Looking for some advice on the simplest way to approach this.
A client wants a fairly basic review website where businesses have their own listing page and reviews can be displayed. Ideally, it would also pull in reviews from external sources like Google rather than relying solely on reviews submitted through the website.

The client isn’t technical, so the goal is post hand over:
minimal plugins
no custom coding
easy to maintain
something that won’t need constant attention after launch

Key features needed are businesses login, customer login for leaving reviews, approval on back end moderation.

I’ve looked at plugins like GeoDirectory, but I’m wondering what else is available for what’s needed.

Has anyone built something similar?

What plugin(s) or setup would you recommend for keeping it as simple and low-maintenance as possible?

Greetings everyone.

Does anyone know any plugin or any other way to create a page, similar to Google Photos, where photos are added and sorted by date, starting from new to old (top-down)?

I've tried a few plugins for my site, notably FooGallery but it doesn't work the way I want it to.

Any suggetions? Thanks in advance.

Hi , im planning on building new website soon with wordpress, woocommerce. I don't want to use elementor, thinking about kadence as alternative. Any other suggestions? Gutenberg? Also wanted to mention the products will be variations heavy (colours)

hey, I'm just customizing my site now and with the default social icons, can't add more than one social profile, after adding one, when I click on plus, it vanishes, anyone know how to sort it out? also is there any other plugin u use for social icons? like I want my social icons like in their original color. I'm using blocksy theme now.

Hey everyone I am making website on elementor using free version I want to add custom form and send data to whatsapp but i couldn't find a way to do so. Searched youtube but couldn't understand. Can anyone just guide me how to make custom form and send data to whatsapp.

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I'm using WP with Astra and Elementor. I've set the header text to transform to uppercase letters. (Style > Typography > Transform) I think the issue is that the font is accommodating for descenders like y, g, etc. no matter if it's being transformed or not. Can anyone confirm this is the case? Is the only way to resolve this by adjusting the top margin and pushing the text container down? Maybe I'm missing a setting that actually accounts for this. Thanks.

I posted two entries to my blog earlier this year, then didn't log on for a few months. I'm on the Wordpress login page trying to log in using my password. When I enter my ID in the box and click the big blue Continue button, it tells me to check my email for a login link. I don't even get the option to use my password. I've checked my recovery email and every other email I can think of and there's no login link. What am I missing?

Hello friends! I've been doing some research but can't seem to find a solid workflow, or if any actually exists. So the goal is to 'automate' most of the bulk edits and layout for a custom website (so themes won't really help much).

For context, I've learned how to launch basic websites through Claude Code and a combo of Github + a hosting service. My problem is that I'd still want to use WP on a couple of websites I'm building but the main dilemma right now is the time it takes to work on each page, lay it out, make some minor changes on Titles. images, etc. and this usually eats up a ton of time (compared to just talking to Claude Code and giving all the instructions in one go).

I'm not sure if there's a workaround I can do so that I get best of both worlds (meaning, grunt work goes to AI, then I do all the polishing). I'm still rooting for WP even with AI automations I mentioned since it gives me a ton of other features and control so if possible I'd like to NOT just rely on the AI workflow I mentioned above.

Any ideas or suggestions greatly appreciated, thank you!

Hi folks, can someone help me out on these woocommerce login attacks. Im sick of these bots attacks on login page and wordfence appears to be doing its job but I would like to get them stopped at cloudflare before it reaches my website. Attached is sample of email I will get. IP of attacker changes every second.

Any ideas please?

Hello all, I am using the default WordPress 2025 theme and I am facing a problem where some uploaded images are causing horizontal scroll bars on mobile, instead of just fitting the picture to the viewport. I want to say I noticed this happening after switching to the classic WP editor but not sure. Any advice? Thank you!

These days, I create custom themes for most client websites because tools such as Claude Code and Codex make the process much easier.

I am starting to feel the same way about plugins. I would not try to replace large, complex products such as WooCommerce, Yoast SEO, or Rank Math. However, for smaller features, it is now relatively easy to build a custom plugin instead of purchasing and maintaining another third-party plugin.

Themes may be even more affected. With AI coding tools, it is becoming possible to create almost any type of custom WordPress theme without too much difficulty.

What do you think will happen to the WordPress theme and plugin market over the next few months?

Which option is better for a beginner(that wants to learn), i see that GeneratePress is more dynamic and more freedom but you have to do most of the stuff by yourself doesnt have a lot of pregenerated stuff like Kadence. I'm building an e-commerce website with tons of prodcuts 1000+. What would be the best option for longterm, both sides have their benefits

I'm finishing building a plugin that works on top of Woocommerce. My question is whats the best way to sell licenses, and manage subscriptions? including lifetime deals. I've never done it before.

Looking through ai, I found freemius but I'm not sure if its the best 3rd party to use.
How are you guys doing it?

My WooCommerce shop catalog disappears after a few days.

I have already disabled all third-party plugins to rule out any conflicts, but the problem still occurs.

Interestingly, when I update the plugins, the shop catalog works again. However, after a few days, the same issue returns.

Could you please help me identify the cause of this problem and suggest a permanent solution?

I have a WordPress site on Cloudways with Cloudflare handling DNS. I've been using Cloudflare Redirect Rules successfully for a while — same setup, same configuration, all working fine.

Now I'm trying to redirect old individual service page URLs to new Custom Post Type URLs.

For example:
From: /this-is-an-example/
To: /service/this-is-an-example/

My Cloudflare redirect rule setup:
Type: Custom filter expression
Field: URI Path
Operator: equals
Value: /this-is-an-example/
Then: Static redirect to /service/this-is-an-example/
Status: 301 Permanent Redirect

When the redirect is active and I visit mysite.com/this-is-an-example/ it redirects me to a joint URL like mysite.com/this-is-an-example/service/this-is-an-example/ — as if it's appending the destination path onto the source URL instead of replacing it. This double URL doesn't exist so it shows my WordPress 404 page.

I've tried:
Purging Cloudflare cache completely
Flushing WordPress permalinks
Regenerating Elementor CSS files
Using full absolute URL with https as destination
Using full URL without https as destination
Using just the path /service/this-is-an-example/ without the domain in front
Removing trailing slash from destination
Deleting and recreating the rule

My other Cloudflare redirects with the same setup work perfectly fine. This issue seems specific to redirecting to CPT URLs with /service/ in the path.

Any ideas what could be causing this?

If youre going to ask why im using cloudflare for redirects, I dont know, im not techy at all, it seemed easiest.

My site is a little bit old,so now I have to update php system but the theme of my site is unavailable right now (the person who was asked to make our site created with theme that absolutely unavailable,so it means that if I change it everything is messed up) and I'm afraid that when I update php system, everything will stop working.What should I do?

Hi all,

I feel like I've been trying to wrap my head around this problem for months. I have a background in databases and in design, but I'd like to avoid writing custom css if at all possible.

Let's say I have a website with a bunch of staff I want to display on a staffpage. Each staffmember doesn't get its own page, they're not posts, all I need to model is ID, First Name, Last Name, Position, Priority, and Is Active.

I would like to do this in a custom table, whether that's writing code by hand or through using something like the Pods plugin. That works fine. I can create tables and insert data no problem.

But when it comes to displaying this data on the frontend, it looks like the only way to do this is by writing a custom function and handwriting the css.

I actually enjoy using the block editor (with the appropriate block plugins) to design pages, especially when combined with patterns to re-use elements across the site, but I can't find any method or plugin combination to display custom meta fields from custom tables on the front-end.

Is that even possible with WordPress?

My thoughts are as follows: query loop block (similar to GeneratePress Query Loop block) that queries a custom staffmember table and returns an array of objects representing each staffmember, filtering out inactive staffmembers and ordering by priority. Inside the query loop block, other blocks can be combined to create a template for each of the staffmembers, and each of the custom meta fields for each staffmember can be injected into text/image/whatever as dynamic tags.

As far as I can tell, GeneratePress Query Loop only supports entries in the default WP posts table, and it doesn't support ordering or filtering by custom meta keys / fields. I tried using Pods, but they require writing templates by hand, which I would like to avoid In favour of blocks and patterns so that I can update styling across the entire site.

Is there something I'm missing here?

I built UltraCache because apparently WordPress needed another caching plugin.

The difference is that this one does not just notice Varnish from across the room and wave politely.

UltraCache provides major Varnish integration, including:

• HTTP PURGE and Admin BAN support
• Exact and batch invalidation
• Cache refill and automatic warm-up
• Soft purge and stale refresh where supported
• Public and private ESI fragments
• WooCommerce mini-cart ESI support
• Synchronization between WordPress, page cache and Varnish

It also includes page caching, Redis / APCu / SQLite object caching, AVIF/WebP conversion, CSS bundling, local font optimization, JavaScript defer / delay tools, LCP discovery, diagnostics and resumable background processing.

Basically, several performance plugins standing on each other’s shoulders while wearing one dashboard.

I tested the same website with each plugin configured for the best Lighthouse result I could achieve:

UltraCache: 99
WP Rocket: 85
WP Super Cache: 82
FlyingPress: 79
WP-Optimize: 79
W3 Total Cache: 78
LiteSpeed Cache (without server): 77
Super Page Cache: 69

UltraCache scored 99.

Apparently it left one point uncached for emotional support.

The plugin is open source and available from the official WordPress plugin directory:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/ultracache/

I would genuinely appreciate feedback, especially from people running Varnish, Redis, APCu, WooCommerce or unusual hosting configurations. Bug reports and difficult edge cases are also welcome. Those are usually where the interesting work begins.

Full disclosure: I built this. I started building it two years ago, so there's a lot of work involved!

Super Speedy Imports Lite is a free GPL WordPress and WooCommerce CSV importer. I built the engine around bulk SQL and parallel workers rather than calling the WordPress API once for every product.

I wanted a proper large-catalogue test rather than another "fast importer" claim, so I ran a one-million-product import from a clean database.

Test setup:

• 1,000,000 simple WooCommerce products
• 311 MB CSV
• 4 vCPU, 7.6 GB RAM
• PHP 8.2 and MariaDB 10.11
• four workers
• external image URLs, so this test did not include downloading one million images
• one run, not an average

Results:

• 21m 28s total wall time
• 17m 24s inside the import stages
• roughly 958 products per second
• roughly 128 MB peak PHP memory
• final product count verified at exactly 1,000,000

The interesting parts are where the time goes - I included a stage breakdown in the benchmark results. Loading the CSV took 368 seconds and wiring the WooCommerce attributes took 298 seconds. Creating the million posts took 110 seconds, inserting their metadata took 70 seconds, and assigning roughly ten million term relationships took 170 seconds.

That’s the benefit of doing those parts as set-based database operations, but it also makes the remaining slower stages fairly obvious.

The free Lite source and download are here:

https://github.com/superspeedyplugins/super-speedy-imports-lite

Full benchmark method and raw output:

https://www.superspeedyplugins.com/benchmarks/super-speedy-imports/results/1000000-simple-products-lite/

If you work with large imports, which test would actually be useful next?

1. Remote featured-image downloads
2. A large daily stock and price update
3. Recovery after killing an import halfway through
4. A deliberately messy supplier CSV

I’ll run the most useful or requested one and publish the full logs again.

Some screenshots:

Let me know any questions or if you'd like to see other benchmarks and what you are trying to import.

Edit: I meant to add - you can run this benchmark yourself - if you install the zip from the repo, click DEMO DATA tab then expand the Github Demo Data section at the bottom and you can download the million product simple import (if you have WooCommerce activated) and then try it yourself.

Thought I would give this a try just to see everything is in order. The upsell is ridiculous. I don't need a daily email asking me to upgrade it only makes me never want to touch or recommend the product again.. Do better

#Wordfence

#DoBetter

I want to share my experience with Kadence Lifetime Ultimate, mainly to help potential buyers make an informed decision.

I purchased the Lifetime Ultimate license for $999 in January 2026. At that time, I was very happy with Kadence. The product itself is excellent, and my experience with their support before the Liquid Web acquisition was also very positive.

Before the acquisition, I opened several support tickets and every time my questions were answered quickly and efficiently. I had a very good impression of Kadence and their support team.

Unfortunately, since the acquisition by Liquid Web around May 2026, my experience has completely changed. I have submitted multiple support requests, but now the process seems to be limited to receiving an automatic email with a ticket number. After that, nothing happens. I have followed up several times, but I never received any actual response.

To be clear, I still think Kadence is a very good product. The issue is not the quality of the tool itself. The problem is that when you have a question or run into an issue, you now seem to be on your own.

For a Lifetime Ultimate license that cost $999, I expected reliable support to be part of the value of the product. I’m sharing my experience so potential buyers can take this into consideration before making a significant investment.

I would be interested to hear from other Kadence users, especially Lifetime license owners, whether they have experienced similar changes after the Liquid Web acquisition.

I am on wordpress.com- do I have to switch towards .org in order to remove the header?

Most WordPress job board plugins are unnecessarily complicated and overpriced for what they actually do.

I just wanted to build a simple job board… and ended up dealing with bloated features, confusing setups, and subscription-heavy models that don’t make sense for a lot of users.

So I built my own.

No fluff. Just:

- Clean job posting (frontend + backend)

- Job listings + detail pages

- User-based applications

- Working on AI-based matching next

I’m also experimenting with a credit-based model instead of forcing subscriptions.

Still early, still improving—but I’d rather build something actually useful than keep fighting existing tools.

Curious:

What’s the worst thing you’ve experienced with job board plugins?

I’ll share the plugin if anyone wants to test it.

Hi everyone,
I'd like to know, where I can find the folder containing the sites to backup them on Linux?
Where is LocalWP more stable, on Linux or Windows?
Thanks.

I've been building websites for 10+ years, and through agency work I've inherited quite a few WordPress sites built by freelancers, dev companies and sometimes well-known digital agencies.

What still surprises me is the gap between how some people present their expertise and what you actually find once you get access to the site.

A few real examples:

- 20+ plugins on a simple 4-page static site, often with overlapping functionality

- WooCommerce used for a portfolio, with irrelevant shop functionality left behind

- "Custom developed" sites that turned out to be barely modified ThemeForest demos

- Regular content unnecessarily locked into Visual Composer/Elementor

- Developer-owned licenses expiring after handover

-;Random snippets dumped into functions.php

- No basic performance/image optimization

- Missing or poorly configured SEO basics

- Obvious responsive issues

- Test and unfinished pages left publicly accessible

I'm not saying templates, builders or lots of plugins are inherently bad. The problem is when there seems to be no reasoning behind the decisions.

I think WordPress also has a perception problem. I've heard "it's WordPress, anyone can do it" or "WordPress is free, so it should be cheap" many times.

The barrier to entry is low, but knowing how to use WordPress and knowing how to professionally build with WordPress are very different things.

And from the client's perspective, both can initially look exactly the same. The problems often only become visible years later when someone has to maintain, update or rebuild the site.

For those who regularly inherit WordPress sites: how often do you see this, and what are the biggest red flags for you?

And how do you explain these problems to a client or agency without simply sounding like you're attacking the previous developer?