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Bio

Grew up on my father’s farms, got degrees in Physics, Mathematics, Business and Land Surveying. (I know, that last one’s weird, but I wanted to get off my major muscle group and out into the forest and fields when I retired from 40 years of computer systems design, coding, etc and several in electronic engineering.
Now I’m a blogger.

WordPress Origin Story

Joomla! wore me out so I switched to WordPress. This is not a criticism of Joomla!. I just didn’t need all the facilities it offered and the complexity always seemed to baffle me a bit – probably because I was not a full-time user of it.
Meanwhile, WordPress is fantastic – so many options. The challenge here is finding the best ones among so many possibilities. Without the reviews and “More Details” it would be rather hopeless.

Recent impact

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February 2026
Feb 13 Fri · 06:59
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Created a topic, 24/7 protection without bugging me!, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Has kept my websites save for at least 10 years, 24/7.…
Feb 10 Tue · 05:45
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Posted a reply to [MxChat - AI Chatbot for WordPress with ChatGPT, Claude & Gemini] Knowledge base uploads wordpress post but can’t use it, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
OK, I think I see how all this works - sort of. My entire website…
Feb 09 Mon · 15:18
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Posted a reply to [MxChat - AI Chatbot for WordPress with ChatGPT, Claude & Gemini] Knowledge base uploads wordpress post but can’t use it, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I have had the debugger window open throughout our discussion, but have been so flummoxed…
Feb 08 Sun · 15:48
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Posted a reply to [MxChat - AI Chatbot for WordPress with ChatGPT, Claude & Gemini] Knowledge base uploads wordpress post but can’t use it, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I forgot to mention that I followed the cited prompts/responses with the question "who is…
Feb 08 Sun · 14:17
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Posted a reply to [MxChat - AI Chatbot for WordPress with ChatGPT, Claude & Gemini] Knowledge base uploads wordpress post but can’t use it, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
OK, I closed the Safari browser window, went back to the website, cleared the chat…
Feb 08 Sun · 13:12
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Posted a reply to Knowledge base uploads wordpress post but can’t use it, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Maxwell,Thanks for your prompt reply. I think the behavior cannot be ascribed to the position…
Feb 08 Sun · 02:20
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Created a topic, Knowledge base uploads wordpress post but can’t use it, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I have imported a page from the WordPress site (and de…
September 2020
Sep 25 Fri · 01:15
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Posted a reply to Undefined index:cat_rss_all_cat in … /category-specific-rss-wp.php on line 253, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The /wp-content/debug.log file contains hundreds or thousands of these errors: [21-Sep-2020 00:03:38 UTC] PHP Warning:…
Sep 22 Tue · 10:58
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Created a topic, [Category Specific RSS feed Subscription] Undefined index:cat_rss_all_cat in … /category-specific-rss-wp.php on line 253, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The topic title for this support request is the first …
Sep 20 Sun · 12:56
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Posted a reply to Using blocks always burns me, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
There may be a clue here: Often, when I click "edit" to work on a…