I know, first world problem…. But I’m trying to implement gravity forms with n8n on a load balanced Wordpress setup. I have everything looking right but it’s just not connecting. n8n is on an internal data network, and Wordpress is running behind haproxy on three nodes, the site is on 80/443 in front of the load balancer but 8083 behind. All ssl is done at the load balancer.

I’m thinking it makes the request but doesn’t know how to get back if Wordpress gives it a url and port that depends on the load balancer. Or one of the three nodes makes the request but it responds back to another node.

Anyone have any ideas?

Most AI writing plugins call an AI API with a generic prompt and hand you filler that reads like every other AI-generated post. I kept running into that on my own sites, so I built Versoo Content Ops to fix it — it's free, on wp.org, GPL: https://wordpress.org/plugins/versoo-content-ops/

The core idea: you set your brand context once — audience, tone, topics, a writing sample — and every draft gets generated against that specific context instead of a generic "write a blog post about X" prompt. It runs on WordPress 7.0's built-in AI client (Settings → Connectors), so it uses whatever AI provider you've already got configured there. You still need a real provider key set up—the plugin just doesn't need a separate one.

Past the draft generation, it also runs a 13-check SEO pass automatically, rotates generated titles across 15 headline formulas so they don't all end up sounding the same, and includes a free tag-cleanup tool for orphaned/duplicate taxonomy terms. Everything is currently free — no paid tier exists yet.

Curious whether other people building on WP 7.0's Abilities API have run into the same generic-output problem, or found different ways around it. Feedback (including "this doesn't actually solve it, here's why") is genuinely welcome.

At work, I kept writing the same thing: a few analytics tables, a cron job to rebuild them, and the same SQL copy-pasted into three models. Change one definition, forget to update one copy, and suddenly two dashboards quietly disagree.

There’s `dbt`, which solves this problem for data teams, but it means bringing Python and a second toolchain into a Laravel project. So I tried the same idea in PHP.

An analytics model is an Eloquent model with one query on it:

```php
class Revenue extends Model implements AnalyticsModel
{
use Analytics;

public function computes(): Query
{
return $this->from(Order::class)
->where('status', '<>', 'cancelled')
->per('customer_id')
->measure('total', 'sum(amount)');
}
}
```

Then `php artisan analytics:sync` works out what depends on what and builds everything in the right order.

After that, it’s just Eloquent:

```php
Revenue::query()->where('total', '>', 1000)->get();
```

A few things it does:

* The `GROUP BY` comes from the dimensions you declare, so you never have to write them twice.
* it has Incremental, microbatch, and snapshot buildsthe, same ideas as dbt.
* Runs on PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite with the same commands.

### What it does not do

Every model in a dependency chain has to use the same connection.

That means you can’t, for example, import a SQLite query directly into a PostgreSQL query. This could be solved with an import mechanism, and I am still thinking about a better way to make that work in an Eloquent-like way.

### Why not just use a query class with dependency injection?

A query class, like the action pattern in `App\Queries`, that you inject wherever you need it is perfectly fine.

If the aggregate is fast, you need live numbers, and you only have one or two of them, write the class and skip this package.

The issue is that it computes on every read and you have zero indexes.

Cache the query? Now you’re stuck dealing with stale data.

There’s another problem: each layer (CTEs, subqueries, etc.) gets re-run instead of being reused.

You can use query classes can be composable by calling each other, but a shared subquery is still recomputed inside every caller. This package composes by reference.

For example, you can have a `StgOrder` model representing a transformed version of the `Order` table. It gets built once, and the models that depend on it simply select from the finished table.

This package can append the rows that arrived since the last run, rebuild one day at a time, or keep one row per version with `valid_from` and `valid_to`.

This package will make a built table that can carry the indexes your read patterns need.

A helper like `Revenue::isStale()` can tell you when the data has passed its freshness window.

### Why not just write a job that rebuilds the table?

That’s essentially what the package does.

The difference is that the queries are reusable, and dependencies are propagated through the entire chain of downstream aggregates.

TLDR; You write reusable queries as a data person but in PHP.

Repo: https://github.com/eznix86/laravel-analytics

Read more about DBT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data\_build\_tool

the real dbt guys: https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core (for the curious folks)

If you're working with Laravel 12 and want to implement proper roles and permissions, I put together a complete tutorial using Laravel Breeze + Spatie Laravel Permission.

In the video, I cover:

Laravel 12 + Breeze authentication setup Installing and configuring Spatie Permissions Creating Roles & Permissions Assigning permissions to users Checking roles and permissions Protecting routes with middleware Role-based access control Practical examples with Admin / Manager / Employee roles

🎥 Full tutorial: https://youtu.be/vX46YQprMho Language:Hindi

Hope this helps anyone currently implementing RBAC in Laravel.

I like AIOS security but the scan just keeps running at initiating file scan. Any ideas how to fix this?

weird

https://preview.redd.it/jd0bc36rkenh1.png?width=913&format=png&auto=webp&s=aac85bad4fdae6856cc41a400d06334d1ba04a6b

hello everyone,

so i just realized when i click all of my category theres a phone number of a business in my country.... i dont remember putting it there. i cant find how to delete it. i even made a new category to test, and when i click it, the number is already there....

https://preview.redd.it/6ni2s00nkenh1.png?width=1176&format=png&auto=webp&s=1df70e1f88ddd57d283323eb6b238af1d6103ea1

can someone tell me how to delete it?

I like AIOS security but the scan just keeps running at initiating file scan. Any ideas how to fix this?

El periodo pasado terminé un curso, pero han pasado casi 3 meses y todavía no suben el certificado, en el grupo de WhatsApp del curso todos los compañeros andan preguntando, bueno al parecer he Sido el único que ha tenido la iniciativa de indagar, en la web indica que hay que escribirle al instructor, eso hice hace unas semanas, pero la instructora no ha dado respuesta, incluso ni siquiera responde dentro del grupo.

El día de hoy procedí a llamar a INADEH y la primera persona en responder me atendió de forma amable y me indica que debo llamar al departamento de certificación, procedo a llamar y aquí empieza todo:

- Yo: Buenos días.

- La encargada: ¿Qué quiere?

- Yo: Mire, hace 3 meses culminé un curso y...

- La encargada: Diga que quiere, no me haga perder tiempo, ¿Que curso?

- Yo: (Mordiendo la lengua): De xxxx.

- La encargada: cédula.... (Busca) El certificado está en trámite, en 2 semanas está... (Procede a cerrar)

Yo he dado cursos de atención al cliente en INADEH, pero al parecer es su propio personal quien necesita tomar esos cursos.

¿Por qué la sociedad permite que esto ocurra y no exige al gobierno de turno que cambie?

¿Cuándo se van a reducir estos salarios y sacar a los educadores que hace años dejaron de actualizarse pero perciben salarios altos?

¿Cuando se va a ajustar el presupuesto de educación que va enfocado en salarios en vez de el estudiante e infraestructura?

Hello everyone! Some of you might remember DroppedNeedle, my self-hosted, all-in-one music app I've been building since October last year.

Just a quick update because the last few weeks have been big: DroppedNeedle now runs on BrainzMash, a public read-only MusicBrainz pool, instead of hammering the official endpoint at one request per second. In practice that means search, artist pages, and library identification are all massively faster than they were. It's community-run, free, needs no API keys, and honestly it's a fantastic thing for the music community that it exists. A few other projects like Aurral and Multi Scrobbler run on BrainzMash as well, which is great to see.

The project is coming up on a year old and I'm still working on it daily - still self-hosted, still its own library engine with no Lidarr needed. If you tried it a while back and bounced off the speed, now's a good time for another look.

For those of you new to DroppedNeedle: it combines library management, discovery, requests, downloads, and playback - in the browser or through apps like Manet and Arpeggi.

Would love for you all to give it a go. Bug reports and suggestions welcome here, on GitHub or in the Discord.

Thanks all 🙂

GitHub - code, install guide, screenshots, etc

Discord - follow along with development

We’re a small specialized construction/pipelining company with about 50 employees, but only 3 people currently using the CRM for sales. We expect that to grow to somewhere around 5–10 sales/account management users over the next few years.

We’ve been using Salesforce for about five years.
Salesforce has gotten us through, but I can’t say we’ve ever really loved it. The person who originally helped build and customize our Salesforce environment is no longer with us, and one of our biggest frustrations is that whenever we want to make changes, adjust workflows, or improve something, we need to use a Salesforce consultant.

Recently we started looking at Zoho.

We met with a Zoho consultant and Initially got pretty excited about it. Their position was basically that there is nothing we are currently doing in Salesforce that Zoho can’t handle.

The cost difference is significant. Depending on how we structure it, we’re looking at roughly a 50–75% reduction compared with what we are currently spending.

We also liked the idea of the larger Zoho ecosystem. CRM, Books, Inventory, etc. could potentially replace several separate applications we currently pay for and bring more of the business into one system.
We were pretty much ready to move forward.
Then I made the mistake of going down the Reddit rabbit hole.

I started finding posts from people saying Zoho is terrible, the UI is outdated or clunky, different Zoho applications don’t work together as seamlessly as you would expect, support isn’t great, and certain products seem like they were developed and then stopped receiving much attention.

That made me pump the brakes pretty hard.
I asked our Zoho consultant specifically about the UI concerns and, as expected, they feel those concerns are overblown and that Zoho has improved considerably.

But at this point I’m having a hard time separating a good sales/demo experience from what it’s actually like to live in the software every day for the next five years.
Our CRM needs aren’t really traditional high-volume sales.

We are a specialized commercial construction contractor.

A typical process is something like:
Lead comes in → qualification → site inspection → inspection processing/deficiency report → project planning/estimating → proposal → revisions/follow-up → contract → handoff to project management/operations → project completion/closeout.

Projects can be anywhere from relatively small jobs to $500k–$1M+ construction projects, so we care more about managing the entire opportunity and customer relationship than blasting thousands of leads with automated emails.

We need good workflows, task management, project/account visibility, reporting, estimating information, document management, and clean handoffs between sales, estimating/planning, and operations.

So I’m really looking for feedback from people who have ACTUALLY used Zoho, preferably people who have used both Zoho and Salesforce.

A few questions:

Is Zoho really as capable as the consultants claim?
Are the complaints about the UI legitimate enough that users actually dislike working in it, or is it mostly people being picky about design?

Do the different Zoho applications actually work well together, or does the “one ecosystem” idea look better in a demo than it works in reality?

How difficult is Zoho to administer internally? One of our goals is to stop needing a consultant every time we want to make a relatively simple change.

For a company with only 3 CRM users today and maybe 5–10 eventually, is Salesforce simply overkill?
Has anyone left Salesforce for Zoho and regretted it? Or made the switch and been happy they did?

Would we be better off spending the money to simplify/rebuild our existing Salesforce environment instead of migrating?

We’ve even considered building our own CRM/workflow system because we haven’t found anything that feels like it fits our business perfectly, but I also understand the potential nightmare of maintaining custom software long term.

I’m open to other CRM recommendations as well.
I’m not necessarily looking for the cheapest solution. I’m looking for something we can set up correctly, our employees will actually enjoy using, we can manage internally, and we won’t be trying to replace again three years from now.

Would really appreciate feedback from business owners/admins/users who have actually lived with these systems, especially anyone who has used both Salesforce and Zoho.

What would you choose if you were in our position?

Hey everybody... Webfllow dropped Source by Webflow yesterday and I wanted everyone's first thoughts on trademark rights, and any other thoughts they might have?

Which hosting platform would you pick for a small production app: Render vs Railway vs Cloudflare Workers?

I’m building something like a inventory management app and website — authenticated users, a Node/TypeScript API, PostgreSQL, background jobs/cron, and potentially a few thousand users over time.

Currently considering **Render, Railway, and Cloudflare Workers**.

For a production app where reliability, scaling, DB latency, and predictable costs matter, which one would you choose and why?

Would you recommend something else like **Fly.io, AWS, or Vercel + another backend** instead?

Curious to hear from people who’ve actually run production workloads on these.

We’re a small specialized construction/pipelining company with about 50 employees, but only 3 people currently using the CRM for sales. We expect that to grow to somewhere around 5–10 sales/account management users over the next few years.

We’ve been using Salesforce for about five years.
Salesforce has gotten us through, but I can’t say we’ve ever really loved it. The person who originally helped build and customize our Salesforce environment is no longer with us, and one of our biggest frustrations is that whenever we want to make changes, adjust workflows, or improve something, we need to use a Salesforce consultant.

Recently we started looking at Zoho.

We met with a Zoho consultant and Initially got pretty excited about it. Their position was basically that there is nothing we are currently doing in Salesforce that Zoho can’t handle.

The cost difference is significant. Depending on how we structure it, we’re looking at roughly a 50–75% reduction compared with what we are currently spending.

We also liked the idea of the larger Zoho ecosystem. CRM, Books, Inventory, etc. could potentially replace several separate applications we currently pay for and bring more of the business into one system.
We were pretty much ready to move forward.
Then I made the mistake of going down the Reddit rabbit hole.

I started finding posts from people saying Zoho is terrible, the UI is outdated or clunky, different Zoho applications don’t work together as seamlessly as you would expect, support isn’t great, and certain products seem like they were developed and then stopped receiving much attention.

That made me pump the brakes pretty hard.
I asked our Zoho consultant specifically about the UI concerns and, as expected, they feel those concerns are overblown and that Zoho has improved considerably.

But at this point I’m having a hard time separating a good sales/demo experience from what it’s actually like to live in the software every day for the next five years.
Our CRM needs aren’t really traditional high-volume sales.

We are a specialized commercial construction contractor.

A typical process is something like:
Lead comes in → qualification → site inspection → inspection processing/deficiency report → project planning/estimating → proposal → revisions/follow-up → contract → handoff to project management/operations → project completion/closeout.

Projects can be anywhere from relatively small jobs to $500k–$1M+ construction projects, so we care more about managing the entire opportunity and customer relationship than blasting thousands of leads with automated emails.

We need good workflows, task management, project/account visibility, reporting, estimating information, document management, and clean handoffs between sales, estimating/planning, and operations.

So I’m really looking for feedback from people who have ACTUALLY used Zoho, preferably people who have used both Zoho and Salesforce.

A few questions:

Is Zoho really as capable as the consultants claim?
Are the complaints about the UI legitimate enough that users actually dislike working in it, or is it mostly people being picky about design?

Do the different Zoho applications actually work well together, or does the “one ecosystem” idea look better in a demo than it works in reality?

How difficult is Zoho to administer internally? One of our goals is to stop needing a consultant every time we want to make a relatively simple change.

For a company with only 3 CRM users today and maybe 5–10 eventually, is Salesforce simply overkill?
Has anyone left Salesforce for Zoho and regretted it? Or made the switch and been happy they did?

Would we be better off spending the money to simplify/rebuild our existing Salesforce environment instead of migrating?

We’ve even considered building our own CRM/workflow system because we haven’t found anything that feels like it fits our business perfectly, but I also understand the potential nightmare of maintaining custom software long term.

I’m open to other CRM recommendations as well.
I’m not necessarily looking for the cheapest solution. I’m looking for something we can set up correctly, our employees will actually enjoy using, we can manage internally, and we won’t be trying to replace again three years from now.

Would really appreciate feedback from business owners/admins/users who have actually lived with these systems, especially anyone who has used both Salesforce and Zoho.

What would you choose if you were in our position?