On Tuesday 14 March 2006 phpWordPress staff said that, because of a severe snowstorm, some of them could not get to the office that day. They would try to keep delays to a minimum and thanked customers for their patience. The post does not say where the office was.
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phpWordPress staff (Moderator) ·
Due to severe snowstorm, some of our staff will not be able to make it to the office today. We will try to keep any potential delays to the minimum. Thank you for your patience.
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The thread is a single service notice, titled with the date. On Tuesday 14 March 2006, phpWordPress staff wrote that a severe snowstorm meant some of them could not make it to the office. They said they would try to keep any delays to a minimum and thanked customers for their patience.
The post gives no location, and we do not infer one. It does not say which services were affected, though the support notice of nine days earlier had already warned of slightly longer response times of 24 to 48 hours.
The thread is a small human detail in an otherwise commercial archive. It shows a small company whose support depended on staff being at their desks. The news timeline lists the formal announcements of the same months.
phpWordPress was a commercial PHP article manager from Spoonlabs, renamed Vivvo in July 2006 and unrelated to WordPress. Two months after this notice the company shipped version 3.2.
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- On 14 March 2006 phpWordPress staff said that, due to a severe snowstorm, some staff would not be able to make it to the office that day, that they would try to keep any potential delays to the minimum, and thanked customers for their patience. — source, checked 10 October 2026.