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DeepSeek Flash pricing changed on 10 September 2026, and most WordPress chatbots running on DeepSeek got the new rate without anyone touching a setting. That day DeepSeek released V4.1 Flash, retired V4 Flash, and cut the Flash rate card: cache-miss input from $0.44 to $0.30 per million tokens at peak, output from $1.32 to $1.20,…

OpenAI prompt caching used to be free money. Send a long prompt, send a similar one a minute later, and the shared opening was billed at a tenth of the input rate with nothing charged for storing it. That changed with the GPT-5.6 and GPT-6 generation. OpenAI’s pricing page now carries a fourth column next…

xAI released Grok 4.7 on 21 September 2026 and kept the price where Grok 4.6 left it: $2 per million input tokens, $0.50 cached, $6 per million output, doubling past 200,000 tokens of prompt. A new model at the same rate card reads like a free upgrade. Grok 4.7 pricing is only half of the…

Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS on 23 September 2026, and the Gemini TTS pricing that came with them has a date on it. Until 31 December, Flash TTS costs $9 per million audio output tokens and Flash-Lite TTS $6, with text input at $0.50 per million for both. On…

Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 on 22 September 2026 at $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens, down from Opus 5’s $5 and $25. Cache reads fell further, from $0.50 to $0.20 per million. The launch coverage repeated Anthropic’s own summary, that typical workloads cost about 40% less than on Opus…

Open the PHP error log on a WordPress site that has been on the public internet for six months and you will find the same line thousands of times: PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Class “WP_REST_Controller” not found in …/wp-content/plugins/…. The plugin is not broken. Nobody on the site saw an error. What the line…

Most advice on WordPress tags SEO is written from the outside: tags are “good for organisation”, tag archives are “thin”, set them to noindex and move on. I wanted the inside view, so I counted every tag on this site and then read what the access log says about who asks for the archives and…

Yesterday’s post ended with a promise I did not expect to keep this quickly: now that a denied request costs this server nine bytes instead of a full page, the scanner wordlist paths were worth a block. So I read the whole 404 column of the origin logs, both ports, for the twenty days since…

The WordPress hardening guide has a short block of .htaccess rules that stops anyone from loading the files under wp-includes/ directly. I added a version of it to this site this morning, verified that the files now returned an error instead of a 200, and moved on. Then I timed one of the denied requests….

Every guide to forcing HTTPS on WordPress starts the same way: go to Settings → General, change both addresses to https://, save. This site did that years ago. Its certificate is fine, its canonical tags say https, and Cloudflare sits in front of it. Then I read the access log that Apache keeps for port…