If you self-host a WordPress blog, or any other blog, behind Cloudflare Tunnel, update its connector now. Cloudflare’s email reached me on October 26 under the subject “[Action Required] Upgrade your Cloudflare Tunnel to version 2026.10.2 or later”.
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Retiring Pingbacks and XML-RPC Same Day, Housekeeping WordPress with AI Pt. 1
On October 12, I closed pingbacks on Mad Tea Party. Technically, it wasn’t pingbacks that started it. It was XML-RPC. During the routine check on Cloudflare, the AI noticed an address posting to /xmlrpc.php about every ten seconds. I assumed the usual botnet scanning for WordPress installations, and wasn’t expecting anything as dramatic as what turned up.
Streamlining Analytics, Migrating with AI Pt. 5
Post-migration, I knew some jobs were left untouched. Not because of the amount of work involved — again, I don’t think the workload has meaningfully increased. For the first project afterward, I wanted to focus on a part of the website I hadn’t touched in a while: analytics.
To Self-Host or Not To Self-Host, Migrating with AI Pt. 4
No doubt the idea of complete control of a blog at $10 a year would be appealing for many. And no doubt many would share the same concerns as I do. During the planning phase, some of the definitive downgrades I was able to come to terms with, some of the regained controls I was able to make use of, and the saved cost I was ready to file under an existing list of subscriptions. I believe there are three major concerns most bloggers may have: uptime, support, and technical debt to AI.
Between Cost of Hosting and Effort of Self-Hosting, Migrating with AI Pt. 2
Starting a blog doesn’t cost money. At least that’s how I started back in the 2000s, and free platforms are still around. Intermediary platforms came along in the 2010s, giving some control back to bloggers or sharing the ad revenue. The way out of it all, ever since the term weblog was coined, was to run it yourself — either on a machine from a paid hosting service or on your own home server. The question was price and effort.