by Francis Rozange | Oct 1, 2026 | WordPress
A contact form can seem to work perfectly for months while no message ever arrives. The visitor clicks “Send”, the confirmation message appears, and the email gets lost somewhere between your server and the inbox. The WordPress documentation says it in...
by Francis Rozange | Oct 1, 2026 | WordPress
On the night of March 9 to 10, 2021, a fire tore through OVH’s data center in Strasbourg. Among the customers hit, a network of home renovation franchises lost its server and its backup at once. Its daily backup, replicated three times, sat in the same building...
by Francis Rozange | Oct 1, 2026 | SEO, WordPress
Since WordPress 5.5, every site open to search engines publishes an XML sitemap at /wp-sitemap.xml, with no plugin at all. Since version 5.7, it also prints a robots meta tag, and for much longer a canonical tag on posts. Yet in 2026, WordPress still cannot produce a...
by Francis Rozange | Oct 1, 2026 | WordPress
On July 17, 2026, the WordPress security team released version 7.0.2 to fix a critical flaw in core. According to Patchstack, the first exploitation attempts reached its sensors about ninety minutes later. That window is shorter than the time most site owners need to...
by Francis Rozange | Oct 1, 2026 | WordPress
WordPress runs a considerable share of the web, yet it still cannot publish a site in several languages on its own. The official roadmap files multilingual support under “phase 4”, after the collaboration work now underway, with no date attached. Until...