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Migrating a WordPress Droplet to Ubuntu 24.04 + PHP 8.3: The Clean Path, With the Landmines Marked
My blog was running on a DigitalOcean WordPress Droplet I’d spun up three years ago. It still worked, but two things underneath it had quietly gone end-of-life: Ubuntu 20.04 (out of standard support) and PHP 7.4 (EOL, and slower and less secure than current PHP). “Update PHP” turned out to really mean “migrate the whole…