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This episode James and Jean are joined by Robert Abela, an EU based freelance IT consultant and WordPress Security Professional with WP White Security. Robert is a major player in advocacy for WordPress security, and owns the No. 1 WordPress Monitoring & Audit Trail Plugin. Additionally, aside from his own security blog, Robert is also a guest blogger on many web-security blogs and websites. Topics Include: Robert's journey with WordPress. It all started as a hobby. Robert developed on the side, but never considered himself a developer. At the same time he had a WordPress security consultancy business. He began working with a friend, but development was sporadic. After searching on a shoestring budget, Robert started working with a part-time dev. Started his premium add-on model. A multitude of competitor plugins were launched. His developer saw this as a sign of defeat and jumped ship. To make things worse, competitors knew popular people in the community and received a lot of coverag