IHS Blog

Restaurant & bar technology, written for operators.

Notes on reservations, bar inventory, and the systems behind a hospitality business, from the team behind Reservation Relief and Open Source Barware.

• Security · October 23, 2026

  PHP2Shell (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619): what WordPress site owners need to know

  Plain-English guide to PHP2Shell: what it is, which PHP versions are affected, whether it is being exploited, and what WordPress and small-business site owners should do now.

• Security · October 23, 2026

  Is WordPress affected by PHP2Shell? Why updating WordPress alone doesn't fix it

  PHP2Shell is a PHP flaw, not a WordPress bug, but every self-hosted WordPress site runs on PHP. Here is what that means and who has to patch.

• How-to · October 23, 2026

  How to check your website's PHP version in 5 minutes

  Three ways to find which PHP version your WordPress site runs, and which versions include the PHP2Shell fix.

• Security · October 23, 2026

  PHP 8.1 and older are end of life: what that means for your website

  Sites still on PHP 8.1 or older don't get normal security releases, including for PHP2Shell. What end of life means and how to move safely.

• Websites · October 23, 2026

  WordPress vs static HTML for small businesses: speed, security and cost

  An honest comparison of WordPress and static HTML sites for restaurants, bars and small businesses, including what you give up.

• Websites · October 23, 2026

  How we convert WordPress to HTML for free without losing Google rankings

  Step by step: how a WordPress site is converted to static HTML while keeping URLs, metadata, redirects and Google Business Profile links intact.

• Security · October 23, 2026

  WordPress security roundup, October 2026: PHP2Shell, Rank Math PRO, Ninja Forms and Bricksforge

  The WordPress and PHP security issues of October 2026, with affected and fixed versions and sources.

• Strategy

  Hospitality systems strategy for restaurants and bars that are drowning in tools

  What to keep free, what to keep local, and what deserves a paid platform when nothing in the stack talks to anything else.

• Bar inventory

  The Open Source Barware blog

  Guides on free bar inventory, liquor counts, variance tracking, and POS integration, published on opensourcebarware.com.