The FTC says a business that posts testimonials on its own site is disseminating them, not hosting them. Here is how the consumer review rule and Google's self-serving review policy shape a small business testimonials page and review widget.

An airline argued its chatbot was responsible for its own words and lost. Here is what that ruling, the FTC and new state disclosure laws mean for the AI assistant on a small business site, and how to set one up so it cannot invent your policies.

Passkeys made sign-in safer, but a solo site owner's real risk is the recovery chain linking registrar, DNS, email and hosting. Here is how to map it and break the loops.

WebAIM found detectable WCAG failures on 95.9 percent of the top million home pages in 2026. Here is what the law requires of a private website, what the lawsuits target, and the six fixes that cover most of the risk.

The Abilities API and the MCP Adapter let AI clients discover and run actions inside a WordPress site. The access model underneath still runs through a human account, so the setup choices fall to you.

Two years after llms.txt was proposed, one in eleven top sites publishes it, Google Search still ignores it, and Cloudflare just changed its defaults. Here is what a small site should actually configure this fall.

Running sites alone means the pager is you. Here is what WordPress will now handle without you, exactly where its automatic rollback stops, and how to build a maintenance system that does not depend on you being awake.

Promotional hosting prices renew at a median of 3.25 times the advertised rate, and the cheapest tier is always the worst offender. A worked comparison of what shared and managed hosting actually cost across a full term.

Google's baseline sender rules apply to every site, not just bulk mailers, and Microsoft now rejects unauthenticated mail outright. The most common cause is a form plugin putting the visitor's address in the From: header.

PHP 8.2 leaves security support at the end of December, WordPress now asks for 8.3 or greater, and W3Techs still counts 28.8 percent of PHP sites running a branch that stopped getting patches years ago. Here is the four-month sequence.