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Nonces are not a permission check
A common mistake that keeps turning up in otherwise careful code.
Upgrading PHP on a quiet site
The deprecation notices were trying to help all along.
Getting structured data right
Double-encoded titles and other things search engines politely ignore.
The handover document nobody writes
What the next maintainer needs, in the order they need it.
Menus without a walker
Printing your own markup from cached values, and the one trap to avoid.
Pagination with a featured post
The offset trick that quietly breaks your page count.
Reviewing a contact form like an attacker
Header injection, rate limits and what a honeypot really buys you.
A calmer way to run updates
Small, frequent and boring beats big, rare and heroic.