Coywolf Link Checker is a free, open-source WordPress plugin that checks internal and external broken and redirected links, with inline editing, removal, and replacement. It supports scheduled auto-scans with email notifications and configurable scan speed, user roles, and custom user agents.
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Manage your robots.txt rules from the WordPress admin — add, edit, and remove directives on the physical or virtual robots.txt, and disallow unwanted bots by category using the full list from Cloudflare’s Bot Directory. https://github.com/coywolf-llc/robots-txt-manager
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Easily create and use custom blocks in WordPress. Export the custom blocks you create and import them on other sites, or share them with others. A privacy-respecting fork of Genesis Custom Blocks with WP Engine telemetry, the WPE update server, and Genesis Pro upsells removed; ships an inline Custom HTML editor, native JSON export/import, and a one-shot […]
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Panic has announced Transmit 6, a major upgrade to its file transfer app after years in maintenance mode. It features a redesigned interface, persistent activity view, the return of Transmit Disk for mounting remote shares in Finder, scheduled syncs, and a faster sync engine.
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A free, open source WordPress plugin that solves the frustrating problem of WordPress caching plugin update checks for up to 12 hours. The plugin clears the cache, allowing developers to update and test new iterations without manually uploading them to the server.
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Coywolf Link Checker is a free, open-source WordPress plugin that checks internal and external broken and redirected links, with inline editing, removal, and replacement. It supports scheduled auto-scans with email notifications and configurable scan speed, user roles, and custom user agents.
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Coywolf Code Block Enhancer is a lightweight, open-source WordPress plugin built with Claude's help that brings performant syntax highlighting to native code blocks.
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After upgrading to WordPress 7.0, custom Classic theme styles disappear entirely from the Post editor, leaving unstyled text and browser defaults, though a fix is available.
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1Password's April 2026 blog post about using AI to refactor internal code sparked backlash from users worried about security, prompting a follow-up clarification that the AI work involved only internal operational systems, not customer vaults or cryptographic protections, and that all changes went through standard engineering review.
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Cloudflare WARP replaced its simple, joy-inducing menu bar modal with a large utilitarian settings window, losing the compact single-purpose design that apps like Ubiquiti's UniFi Endpoint still get right.
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Google's AI Overviews, AI Mode, and other AI search results will start returning more links to sites relevant to queries and chat prompts.
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Google reps say AI agents only need well-coded semantic HTML, good accessibility, and clean rendering to comprehend and interact with sites.
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I just updated my wife’s single-page site for her color consultancy business, Perfect Palette Design. Her site, which I hand-coded, encompasses everything I recommend: Semantic HTML, image optimizations, Schema.org markup, minimal CSS, and no JavaScript.
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RSS, ATOM, and JSON feeds may be getting a much-needed update to the spec with the addition of Byline, which provides structured identity for syndication feeds.
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I remember the first time I used the World Wide Web. I was in college, and the computers in the library had just installed the first multimedia browser, Mosaic. The idea that anyone anywhere in the world could publish content and make it instantly accessible to anyone was mind-blowing to me.
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LinkedIn is a centralized, career-focused social platform that many feel they must be on, whether they like it or not. But what if there was a better way? One that didn't control your feed, that respected your privacy, wasn't full of cringeworthy posts, and was completely open?
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ReportGarden sold its analytics platform, Gauges, to Fathom Analytics. Fathom will leverage its experience in creating a GA4 importer to migrate Gauges' historical site data to its real-time, privacy-first analytics platform, providing Gauges' customers with a viable path forward.
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The Sovereign Tech Agency, commissioned by Germany's Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, has awarded hundreds of thousands of Euros to Mastodon to address key infrastructure challenges faced within the fediverse ecosystem.
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TinyStart is a fast, minimalist launcher for macOS that focuses on the essentials: opening apps, folders, links, and search engines.
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Ubiquiti's new UniFi network-attached storage device, UNAS 4, is a stylish, quiet, and fast 4-drive NAS designed for home offices. It's ideal for file sharing, Time Machine backups, and off-site cloud backups, but it can't run third-party apps like Synology and QNAP, and that's fine.
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Claude outperforms every other chatbot in accuracy and its use of open web reference links. It's also an effective vibe-coding app.
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Web Guide combines the best of AI Overviews and open web results into a single experience.
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Welcome to our monthly engineering update. The team is continuing to work on the next major version of Mastodon (4.6), as well as maintaining the current stable releases.
Before we dive in to our regular review of code changes and updates from the past month, there are a number of items that we wanted to highlight this time around.
Screencast from an iPhone of the Xikipedia doomscrolling web app. Doomscrolling Wikipedia Lyra Rebane created Xikipedia, a version of Wikipedia that you can doomscroll on your smartphone. Rebane created it to to demonstrate how even a basic non-ML algorithm with no data from other users can quickly learn what you engage with to suggest you […]
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The share button solves the problem of Mastodon users being on unique servers. It can also be customized and dynamically generated.
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In episode 1 of the Members-Only Coywolf Podcast, Jon Henshaw discusses the problems with AI, the changing landscape, and what publishers need to focus on.
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Joost de Valk announced that FAIR will no longer focus on WordPress and will instead invest its resources in TYPO3. Those who no longer want to use FAIR's connector plugin but still want the feature that serves avatars locally rather than from Gravatar can do so with a new standalone plugin.
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Most modern pages are coded with an enormous number of nested divs, from top to bottom. Replacing divs with semantic HTML helps bots parse content more effectively, developers write more efficient code, and makes pages more accessible.
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Why and how to code web pages with semantic HTML using order, purpose, and intent.
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Customers of Fathom Analytics can now connect to and associate Google Search Console data with their sites, and report on Google referrer data directly in their dashboard.
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