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| Title | Category | Modified |
|---|---|---|
| · Coraline | Movie Reviews | 2026/11/8 01:59 |
| · UC Santa Cruz Porter Caves & the Hell Hole | 2026/11/8 01:03 | |
| · The Detectorists (TV series) · Knowing · The Reeker · The Cave · The Humans | Movie Reviews | 2026/11/2 00:22 - 2026/11/8 00:26 |
| · Happy Hauntings, Or Not | Blog Post: | 2026/10/31 22:43 |
| · Supernatural Encounters — or not | 2026/10/31 18:48 |
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- 2026nov4
- Site was crawling and wp-admin kept timing out. Cause: the PHP-FPM pool was maxed out at 40 workers, the server was out of RAM and into swap, and a mix of crawler traffic (AhrefsSiteAudit, PetalBot) plus a Wordfence scan running in wp-admin pushed the load average past 40. Restarted php8.3-fpm to clear it, and added Crawl-delay rules for AhrefsBot, AhrefsSiteAudit and PetalBot to robots.txt. Turned off the PHP-FPM slowlog (request_slowlog_timeout = 0), since tracing slow requests was adding to the load during overloads.
- Found that a lot of the 404s were the editor requesting thumbnails that didn't exist: many attachments had stale metadata pointing to 150x101 thumbnails, but the files on disk were 150x150. Regenerated thumbnails and metadata for about 210 attachments (from December 2023 and nearby), with --skip-delete and backups of the old metadata. Tried an .htaccess rule to return 404s for missing uploads without invoking PHP, then reverted it, because it could break anything WordPress generates on demand and I hadn't checked.
- Still open: post 6693's galleries don't show in the Visual tab of the editor, even though the Text tab and front end are fine and the server returns correct data for every gallery. About 89 image attachments (mostly _lwsoptimized.webp entries from 2024-25) have no file on disk and could be cleaned up. Consider lowering pm.max_children to about 15.
- 2026oct26
- Change entry-content.php so "See all blog posts" link is displayed under any single post in any category descended from Blog Posts
- 2026sep27
- Disable Recipe post type, I wasn't really using it and it didn't work quite right for some reason, was missing permalinks, previews, and other features.
- Add skip_posts_in paramater to othercatposts. skip_id tells it which categories not to search, now skip_posts_in tells it to skip posts in certain categories even if they come up in other categories too... like, skip_posts_in="898" says don't include posts in "kwits" even if they come up in the "blog post" category.
- Update othercatposts so if post doesn't have a title, show excerpt, and if no except, show "No title: & publish timestamp
- 2026jul24
- Added a slow log and made some apache changes mostly related to logging and registering header info sent from cloudflare. Details are at https://michaelkupietz.com/server-changes-summary-july-24-2026/
- 2026jul3
- Changed .metainfo > .dashicons {margin-bottom: -2px;margin-top: -2px; /* fix for dashicons raising text baselines in tags in meta info line */} to use ".page-header .metainfo > .dashicons" so didn't add weird spacing to metainfo in archove page post lists.
- Create ktwp-table-of-contents and ktwp-raw-html-shortcode plugins
- add :target {scroll-margin-top: 120px; /* o make named anchors always appear under sticky header */ }
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