Steve Burge, Author at Logtivity

What are PHP Errors, Warnings, and Notices on WordPress Sites?

Written by Steve Burge on 16th August 2022.

WordPress is built with a programming language called PHP. This is by far the most popular language for websites, partly because it’s used to power WordPress.

As a result, you may sometimes see messages from PHP, even if you’re not familiar with the language.

In this guide, we’ll show you how to recognize and understand what PHP is saying to you. If you run a WordPress website, you don’t have to know code, but it’s very helpful f you can accurately delegate problems to people who can fix the issues.

How to Customize WordPress Email Notifications to Administrators

Written by Steve Burge on 16th August 2022.

If you use WordPress, you have probably received automatic emails sent from your site.

WordPress will automatically generate emails to notify you of certain events. Here are some simple examples:

When a new user registers on your site.
When a user submits a comment.
When a user resets their password.

Coming Soon: Error Logs for All Your WordPress Sites

Written by Steve Burge on 27th July 2022.

When we launched Logtivity, our goal was to monitor all the important events on all your WordPress sites.

Here are some use-cases we had in mind for Logtivity:

Notifying you if an Administrator user is added to any of your sites.
Updating you if a theme file is edited on any of your sites.
Showing when new posts are published on any of your sites.

All of those use-cases are now possible with Logtivity!

Logtivity’s Agency Focus: Inspry

Written by Steve Burge on 18th July 2022.

The most frequent users of Logtivity are WordPress agencies and maintenance services. So we talk with many agency owners as we build Logtivity.

All the agency owners have fascinating stories, and they play a key role in the WordPress community.

In this post, we talk with Matt Schwartz from Inspry, an Atlanta, Georgia-based web development agency.

Logtivity’s Agency Focus: Matchless Web

Written by Steve Burge on 24th June 2022.

The most frequent users of Logtivity are WordPress agencies and maintenance services. So we talk with many agency owners as we build Logtivity.

All the agency owners have fascinating stories, and they play a key role in the WordPress community.

In this post, we talk with Jon Phillips who runs Matchless Web. Jon provides WordPress maintenance services and also teaches people how to build super-fast WordPress sites.

Logtivity Records Changes to WordPress and Plugin Settings

Written by Steve Burge on 17th June 2022.

The most frequent users of Logtivity are WordPress agencies and maintenance services, so we listen really carefully to feedback from agencies.

Over the last few weeks we’ve been talking with agencies who want to record changes to WordPress and also plugin settings.

One agency wanted to monitor changes to WordPress permalinks because an issue had caused one site to crash. Another agency wanted to monitor changes to WooCommerce options because a mistaken change had impacted the checkout on a site. We’ve heard similar requests regarding LearnDash, WPRocket and other plugins.

Logtivity Supports the Code Snippets Plugin

Written by Steve Burge on 17th June 2022.

Code Snippets is a popular plugin that is used by a lot of WordPress agencies.

The major advantage of the Code Snippets plugin is that it provides a simple way to run code snippets on your site. Normally you have to add these snippets to your theme’s functions.php file.

The Code Snippets plugin provides a user interface for managing snippets. Snippets can be activated and deactivated, plus you can add extra details such as name, description, and tags. It’s also simple to import and export the snippets so you can re-use your code on different sites.

Because the Code Snippets plugin is a crucial tool for many WordPress agencies, we’ve added support for the plugin. Any changes to your snippets will be stored in your site’s activity log.

How to Find Frequent Logs In Logtivity

Written by Steve Burge on 26th May 2022.

We had a request earlier this month from a Logtivity user with dozens of sites.

This user wanted to know which plugins and actions were recording the most logs on their sites. So we’ve added a “Most frequent logs” feature. You can find this by going to “Team Settings” then “Global Plugin Settings” in your Logtivity admin.

There’s a New “White Label Mode” in Logtivity

Written by Steve Burge on 13th May 2022.

The most frequent users of Logtivity are WordPress agencies and maintenance services who want to keep an eye on lots of websites.

Agencies and maintenance services often white label the services they use, and so we’ve made this possible for Logtivity also.

There’s a “White Label Mode” in Logtivity, so you can provide the smoothest experience possible for clients.

Logtivity Now Records WordPress Post Meta

Written by Steve Burge on 22nd April 2022.

Last month, we were talking with a Logtivity user who runs a webdesign agency. The most frequent users of Logtivity are WordPress agencies and maintenance services so listen really carefully to their needs.

This user’s agency wanted an activity log to help deal with clients. Mistakes happen and sometimes clients can mess up their own sites. The problem is that mistakes can often take the agency many hours to fix it. If the agency can’t show the mistake was made by the client, they have to eat the cost.

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