag
  A super-simple WordPress block theme built on good bones and road grit — a lean utility vehicle for tinkering and practical self-education.
• 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.
• Sudo
  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.
• 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.