I am starting a tech agency that will offer WordPress and website development SEO digital marketing AI solutions virtual assistant services and automation.

I am looking for a name that feels professional modern trustworthy memorable and easy to pronounce and spell. I also want the name to be broad enough for the agency because I may offer more services in the future.

The main problem is finding an exact .com domain. I have already found some names that I liked but the .com was already taken. I do not want to choose a random name only because the domain is available.

I am looking for a unique and meaningful name that people can easily remember and connect with the agency.

If you were naming a tech agency today what kind of name or naming approach would you suggest?

I would really appreciate your ideas and suggestions.

I’m planning to upgrade a WordPress site from PHP 7.2 to 8.3.

I bought this theme in 2018 called 'Soprano - Minimalistic Multi-Purpose WordPress Theme' and it had 2 plug-ins included: Soprano Theme - Custom Post Types and WPBakery page builder. Apparently the theme was not updated since 2019.

Both plug-ins are breaking when updating to any higher PHP version than 7.2.

I see 2 options now: either I go for a completely renewal of theme with one that is already compatible to 8.3 or I try to refactor the current code with LLM assistance to suit the 8.3 requirements.

None of the options looks facile to me, what would you do?

The site in this case is a woocommerce store in construction products and also a lead magnet for construction projects. Over the years the website got messy, mostly because i didn't have time to maintain and optimize it back then.

Now i do have time and energy, at first i wanted to optimize and update the current site but i decided something else.

A clean start, redeveloping my site from 0. Discussing ideas and strategies with Claude and building it with Claude code.

I am sure there are other people who tried this before, and i'm curious about your experiences, maybe some advice or findings?

Hi , I'm the developer of LinkGuard. Most link checkers I tried either send your URLs to an external service or lock the useful parts behind a pro plan, so I made one that does neither. What it does: - Scans posts, pages, any public custom post type, and optionally menus, comments and text widgets - Status for every link: Broken, Warning, Redirect, Healthy - Fix a URL inline (the post/menu/comment is updated for you) - One click "Use target" replaces a redirect with its final URL - Unlink a broken link but keep the anchor text - Bulk recheck/dismiss, dismissed false positives stay dismissed, CSV export - Throttled, batched checking so it won't hammer your server Everything runs locally. No ads, no upsells, every feature included. WordPress.org: https://wordpress.org/plugins/naveencodes-linkguard/ I'd love honest feedback: what does your current link checker do that this one doesn't? 

https://craftingers.shop

So I migrated my website form localhsot to Hostinger and from there on, it is giving me a time out error.
If I only use elementor pro then there are no error but as soon as I enable another plugin then the usage shoots and then it give me the "unable to load your preview".
I tried everything, increasing the timeout time, increasing the memory, ignoring the timeout through htaccess but nothing works.
The elemntor itself isn't that much of a heavy plugin. So why when I use woocomerce or any other then it causes error?
Please help.

Hey everyone,

Some of you might remember me from my posts about the BrikPanel plugin I developed. When I last shared it here, it had over 200 active installs; today, it has surpassed 1.000. A big part of that came from this subreddit, so thanks again for that.

Now I'm trying to decide what to build next as an open source project, and I'd rather ask you directly than guess. My time and energy are limited, so I want to put them into a problem that a lot of WooCommerce users actually deal with.

So I put together the everyday problems I keep hearing from WooCommerce store owners: design, slow websites, marketplaces, updates that break things, shipping, invoices, and more. If you run a WooCommerce store or build stores for clients, could you tick all the problems you deal with and tell me how much each one bothers you? It takes about two minutes, it's completely anonymous (I don't ask for your email address), and it opens in your own language (21 languages).

I read every response myself.

https://brksoft.com/survey

(By the way, mods gave me the ok before posting.)

Bit of a dilemma here. I know Woo bookings will do what i need it to do but i also know it’s rather bloated and costs every month/year.

Trying to keep my WP builds as light as possible, custom theme, ACF fields for content, barely any plugins. I would call myself a good custom theme developer and designer with reasonable knowledge BUT I can’t just write code. I would be googling and researching to make it work. Ai has obviously changed that for me. What took a day is now taking 2 hours to sort. I ain’t got shame, i still understand what’s happening in the code I just don’t have to do the grunt work.

BUT saying all that a daily booking system is something I’ve never done. The slots and options are simple

Full Day - available Thu, Friday for the moment
Morning - available Wed, Thu, Friday again for the moment
Evening - available Sun-Thursday

The time of arrival will never change, there are no people to be booked, no other options except maybe adding on lunch to the morning session.

Ai has given the option to DIY it and meet the requirements I have set so far
- 12 spaces each session
- admin screen (the most fear I have for this project)
- add on days when required
- control the dates that are bookable
- refund and restock sessions.

Do i do this or use the trusted Woo Bookings? I’m keen to give it a go but don’t wanna mess it up.

And if I do DIY it. Build slowly checking each dev point or give Claude a prompt and let it run?

Advice much appreciated and please dont say you can do it for me, I live for this!!!

Made a video with emdash cms. Created today a theme on it https://emdashhq.com and looks to do the job. Will be useful for the ones that needs a CMS to do things. I prefer astro with mdx files :)

Curios to see how much usage will get a small website.
For the overview you can see https://youtu.be/1X6KwMjbv-Y?is=UpQcDb8XU4vU\_D-9

Next tutorial already up. Will continue next week

we ran into a weird issue, where multiple links (buttons) on our site would lead to a gambling site (while masking themselves as our website. The URL was correct).

After a couple of hours I managed to clear out all malicious code and found a VERY interesting file.

So apparently we got hacked by a group called „chinafans“. They were even so kind to leave links to their telegram behind.

So yeah.. Not sure if it’s good that i post this? But felt like sharing an interesting discovery.

Hey everyone,

I'm not a designer. I'm more on the technical side of WordPress, so most of my sites so far were built by hand in Elementor or WPBakery, or I bought a template kit on Envato and adjusted it. Works fine for me, but design was never my strong point.

Lately my feed is full of "AI will replace web designers" videos. Everyone is hyping Claude and Figma Make and promising pixel perfect sites in 10 minutes... and honestly I don't trust most of those guys.

A lot of them are selling a course.

To be clear, I'm not a Figma Make user. I'm only thinking about paying for it, and I don't want to burn an hour and a bunch of money to find out it's garbage.

here's what I actually want to know. Can I describe a layout in text prompts in Figma Make, similar to what a good Elementor template kit looks like, clean that up as a proper Figma design, and then rebuild it in Elementor with a decent result? Or does it fall apart somewhere in the middle (spacing, responsive, global styles, that kind of things?

Is there chance to get solid results?

Correct me, please

And is this whole thing a real workflow people use now, or should I just keep paying for Envato Elements and save myself the headache?

Would really appreciate honest experiences, including the bad ones. Thanks!

I understand that we should not be using 2 SEO plugins, but the company wordpress site's maintenance was handed off to a new employee after I changed roles, and they installed a second SEO plugin. The one we originally were using was Rank Math SEO , and about a year ago they installed All in One SEO.

I recently jumped back in to help them out with some questions they had and noticed both plugins were running.

I'm planning on keeping Rank Math. My question is, is there anything I need to consider when deactivating one of the plugins? Is it is simply a matter of deactivating the All in One plugin? Or is there anything else I need to do? Are there any unintended consequences I should consider?

FerimanEdge Regime Widget

I recently published a small free/open-source WordPress plugin for crypto-focused sites.

It adds a Gutenberg block and shortcode for displaying the current BTC, ETH or BNB market regime (BULL / SIDEWAYS / BEAR), individually or together.

There are a few things that I have deliberately kept simple:

• no API keys
• no server-side API requests
• no bundled third-party JS/CSS
• dark, light and visitor OS themes
• compact/standard/large layouts

The plugin itself just outputs the iframe. The market-regime data is served directly by FerimanEdge.

WordPress Plugin:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/ferimanedge-regime-widget/

Feedback on the block/shortcode UX would be useful, especially from people building crypto or finance sites. Thanks!

Made my website after getting scammed by freelancers on Fivver. What do ya’ll think? All built and pushed with WPvibe.

I'm not a developer by any means and don't know how to code. I do however use Claude mainly for designing pages in the block editor, and for troubleshooting WP issues. Before updating plugins/themes I also the entire plugin stack and theme the site in question is using through Claude to check for any compatibility issues before updating. What I've also been doing is running them through Claude to find security vulnerabilities and with just the basic Pro plan, the number of vulnerabilities I have found in commercial plugins is unfortunate. Especially when my prompt is as simple as just asking Claude to find any security vulnerabilities. I'm sure someone educated in security could prompt it to find even more. Anyway, I think it should be a requirement for dev's to run their code through an AI agent to find these vulnerabilities before production sites install them. Luckily the vulnerabilities I have reported have all been addressed, but these things really should be addressed before its released.

I got tired of opening wp-admin for checking orders and clients are usually don't take efforts to understand this woocommerce, so I built WooOps.

It handles orders, products, stock, customer notes, shipment tracking and basic reports. Self-hosted, open source, and connects to your existing store—no extra database or plugin.

Still in development with coming more features into it, I would love to hear your feedbacks so I can improve it and make it better for the community.

https://github.com/shantz1/wooops

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I have created is a program that lets me create a post/content across my different WordPress sites. I use a combination of AI to generate the content and then use an API to publish the content.

Curious to know how others are managing and posting content?

So I just roasted my blog page with camelAI. It returned a withering critique about SEO, formatting, and my life choices. This was expected.

What I didn't expect was it finding eight scripts on the page. Eight. What the hell are those things doing?

My blog page is not my landing page. The blog front page is sitename/blog. It shows only the latest entry. This is where the eight scripts run.

However, other blog pages only run four scripts. Individual posts are found in sitename/blog/postname. These pages aren't functionally different than the blog front page. Both have navigation to traverse posts and comments are open.

Really weird is the same post in different locations behaves differently... - mysite/blog(newpost) --> 8 scripts - mysite/blog/newpost --> 4 scripts

I'm pretty sure one script is serving up avatars from Gravatar (I really need to code that locally). In any case, that should affect post locations equally.

I'm running 2025 theme with only three plugins (two "must-haves from my webhost and one for Lightspeed), so I don't think it's bloat.

When I get home, i'm going to inspect the page. But for now, does anyone know why the single-post blog page runs twice as many scripts as the other blog pages - even on the same post?

Oh... this post was initially rejected because I named my webhost. Why was that?

EDIT: What the hell? Did this thread just get downvoted because I'm asking questions?

Security reports to WordPress on HackerOne sat at 20 to 30 a month for about a decade, then hit 450 in July and 773 in August, and John Blackbourn posted the graph with the reason attached: people now point Claude and GPT at core and let them read.

Click2Shell is what one of those bugs looks like. Fixed in 7.1.1, found by pwn.ai with Claude Opus 5 and one human in the loop, and the entire attack is a link. An admin who's logged in opens it, WordPress's own JavaScript clicks Install on a theme from the official catalog for them, the

Customizer loads that inactive theme's PHP, and a sloppy AJAX handler inside the theme pulls in whatever the attacker wants. The site's theme never changes. Nothing in the firewall log looks wrong, because every request came from the admin's own browser carrying the admin's own nonce.

So on the day that link went around, the firewall wasn't the variable. The variable was how many people could open it while logged in as Administrator.

I'm going through ours now and I already know the answer on a couple of client sites is going to be embarrassing, because "the client needs admin" was always the easiest ticket to close.

How many Administrator accounts are on the sites you look after? I'm asking because I suspect my number is normal and I don't like that.

Code generation, debugging, custom plugins, CSS, SEO tasks, content creation, or something else? Looking for practical use cases rather than the usual AI hype.

Most accessibility learning is either reading the spec or long blog posts. I wanted something you could do in 90 seconds with your coffee, so I made a little swipe game.

Every day you get 10 real UI cards. Swipe right if it passes WCAG, left if it fails. After each swipe it tells you why, with the actual numbers (contrast ratio, target size, that kind of thing). At the end you see how you did against everyone else who played that day.

There are also topic quizzes if you want to drill one thing- color contrast, target size, keyboard focus, use of color, text over images.

Every card is real HTML/CSS and gets checked with axe-core before it goes in, so the answers are measured, not vibes.

Lifetime free, never charged. No account, no sign up, no cookies, no personal data collected. Your streak just lives in your browser, Running on Vercel.

https://accessible-or-not.vercel.app/

ps: bookmark it if you want to keep a streak going. And I'd love feedback on what else would actually help the community. Topics you want, stuff that annoyed you, or cards you think are wrong.