Ironically, it then recommends that I upgrade to PHP7.4... but that would just give issues for mediawiki. On the other hand, everything is now green and just 4 groups of recommendations remain.
===Config===
See [Wordpress Blog Site (Tool)] for the McNair Center's build.
Using www.edegan.com/blog/wp-admin I configured the blog as follows:
*Select Twenty Twenty as the theme
*Add the permalink code to the .htaccess file, so that the URLs will work with postnames
Install plugins:
*Yoast SEO
*Wordfence Security
*Disable Comments
*Site Kit by Google
*Pixabay
To do:
*Get media to work?
*Get HTTPS working
Twitter Widget
===Other things===
I should harden the wordpress installation: https://wordpress.org/support/article/hardening-wordpress/
==HTTPS==
To set up HTTPS using Let's Encrypt, see https://linuxize.com/post/secure-apache-with-let-s-encrypt-on-ubuntu-20-04/
==Old machines==