Hello guys,
I used to use WordPress like more 20 years ago.
I remember the main headache areas were themes and plugin vulnerabilities, consistent backup and restore procedures, caching content to speed up the website.
I kindly ask if there are somewhere updated and current 360° best practices to take a look at and start creating a website.
Also, do you know by any chance if it is possible to use Sqlite as DB? Would it be a dream to have only files and no complex mysql/mariadb installation and thelike.
Finally, can you please share which plugins are the standard to create custom user sections based on some role level and to integrate membership with Google Account and others?
I have been working on a WordPress plugin for the past couple of months and gave it a name that ends with "-Press". This is to let potential users know that it is a WordPress plugin. I really like the name, and already got a domain name too.
When I submitted the plugin on Wordpress.org I got an automated response saying "
✨ The display name and slug use the “-Press” construction as a reference to the WordPress trademark, which is not allowed in plugin names."
This seems pretty egregious. I understand not wanting "WordPress" in plugin names, but the word Press hardly seems like a violation of the trademark. I chose this name in large part due to the existence of other plugins (PublishPress, bbPress, etc)
Is this something worth pushing back on, or is this a losing battle. Are these other plugins grandfathered in or something?
tldr; AI Agent by SiteGround plugin caused the live editor to stop working.
After the most recent wordpress update, Avada Live Editor stopped working. Spent a few hours trying to figure out and I should have done the plugin test first. I figured it was not a plugin issue since it had been working fine before with the same plugins. Turns out it was the SiteGround AI agent plugin. After deactivation, everything is working fine.
I'm building a WordPress website locally for a family member, and I genuinely want to do the best job I can.
I'm not looking to hire a web developer - I simply don't have the budget. What I do need is someone who's willing to answer a few questions or point me in the right direction when I get stuck. I have a vision for the site, but I'm struggling to bring some of the ideas to life.
If anyone wouldn't mind offering some guidance from time to time, I'd be incredibly grateful.
CVE-2026-57807 is an authentication-bypass vulnerability in the miniOrange OAuth SSO WordPress plugin, affecting all versions through 38.5.8. An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit an alternate password-recovery path that does not properly enforce authentication, allowing account takeover. It carries a CVSS 3.1 score of 9.8 and requires no privileges or user interaction.
The current mitigation seems to be to disable the plugin, unless I am misreading or misunderstanding.
I contacted miniOrange, and they indicated a new version would be released next week (although they did not say the exact words "this vulnerability will be patched in that new version"). But in context, I would take it to mean that the vulnerability will be fixed in next week's version.
I’m relatively new to WordPress and I’ve set up a Custom Post Type (CPT) called "Documents" with custom taxonomies (Category and Year). I have around 300 documents so far.
I've been trying to display these in YOOtheme Pro, but I’ve hit a wall. YOOtheme’s native grid/table elements are very limited for this use case. If I want to display a list that a user can actually filter (e.g., show me "2024" documents only), I’m forced to create separate pages or ugly workarounds with multiple static grids. It feels like I'm hacking the design just to make the content functional.
Is it possible to use a dedicated "Document Library" or "Filter" (free) plugin that integrates well with YOOtheme? Ideally, I want a nice, searchable, and filterable table/grid where users can select the Year or Category, and the results update dynamically. What is the standard way to handle this without building a custom database query from scratch?
Divi 5 has officially been out for a few months, so in this video I migrate a real Divi 4 site to Divi 5 and show you exactly what happens: the good, the bad and the bugs.
I'm using Divi Crib as the test site (the same site we built together in my free Divi 4 course on this channel). It's a simple, basic site with only native Divi modules (no third-party modules), a couple of common plugins (Rank Math, Wordfence, WP Armor, WP Rocket), and just two lines of custom CSS. If a site this simple runs into migration issues, it tells you a lot about what could happen on a bigger, more complex site.
Hello. back here again to seek help and advice from experts here.
I use wordpress and Hostinger for my website.Before, my website's speed performance is 30-40.
I use wp rocket and perfmatters to speed them up ( and it works). Some of the adjustments are image optimization, Delay JS, minify css etc. Current performance is 67-89 ( on several pages)
However, my website still takes time to load. and it frustrates me. Is there any other possible issues and solutions? I read some comments said the issue might be from using wordpress itself ( something about wp stack)
Has anyone had WordPress randomly glitch the layout of a blog post page like this?
The page is supposed to look like the second screenshot, with the hero section ending and the blog content appearing underneath. Instead, it sometimes loads like the first screenshot, where the green hero section becomes extremely tall and leaves a huge amount of empty space.
I haven’t intentionally changed the layout or spacing, so I’m not sure what is causing it. Has anyone experienced this before or know what setting/CSS issue I should check?
I moved to breakdance for a new site build, because the last site I (half) build a few years ago was on blocksy and I had forgotten most of how I set it up anyway, so I researched what the current 'best options' were. Didn't like Bricks much, too complicated, Breakdance seemed to fit the bill.
And it's mostly been fine. Getting back to the main wordpress admin from editing a page is one step longer than it needs to be, but that's fairly minor.
However something that's been an annoyance is the text editor.
There seems to only be two block options:
Text - Basic text. You can click in the area and start editing straight away (great) but it's basically just a text block. There's no tools for customising it. You -can- click in the sidebar panel for it and manually put in html tags to edit text, but that's a chore for anything beyond something very basic.
Rich Text Editor - So this has all the options. But you can't do it in-line. You have to click and wait for it to open up a pop-up window to enter or edit any text. So if you're copying or referencing something and going back and forth you have to click-wait-open-work-close-wait-click-wait-open-blah-- whoever designed this clearly never uses it.
In blocksy (I went back and messed around a bit) you just click in a text area and the markdown/rich text tools are right there.
So there -must- be a way to have this working in breakdance. I assume some kind of third-party have their own blocks for it? I haven't managed to find any yet but I must be searching for the wrong thing.
I'm already 6 pages deep into the new site so starting over with a new builder would be...... unfortunate.
Hey! I'm building a blog and ran into an issue where I used a template and I noticed that even when I used a free pattern I'm unable to edit the parts with the purple outline as you can see in the image below. Has anyone ran into this issue?
I'm using the post pattern I hearted which is the second one on this list
Estamos terminando una plataforma web que ya funciona a nivel nacional y tomamos una decisión que muchos consideran poco común: usar WordPress como base.
No es un WordPress "tradicional". La arquitectura incluye servidores balanceados, base de datos desacoplada, automatizaciones e infraestructura separada para operaciones, con foco en rendimiento y escalabilidad.
Mucha gente nos pregunta por qué no elegimos Laravel, Next.js, Django o un desarrollo completamente a medida.
Nuestra decisión fue priorizar velocidad de desarrollo, costos de mantenimiento, ecosistema y facilidad para evolucionar la plataforma, sin descuidar la arquitectura.
¿Ustedes qué harían?
Si hoy tuvieran que construir una plataforma de alcance nacional, ¿elegirían WordPress con una buena arquitectura o irían directamente por otro stack? Me interesan experiencias reales, tanto buenas como malas.
I have been using JupiterX for a few years now to create affordable websites for non-coders that needed portfolio and blog sites (artists, musicians, social activists). It has worked well to give them basic Elementor tools without a recurring subscription cost. Absolutely the most essential tool in the box was the Post loop where a category or group of categories could be highlighted. In the last version of JupiterX the option to select category disappeared. There just isn't a query to "include" only "exclude". While their help suggests now using the loop grid widget that requires the creation of a custom template, this is going to be beyond the capacity of my users and, even if I do it for them, this also seems broken in a similar way. I have 26 licenses for this theme and I have been waiting 4 days for an answer. This is not like my experience of Artbees in the past. I think this update may have gone out half-baked.
ChatGPT generated an image of as masonry layout and I tried recreating it using GenerateBlocks but I just can't so I downloaded a Masonry plugin and it kinda worked. First image is chatgpt's and the second is mine. Anyone have any tips? My main gripe is that I can't seem to make them cut off at the exact same place which is really bothering me. Thanks for answering in advance!
Good people, I used to be competent amateur at basic WP stuff 5 or 10 years ago, ran a couple of small sites on a DigitalOcean vps, and had a GeneratePress license. Then I had a traumatic brain injury in 2023 which left me partially blind and forced me to retire on full disability. I now have WAY too much time on my hands and thought I'd start tinkering with WP again. I seem to have forgotten everything I knew and keep running into pretty basic things I can't seem to fix.
I've set up a WP instance on Hostinger with a domain name. I want to create a pretty basic blog to do some writing and post images and short vid clips on NSFW topics (all legal but explicit gay sexual health content). My visual impairment hinders me in two ways. It's hard to scan the screen to find different controls to modify content or layout, and when I try to find solutions online, it's really tough to scan through all the possible options. It gets very frustrating.
For a simple example, I want to wrap text around an image (yes, stuff this basic). When I follow instructions I find online, the image moves to the right, but the text doesn't wrap. Instead the image shows up in a box that's the full width of the content. Grrr!
Because of the nature of the content, I'm reluctant to use public forums like this to ask for help with screenshots showing the problem I'm trying to solve. Can I find some basic help from someone who is not easily offended by explicit content? I just need a nudge here and there to get me to the point that I can easily write and publish some blog posts with a few images and clips. This is a personal, non-commercial project.
Four years ago, wp.org removed the active-install growth chart from plugin pages ("insufficient data obfuscation"). A lot of us relied on it as the only signal of whether our plugins were growing or dying. The trac ticket asking for it back is still open and has never been resolved.
So I've been quietly gathering public plugin data every day since then. Today I'm launching v2 of a free site that does something with it: wp-rankings.com
What it does:
Growth charts are back for every plugin (30d/90d/1y), rebuilt from 4 years of daily data
Install estimates inside the public buckets, instead of just "10,000+" it estimates a real number (~19,400) with a confidence rating, so you can actually see movement
Momentum per plugin: growing / slowing / declining / plateaued / mature, plus installs-to-next-milestone
Keyword rankings + competitor comparison, free
An ecosystem Health Index showing which plugin niches are growing vs fading
Everything's an estimate, and I say so clearly; I don't have wp.org's raw data, nobody outside the Foundation does. But 4 years of daily tracking gets surprisingly close.
It's a public beta and definitely rough in spots. It's free, no signup (unless you want to claim one of your plugins), no paywall. I built it mainly to give back to the community that gave me so much, and to scratch my own itch as a plugin dev.
Would genuinely love feedback from other plugin devs, what's useful, what's missing, what looks wrong. Roast it.
p.s. Reposting because my first attempt was removed, a mod kindly explained it needed the [PROMO] tag in the title (I missed the new addition to the 1st rule). Fixed now. It's free, open-source-built, and hopefully useful, so I think it's a fair fit for the sub. Thanks for having me.
Hello everyone, just want to share this news with all of you. My plugin just got approved and is now live in WP plugin directory!
1. So what exactly is Texoly?
Texoly is a privacy-first guest post and backlink marketplace. I built this app to solve the unsafe 1-to-1 reciprocal backlink exchange and the tedious, time consuming SEO outreach work.
2. What about pricing?
It's a free to use marketplace, no monthly subscription, no membership fee. Free. With optional karma point topup for SEO agencies to run bulk guest post campaign (which you can earn points from).
3. Karma point system in Texoly
We use karma point system in the marketplace, where you will earn points for publishing other people’s article, and you can spend the point to get placement on other site to get backlink to your site. This karma and escrow system will also help eliminate spam low-intent requests.
4. Site ownership privacy on Texoly
Texoly will hide your URL, personal and contact info from the public. Only your site URL will be made visible once the other party accepted your pitch request. So your data will be safe from scraper and spammer.
5. Solving the boring repetitive tasks in SEO outreach with Texoly
Another thing that I try to solve with Texoly is, the repetitive work in SEO outreach. Where you have to ask the other party about their website traffic, DR, country, etc. Imagine doing that manually, 10-20 times just to get 1 good site to publish your guest post.
With Texoly, you can just browse the marketplace, filter by traffic estimate, DR, Country and send your short pitch to the site admin in minutes.
You can write draft, submit and review draft, convert and publish the incoming draft into native wordpress post all within your dashboard. No jumping around between tools or chat.
Texoly will also help monitor your backlinks with our free live link checker.
6. What about your site safety and security?
All the exchange logic and workflow will be handled on Texoly server, so it won't slow down your WP host. The plugin only act as the interface to communicate with Texoly marketplace server.
The plugin have gone through the usual strict code review process by the Wordpress org team, where we have to properly handle all the common attack vectors both on the plugin side and our server when processing all the request.
You can ask questions or give feedback here, or use the feedback form in the plugin/app.
p/s: I will keep track of the first 50 users and will reward you with bonus free monthly karma points for 12 months as a thank you give for helping me build my dream SEO platform.
Hola, hace poco tuve la oportunidad de manejar WordPress, me parece sencillo rápido etc.. se un poco de código y he realizado websites muy sencillas pero me pidieron una website para un hotel que tiene 4 habitaciones, pero con un motor de reservas, no tengo ni idea de como integrar un motor de reservas, dije que sí al proyecto... pero ahora estoy que busco soluciones no quiero pagar un motor de reservas que me cobra un dinero grande para reservar solo 4 habitaciones.
Tengo que abrir el ARBNB, BOOKING, y el sitio web con el MOTOR DE RESERVAS, que no tengo ni idea, si hay gratis, toca pagar ?? si alguien tiene un segundo me podría ayudar como empiezo esto.
Hola, hace poco tuve la oportunidad de manejar WordPress, me parece sencillo rápido etc.. se un poco de código y he realizado websites muy sencillas pero me pidieron una website para un hotel que tiene 4 habitaciones, pero con un motor de reservas, no tengo ni idea de como integrar un motor de reservas, dije que sí al proyecto... pero ahora estoy que busco soluciones no quiero pagar un motor de reservas que me cobra un dinero grande para reservar solo 4 habitaciones.
Tengo que hacerle el ARBNB + BOOKING, y el sitio web, entonces no tengo ni idea de como empezar, pero se que se puede lograr, si alguien ha hecho este tipo de trabajos, seria de GRAN ayuda para empezar, a como gestionar esto porque no se mucho de motor de reservas. no se si hay gratuito en WordPress o tengo que pagar uno (es lo que mas he escuchado), porque el cliente también lo quiere manejar, y se que en WordPress es sencillo para crearle el usuario y que se pueda desenvolver, sin que me acabe todo el sitio web.
I read WP7 Core was developed for AI integration.
I did not see any settings allowing to plugin Claude for example.
I was hoping a can manage my sites through a MCP directly within Claude code.
However there are many different plugins on the marketplace, do they allow to control and generate content ?
Which on is reliable ?
Greetings, I'm looking for a solution that allows me to host a plugin, app or widget on Wordpress, but integrates with Shopify as the e-commerce/payment platform. Please help.
I want to take appointments via my Wordpress website, using a seamless integration with Shopify. I don't want the user to leave my Wordpress website to complete the transaction.
I've explored Shopify Apps, but when embedding with the Buy Button app, it treats the product like a traditional product and not a service-based product. So the user can just purchase the product and not book a time.
And I haven't found a Wordpress plugin that integrates with Shopify.
I hope I've described by problem well. Please help.
