YARPP Alternative: Ariadne vs Yet Another Related Posts Plugin
YARPP has not been updated since November 2024. Here is how Ariadne compares on matching, control and setup, and how to switch from YARPP step by step.
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What Is Negative SEO? How to Spot and Stop an Attack on WordPress
Negative SEO is when someone tries to hurt your Google rankings on purpose. Learn the common attacks, real examples, how to spot one on WordPress, and when disavowing actually helps.
Meet Spurn: a free WordPress plugin for a cleaner disavow file
Spurn is a free WordPress plugin that keeps a dated record of every domain and link you disavow, flags risky entries before they reach Google, and exports a clean disavow file.
The Heroes Behind Mawu’s Seven New Dark Themes
Mawu Dark Mode 0.9.0 adds seven dark themes for the WordPress dashboard, each built around one comic book hero's signature color. Here is where each palette came from, and the contrast rules each one had to pass.
Why Mawu’s Dark Mode Used to Freeze the Tab for Two Seconds
A synthetic 3,000-row benchmark found a 2.1-second blocking task in the dark-mode engine's initial page walk. Here's how walkChunked() fixed the freeze without changing the total time to go dark.
The One-Line Bug That Broke Five of Six Dark Themes
Five new dark themes shipped fully built, then silently never ran for a full release cycle. One hardcoded string comparison in the engine's enqueue gate. Here's the bug, why normal testing missed it, and the fix.
The Same CSS Specificity Bug Shipped Three Times in One Plugin
Building a WordPress dark admin theme is mostly a specificity problem, not a color problem. The exact same bug shape shipped three times, once after it had already been written down and documented as a known risk. Here is the CSS math behind all three, and why documenting a fix narrowly did not stop it from recurring.
Six Dark Themes, One WCAG Audit: What Actually Failed
A full contrast audit on six dark themes found two real WCAG failures, both hiding behind a color that had been verified once, in one context, then reused somewhere the original check never covered. Here is what WCAG actually requires and how both bugs got past a design that looked fine.
Scheduled Dark Mode and What the Sleep Research Actually Says
A well-controlled 2015 study found four hours of nightly screen reading measurably delays melatonin and disrupts sleep. That is a different scenario from a two-minute dashboard visit before bed. Here is what the research actually covers, and an honest read on where a feature like scheduled dark mode fits.
Every Way to Get Dark Mode in WordPress, Compared
WordPress core, OS-level forced dark mode, browser extensions, small admin plugins, and frontend tools like Night Eye all get called dark mode, and they solve five distinct problems. Here is what each one actually covers, and where each one stops short.