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Stumbled upon WordPress just as I was making the transition from developing sites in hand-crafted CSS+HTML+PHP to some kind of CMS, sometime in 2006. Developed a Drupal site for a customer with blood sweat and tears, and a WordPress site for another customer. Loved the way WordPress themes naturally fit the standards-based, cleanly coded way of working I taught myself. That clinched it, and I’ve stayed with WP for all my web development ever since.

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April 2026
Apr 30 Thu · 09:03
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Posted a reply to Archiving only works manually, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Okay done. Gonna need a trusted email address to send the log to, too big…
Apr 23 Thu · 07:24
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Done this, here's what the logs say: [23-Apr-2026 07:16:42 UTC] Matomo: Scheduled tasks archive data[23-Apr-2026…
Apr 17 Fri · 16:24
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Scouting for error logs elsewhere, I do find this apache log (IP and domain obscured):…
Apr 17 Fri · 16:15
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Here's the log from the past two days, with debug logging enabled: [16-Apr-2026 07:29:34 UTC]…
Apr 16 Thu · 07:32
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Two more days of debug logging, nothing appears in the log unless I trigger wp-cron…
Apr 14 Tue · 15:18
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WordPress site health also reports: A scheduled event has failedThe scheduled event, matomo_scheduled_archive, failed to…
Apr 14 Tue · 08:12
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Switching on logging yesterday. Manually archived (first line). Updated Matomo to 5.8.1. Triggered system cron.…
Apr 02 Thu · 06:12
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Yes. Have just switched on logging again but FYI no archiving of reports until I…
March 2026
Mar 24 Tue · 10:42
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Doing this now (thanks for your patience). Here is an error that appears atop the…
Mar 19 Thu · 20:06
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Posted a reply to Avoid updates for edits that do not actually change the fedi post, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
As an addition (posting separately because it is tangential). Regarding this: "So very little changes…

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