Howard Miller

I appreciate that it's an extra layer of hassle... but if you are running loads of small things on a server then I would have a serious think about containers (e.g. Docker). Despite appearances, I'm not some crazed Docker evangelist but for some use-cases it's a life saver. Running up things like LAMP stacks (once you have it working the first time) becomes trivial - as does moving them around.

It sometimes "just works" but when it doesn't it can be a nightmare.

PHP has always been something of a side issue. I have had such bad times upgrading MySQL that I don't even try any more. Strictly, complete backup and start again. Generally straightforward, all done in a few hours and you know exactly where you are.

First thing... what theme are you using? If not Boost, can you switch to Boost and see if the problem goes away?

Sorry - can you explain in a bit of detail what your issue is. There's nothing about that screenshot that jumps out as a problem (to me).

Ken / Mr Powlec... I'm VERY nervous about assuming anything from running command line PHP. It's got nothing to do with php-fpm.