Hi all WordPress peeps. quick question, have been runnning askimet plugin for about 3 years. I dont run a blog website and any forms I have are created by elementor. do i really need askimet.

I run WooCommerce and an lms

The default theme editor does not have the option to upload an icon.

edit again: i think it's fixed now by disabling my caching plug ins! i will have to check back in probably after giving it some time and on non-private browsers to see how things look!

edit: if this makes a difference, i went into inspect element on a page that shows the old menu and it has the old url in the html(?) but on a page that shows the new menu it shows the new url - is assuming that still means a caching problem is likely?? sorry im not familiar with backend stuff, clearly..

hi guys!

firstly, i'm sorry if i use any incorrect terminology or have made any silly mistakes. i also hope this post makes sense. i learnt to use wordpress and elementor through an assignment for uni, but i don't have knowledge as extensively as this issue goes.

the company that i work for has a wordpress page that was made by someone else who no longer works here and i cannot contact him for help. as i have experience with wordpress, i update it pretty regularly when we sell/receive stock, etc.

a few months ago, i created a new elementor page for a category of products we sell. i added it to the menu and everything was fine. however, recently i replaced that page with the product category link and i have updated the navigation under appearance -> menus -> save menu. i tried both navigating it as a product category and as a custom link, yet both have the issue below:

almost every single page on the company website is still leading to the old page when i click the link on the menu? but a handful of pages are showing the new page?

my only guess is that this is a caching issue, however i have cleared/changed the cache through:

1. elementor -> tools -> clear files & data
2. speed optimizer -> caching -> manual cache purge
3. elementor -> theme builder -> header (the person who built the website has a bunch of templates) -> edit with elementor -> edit wordpress menu -> cache settings (i then changed it from default (active) to inactive, which still didnt fix this issue)

i have tried checking from private browsers which is how i know that on almost every page on the website, the menu is not updating.

i know it would probably help to post the links, i just don't want to dox where i work so i hope this was descriptive enough.

any help would be greatly appreciated! i'm sorry if i sound stupid or anything! i'm really interested in wordpress design and this is a new learning opportunity for me. it's hard building from what someone else has made and not knowing what they've set everything to.

I'm a dev at Tide and I've been building out a WordPress plugin in my spare cycles. Before I sink some more time into it I'd rather find out whether I'm solving a problem anyone actually has, so I'm posting the plan here while it's still cheap to change.

Quick context on Tide if you haven't run into it: it's threshold cryptography, meaning keys get split across a decentralised network of nodes (we call them ORKs) so no single party, including us, ever holds a whole key.

What the plugin does right now: you pick which post meta keys are sensitive, and those get encrypted and decrypted in the browser. WordPress never sees the plaintext. Neither does MySQL, your host, your backups, or the 23 other plugins you've got installed. Whether a given user is allowed to decrypt is decided by a Tide policy enforced across the ORK network, so it isn't a current_user_can() check sitting in PHP that an attacker can just walk around once they've got admin.

The honest downsides, because I'd rather you hear them from me:

• You can't search, sort or filter on encrypted meta. meta_query on those keys is dead.
• WP-CLI and any REST consumer that isn't going through the browser path sees ciphertext and nothing else.

So my actual question. Post meta felt like the natural first target because it's where custom fields and ACF and half the plugin ecosystem park their data, but I'm not convinced it's what people are losing sleep over. Would you rather see this applied to:

• form submissions (CF7, Gravity, WPForms entries sitting in the DB in plaintext forever)
• WooCommerce customer and order fields
• private uploads and media
• user profile fields
• membership or CRM style plugin data
• something I haven't listed

It'll be open source, and there's a free tier so you can run it without talking to anyone in sales first.

Two things I'd genuinely like answers to: what data on your sites do you wish WordPress simply never held in readable form, and what would stop you installing something like this even if it were free?

Happy to go into the crypto in the comments if anyone cares about that part.

Hey new to Reddit, but after many failed attempts at coming to the 'best' conclusion from researching my options, I'd figured I'd ask here.

I'm helping a freelance therapist build their own website as they grow their business and I'm suggesting we build on WordPress rather than Squarespace, Wix, etc. The only obstacle left is choosing a booking plugin to automate the appointments part of the job. I've already looked into Bookly and Amelia (as well as non-WordPress native apps like Acuity, Square Appointments, Calendly, etc).

Their needs are fairly simple:

• An automated bookings end for customers to select available dates.
• An integration/some sort of connection to Google Calendar.
• A payment option. One that preferably avoids or has the smallest transaction fee (with more expensive services, the fees begin to really quickly add up).
• SMS reminders.
• A level of security and confidentiality, so customers do not see unavailable appointments or only a greyed-out option and for the therapist to only handle bookings with the most basic level of details.
• In terms of appointments, its just one therapist, one location, appointments both online and in-person, deposits are sitting under a question mark until the transaction fee issue is resolved and a small handful of service options (think like 5 max, including a 15-minute free 'get to know each other' consultation).

If I'm missing anything obvious, feel free to point it out.

At the moment, I'm mostly leaning towards the Bookly plugin but even there the payment question still stands- even PayPal transactions have a 2- 3% fee per transaction, which I understand isn't out of the ordinary compared to the rest of the market but I figured I'd throw the question out there as well.

I'd be more than grateful for some insights/recommendations. Thanks.

Hello!

I have a contact page that appears hidden, at first...

When you go on the website, and click "Contact" the form is there, but it's "missing".
You can only see if it you drag your mouse across the page and then everything appears.

It's only when you refresh the page that the form loads properly. (see pics below)

Anybody else have this issue? Or know how to fix it?

I’m managing multiple sites and bulk updates are easy enough with ManageWP. What I don’t really understand is the verification part afterwards.
Are you actually opening each site and testing the important pages manually?
Playwright seems like overkill to maintain separately for every small client site.
Curious what people managing multi-sites are actually doing.

I use The7 (theme) right now, and I'm hoping to add a feature to video playback. Let's say I film a video "tour" of a facility that occasionally arrives at a "crossroad" location, i.e. a centrally located reception desk. I want to give the viewer the option to continue the virtual tour by going left, or right. If they click the left side of the frame, a new video loads, and the virtual tour continues to the left side of the facility.

I use Vimeo for hosting, and I know they have an interactive video feature available. However, this requires the Enterprise tier subscription, plus additional fees. I assume the high cost is because many "interactive" users are monetizing their content. They'd use Vimeo's interactive features for more complex monetization, which may justify the higher costs. I just want to create some basic "A or B" interactivity.

It seems like a (paid) WP plugin might accomplish the fairly basic needs I have for interactivity, at a more contained price point. I've used SliderRevolution before, it's the first plugin that comes to mind. Does anyone have other suggestions for plugins I should consider? It'd be great if the new video "populates the frame" upon the user clicking "left or right," in a seamless way. But mainly, the interactivity is the goal.

We've been struggling with setting up a staging environment for a multisite network with mapped domain. We've gotten as far as the redirect phase but not sure how this is solved with mapped domains. Wondering if anyone has ran into anything like this before. Any tips are appreciated.

Hey everyone! I'm creating a website for my therapist services. My schedule is irregular, which means that most free booking plugins I've already tried (like BookingPress) aren't compatible or allow, at best, manually changing the schedule up every week (Simply Schedule Appointments). However I'd be needing a plugin that a) allows to set different available timeslots every week and b) do this for at least two weeks in advance, since having availability for only the current week does not seem like a good approach. Ideally I'd not have to set every event/appointment manually as well. If you have any suggestions, I'd be grateful! :)

Looking for help converting an Antigravity website to WordPress
Hi everyone,

I have a website that was built using Antigravity with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. I want to convert the existing website to WordPress while keeping the exact same design, layout, animations, and functionality.

The website has a large number of files (around 1,700), so I’m looking for someone experienced with WordPress who can handle the conversion properly.

If you have experience converting custom-coded websites to WordPress and can preserve the original design, please comment or DM me. This is a paid job, and I’m happy to discuss the budget.
Thanks!

Can anyone recommend me a code snippet plugin with a find and replace function to easily and user-friendly find and replace code blocks (several lines of code)?

Thank you!

Building on Wordpress using Elementor Pro

A good example would be like the frontend dashboard seen on https://houzez.co/features/front-end-dashboard/

Basically a seperate login area that is made to be a very simple input area

Hi all, wondered if anyone can help?

I am trying to add variations to a product in woocomerce, allowing the option to purchase certain quantities ie 1, 5 or 10,

Then depending on the quantity chosen, x amount drop down boxes to choose between a list of say 20 options ie: quantity 1 so 1 box comes up with 20 different products, or quantity 10: then 10 different drop down boxes come down with the same options in each so products can be mix & matched or 10 of the same item chosen

Only price difference would be between quantities, wouldn’t vary between options within the secondary drop downs…

Hopefully this makes sense?

Thanks

I'm looking to build my first Wordpress site and wondering if anyone has any coupon codes or anyway for me to get a discount on my first year or any month?

Thanks

Here's the website idea I'm trying to create for the business I'm starting. I'm entering the portable toilet industry, and many existing companies are pretty old-school; you have to play phone tag or send an email to order a toilet. I want to create a website that has this type of flow:

1. Select the toilet you want. 2. Select how long you need it. 3. Select add-ons such as hand sanitizer or insurance. 4. Input info such as delivery address, name, and contact. 5. Select the desired delivery date. 6. Enter payment info and complete checkout.

I would also need to have it so you could only order within a few specific zip codes. I've been teaching myself how to do web design and have been experimenting with different plugins like WooCommerce and Elementor. I'm struggling to figure out the best way to create a website with all of the above features and would appreciate some guidance. What would be the best WordPress plugins to use, and would it be worth it to connect Claude Pro?

Does anyone have any suggestions for a live blogging solution? I was using 24LiveBlog and as of June 2026-- WordPress booted them for security issues. It was a decent product and I was getting ready to pull the trigger on a paid subscription.

I run a news website and our live blogs generally are for sporting events (24 was strong there), boring council meetings, and sometimes other breaking news events.

I found out today as I tried to set it up for a college football game and ended up getting Arena to hold me thru the game. But it was worfully inadequate --most liley because I had zero time to learn or really explore it.

Thoughts? Suggestions? Thanks in advance!

I work in content strategy and spend a lot of time reviewing WordPress plugin comparison content. One thing I’ve noticed is that a lot of “best plugin” articles are basically just feature lists rewritten from product pages. That made me wonder what WordPress users actually trust.

A useful comparison should probably include things like:

• real hands-on testing
• actual workflows, not just feature checklists
• clear pros and cons
• pricing and limitations
• what broke or felt annoying during testing
• screenshots or evidence
• a clear explanation of who each plugin is actually best for

So I’m curious: When you read a plugin comparison, what makes you trust it? And on the flip side, what immediately makes you think, “this is just SEO content”?

These SQL injections have been coming in daily to this site which has still seemingly managed to avoid infection simply because of the changed database prefix. This one uses the “author not in” query bug inside some crazy nested query to place the payload in the database.

This is all related to the WP2Shell bug which was reported over a month ago. The site had auto updates disabled and still managed to avoid getting infected because of some seemingly silly security practices like changing table names and database prefixes. As far as I can tell all of these failed. I was alerted to the issue because the site got locked in a loop of timeouts, perhaps related to these malformed queries. Unfortunately I’m going to have to do some kind of a forensic workup even though there were no clear indicators of compromise because requests to the batch endpoint resulted in many 207 codes which means they may have succeeded.

But when I saw the giant block of 0s and 1s and hex codes in the logs, my heart dropped into my stomach. Stay safe out there people and leave auto updates on. It’s worth the chance of breaking your site every once in a while.

Hey guys, I’m working on a project where the client must be able to create multiple landing pages by her self, but she isn’t a tech a person.

Based on your experience, which block builder could be more intuitive and easier for someone without experience?

To be honest I only have experience with Elementor, but as a developer, I prefer to do everything by code instead of blocks.

I’m thinking about positioning myself as a WordPress Systems Engineer for remote companies.

The idea is to combine WordPress/PHP development with the infrastructure side — Linux, Nginx, PHP-FPM, caching, databases, CI/CD, performance, and server architecture.

Do you think this kind of hybrid role still has a future, especially with AI changing the development landscape so quickly?

For those already working in remote WordPress/engineering teams, is there actually demand for people who understand both WordPress/PHP and infrastructure?

Or is it better to specialize heavily in one area?

Would love to hear some real-world perspectives from people working in this space.

I've been trying to do this for the past hour or so and nothing has worked. So I wanted to ask the community how they've set up this integration.

I want to use Claude to help me write and edit my blog posts. My WordPress installation is hosted on a VPS and my preferred Claude interface is the CLI, though I'd consider an in-WordPress interface if the experience is really good.

Any tips?

I'm normally using Joomla but I have a need to use WordPress for a project and I have a question.

After a bunch of plugins were installed there are many items in the menu I don't want to be there but I can't see where to delete or remove them.

Where do I go to do that?

我在使用WordPress安装了Blocksy后，安装其下的主题卡在71%久久未动，最后显示网络错误，我修改了php和wp-config了，一样无法安装我想要的主题。

我看了下它那个说明，图1是它们系统要求，图2是我的，这个可能是我安装不了的原因吧？那我是否要在网上购买服务器？我本地电脑的服务器能否调试？而且我安装后还显示404 Not Found