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Debugging WordPress redirects, encrypting options and inspecting metadata

Hey Reader, here are a few highlights and ideas I’ve been sharing lately around WordPress development and security. 🔍 Debugging WordPress Redirects Ever seen a WordPress redirect and had no clue where it’s coming from? I wrote a guide on how redirects work and the tools you can use to track them down, including a must-use plugin I built to log redirect sources with PHP backtraces. Did you know that Query Monitor adds an HTTP header with backtrace info for some redirects? X-QM-... headers...

Three vectors with different dimensions and the distance between them.

Hey Reader! I’ve been diving deep into some exciting WordPress topics over the past month, and I wanted to share some key insights and updates with you. 🏹 Better search with AI embeddings in WordPress Curious about AI embeddings in WordPress? I put together a guide explaining how they can power better search results and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems. If you’re looking to enhance search functionalities in WP, this is worth checking out! (Tweet) Illustration of the content...

Hey Reader! I hope you had a wonderful holiday season and are ready for an exciting year ahead. While publishing an update to the Native SSO plugin (still in development), I decided to record a video of the process in case you might find it useful. In the video, I demonstrate a GitHub workflow that: Prompts for a version to tag for release, Extracts the plugin directory from the monorepo using git subtree, Automatically generates the changelog, and Tags a version release in the distribution...

Hey Reader! On Monday I posted a few tweets, toots and threads that could be interesting to you as a developer. Below is a summary of them: After hearing about the ACF "fork" (more like takeover) due to an unresolved security issue, I immediately went looking at the changesets to find the actual issue (what could be so critical?). Turns out (see the Twitter thread) ACF now allows you to register custom post types and taxonomies from the WP admin and one of the settings to configure is the...