Today I'm doing the thing every busy web person puts off: taking my OWN Joomla site to the doctor. cybersalt.org has been running for years while I keep everyone else's sites patched and clean — so today it goes up on the lift, live and unedited. The vitals are good — Joomla core is current, PHP is current, the site is fast. But open the cabinet and there are 600 installed extensions, 86 of them disabled but never removed, plus a few default files left sitting in the open. That's the real lesson of this stream: "current on the important stuff" is the starting line, not the finish line. What I work through on air:
✅ A real health check — core, PHP, and the pre-update healthcheck
✅ The medicine cabinet cleanout — uninstalling dozens of dead, disabled extensions (disabled is NOT removed)
✅ Confirming the update list is real and not just a stale cache
✅ Checking old security scars from a cleanup earlier this year
✅ Tmp/cache and log hygiene
✅ Locking down default files that shouldn't be public
✅ Making sure my own backups are actually running
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