# WordPress

Canonical: https://hsrathore.com/topics/wordpress  
Updated: 2026-09-08

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Fifteen years of the web runs on WordPress, and most of what it does by default it does for reasons that no longer hold. Writing here is about the parts worth keeping, the parts worth turning off, and the plugins that came out of the difference.

## Articles

- [How I solved WordPress feeds filling up Search Console](/articles/wordpress-feeds-in-search-console) - WordPress generates a feed for every post, tag and category. Google crawls them all and indexes none, and the coverage report stops being useful.
- [My WordPress journey, and the community that came with it](/articles/my-wordpress-journey) - A client handed me admin credentials in 2016 and I had never seen the dashboard. What curiosity started, a community finished - this is how that went.