\" id=\"15f52c18-b12e-4af9-aae7-f81da53c39b9\"><em>To keep this part short, I left out a lot of details. If you want to, <a href=\"https://heropress.com/essays/blogging-solopreneurship-terrorism/\">you can visit HeroPress.com to read more about my story</a></em>. You\'ll learn about the time a blog post got me sued by the Prime Minister of Turkey.</p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"119caece-f5fd-468d-84d3-227e56fcd234\">Since I’m obsessed with optimizing websites, and my clients usually share my obsession, the satisfaction rate on my jobs is close to 100%… but Optimocha is not the main focus of this post. So, let’s get to the part when I became the owner of Speed Booster Pack.</p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"0310cec4-99ef-4484-a1a0-4d9ce4ecc151\">Acquiring Speed Booster Pack in 2019</h3>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"2dde708e-d80c-4538-b7ec-30b4a47aed5b\">In 2019, Frank told me the folks at Macho Themes were looking for someone to adopt Speed Booster Pack. 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Plus, I had bigger things in mind.</p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"0d12779a-aba1-4573-9dac-eff4483c1cf0\">A complete rewrite</h3>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"cb780310-3044-44d2-8807-b212bc28a9bf\">After a rather unsuccessful attempt to fix Speed Booster Pack’s bugs, I decided to rewrite the whole thing from scratch and turn this plugin from “something with a few checkboxes to apply small optimizations” into “a complete optimization suite.” I wasn’t a good programmer so I searched for one. After meeting with <a href=\"https://zahidefe.net/\">Zahid</a> in October 2019 and talking about my vision of transforming Speed Booster Pack, he agreed to work with me to rewrite the plugin. Unfortunately, I kept focusing on fixing small bugs in the existing code, and the delay saw the further loss of active installs.</p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"ad482b98-e660-43b7-b65f-7b54d46b6259\">As it turns out, things weren’t going to change after the rewrite. 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Here’s Speed Booster Pack’s <del>growth</del> decline graph from 2020:</p>\n\n\n\n<img width=\"752\" height=\"429\" src=\"https://cdn.poststatus.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Untitled-752x429.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-102318\" />Speed Booster Pack\'s active installs in 2020\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"1baf2bae-217a-4726-96e5-8caf840a566a\">A big bump, then a huge collapse</h3>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"07f7edc1-ec79-4ce9-9e72-8740457a1af4\">Let’s jump to the first half of 2021 when Speed Booster Pack <em>finally</em> began getting new users — as high as 1,000 new users in some weeks!</p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"667bfd1d-2741-45b5-bf2d-131616580b54\">Zahid and I had released a new version (4.1.0) which had new features like Critical CSS, Sucuri integration, and an experimental feature called “PageSpeed Tricker.” It was part joke, part real: It actually set your PageSpeed test results to 100% on both mobile and desktop, because it added a line to wp-config.php to exit immediately for all browser user agents including the word “Lighthouse.” The joke was to show people how easy it was to manipulate PageSpeed/Lighthouse tests and say “you should optimize your website for real people, not for PageSpeed” to our users.</p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"0d8eb991-a857-4190-9c75-f82aafc95ed3\">It was a fun, <em>educational</em> joke that we decided to remove after a few versions, and we showed an immutable notice (when the Tricker was enabled) to prevent people from tricking others into believing their website was really optimized. We thought the increase in active installs was related to that.</p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"f0a37063-071d-4aac-9fe0-571122d3ff26\">Over the course of four months after releasing version 4.1.0, we saw over 5,000 new active installs and we even got past 40K users:</p>\n\n\n\n<img width=\"752\" height=\"429\" src=\"https://cdn.poststatus.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Untitled-1-752x429.png\" alt=\"Speed Booster Pack\" class=\"kb-img wp-image-102292\" />\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<img width=\"342\" height=\"737\" src=\"https://cdn.poststatus.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Untitled-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-102293\" /></div>\n\n\n<p id=\"d0e7e919-a9aa-4e67-b4ce-c7e70fd6871b\">Awesome, right? Well, it turns out the increase in the active install count wasn’t at all related to our work.</p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"06db4304-ce3f-49ab-8139-1ead494fb053\">In August 2021, we saw this:</p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<img width=\"632\" height=\"396\" src=\"https://cdn.poststatus.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Untitled-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-102294\" /></div>\n\n\n<p id=\"98afacc6-c804-4d41-92c7-0a0c1905ba0f\">That 6.3% drop was then updated to 8.1%, and 12.0% the next week, resulting in this huge collapse:</p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<img width=\"340\" height=\"159\" src=\"https://cdn.poststatus.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Untitled-4.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-102295\" /></div>\n\n\n<p id=\"bc800ebc-2939-4572-9182-bc7d520dc982\">Just like that, we were in an even worse position than before the increase in active installs. Here’s the graph for the full year:</p>\n\n\n\n<img width=\"752\" height=\"429\" src=\"https://cdn.poststatus.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Untitled-5-752x429.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-102296\" />\n\n\n\n<p id=\"72150478-f82f-4a54-a5ea-d1c25c6bef66\">Initially, I thought this was just a glitch that all plugin owners suffered from, but checking a few other plugins and then the WordPress Slack, I found out that it wasn’t a glitch:</p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>Recently, it was pointed out that the active install counts of several plugins appeared to be inflated artificially. When we looked at the raw data, we found that this was correct for roughly 100+ plugins; fake update data was being sent to us.</p><p>This is not unusual, it\'s happened before, although people are usually much more blatant about it, which is why it took a long time to notice it. In any case, we adjusted our stats mechanisms to ignore these, and so those 100+ plugins will have seen a drop of around ~8000 installs.</p><p>As the data was being faked before, this new count is more accurate. But it doesn\'t change the old counts, and we can\'t redo those counts as we don\'t store that raw data for more than 2 days.</p><p>So, consider the percentage drop today as an artifact of this adjustment. It\'s not a loss of users, it\'s an improvement to the data gathering mechanisms.</p><cite>Otto #pluginreview (<a href=\"https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C1LBM36LC/p1629992898007900\">August 26, 2021</a>)</cite></blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"f8d12c42-31b2-4b4a-acb3-d4b010a35811\">The details of the event weren’t disclosed but here’s what I understood: someone tried to inflate the number of their plugin’s user count and inflated a hundred other plugins too so theirs could stay hidden among the crowd. None of us were accused of anything, but it was shocking (and a bit devastating) to see that immense drop in the graph. Anyone looking at it might assume the affected plugins had become very unpopular. </p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"693e6d7c-3502-4c40-b6d1-95d27ff66b37\">After some heated discussion on Slack, the final decision was to let the data and charts stand — and basically accept the graph as it was and still is. I still think it was possible to <em>flatten</em> the historical growth graph by changing the weekly growth rates. But all in all, it wasn’t worth fixating on the graph. We simply had to <em>suck it up</em>, for the lack of a better phrase.</p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"99c8c325-767f-4b66-b384-f0932ae228a0\">I genuinely thought of shutting down for good before realizing that I could turn this into an opportunity to learn more about managing an open-source project with many users.</p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"12337833-6f11-46ec-bad2-dba8891fb571\">Now, to the part of the lessons I learned.</p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"3496aa92-c627-48c1-bba3-dd6035ba8a27\">Thoughts on the decline</h3>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"0cb1b552-7bf0-4246-bdcb-c3a681cf08d6\">If it’s not worth fixating over graphs and losing active installs, how come I’m writing a 2000-word article about it? Two things:</p>\n\n\n\n<ol type=\"1\" id=\"a4988440-cfd0-45b6-b615-d1eed38eb4a7\"><li>I’m not giving up on a good open source project like Speed Booster Pack, and I’m still motivated to improve it even if its decline continues — although I’m confident the user base is going to start growing again at some point.</li><li>I’m now seeing this as a learning experience, both for myself and for developers with open-source software projects.</li></ol>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"d8548cc4-7e5c-4af0-83ef-ce8b321bd316\">With my expertise in web performance optimization, I’m earning well from <a href=\"https://optimocha.com/\">Optimocha</a>. Even though my initial intention was to increase revenue using Speed Booster Pack as a marketing channel, building a solid community around SBP became its own priority over time. This is why I’m still pondering on the decline (without obsessing about it — no, really).</p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"5338b6a5-ca1a-42d8-9b2d-2e9ef488412b\">Let me share my ideas on why a WordPress plugin might be losing users.</p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"73698359-d3f5-4453-8500-820ca64931bb\">Basically, it should have more users deactivating the plugin than users activating the plugin. The causes might differ:</p>\n\n\n\n<ul id=\"4ef452de-dca1-4d87-a797-d4ab7aa2cc0f\"><li><strong>Buggy code</strong>: As recently as June 2022, SBP lost 3K users just because I hooked a function to <code>init</code> instead of <code>template_redirect</code>. Yep, something as simple as this could cause users to have problems and deactivate your plugin in response. Even if it doesn\'t break their websites, just having PHP notices could push away users.</li><li><strong>Bad user experience</strong>: Having a complicated interface for settings could cause users to give up trying. This is especially important for technical subjects like speed optimization. You might have to educate users with onboarding, extensive help sections, and even explanatory videos — which I’m currently working on for SBP.</li><li><strong>Failing promises</strong>: A plugin doesn’t need to have bugs to fail at fulfilling its promises. If an SEO plugin doesn’t help with SEO, users will switch to another plugin. You have to make sure users see the results they expect as soon as possible.</li></ul>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"05738088-32c5-403f-acb8-724daf63a979\">There might be other things that commonly decrease the number of active installs tracked at WordPress.org:</p>\n\n\n\n<ul id=\"7c52a41a-b9f3-4913-9bac-a83f60735595\"><li><strong>Websites with no visitors</strong>: As I mentioned before, active installs are counted when websites with your plugin check wp.org servers for plugin, theme, and core updates through WP-Cron. Since WP-Cron fires up when someone or something visits a WordPress site, websites with no traffic or with  <a href=\"https://kinsta.com/knowledgebase/disable-wp-cron/\">WP-Cron disabled</a> won’t be counted among your plugin’s active installs. There\'s nothing you can do about this. It\'s likely a small number of not very active sites, but who knows? It\'s a known unknown.</li><li><strong>Not releasing new updates</strong>: Currently, WordPress.org warns users against installing old plugins if it’s not tested with the latest three major core releases. (This used to be two years). Similarly, a user might be put off if a plugin they use doesn’t get updates on a somewhat frequent basis. (I mean, would you keep using the same plugin if its competitors were releasing new features, but the one you’re using wasn’t?)</li><li><strong>Compatibility issues</strong>: It’s really important to keep yourself up to date with the WordPress ecosystem. When Visual Composer reigned over the theme market, plugins were forced to be compatible with it. When users shifted from Visual Composer to Elementor, plugins incompatible with Elementor lost their user base. Gutenberg is on the rise now, and full site editing might conquer the ecosystem in the not-so-far future. Make sure you test with real-life scenarios using popular (and trending) plugins and themes.</li></ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"7b8c3215-ff6d-4cfb-b878-697245bbca6b\">Final thoughts</h3>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"3ab38093-37b6-4bba-bf63-6369b91b3233\">I’m a proud person. I’m proud of optimizing over 500 websites with a 96% satisfaction rate in <a href=\"https://optimocha.com/speed-optimization-for-wordpress/\">Optimocha</a>. Also, I’m proud of writing over 200 articles and tutorials about WordPress across the blogosphere. (Mostly <a href=\"https://tutsplus.com/authors/baris-unver\">Tuts+ Code</a> and <a href=\"https://fuelthemes.net/author/baris/\">Fuel Themes Blog</a>.) 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What&#8217;s in it for them, and what&#8217;s their approach to the return on this investment?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>We then move on to talk about Akshat&#8217;s journey creating products in the WordPress space. It&#8217;s interesting to note that whilst Akshat is clearly great at creating products people wish to use, he&#8217;s also willing to admit that much of his success can be attributed to serendipity.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>We then get into a discussion of the security landscape and how the products that Akshat and his team make enable site owners to rest more easily. It&#8217;s all about backups, site monitoring and firewalls. We go into some of the technical details of how the products work and how they fit neatly into an agency, wishing to sell care plans to their website clients.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Are there any downsides to adding additional plugins to WordPress websites? And do we run the risk of thinking that if we&#8217;ve installed some security and backup plugins, then there&#8217;s nothing to worry about. Is this a sensible position to take?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s an educational episode with a warm and very amiable guest.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Typically when we record the podcast, there&#8217;s not a lot of background noise. But that&#8217;s not always the case with these WordCamp Europe interviews. We were competing against the crowds and the air conditioning. And whilst the podcasts are more than listable, I hope that you understand that the vagaries of the real world we&#8217;re at play.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in finding out more, you can find all of the links in the show notes by heading over to WPTavern.com forward slash podcast, where you&#8217;ll find all the other episodes as well. And so without further delay, I bring you Akshat Choudary.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am joined on the podcast today by Akshat Choudary.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:03:52] <strong>Akshat Choudary:</strong> Hi, Nathan. Thank you for having me here.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:03:53] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> You are so welcome. We&#8217;re sitting in the Super Bock Arena, in a cavernous space underneath the arena. And we&#8217;re gonna talk today a little bit about Akshat, his products, why he&#8217;s turned up to WordCamp EU. First of all though Akshat just give us a little bit of a background. Who are you? Which company, companies I should say, do you represent?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:04:11] <strong>Akshat Choudary:</strong> Hi, I&#8217;m Akshat, I&#8217;m the founder of BlogVault, actually that&#8217;s the main company. And then we have multiple products. Some of you might have heard of BlogVault is our original product. And then we since then built Malcare. We are also associated with WP Remote, which is for agency, and we have a brand new product coming out called Airlift.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:04:31] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Oh, okay. Tell us what Airlift is.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:04:33] <strong>Akshat Choudary:</strong> So, you know, speed is such an important aspect of a website and making a website fast is, it&#8217;s a time consuming and often difficult task. So, we are using technology to make a website really fast with the click of a button.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:04:46] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> That sounds amazing. So there&#8217;s four products that you&#8217;ve got. Presumably you&#8217;ve come to WordCamp Europe to find customers, mix, network and all of those kind of things. So I&#8217;m gonna ask you a series of questions about that. Really, it boils down to this. What is the purpose? Why have you come all the way to WordCamp Europe?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:05:02] <strong>Akshat Choudary:</strong> It&#8217;s interesting that you mentioned that you&#8217;ve come for customers and acquire customers. And I remember the very first WordCamp I attended so many years ago, and I was in this mode of trying to acquire customers and it was miserable, like the worst possible experience. then I had to step back because WordPress and WordCamps are not, are not suitable.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>The community, the event is not, it&#8217;s not your traditional trade conference. When you attend it to just be a part of the community and try and meet people, and over time you can connect the dots, looking back that it has worked out well. So today I&#8217;m here actually, to reconnect with all the friends that I have, after three years.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:05:41] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> It is very much a social experience for you?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:05:43] <strong>Akshat Choudary:</strong> Absolutely. Yeah. And that&#8217;s the most important aspect of it.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:05:46] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> What is the main thing that you find yourself doing? So do you attend the talks and sit and chat with colleagues, or do you tend to find yourself on the hallway track, just chatting to random strangers?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:05:57] <strong>Akshat Choudary:</strong> Yeah. Hallway track, I wouldn&#8217;t even say chatting to random strangers because now so many of the folks are just such good friends. Yeah, we go back so many years, so. It&#8217;s mostly about just meeting them again and, hopefully finally in person.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:06:12] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Do you bring many people from your team or teams I should say? Or is it just you? Is that a difficult decision? Who gets on the plane and who doesn&#8217;t?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:06:19] <strong>Akshat Choudary:</strong> We try and have a couple of people join me. In fact, a few times I have also not gone and people from the team have come, so we do it on a, on a round robin basis. So we try and get the entire team to participate in the community and meet the different folks here. Because just again, sitting in India, it&#8217;s very difficult to understand what the community is about. Coming here and interacting and volunteering. Those experiences really give you a sense of what WordPress is about.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:06:47] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Just before we pushed the record button, I mentioned some of the things that we may be talking about, and one of them was the community where you are based. So, first of all, where are you based?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:06:56] <strong>Akshat Choudary:</strong> So I&#8217;m based in Bangalore in India.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:06:59] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> And tell us about the community that may or may not exist there.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:07:03] <strong>Akshat Choudary:</strong> So we do have a small community, but it&#8217;s not a very, very active community. And it also makes you realize that while Bangalore is the tech hub of India, you know, it&#8217;s called the Silicon Valley of India. And there are so many people doing tech and I&#8217;m sure there are a lot of people doing WordPress. But we&#8217;ve never really been able to kickstart a healthy community there.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:07:22] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Do you have any insight into why that is? Is it just that it just never took off or nobody took the responsibility to organize it?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:07:28] <strong>Akshat Choudary:</strong> It makes you appreciate the work that the folks who are building these communities are doing, because it&#8217;s a commitment. I think people spend a part of their lives to make this thing happen at each of these local chapters.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>I guess, somebody needs to come up with that passion to make it happen.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:07:46] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> So it is a different experience here than it would be over there?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:07:49] <strong>Akshat Choudary:</strong> Yeah. Significantly different.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:07:51] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> In terms of the event itself, what do you make of this venue? I mean, when I showed up and saw it, I mean I&#8217;d seen pictures, and I thought that looks pretty large.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>That looks pretty impressive. And then when I actually got here, this is beyond anything I imagined. It&#8217;s truly enormous.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:08:06] <strong>Akshat Choudary:</strong> Yeah, it is an extremely large, really large venue. And I actually still didn&#8217;t know what to expect until I entered, and the organization is, the way they have organized it with one section going to sponsors another with the tracks, with the actual talks. It&#8217;s a very, very large venue and with a lot of space all around to meet people and to talk with people.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:08:24] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> I was looking at a WordCamp and I can&#8217;t actually summon up which one it was, but it was a State of the Word address from. I&#8217;m gonna say it was about 10 years ago. I was watching the video recently and it looked like a cottage industry. 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We are extremely fortunate to be a part of the success story that WordPress is.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:09:20] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Very recently, and I don&#8217;t know what your thoughts are on this, because it feels a bit like a Chicken Little story. Recently some statistics came out to show that for the first time ever, the market share for WordPress had actually taken a teeny tiny, nevertheless, a teeny tiny decline had occurred.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And there was lots of people writing commentary about this and saying, well, that&#8217;s interesting. Maybe the growth of a WordPress is over. What&#8217;s your thoughts on all of that?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:09:45] <strong>Akshat Choudary:</strong> Yeah, I think numbers, you know, they can be very confusing and especially the number around market share. It&#8217;s a lot of marketing more than anything else. So, when it&#8217;s going up, it sounds really nice and you know, 45%, but the way you calculate it. I think if you are today creating a business website, or if you&#8217;re creating a personal website, WordPress is the go to place.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>You do have a lot of other technologies coming up. So you will see and you&#8217;ll see different things take off. Honestly, I tend to ignore it. I don&#8217;t worry too much about it. And also, I don&#8217;t worry too much about what&#8217;s going to happen with WordPress. So I think every technology has its own cycle it has to follow. And my favorite examples are like Nokia and Blackberry. Those were iconic, massive companies and they disappeared in five years. So when the time comes, it&#8217;ll come, and you can&#8217;t do really do much about it, but until then, yeah, until then let&#8217;s do the most of it.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:10:37] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah, I think you&#8217;ve probably hit the nail on the head. Nothing is imutable. Everything in its time will cease to be as popular as it once was. Like you said, certain companies like Nokia, I don&#8217;t even know if you can buy a Nokia phone anymore, but certainly in the day they were the only things that you could buy.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Your businesses, the ones that you mentioned earlier, they fit into the sort of client side, client management piece, a little bit. So you&#8217;ve got the ability with BlogVault to be able to migrate your sites. And you&#8217;ve also got the ability to back them up and do security, and all of that Is that the bit where you&#8217;ve pitched your business? Are you sort of aiming them at agencies who are then selling that services, perhaps packaged up in a care plan or something like that? Is that where you are pitching?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:11:18] <strong>Akshat Choudary:</strong> Yes. So we actually have two segments of customers. And in fact, we are sponsoring this WordCamp under WP Remote brand, and that&#8217;s the brand which is targeted towards agencies. Where we take all our products, we are selling that product to agencies. And agencies then who have, which again, is something we have seen over the past few years, the concept of maintenance plans. So agencies manage WordPress sites for the clients, and then they, they use our products to manage large number of sites. And we make it really easy with the backup security, updates and more.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And our job really is to make that job easier. So if you&#8217;re running a business critical website, we make it easy to run that website and make the most out of it. And, we sell to two customer segments. You have agencies who are buying large number of sites, and then you have individual site owners, like small businesses or en enthusiast, so marketing teams. And they are buying it for small number of websites. So yeah, there are two customer segments essentially that we target.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:12:13] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> You mentioned security there. Since the last time I met you, which is probably three or four years ago, I think it was probably in WordCamp London or like that. Yeah. It seems like an age ago now. The amount of security news has been truly stratospheric. Every single week there seems to be something. Now whether or not that&#8217;s hype, or it&#8217;s written about because people are interested in, I don&#8217;t really know. I don&#8217;t really have any insight into that.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Obviously the market share of WordPress paints, a bigger target, you know, 42, 43% of the web people are gonna invest time into figuring out what&#8217;s vulnerable there. Have you noticed that? Is that a trend? Do we need to be more concerned this year than we were last year about the security of WordPress? And do we need to have things to mitigate? Obviously I&#8217;m sure you would say yes, because you&#8217;ve got all the solutions provided for that, but what&#8217;s your thoughts of the state of security in WordPress?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:13:03] <strong>Akshat Choudary:</strong> Yes. So, I think the security is obviously a moving thing and there&#8217;s never, there&#8217;s no such thing as absolute security. Right. So it will never be in a state where we&#8217;ll be like, okay, fine. Everything is secure. Everything is good. You&#8217;ll always need to be wary of it. And especially when you look at something like WordPress, which has such a thriving ecosystem around it. So then security is not limited to one small thing, but it&#8217;s spread all over the ecosystem, right?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So every aspect of it needs to be secure, and which becomes so much more difficult to do. As you have more plugin, more themes, and as this ecosystem also expands it adds a lot more complexity to the whole WordPress security concept. So that&#8217;s, that&#8217;s very, very important to understand.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>In fact, if you go back to Windows, days when Windows was considered extremely insecure and while Windows also had its own challenges, a lot of the security challenges came from drivers and all the stuff that you were built using on top of Windows. That&#8217;s a similar concept or we can draw similar analogy to WordPress.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So while WordPress, the core itself gets more and more secure over time, and we have seen that evolve, and I think there&#8217;s so much noise around, you know, like people get offended like, oh yeah, WordPress is insecure. No, no WordPress is actually secure, but then the plugins are insecure. But you open a website, you go into the WP admin and you see they have 20 plugins and there&#8217;s somebody willing to add a 21st plugin because you need to get something done.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So at the end of it, when you&#8217;re using WordPress with all these plugins and yeah, I would venture to guess that what, some of the reasons why some of the biggest websites use WordPress is also because of the plugins. Because it gives you that flexibility. So there&#8217;s always going to be more plugins added to websites, more complexity added there. And that means security is always going to be a challenge. You can&#8217;t take it for granted.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:14:40] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> What with 50,000 plus plugins in the repository, plus all of the commercial ones, which are countless, I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s a number equal to that, possibly bigger. How do you even begin to keep on top of that? Is this just a case of your reading other blog posts about security and your getting information from databases? How do you on the BlogVault side of things and the Malcare side of things, how do you know what needs to be patched and when it needs to be patched?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:15:09] <strong>Akshat Choudary:</strong> So we do keep a close eye on what&#8217;s happening in the security space. Our approach to security is not to be on top of everything that&#8217;s happening in the security. We look at it from a first principle perspective. As to how do sites really get hacked? What happens when they get hacked? What causes them to be hacked? What do vulnerabilities look like? So not specific vulnerability, because there are so many plugins.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And you&#8217;ll see this so often, you know, you&#8217;ll see a vulnerability getting declared. Suppose a vulnerability gets declared today. You&#8217;ll see that it&#8217;s been exploited for years before that or months before that. So declaring vulnerability versus where with announcement is made was the actual exploit. So that, that we believe is not the right way of securing. So we don&#8217;t really try and be on top of every single news. Obviously we do it out of interest, but not as a mechanism to secure websites. So we take a more fundamental approach as to why do websites get hacked? What happens when they get hacked and then try and patch it or try and secure it from that principle.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:16:05] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Okay, let&#8217;s drill down into that a little bit more then. So what does that mean? Because, it may be confusing to people listening. So if you&#8217;re not finding the vulnerabilities and setting up. I presume there&#8217;s like a firewall piece in all of this. So tell us about that, how it works, how does it stop traffic getting into the website?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:16:21] <strong>Akshat Choudary:</strong> This is actually a very, very fascinating topic and this is something which is close to our heart. And, I would venture to say, I mean, like we know that things can be improved significantly, and we are far from reaching the final vision. We can always, we can see month by month we are moving towards this final vision.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So WordPress security, again, there&#8217;s so much noise out there, you know, and I may dare to say there&#8217;s a lot of snake oil being sold also. And that just makes it so much more difficult because you will find some of the most credible people out there, unfortunately spreading misinformation, not willfully. Just because the whole space is so noisy, and so confusing..</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having said that, we believe firewall is one of the best ways of protecting a site. Let&#8217;s look at like different ways sites get hacked and there are numerous. I&#8217;ll just take a few examples to show you what happens. For example, one type of exploit, and this is actually happens much more often than you would think, is it lets you change the URL within the database of the site.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And it&#8217;s actually a very simple operation. One way you can block it is you look at any request that caused that specific operation to get updated and just block it out. If it is not done with appropriate privileges. And that&#8217;s one example of how you can mitigate an attack type. So that just shows you that that&#8217;s one way.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are others. Like we, we know the famous OS SQL injection attacks, which try and exploit vulnerabilities while accessing the database. There&#8217;s a whole amount of literature out there as to how to block SQL injection attacks and we can tap into those rules to block out SQL injection attacks. So as soon as you do that, you have saved yourself from a whole bunch of vulnerabilities that affect a lot of websites.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:18:02] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Just before we keep going, I&#8217;m curious because a lot of people who listen to this may have only a glimer of an understanding of how WordPress works. So, how does a firewall in fact work? How do you get in front of things before it hits the website and sniff it and say, okay, this is clearly not supposed to happen. Let&#8217;s just drop this. Let&#8217;s make this not happen. How does that even work? What&#8217;s the process that you are interrupting that would normally happen if there isn&#8217;t a firewall there?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:18:26] <strong>Akshat Choudary:</strong> All right. So firewall again, there are multiple types of firewalls and multiple levels at which firewalls get deployed. You have cloud based firewall, something like Cloudflare or a Sucuri, which is a very popular WordPress plugin, WordPress security. solution. They have, basically they have a cloud based solution where when someone visits your website, it reaches their servers first. And then it passes through their firewall servers.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ours is more of a plugin based solution. So, we attach yourself inside your website through a plugin. And what we do is we, and there are multiple ways of doing it, but, depending on the type of hosting you in, we&#8217;ll be the very first set of, scripts or code to load even before WordPress loads. What we are doing is common with, Wordfence does also a similar takes, a similar approach.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Right, so every request is then parsed. Identified. We classify the request as to look at all the parameters that happens in the request. We classify, what looks like a good request versus a bad request based on rules. And we have a whole number of rules, which evaluate, and we see, okay, that looks funny. That should not happen. That looks like a SQL injection attack. That looks like a XSS attack. And we identify using patterns. And then we block them.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are some more complex ones. Like the one I spoke about where a URL gets updated. There we actually sit deep inside WordPress and we let WordPress load. But in case an operation to modify WordPress takes place, which it should not happen normally, then this piece of code will kick in. And that&#8217;s the advantage of having a plug-in based solution because, you now understand how WordPress functions and then tap into that knowledge.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are other solutions, maybe like a Cloudflare where they don&#8217;t really understand WordPress and they have taken a more of a generic, good, best practices of blocking attacks. And they&#8217;re also effective. But I think when you understand WordPress, when you understand this application so well, you can do things in a manner which, yeah which can improve the security of a WordPress website.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:20:32] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> You mentioned that you&#8217;re getting in the way sometimes, you&#8217;re the first thing that&#8217;s happening and so on. People, again, listening may thinking, oh, okay, that sounds like an extra step. And if there&#8217;s an extra step, is that gonna slow things down? Because there&#8217;s something that&#8217;s got to be inspected before it&#8217;s passed through the firewall and allowed to happen. Typically, are you pretty confident about if you put these things in place, you&#8217;re not really gonna see a significant drop in the amount of time it takes to get the first bite or whatever.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:20:57] <strong>Akshat Choudary:</strong> Right, we take a great deal of care to make sure that it doesn&#8217;t really slow it down. But again, you need to go deeper into how WordPress functions and you realize that there are so many layers to what causes a WordPress site, what impacts the performance of a WordPress site. And you will see that the PHP pieces and especially the kind of operations we deal with is multiple order of magnitudes faster than the slowest operation, which might be a database query. And while a WordPress request is served. There are numerous database queries being made.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So in comparison to that, this might be, so if that takes a thousand milliseconds, let&#8217;s assume, this operation might take one millisecond, two milliseconds. So it just dwarves in front of everything else that&#8217;s happening. Obviously we need to always make sure that this thing does not exceed one or two milliseconds or a few milliseconds, but the difference is so large that you will never notice the impact of it.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And again, there&#8217;s so much confusion around it. That having a working model around this is not straightforward, and it&#8217;s very easy to be like, oh, this will slow down my website, but how will it slow down what&#8217;s happening? And that complexity is, I think the communication around that has not been great.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:22:08] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Another concern that people may have is because you said, your setup, it has to make judgments about whether this should be passed through or not. This is malicious, or this is not malicious. How easy is it for that system to fail and throw false positives and to erroneously apply the ban hammer to things which should be allowed to pass through. Typically, I&#8217;m guessing that, you get better at that over time.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:22:29] <strong>Akshat Choudary:</strong> It does happen, but it&#8217;s fairly rare. So again, pattern matching is not an exact science, right? 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It doesn’t wrap me in the look I’d imagined, however. It feels like quality material, sure, but not ostentatious or high-falutin’ or fancy-pants. (Well, maybe there’s the occasional fancy-pants aspect of it, which I’ll be sure to mention at the end of the story). </p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"h-what-is-success\">What is Success?</h2>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the definitions that Merriam-Webster presents for the word “success” is “<em>the attainment of wealth, favor, or eminence</em>.”</p>\n\n\n\n<p>My definition of success has always been to live free of poverty. I don’t ask much of success. Just the vision of a life without the constant weight of poverty wrapped around a person’s neck is enough for me to define that life as successful. 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