Status: staging complete and fully verified. LIVE not yet updated. Everything below was applied to a private copy of the site on 2026-08-20 and tested there. The production site was not changed on this date. The live replay follows once…
Overview Plugins Premium plugins (licensed) Free / wp.org plugins Themes Cleanup Issues found & solutions Verification
Overview Plugins Premium plugins (licensed) All three were invisible to wp plugin update –all — and were missed by the main run until caught. Sourced from the vault, staging first, verified, then LIVE. Free / wp.org plugins All eleven updated…
Overview Plugins Premium plugins (licensed) All five were invisible to wp plugin update –all — sourced from the vault, identity-checked (Plugin Name + Author, grepped for user420 and dl.gpltimes.com hijack markers — all clean), restored on staging first, verified, then…
Overview Plugins Premium plugins (licensed) Free / wp.org plugins All 5 updated plugins verified identical on staging and LIVE after both replays. 0 plugin updates remaining afterwards, both environments. Themes Cleanup Issues found & solutions Verification
Overview Plugins Premium plugins (licensed) Free / wp.org plugins All 17 updated plugins verified identical on staging and LIVE. 0 plugin updates remaining after this run, both environments. Themes Cleanup Issues found & solutions Verification
Overview Plugins Premium plugins (licensed) Free / wp.org plugins All 5 updated plugins verified identical on staging and LIVE after both replays. Themes Cleanup Issues found & solutions Verification Premium catch-up + removals Later the same day, Jayr identified a…
Overview Plugins Premium plugins (licensed) Free / wp.org plugins Applied one slug per wp plugin update invocation, with each resulting version re-read from disk rather than inferred from the command output. Unchanged this run (active) Inactive plugins (full inventory) Themes…
Overview Split run in one session: staging was updated and verified first, LIVE was held for a separate sign-off, then replayed in full. Both environments finished on an identical plugin set — 41 entries diffed, no differences. Plugins Premium /…
Overview Plugins Premium plugins (licensed) Free / wp.org plugins Must-use (mu-plugins) Themes Cleanup Issues found & solutions 1. Kinsta’s “malware” was our own nulled plugin — not an intrusion 2. Three fatals mid-run — stale opcache, not a broken plugin…