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Logtivity is now part of the team that runs PublishPress, MetaSlider, and TaxoPress.
This is a bittersweet day. Over the last couple of years, I’ve been running Logtivity with my business partner, Ralph Morris.
We’ve been working together to build the best activity log service for WordPress.
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A few months ago, Logtivity was a UK-based company. Because of ownership changes, we needed to move the business to the USA. This move turned out to be far more difficult than we anticipated, because of Stripe.
The move was difficult enough that I wanted to write about it and help other people in the same situation. This post isn’t intended to criticize Stripe, but to help other people in the same situation.
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Error logs are one of the most useful tools for anyone running a WordPress. Your site’s error log will record all the error messages generated by WordPress.
These logs are a goldmine of information. Developers find error logs really helpful when they need to diagnose and troubleshoot issues with a WordPress website.
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This week we ran into a significant error with one of the WooCommerce stores that we run. I wanted to share how our team fixed this using Logtivity. Hopefully seeing the approach we took to resolve this issue will help in a similar situation.
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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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Hey and thanks for using Logtivity.
Logtivity is a platform that tracks activity and errors across all your WordPress sites.
In 2022, we pivoted more than once, trying to find the right approach for Logtivity customers.
In 2023, we were able to focus 100% on our new direction. And in this post, I’ll show you all the improvements to Logtivity during 2023.
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Over the years, I’ve been fortunate to talk with Nigel Bahadur many times in the WordPress community. Nigel is always building interesting plugins and projects.
Recently, we talked again because he wanted to integrate Logtivity with his new project, WPCloudDeploy. As always, Nigel is building something creative and innovative. WPCloudDeploy is a self-hosted alternative to services such as SpinupWP and Gridpane. You can use WPCloudDeploy to create and manage WordPress servers on DigitalOcean, Linode, AWS, and more.
While Nigel worked on his Logtivity integration, I asked him to tell us more about WPCloudDeploy.
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Logtivity 3.0 started with a mystery.
One Logtivity customer reported that an active plugin had been disabled. Quietly, and with no warning, an important plugin changed from “Active” to “Inactive”.
A few weeks later, this happened to another customer.
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Logtivity gives you one place to monitor changes and activity across all your WordPress sites.
Now, thanks to a new “Webhooks” feature, you can do anything you want with your Logtivity data.
This feature was built for some Logtivity customers who have their own reporting systems, for clients and for internal use. It’s also possible to use webhooks to send data to Zapier, IFTTT, and other platforms.
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WordPress has an auto-update feature that can automatically install software updates for you. This is wonderful for the security of your site, because you never have to worry about receiving a security patch. However, the auto-updates can also occasionally cause issues.
That happened this week with the release of WordPress 6.2.1, which broke some shortcodes on user sites.