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The Quiet Collapse of Trust in WordPress
WordPress plugin and theme neglect is silently rewriting the fate of online visibility as unpatched code turns trusted sites into digital liabilities.
Devona Green Jordan
October 22, 2025
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🧩Interesting Tech Fact:
Before the dominance of modern open-source giants, NASA quietly used an early open-source platform to control the Mars Climate Orbiter’s software simulations. It was built on a community-driven codebase originally meant for academic projects. Ironically, this early collaboration foreshadowed today’s open-source innovation culture—where shared code powers global progress, but also shared vulnerabilities. The same openness that allowed NASA to accelerate discovery now fuels the rapid evolution of platforms like WordPress—reminding us that transparency drives innovation, yet demands eternal vigilance.
