I am working on transferring this website off the WordPress platform to something more modern and secure based on a static site generator. The site has never suffered any kind of security breach, but I have become increasingly nervous lately about the advent of AI-assisted exploits and supply chain attacks. As the first step I have replaced the dynamic site with a static HTML snapshot of the old WordPress site, which is no longer publicly accessible. On the plus side it is immediately much faster and more secure. On the minus side this broke two things:

• The site search box stopped working because it relied on PHP code running on the server. I have worked around this problem for now by integrating a Google search box in the sidebar. The results Google returns are fine but it looks a bit clunky. The new website will feature a better solution for this.
• The site updates newsletter is gone. This system also relied on server-side PHP code and was tightly integrated with WordPress. To be honest it was always a bit unreliable. I looked into setting up a replacement standalone newsletter system that could work with the new site, but decided it was too much effort to set up and maintain, and potentially another security liability. I am going to delete the old subscriber list and won’t be sending out any more email newsletters. If you want to keep up to date with developments going forward, either keep checking back here every few months or follow me on Instagram or Facebook.