WPURLs is built around a simple choice: an index should help you reach the source, not become another layer between you and it. A news headline should lead to its publisher. A price should come with the vendor page and the date it was checked. A browser tool should be clear about what happens to the information you enter.
Those ideas shape the three parts of the site: a current WordPress news index, a source-backed list of what WordPress tools cost, and a small collection of practical tools. You can use any of them without creating an account.
Start here:
- All headlines lists the newest stories across every monitored publisher.
- What things cost compares products while keeping the source and renewal cost visible.
- Tools contains three focused utilities that work without a signup.
One place to scan, not another place to read
At launch, WPURLs monitors 44 publishers and checks their feeds every 30 minutes. The directory includes official WordPress projects, independent publications, security researchers, product companies, SEO publications, and WordPress job boards.
For each story, WPURLs stores enough information to make the list useful: its headline, a short excerpt, the publisher, the publication time, and the original URL. Clicking a headline leaves WPURLs and opens the publisher’s page. We do not reproduce the complete article or generate a replacement version.
You can browse the news by topic, publisher, day, or week. The main RSS feed provides another way to follow it. The publisher directory shows which publishers are included, while publisher status page shows whether each publisher is being fetched successfully. A broken or quiet feed should be visible, not silently treated as current.
Prices with a source beside every number
WordPress products are difficult to compare because vendors describe billing periods, introductory offers, renewals, and plan limits in different ways. The What things cost page puts those details into a familiar table without pretending that every product can be reduced to one score.
The launch catalogue contains 118 products covering hosting, themes, plugins, email, security, maintenance, and other services used to run WordPress sites. Prices remain in their original currencies. Introductory and renewal prices are separate, and every entry includes an official source and a checked date. Sorting and filtering help narrow the table, but payment or commercial relationships do not determine the order.
Prices change often. If an entry is wrong or out of date, the correction form beneath the workbook sends the report to a private editorial queue. A report never edits the public catalogue automatically. The source is checked before a correction is published.
Small tools with clear privacy boundaries
The tools section currently includes a password generator, a breached-password checker, and a username generator. Each tool has one job, works without an account, and explains what happens in the browser.
Password and username generation happen locally. The generated result is not sent to WPURLs. For a breach check, the browser creates a SHA-1 hash of the password and sends only the first five characters of that hash to the Have I Been Pwned range service. The returned candidates are compared in the browser, so neither WPURLs nor the service receives the password itself.
That distinction matters. “Private” should describe a specific technical boundary, not serve as a vague promise. Each tool page explains the relevant boundary in plain language.
The rules are public
An index is only useful when readers can understand how it is assembled. The how it works page documents how stories are grouped, how freshness is handled, and what the site excludes. The publisher directory and the publisher status page expose the current inputs and their status.
The same principle applies to prices. Sources and checked dates sit beside the data instead of being hidden in a footnote. The workbook is a comparison surface, not a recommendation engine or a pay-to-rank list.
WPURLs also leaves ownership where it belongs. Publishers keep their readers and their reporting. Vendors remain the authority for the prices they publish. The site organizes those sources and makes discrepancies easier to spot.
The work after launch
The useful work is ongoing and mostly unglamorous: checking feed failures, reviewing publishers, correcting classifications, verifying prices, and responding when someone reports a problem. That maintenance matters more than adding features simply to make the site look busy.
The blog will hold original guides and notes when WPURLs has first-hand work, data, or a useful method to share. It will not be used to rewrite articles that already exist elsewhere.
If a useful publisher is missing, a price has changed, or something on the site is unclear, send a note. Specific corrections make the index better for everyone who uses it.