Quick Tip: Block OpenAI from Using Content From Your WordPress Site

ChatGPT-User documentation on how to block ChatGPT using a website's robots.txt file.

Over the past few months, ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence (AI) bots have captured the attention of many people on the web. Whatever your thoughts on AI bots, you may want to take action on your own website to block ChatGPT from crawling, indexing, and using your website content and data. Thanks to Barry Schwartz’s… Continue reading Quick Tip: Block OpenAI from Using Content From Your WordPress Site

Metro Detroit WordPress April 2023: What’s New In WordPress 6.2

Colorful WordPress stickers strewn across a black table

Join our Metro Detroit WordPress meetup on Monday, April 3, 2023 for our discussion of What’s New in WordPress 6.2.

We’ll take a look at the new features in the WordPress 6.2 version and highlight some of the more interesting enhancements.

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Jetpack, Do Better

Jetpack plugin home page highlighting security, performance, analytics, and growth tools.

When I announced my retirement from web design and development, I expected my future blog posts would be about technology, writing, social media, and birding.

Though I still care about them, my days of publishing posts about usability, accessibility, and WordPress were over.

Little did I think a month after my retirement I would once again be writing about WordPress.

Specifically, about the Jetpack plugin.

Yet here I am.

And I’m exasperated and frustrated and decided I needed to vent.

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