When Claude audited kindoflost.com, the security findings weren’t dramatic. There was no sign of an active breach, no malware, no obvious damage. But there were several open doors that bots probe automatically every day on every WordPress site on the internet — and all of them were unlocked. This post covers exactly what we found and what we did about it, none of which required editing a theme file or writing PHP.
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Cloudflare is one of the best free tools available for a small WordPress site. It sits between your visitors and your hosting server, handling caching, security, and DNS — all at once. But having Cloudflare installed is not the same as having it configured correctly. When I used Claude to audit kindoflost.com, we found that Cloudflare was active but had several misconfigurations that were silently causing problems — a duplicate DNS record, services being proxied that shouldn’t be, SSL running in a weaker mode than necessary, and no real caching rules in place.
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My WordPress Site Was a Mess. Here’s How I Found Out.
If you run a small WordPress site and haven’t thought much about optimization, security, or caching — this series is for you. A few weeks ago I used Claude, an AI assistant by Anthropic, to do a full technical review of this very site — the one you’re reading right now. Claude walked me through every problem it found and every fix in real time, while I made the changes directly in my dashboards. What we uncovered was not great — but the process turned out to be genuinely useful, so I’m documenting every step here so you can do the same thing on your own site.
Scaling My Tradeline Business: How I Think About Growth
(How I think about growing beyond my own credit cards)
Anyone who runs a tradeline business for long enough hits the same wall. The work is straightforward, the demand is real, and the income is decent — but every time you think about growing, you run into the same problem: you can only have so many cards, and every card you add for this purpose concentrates more risk on your own credit file. There’s no way around it as long as the business is entirely dependent on your own accounts.
Remark Code Removed: Good or Bad? What It Actually Means
A buyer emailed me not long ago asking about something she’d seen on her credit report: “remark code removed.” She’d been deep in a credit dispute and had no idea whether this was good news, bad news, or just noise. I’ve gotten some version of this question enough times that I figured it was worth laying out clearly.
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