We began working with Seattle Humane Society in February of 2016. They had reached out to us because they needed some emergency help with their website.
WordPress
🕑Aug 31, 2026 🖋John Locke
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For the Long Haul: AI can build it. Who’s maintaining it next year?
August 2026
Why WordPress can still beat vibe-coding your site. Updates from John. Taking a stand on AI. A Drupal 5 site upgraded to Drupal 11, and more, all in this month's news from Freelock.
🕑Aug 27, 2026 🖋John Locke
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WordPress Has Thousands of Maintainers. Does Your Replacement?
Last month, a critical WordPress vulnerability triggered emergency patching across the web — and reignited a familiar argument: if WordPress keeps having security problems, why not let AI build something new instead?
It’s a reasonable question.
AI has made software dramatically cheaper and faster to create. But somebody still has to understand it, patch it, test it, and keep it running eighteen months from now.
That’s the part of the “AI instead of WordPress” pitch we think is getting overlooked.
🕑Jul 21, 2026 🖋John Locke
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We Patched wp2shell in 4 Hours. On a Friday Afternoon.
On July 17, WordPress shipped an emergency security release for a vulnerability chain now being called wp2shell.
🕑Jul 09, 2026 🖋John Locke
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Tempting Fate: What Happened When One of Our "Protected" Sites Got Hacked
A real client site got hacked and lost 35GB of files overnight. Here's how we diagnosed it, recovered in a few hours, and what we changed after.
🕑May 22, 2026 🖋John Locke
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The Night the Internet Tried to Kill Your Website
May 2026
My name doesn't matter. Call me the op. I run a small shop — we keep websites alive, patch the holes before the wrong people find them, and make sure that when something goes sideways, there's always a way back. It's not glamorous work. But this spring? This spring was something else.
🕑May 19, 2026 🖋John Locke
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Your Website Will Be Attacked. Here's How We Make Sure You Survive It.
The question used to be whether your website would face a serious security threat. That question has been answered. The question now is whether you'll be ready when it happens — and whether you can recover cleanly when something gets through.
🕑May 06, 2026 🖋John Locke
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When Your WordPress Site Launches Into a Performance Crisis
A real-world post-mortem on 15 performance issues we fixed in 4 days — and what every WordPress site owner should know before going live.
Dragging Movements
On October 5, 2023, the W3C published WCAG 2.2 as an official web standard. While WCAG 2.1 remains valid and widely referenced, WCAG 2.2 introduces nine new success criteria and removes one obsolete requirement. These changes reflect a deeper understanding of mobile accessibility, cognitive disabilities, and focus management.
The Legal Landscape
Adoption of WCAG 2.2 varies by jurisdiction:
Predictable Behavior
You're tabbing through a form, reading field labels before you decide what to enter. You tab into a dropdown menu just to see what options are available. The instant it receives focus - before you've even opened it - the page suddenly redirects to a completely different page. You didn't select anything, didn't press Enter, just tabbed through. Now you're disoriented and have to navigate back to find your place.
Label in Name
You're using voice control to navigate a website because typing is painful today. You see a button that says "Submit" - perfect, that's what you need. You say clearly: "Click Submit." Nothing happens. You try again: "Click Submit button." Still nothing. Frustrated, you finally say "Show numbers" to overlay numbers on every interactive element, then speak the number to activate the button.
Text Flexibility
You're reading a website, but the text feels cramped. Lines are too close together, making it hard to track from one line to the next. Words blur together. You try increasing your browser's font size, but that only makes part of the problem worse - now the text is bigger but still squished together.
If you could just add a little more space between lines, between words, between letters... you'd be able to read comfortably. But when you try using a browser extension to adjust spacing, the layout breaks. Text gets cut off. Paragraphs overlap. Buttons disappear.