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and learned this week.
Engineering write-ups, security postmortems, performance experiments, and the occasional honest miss. Written by the team that built the plugins, not a marketing department.
Why We Built BD Auto Blog with Claude API Instead of GPT
BD Auto Blog runs on Anthropic's Claude API, not GPT. Here's why — editorial voice, warning system, Pexels images, and how to avoid Google's scaled-content penalty.
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Step-by-step guide to scan WordPress for malware: free tools first, core checksum verification, then BD Malware Cleaner. Plus a hardening checklist.
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