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PHP2Shell vulnerability: what to do with your PHP site

PHP2Shell vulnerability: what to do with your PHP site

Two critical PHP flaws took government sites offline across Europe. What to do with your PHP site today, and why EmDash sites had nothing to patch.

22.10.2026
Rainy Tallinn café, hands on a laptop with a checklist; a paper note “1 day” and chat bubbles: 28 posts, 142 files moved to EmDash; 122 of 123 pages matched the old site

How to Migrate WordPress to EmDash: Our Real Case (2026)

We moved nesmachny.com from WordPress to EmDash in one day: 28 posts, 142 media files, forms and CRM. The steps, the checks and the traps we hit.

15.10.2026
Moved off WordPress to EmDash: $5 a month, pages in 60–100 ms, Lighthouse 100

Cloudflare Released EmDash: the Beginning of the End for WordPress

Cloudflare has released EmDash 1.0, a free TypeScript CMS aimed squarely at WordPress. Why it matters, what moving nesmachny.com gave us, and why we now build new sites on it.

29.09.2026
Client site on Cloudflare and EmDash for $5 a month: edit it yourself, email and CRM built in

EmDash: a Real WordPress Alternative on Cloudflare (2026)

I built a client site on Cloudflare + EmDash CMS instead of WordPress: D1 database, R2 storage, built-in business email and CRM, all for $5/month.

11.08.2026

Cloudflare Email Routing: Free Custom Domain Email (2026)

Set up free custom domain email with Cloudflare Email Routing plus Gmail send-as in 10 minutes. Free-tier limits explained, with a full step-by-step 2026 setup guide.

17.03.2026
Audio12 plugins that turn WordPress into a headless CMS for Next.js, tested in production

12 Plugins That Turn WordPress Into a Headless CMS (2026)

The exact plugin stack to run WordPress as a CMS in headless mode with Next.js: the best headless CMS plugins, REST API and CORS setup, on-demand revalidation, and what to skip. Battle-tested in production.

11.01.2026