First time creating a WordPress site. I am a florist, and I need to create a place where customers can enter an address that they want their flower arrangement delivered to. I also want it to tell them how much it will cost to deliver to the address they entered. I want custom tiers: for example, 1-5 miles from my business would cost $3, 5-10 miles would be $8, 10-15 miles would be $14, 15-20 miles would be $21, and so on. Does it need to be a distance-based shipping rate plugin, or could it be done on a form plugin? TIA!

Hey gang,

I've built a website using the Nostalgia WordPress theme. Link is below:
https://quanticalabs.com/wp_themes/nostalgia/portfolio/

I like most of what the theme has to offer, but my question is this: Is there a way to easily replace or override the lightbox gallery function with another? The one that is currently built into the theme is called Fancybox, and is utilized for image viewing in the Portfolio section. I'd like to deactive or replace it somehow with another type (Simple Lightbox, Firelight lightbox, etc.)

Would this require some hardcore PHP editing or are there tools out there (plugins, etc.) that would assist?

Thanks a bunch for your time,

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I'm brand new to building a website. I need one for my business. I was under the impression I could learn Wordpress and use that. I was under the impression it was somehow user friendly.

I'm accustomed to learning curves when using new software. But Wordpress is so convoluted. I can't figure out where anything is. I start typing some text into the page and then preview it and it's not there on my site. But there's a ton of other stuff I didn't add which is there. All from the theme I guess. I can't figure out how to edit the theme or the text or get anything to work the way I want it to.

I've spent days and I just can't figure out this block editor thing. It's driving me insane.

Any thoughts or advice?
How to make this work?
More training needed?
Or is it just really bad for beginners?

Why can't Wordpress just be a WYSIWYG editor that lets us drag and drop items onto the page and then edit them however we want? That's what I thought it was 🙁

Hola amigos.

Llevo días que el icono del sitio no se visualiza.

Creen que el plugin LiteSpeed Cache sea el causante? Tenía un plugin distinto para cache, luego instale este.

Saludos.

Hello la commu,
J’ai créer une boutique en ligne avec Woocommerce sur mon site WordPress en revanche, j’ai des problème de stocks.

Lorsque je renseigne une quantité définie pour un produit, lorsque certaines personnes commandent, les quantités restantes sur le site ne correspondent pas avec les quantités vendues. Idem lorsque j’exporte sous Excel les ventes, je ne retrouve pas les mêmes chiffres sur mon site.

Quelqu’un aurait-il une solution ?

Looing for a booking system that allows this situation

Customer picks date + time, fills out form when booking, price changes based on their answers. So it calculates the price based on their responses, and charges that for the booking. I don't want it to be extras that they addon to a booking. It needs to ask questions and then calculate the price based on those answers.

I don't want to use a form plugin, as I need it to tie into a booking system. Using a form doesn't fix the issue of someone then needing to still pick a time.

I use Woo for other products sold on this site so happy to tie it into that.

Any suggestions? thanks

https://github.com/corebunch/core-framework

Hi r/WordPress,

Small promo, bigger request for honest UI/UX feedback 👀

I've been building Vova Post Grids, a WordPress plugin for creating post grid layouts. It's now live in the official WordPress plugin repo.

WP repo:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/vova-post-grids/

Neobrutalist website:
https://postgrids.space

Would love to hear what feels intuitive, what feels confusing, and what you'd change.

Feedback from people who actually use WordPress is gold.

I made a free open-source Cloudflare ruleset for WordPress sites:

https://github.com/buybitart/cloudflare-security-art

It helps block scanners, bad requests, and common attack patterns before they reach WordPress. It works with the Cloudflare Free plan.

Feedback is welcome, especially about false positives or missing rules.

My wife is a couple therapist and she is trying to move part of her business online.

Here are the functionalities that she will need:

Online physical shop

She has written books currently sold on Amazon but she wants to be able to sell them as well as she has potential clients in countries i.e. Africa where Amazon does not deliver.

Online digital courses

She has a set of training classes Udemy style that she wants to sell. Those courses are mostly videos, questionnaires and documents.

Purchasers should have life time access to her paid courses.

Only free questionnaires

Free questionnaire to act as funnel for the business.

Most of them are then ranked but for a few of them She would like an AI to interpret the result based on a grid.

Webinars

She currently organise weekly sessions and monthly webinars on Zoom.

She would like people to attend those sessions as part of the web site. She can move away from Zoom.

Online booking and private call.

She does that again on Zoom with the date added to her Google calendar but if she could have a widget that allow her colleagues and potential clients to directly book that would be useful.

Community

She used Facebook but it was a shit show.

Currently she is using WhatsApp but this is unwieldy. Trying to maintain multiple conversation threads is just a nightmare. Her and her colleague ended up creating multiple groups but then discussion in one group is not visible to people in another group. So everybody joins multiple groups.

That created its own problemsp. Having hundred of people messaging result in notification overload. Add the fact that some people seems to have boundary issues and it is nightmare. Personally I think that explain why those people are single. lol

It would be nice to have a forum but with also some kind of Facebook pages the way some subReddit have their own daily or event based threads.

Posting and commenting will be restricted to register member only but most pages will be unlimited access as read-only.

Pages with sensitive subject and explicit sexual content should be restricted to adult register member.

Blog/Podcast

She is starting a podcast with a colleague/friend. She wants to be able to post text but also videos.

Newsletter

A newsletter about her latest blod/pod/books/events.

I used to be a developper so I am pretty familiar with technical aspect. I am now a project manager but I have never managed a wordPress project. I am pretty overwhelmed by all the different options.

I see numerous plugins but no idea if they are compatible together.

Also I have seen code spewed by Elementor and other Front end building tool and frankly IMHO their css sucks.

She does not need thousand of classes. She would need a limited number of layout pages so I could customise her CSS.

In your opinion which plugins should I use?

Which platform would you recommend knowing that we are UK based and I do not want a US based provider.

I've been using Filter Everything on my site for several years, to filter a custom post type by three different taxonomies. Applying each filter rewrites the URL which makes the filtered view shareable/saveable, like ?category=abc,def&type=xyz.

Crawler bots have been affecting performance of the site by targeting very long strings of query URLs because there are a huge number of possible combinations. I want to get rid of the endless query URLs while still making the filters accessible to human users.

Is there a plugin which applies filters to a post archive using javascript in the page, without rewriting the URLs to add queries?

Hi,

I am frequently getting autosaves for seemingly no reason; when I open a post in edit mode, exit it, and come back, there's often an empty autosave.

Even more weirdly, sometimes, the autosave claims my ACF-created custom field's value was either removed or added (as if it were blank before), but this custom field is usually filled unless the post is brand new. This is affecting old and new posts.

It doesn't happen all the time, but often enough to be a problem.

I'm wondering it there's something I'm not thinking about, whether this may be a known ACF issue, or if any of you could point me in the right direction.

Also, I can't seem to find a way to delete autosaves. Autosaves can be useful when someone gets logged out by WordPress due to a timeout, but I obviously don't want empty autosaves or autosaves claiming my custom field was changed...

Do you have advice or any hints for how to stop getting ghost autosaves?

One of the more exciting features coming in WordPress 7.1 is a public API for custom SVG icons. It finally gives developers a native way to register their own SVG icons and use them across the block editor - without relying on JavaScript workarounds.

What it lets you do:

• Register your own SVG icons using just PHP
• Group them into named collections
• Have them show up in the block editor's icon picker automatically
• Render them server-side in PHP templates
• Pull them through the REST API

No JavaScript. No build tools. Just PHP.

We wrote a guide and built a real plugin to test it on WordPress 7.1's test version, covering:

• Registering icons two ways: inline and from .svg files
• A simple pattern to auto-load a whole folder of icons at once
• Using a custom icon as a block's icon instead of the default Dashicon

Full guide with the working plugin code:

https://wpvibes.com/blog/wordpress-custom-icons/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social

Has anyone else tried this on the test version yet?

So, about 3 - 4 weeks ago I started to build a Wordpress website (first time ever, I can't code etc), but I had not sorted out any security or domain for a my website (was using temp domain), I just started building it out and created some templates with Elementor that I plan to repeat throughout the site. However, someone from this subreddit fairly advised they felt that unwise and would leave myself vulnerable to site getting infected it not sorted security first etc.

I am now finally sorted with paid Wordfence plan security, and will be using Cloudflare security features etc, and plan to now start to create brand new install of Wordpress (delete old copy that I started to build just in case it got infected - I don't know if it is infected or not), and set up all security first properly in new install, and then get to building the site out.

Being I have no previous experiences with websites, my question is, are the 'elementor templates' that I created 3 - 4 weeks ago safe to download and use on the new site install.

I don't know if when sites get infected if the 'templates' are the sort of thing that get infected, or if that's just not a thing that happens cause it doesn't work that way. I have no idea how relevant any such issue would be to 'templates' if they are just essentially style sheets? I guessing?

For context it would probably only take me about one full day to redo all templates anyway, so if it's just safer to start again I can do that, just checking to see if I can save myself a whole days work that I have already done.

Any advice appreciated.

The announcement post - https://wordpress.org/news/2026/08/browser-extension/

Hi everyone,

My website has recently been getting hammered by bots making a huge number of requests to admin-ajax.php. This is causing my server's CPU usage to frequently hit 100%.

I've enabled Cloudflare's Bot Fight Mode, which seems to help somewhat, but it hasn't solved the problem.

I also tried creating a Cloudflare custom rule to challenge all requests to admin-ajax.php. However, this breaks the forms on my website because they rely on admin-ajax.php to work properly.

I've also enabled Cloudflare's DDoS protection, but it doesn't seem to make much difference in this case.

I'm wondering what the recommended approach would be here. How can I block or rate-limit these malicious/bot requests to admin-ajax.php while still allowing legitimate AJAX requests from my website to work normally?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

I’m moving a site off Thrive Theme Builder (cost + lock-in) to a native block theme with my own styles. WP 7.0 stack, theme.json v3.

The site has: blog posts, a few unique one-off pages, and the main marketing pages (home, services, etc.). Some of it was built with Thrive Architect.

My plan so far:

**1.** Build the theme locally — either a child theme of a minimal FSE theme or from scratch with Create Block Theme. Templates, patterns, colors, type scale all defined in theme.json. **2.** Push to staging, activate the new theme with Thrive still active. **3.** Convert pages one at a time, highest-traffic first. **4.** Deactivate Thrive Architect only when nothing depends on it anymore. 

I’m doing it this way because Thrive Architect stores content in post meta, not post_content — so deactivating it early can make content vanish entirely, not just lose its layout. Landing pages seem to be the worst case since they bypass the theme template completely.

What I’m trying to get right:

**•** Where’s the line between “start from scratch” and “child theme a minimal FSE theme”? For a fully custom design, does starting clean actually save time, or do you end up rebuilding what Twenty Twenty-Five already gives you? **•** For blog posts specifically — did Convert to Blocks work for you, or did you end up rebuilding? What broke? **•** Anything that bit you on the SEO side? I have a crawl baseline and CWV numbers saved, but I’m sure there’s something obvious I’m missing. **•** Any reason *not* to run the new theme in production while old pages still render through Architect? That’s the part of my plan I’m least sure about. 

Anyways, looking for advices
Thanks

If you were building a new website today, would you choose the WordPress Block Editor (Greenshift) or Elementor?

Hi all, i need some help asap. I have a new company doing amendments to my website / seo. They removed the old company’s user email and it looks like various changes have been reverted back to old ones. Email attached. How do i resolve this, i literally cant sleep atm.

Gibt es ein kostenloses Plugin wo ich über ical Link einen Google Kalender für das Frontend einbauen kann?

Ich habe eine neue Webseite für Ferienwohnungen und da ich noch keine Einnahmen habe, suche ich ein kostenloses Plugin womit ich übersichtlich die Belegung der Unterkunft anzeigen kann. Der Eigentümer der Ferienwohnung gibt die Belegung in seinen Google Kalender ein und über den ical Link möchte ich den Kalender auf der Website anzeigen.