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We replicated today's PHP session exploit. Disabling sessions does not prevent it. We took our servers offline until PHP releases the patch. Every host should do the same. Especially WPorg. The forced autoupdate backdoor reaches every site and grows more severe every day. If their systems get compromised, any major plugin can be wiped off the face of Earth within 3 hours.

Ship llms.txt. Chase a GEO score. Get cited in ChatGPT. That is the pitch. We run a bunch of WordPress sites, so we logged what actually showed up. Two six-month trials. The latest one: 4.4 million HTTPS requests. About 324,000 by a named AI bot. ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok fetched pages. They did not fetch llms.txt. Scanners and checklist tools fetched llms.txt. Those don't matter. Here is what actually happens: an assistant opens a URL someone already wanted. If that page answers the question, the AI stops looking. A dumb file at the root of the site does not summon the AI. Google Search still uses its own Search index. A toggle in your SEO plugin does not create a second ranking system. This is the same sale as Schema touted as a ranking lever. Then came the obnoxious AMP. Now a red flashing Lighthouse warning for a file Chrome's own docs call optional. Next it will be Accept Markdown for AI, then WebMCP, then whatever name fits on a pricing page. The hour spent turning the checkbox green is an hour not spent on the page that gets fetched. The sites writing complete answers now are the ones already in the set of URLs. Everyone else is feeding a checklist. kb.theseoframework.com/kb/ai…

Your servers may be affected too. See: bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=12…. cPanel posted an advisory: support.cpanel.net/hc/en-us/…

We now host our very own Composer 2 repository using @troy_wp. Get started with `composer require tsf-package/tsf-em-installer`: tsf.fyi/kb/how-to-install-th….

While Yoast SEO and Rank Math claim llms.txt helps AI bots find your content, we checked. 6 months. 57 AI bots. 180k AI hits. 0 llms.txt requests. Full data and methodology: github.com/sybrew/the-seo-fr…

If you're thinking about replacing your bloated SEO plugin with AI, then you haven't given The SEO Framework a try. It's our mission to solve real SEO issues that your prompt will miss. Bloat free. tsf.fyi/kb/advanced-query-pr…

We've spent two months overhauling theseoframework.com. Docs, knowledge base, pricing, support—all of it. Checkout no longer asks for private addresses. Years overdue, kept putting it off. Not 100% done, but happy with where it's heading. Feedback welcome—even the harsh kind.

It's been 5 years since our last Feature Highlights post. Here's everything new in The SEO Framework -- from the v5.0 rewrite to AI blocking, breadcrumbs, Troy, and more: theseoframework.com/feature-…

Most companies update their privacy policy to collect additional data. We just updated ours to remove any claims about advertising and marketing campaigns, as we have never engaged in such practices. TL;DR: We hate spam—so we won't spam you. tsf.fyi/privacy

We're 10x-ing API request limits: Pro gets 5k/month, Business 50k, and Agency 500k. This change is applied to all existing subscriptions as well. Why? Because we can. More to come.

Now available: TSF v5.1.4 tsf.fyi/changelog/tsf/5.1.4