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More than 1,000 sites are now connected to the Logtivity platform.
We reached this number in our own internal systems, and also on the WordPress.org plugin directory.
1,000 active installs is both a small deal and quite a big deal.
It’s a small deal because it’s only 1,000 installs. This is tiny by WordPress standards where some popular plugins have millions of installs. However, it’s also quite a big deal for a couple of reasons.
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Logtivity 2.2 is available now and it has lots of improvements for your site’s hosted activity logs. These new improvements make it easier to find exactly the log entries you want.
If something goes wrong on your site, you can trust Logtivity to help you find and solve the problem quickly.
I’m going to introduce the three big, helpful changes that you’ll see in your Logtivity account:
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If you saw the headline on this post and kept reading, you probably like stories about business challenges.
Good, because this story is about about business challenges.
I’m Steve and my partner here at Logtivity is Ralph. And this is the tale of the challenges we faced in 2022.
We’ll tell you about how we pivoted and pivoted and pivoted our WordPress SaaS in 2022, trying to find the right approach.
This story is also about how the kindness of some customers can make all the difference.
Here’s the story of three big pivots we made to Logtivity in 2022.
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Here at Logtivity we solve problems faced by WordPress agencies and anyone who is in charge of lots of WordPress sites.
One problem that agencies kept talking about was error logs: they all agree that hosting companies have terrible error reporting. When something goes wrong with a site, it’s really difficult to track down the problem using the hosting company’s tools.
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A Fatal Error is perhaps the most serious type of error in WordPress. A Fatal Error can take your WordPress site offline. Visitors who arrive at your site will see a message like the one in the screenshot below.
Sometimes your site will come back online, but often a Fatal Error will keep your site offline until you can fix the underlying problem.
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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.
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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:
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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.
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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.
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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.