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At the end of August, a developer looked inside one of the most widely installed SEO plugins on WordPress and found that opening its help panel handed out a working key to the site. Not a token scoped to one job. A WordPress application password carrying whatever permissions the person clicking already had — which,…

An accessibility widget is the little circular icon in the corner of a website that opens a panel of toggles: bigger text, higher contrast, a dyslexia-friendly font, sometimes a “screen reader mode”. If you run a WordPress site and you have ever worried about an ADA demand letter, you have almost certainly been sold one….

Two things are true this week, and a WordPress site owner cannot act on both. The first is that large language models keep getting cheaper: the frontier token price index sits 84% below its 2023 base, and a dozen trackers spent the summer publishing charts of that decline. The second is that OpenAI’s newest model,…

Alibaba’s current flagship, Qwen3.8 Max, lists at $2.00 per million input tokens and $6.00 per million output. Its predecessor, Qwen3.7 Max, lists at $2.50 and $7.50. Put those two rate cards side by side and the arithmetic is obvious: the newer model is 20% cheaper. That is the comparison the rate card invites, and it…

Every major model vendor now sells the same tokens twice: once at list price, and once at half price in a slower lane. OpenAI calls it the Batch API. Anthropic calls it Message Batches. Google calls it Batch. All three take exactly 50% off input and output. It is the least controversial discount in the…

DeepSeek repriced its API at 16:00 UTC on 16 August 2026, and the coverage settled on one number: prices up by as much as 1,100%. A second, calmer reading also circulated — that off-peak rates simply match what you were already paying, so nothing really changed. Both are wrong, in opposite directions, and it is…

OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Luna’s API price by 80% on 30 July 2026, taking it from $1.00 to $0.20 per million input tokens and from $6.00 to $1.20 per million output tokens. Most of the coverage framed that as a story about the AI price war. For anyone running a chatbot on a WordPress site, it…

On 21 August 2026, OpenAI cut the API price of GPT-5.6 Sol. Input went from $5.00 to $4.00 per million tokens, output from $30.00 to $20.00. That is a real cut and, if you run a WordPress chatbot on Sol, it lands on your next invoice whether or not you noticed it happen. What I…

On 15 September 2026, Cloudflare changes what happens by default when an AI crawler arrives at a site it sits in front of. The coverage has mostly compressed this into “Cloudflare will block AI crawlers by default,” which is close enough to be useful and wrong in the one place that matters: the new default…

In May 2026, two security teams pointed an automated pipeline at the WordPress plugin repository and came back with more than 300 critical zero-days in 72 hours of scanning. The average cost worked out at roughly $20 per vulnerability. This week I ran wp plugin list –update=available against my own site and found eight plugins…