Patch Fast. Observe Everything. Keep It Boring.

By: Oussama Jarrousse When a software patch is released, a race begins. On one side, attackers rush to reverse-engineer the patch, understand the vulnerability it fixes, weaponize it, and start attacking systems that are still vulnerable. On the other side,...

Bringing WordPress Security into the Observability Stack

By: Oussama Jarrousse At Simula, we believe that if you cannot observe a system, you cannot reliably operate it. We apply that philosophy to all our services, including our managed WordPress hosting service. That means continuously monitoring not only availability and...

How Observability Helped Us Stay Ahead of the wp2shell Incident

By: Oussama Jarrousse In July, the WordPress ecosystem experienced another reminder that even the most widely used platforms can be affected by newly discovered security vulnerabilities. While the technical details of the so-called “wp2shell”...

Friendly Slugs for Arabic Sites

WordPress Plugin · SEO & Localization Simula Friendly Slugs for Arabic Sites Stop shipping ugly, encoded Arabic URLs. Turn مرحبا into a clean, shareable, SEO-friendly slug automatically. By default, WordPress turns Arabic post titles into long, percent-encoded...

Levantine Dates for Arabic Sites

WordPress Plugin · Localization Simula Levantine Dates for Arabic Sites Show dates the way Levantine readers actually speak them — شباط instead of فبراير, ١٢ instead of 12 — without touching a single template file. Most Arabic WordPress sites default to Modern...