I created a custom block theme for a corporate site using create block theme plugin , then added the patterns blocks etc in the theme to match the design, do I need to take care of SEO , form plugins compatibility in the theme itself ? For eg can I use my pattern and add a form in between in one of the pages ? What's the difference between patterns and pages ? How do I add let's say a tracking pixel ? Can block editor do that ? I

As a WordPress developer, I often need to build large quizzes for client sites. Recently I tested Novamira with Claude and Gravity Forms to automate the process.

Workflow:

- Upload a PDF containing 100 questions and answers.

- Novamira + Claude parse the file.

- Gravity Forms generates the quiz structure with correct logic and storage.

Result: a complete 100-question quiz created in minutes, no manual data entry required.

Disclaimer: This is not a paid advertisement. I still pay my Claude credits.

Hi r/WordPress,

We've just released Kitgenix PluginScore V3, which is a major rebuild of a project we've been developing at Kitgenix.

Kitgenix PluginScore:

https://pluginscore.kitgenix.com/

The basic idea is simple:

Before installing a WordPress plugin, search for it on Kitgenix PluginScore and get a clearer picture of its overall health.

We're trying to answer a question I think most WordPress users have asked at some point:

"Is this plugin actually a good idea to install?"

WordPress.org gives us useful information such as active installations, reviews, last updated date and compatibility, but making sense of all of that - particularly when vulnerabilities are involved - isn't always straightforward.

Kitgenix PluginScore brings those signals together and assigns a score out of 100.

V3 has involved a pretty substantial rebuild of both the website and the system behind it.

Why we built Kitgenix PluginScore

If you search WordPress.org for something like:

• Contact form
• Backup
• Security
• SEO
• Cookie consent
• Image optimisation
• SMTP
• Membership
• Redirects

you can sometimes have dozens or hundreds of options.

Then you start trying to decide which one to install.

Usually people look at:

• ★★★★★ 4.9 rating
• 100,000+ installations
• Updated 3 weeks ago

and assume it's probably fine.

Sometimes it is.

But those numbers don't necessarily tell the whole story.

A plugin can be extremely popular and still:

• have unresolved vulnerabilities
• be poorly maintained
• fall behind current WordPress releases
• go long periods without updates
• have concerning security history
• gradually become abandoned

At the same time, a smaller plugin with only a few thousand installations might actually be maintained extremely well.

Kitgenix PluginScore is our attempt to make that assessment easier.

V3 has a much stricter scoring system

One of the biggest things we've changed is how easily plugins can achieve very high scores.

The previous version was more forgiving than we wanted.

For V3, we've deliberately made the scoring stricter.

A score of:

95/100

shouldn't just mean:

"Nothing obviously wrong."

It should mean the plugin is performing exceptionally well across the areas we're measuring.

Kitgenix PluginScore considers a range of signals including things such as:

• Known vulnerabilities
• Unresolved vulnerabilities
• Historical vulnerability information
• Maintenance activity
• Update frequency
• Time since the latest release
• WordPress compatibility
• PHP compatibility
• Development activity
• WordPress.org information
• Active installations
• General plugin health indicators

Popularity still provides useful context, but it doesn't override everything else.

A plugin shouldn't receive a fantastic score simply because millions of websites use it.

Security vulnerabilities are handled more carefully

This is an area we spent quite a lot of time thinking about.

Seeing:

"This plugin has had 4 vulnerabilities."

sounds terrible without context.

But that's not necessarily a fair way of judging software.

A large plugin that's been actively developed for 10 years could realistically have vulnerabilities discovered during that period.

What matters is also:

• Was the issue serious?
• Was it patched?
• How quickly was it patched?
• Is the vulnerable version still current?
• Are there unresolved vulnerabilities now?
• Is the plugin still being maintained?

There's a massive difference between:

A vulnerability discovered on Monday and patched on Tuesday

and:

A known vulnerability that remains unpatched six months later.

Kitgenix PluginScore V3 tries to make that distinction much clearer.

We retain useful vulnerability history without automatically treating every historical issue as evidence that the current version is insecure.

We've improved how external vulnerability data is matched

Another change behind the scenes is better validation of vulnerability records.

Kitgenix PluginScore is currently centred specifically around plugins available through WordPress.org.

External security databases can occasionally contain:

• premium-only plugins
• removed plugins
• similarly named software
• old records
• plugins that aren't actually available through WordPress.org

We didn't want an external record automatically creating a misleading Kitgenix PluginScore page.

V3 therefore performs more validation before associating vulnerability information with a WordPress.org plugin.

It sounds like a relatively small change, but it's pretty important when you're trying to build a reliable database.

The scanning system has been rebuilt

This is probably the biggest change technically.

The previous Kitgenix PluginScore version had some problems with scanning reliability.

There were occasions where:

• manual rescans wouldn't complete
• scheduled scans didn't trigger correctly
• stale plugin data wasn't refreshed
• scan queues became inconsistent
• a user could request a rescan without the scan completing properly

That's obviously not good enough for something that's supposed to help people assess plugins.

V3 moves scanning into a much more structured queue.

Instead of relying on somebody loading a webpage and waiting while everything happens, Kitgenix PluginScore can place a plugin into the scanning system and process it separately.

That gives us a much better foundation for keeping thousands of plugin records updated.

Plugins are automatically rescanned

A Kitgenix PluginScore shouldn't remain the same forever.

WordPress plugins change constantly.

Imagine Plugin A scores:

92/100

Then over the next six months:

• development stops
• WordPress releases two major versions
• the plugin isn't tested against either
• a vulnerability is discovered
• no patch arrives

That old 92/100 score would become extremely misleading.

So Kitgenix PluginScore V3 now works towards automatically rescanning plugins when their existing scan becomes approximately 30 days old.

The goal is to make the score a reasonably current assessment rather than a permanent rating based on the day somebody first searched for the plugin.

We're now automatically scanning more of WordPress.org

We've also expanded automatic scanning.

Kitgenix PluginScore can now work through roughly:

• 500 WordPress.org plugins every 24 hours

as part of its automatic scanning queue.

This is important because we don't want Kitgenix PluginScore to only contain the massive plugins everyone already knows about.

Arguably, Kitgenix PluginScore becomes more useful when you're looking at something obscure.

For example:

You need a very specific WooCommerce feature.

You find a plugin with:

• 1,200 installations
• 8 reviews
• Last updated five months ago

You've never heard of the developer.

That's exactly the situation where having some additional information could be useful.

Over time, the automated scanning system should allow us to build much broader coverage of the WordPress.org repository.

Better pages for plugins that haven't been scanned

We've also improved how Kitgenix PluginScore behaves when we don't have enough information yet.

Previously, unscanned plugin pages weren't particularly good.

There were layout problems and some sections didn't clearly communicate whether information was genuinely unavailable or simply hadn't been processed yet.

V3 now distinguishes much more clearly between states such as:

• Not yet scanned
• Waiting in the queue
• Scan completed
• Scan is outdated
• Insufficient information
• Scan failed

I think that's important for something like this.

If we don't know something, the website should say:

We don't know yet.

It shouldn't pretend to have a confident answer.

We've started putting more emphasis on score history

This is one of the areas I think could become particularly useful.

Imagine two plugins both currently score:

76/100

At first glance they're identical.

But then you see this:

Plugin A

6 months ago: 93

3 months ago: 84

Today: 76

Compared with:

Plugin B

6 months ago: 58

3 months ago: 69

Today: 76

Suddenly those scores tell completely different stories.

Plugin A appears to be declining.

Plugin B appears to be improving.

We're putting more infrastructure into Kitgenix PluginScore V3 to track that kind of change over time.

Eventually we'd like it to become much easier to identify plugins that are:

• improving
• deteriorating
• becoming stale
• becoming actively maintained again
• fixing security issues
• gradually falling behind

PDF reports (Beta)

We've also improved Kitgenix PluginScore's PDF reporting.

This is primarily aimed at developers, agencies and people managing client websites.

You might inherit a website with 50 plugins and find several you don't recognise.

Instead of simply telling the client:

"I think we should remove this."

you can potentially generate a Kitgenix PluginScore report containing information about the plugin's:

• current score
• maintenance
• vulnerabilities
• update activity
• general health

It's not intended to replace a proper technical audit, but it can provide supporting information.

We've simplified exports

The previous version experimented with CSV exports.

Ultimately we decided that wasn't particularly useful for most people.

Kitgenix PluginScore isn't supposed to become a complicated analytics platform where you need to export data into Excel to understand what's happening.

The core experience should be:

Search → understand → decide.

So we've been putting more emphasis into readable reports and clearer plugin pages instead.

The website itself has had a major overhaul

We've also fixed quite a few visual and usability problems.

These included things such as:

• sidebars appearing below content on unscanned plugins
• incorrect button styling on mobile
• inconsistent spacing between sections
• poor empty states
• awkward login/register page spacing
• responsive problems
• scan status presentation
• vulnerability layout
• score presentation
• general information hierarchy

Individually some of these sound minor.

But when you combine them, the previous version wasn't as polished or as easy to use as we wanted.

V3 is considerably cleaner.

Mobile has been improved

We noticed a surprising amount of Kitgenix PluginScore traffic comes from mobile devices.

Some parts of the previous site didn't behave particularly well on smaller screens.

One strange issue was search buttons displaying correctly on desktop but falling back to a grey/default style on certain mobile browsers.

We've addressed that as part of the redesign along with:

• spacing
• card layouts
• score presentation
• sidebars
• search controls
• vulnerability information
• authentication pages

We're not trying to replace human judgement

I also think this is important to say.

Kitgenix PluginScore isn't claiming:

100/100 means this plugin is impossible to hack.

That would be ridiculous.

Likewise:

55/100 doesn't necessarily mean the plugin is malicious or dangerous.

Kitgenix PluginScore is an automated assessment based on the information available to us.

It's intended to help you ask better questions.

For important websites, nothing replaces things like:

• keeping plugins updated
• good backups
• proper hosting security
• reviewing permissions
• code audits
• vulnerability monitoring
• minimising unnecessary plugins
• professional judgement

Kitgenix PluginScore is another tool, not a guarantee.

A plugin having a vulnerability isn't automatically a reason to uninstall it

I think this deserves repeating because vulnerability information is often presented badly online.

If you're running a major plugin with millions of installations, statistically there's a reasonable chance that at some point someone will discover a security issue.

The important questions are:

• Did the developer respond?
• Was a patch released?
• How quickly?
• Is the current version still vulnerable?

I'd personally have much more confidence in a development team that:

1. receives a responsible disclosure,
2. investigates it,
3. releases a patch within a day or two

than a plugin that has never had a published vulnerability largely because nobody has seriously investigated it.

We're trying to build that nuance into Kitgenix PluginScore instead of making vulnerability count the only thing that matters.

Plugin developers cannot buy a better score

This is one of the principles we've decided on from the start.

Plugin developers cannot pay us to improve their PluginScore.

Kitgenix itself develops WordPress plugins.

That means our own products will also be assessed.

If one of our plugins deserves:

63/100

then it should receive 63/100.

If another developer's plugin deserves:

98/100

it should receive 98/100.

Once money can influence the score, I don't think the score has much value.

We're trying to avoid another meaningless "security badge"

I really don't want Kitgenix PluginScore to turn into:

✅ SAFE PLUGIN

or:

❌ DANGEROUS PLUGIN

Software doesn't work like that.

I'd rather Kitgenix PluginScore say:

71/100

and then show you why.

Maybe:

• maintenance is excellent
• compatibility is good
• active installations are strong
• but there's currently an unresolved vulnerability

Or perhaps:

• no known vulnerabilities
• but the plugin hasn't been updated for two years
• and hasn't declared compatibility with recent WordPress releases

The reasoning is more important than just the number.

We want to build rankings based on actual plugin health

The improved scanning system also lets us start doing more interesting things across the entire repository.

We're working towards things such as:

• Highest-rated plugins
• Most improved plugins
• Biggest score declines
• Newly scanned plugins
• Newly discovered vulnerabilities
• Recently patched vulnerabilities
• Plugins becoming stale
• Stable plugin rankings
• Vulnerability resolution tracking
• Plugin health trends

I think this could eventually be as useful as the individual plugin search.

For example:

Which popular plugins have fallen significantly in score this month?

or:

Which plugins in a particular category are being maintained most actively?

or:

Which developers are consistently fast at resolving security issues?

There's a lot we can potentially do once we have enough historical data.

Why V3 matters for us

The earlier versions were largely about proving that the idea worked.

V3 is more about building the system properly.

We've spent much more time on:

• scan reliability
• queue processing
• historical information
• validation
• scoring methodology
• mobile usability
• handling incomplete data
• keeping plugin information current

It's effectively the foundation we want to build the longer-term Kitgenix PluginScore platform on.

I'd really like feedback from regular WordPress users

I'm particularly interested in feedback from people who aren't necessarily security researchers or plugin developers.

If you're somebody who:

• manages your own WordPress website
• builds sites for clients
• runs WooCommerce
• maintains multiple sites
• regularly searches WordPress.org for plugins

I'd be interested in knowing:

What information actually helps you decide whether to install a plugin?

And:

What information do you wish WordPress.org made easier to understand?

For example, should PluginScore put more emphasis on:

• vulnerability status?
• last update?
• compatibility?
• support activity?
• number of installs?
• reviews?
• developer history?
• how quickly previous security issues were fixed?

Try some plugins you already know

Probably the best way to test it is to search for plugins you're already familiar with.

Search something you use every day.

Then see whether you think the assessment matches your own experience.

If Kitgenix PluginScore gives something you trust:

58/100

I'd like to know why you think that's wrong.

Equally, if it gives something you're wary of:

94/100

I'd definitely like to hear about that too.

Those disagreements are exactly what help us identify weaknesses in the scoring methodology.

Kitgenix PluginScore V3

You can try it here:

https://pluginscore.kitgenix.com/

It's free to use.

No plugin developer can pay to increase their rating.

And we're continuing to improve the scoring system as we gather more data.

If anyone here has plugins they know particularly well, I'd love you to throw a few of them into PluginScore and see whether you agree with the results.

I'm especially interested in hearing about scores that you think are wrong, because those examples are probably the most useful feedback we can get.

Landing page originated mainly from instagram (and others) with fewest clicks possible, please. I've created my own website on wordpress already, on my own, took me precious hours; just need a landing page now. Thank you for any help.

Half of the images on my very large website are throwing 404s. I've checked permissions and everything seems right, the files exist in wp-content and show in WP media, but show up blank. I can upload new files and images and they load just fine, and it doesn't seem to be specific directories or time frames that are being affected. I've been trying to fix this for hours with no resolution.

Any help? Example link: https://healgen.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Summer-Respiratory-Illness-Spike-768x402.png

I've been working the navigation menu for my site and have had some trouble with the links. The URLs for the links are correct, but they keep saying "invalid," as you can see in the first screenshot. The second screenshot states "Link is empty." My searches have turned up nothing. Any help?

ETA: When I save the template and view a page, the links do work-- however, I'd still like to know why it gives me this error. Thanks in advance.

I have a client that wants to download their full media library from WordPress. it’s about 4,000 items. unfortunately, they don’t know where the logins for the site host is so I can’t go through the cPanel. I looked up Export Media Library plugin but it hasnt been tested on their version of WordPress. does anyone have any safe alternatives to Export Media Library?

\**UPDATE*** - Thank you all for your input. I decided to go with the Wordpress 2025 theme, and so far my efforts are paying off well. Bit of a learning curve, but it's going smoothly. thank you so much!*

I'm not a pro web developer, but I did build a functioning site for my small brick/mortar business and it works fairly well. At the time(about 5 years ago) I used Kadence Pro, which I rather liked. It seems however that the Kadence folks have sold to some large company, and for a number of reasons, I'm not going to keep my site on that theme - so I'm doing a redesign.

I'm taking this opportunity to mildly redesign the site and have preliminarily selected Blocksy as my base theme/framework. I chose Blocksy after much research revealing it is well-regarded in the community as fast, lightweight and function-first.

After experiencing the sale of Kadence, I've begun thinking a little more downstream, and while Blocksy is purportedly "going nowhere" according to Gemini, that's what I would have said about Kadence years ago. So I'm looking to future proof my efforts and it seems that avoiding a scenario like the sale of Kadence involves owning a native block theme - enter Ollie.

I'm also open to options outside of Bloacksy/Ollie but didn't want to turn this post into another "what's the best theme" thread. Please make the case for/against Ollie as opposed to Blocksy, using the following criteria:

Features I'm looking for, in order of importance:

1. raw speed/preformance
2. user friendly design and editing
3. forever license so that my website's theme belongs to me and cannot be sold

A little about me:

• I understand basic html and css but not php or javascript
• I'm comfortable enough to not need a 'WYSIWYG drop/drop editor' like Divi
• I'm not opposed to a learning, so long as it's not incredibly steep. I definitely prefer check boxes and sliders as opposed to code

My site:

• 100% static content
• Pages:
  • Home
  • About
  • Contact
  • Services
    • Service 1
    • Service 2
    • Service 3
    • etc
• It's a computer repair business and the home page will be your basic outline with CTA throughout:
  • Hero
  • Trust section(s)
  • Service cards

Thanks in advance!

I don't remember when I added the AI plugin, but I had been seeing a widget in my Dashboard asking me to finish setting it up for about a week or so.

I finally finished the setup, and it's got this function to generate alt text descriptions for my photos. I run a travel photography blog, and I've got hundreds of photos that all need alt text added.

When I started blogging, I wrote the alt text for each image, but I quickly got tired of it and kept putting it off for later. This new function really is saving me from a nightmare of edits on my Media catalog.

EDIT: There are some caveats; the free tier only allows 20 uses per day, and you can only edit one image at a time.

Long term client whom always accepted my quotes used my highly detailed proposal to Chatgpt DIY a project. It's no where near as polished and it's not mobile friendly but I feel pretty used. Spent quite awhile on the scoping with them, suggesting improvements, user workflow enhancements and a bunch of outlining. I really over extended but that's also how I get accurate quotes.

Anyway for those in the game, what's your method for quoting on projects with unknowns, and how much detail do you give the client? maybe I should have asked for 50%?

Thoughts?

Hey,

Curious what everyone is using to connect their wp sites to Claude or ChatGPT, we are currently trying Easy MCP On Themeisle blog and I like how you can have tokens per user and logging, WPVibe look nice as well, but not sure about security and the cloud aspect.

WP updated over the weekend and now the elementor editor won't load. We use Elementor Pro and I disabled all plugins, cleared cache, made sure elementor is updated and event turned on safe mode. Nothing is working and Elementor support is slow.

Any suggestions? Healgen.com is the website if that helps.

What I found was once I connected to the CLI with Codex, I became much more powerful with the use of AI tools. From changing the theme to working on plug-ins to editing the content, I pretty much don’t even need to log into the admin at all anymore. Is quite a breath of fresh air. Just wondering if anybody else has done this and what things you’ve done.

I'm working on a a free and open-source project that allows websites to be published without a theme.

The basic idea is simple: the website provides the content, while the reader's browser provides the presentation. The reader can choose how they want web pages to look, and the same presentation can be used across pages from different websites.

If you've ever used an RSS or Atom feed reader, you've already seen a similar approach. The website provides a collection of documents, while the reader controls how they are presented. My project applies the same idea to individual web pages: you can open a single document directly in a browser tab and let the browser control its presentation.

It also introduces new features that aren't normally available on the Web, such as visible connections between fragments of text on different web pages.

This could be particularly interesting for personal blogs. If you don't care much about the design of your website and are already using a basic theme, why not let your readers control the presentation instead?

I've developed a WordPress plugin that implements the necessary functionality. It's flexible: you can apply it to your website as a whole or only to certain pages. You can also use it alongside your existing theme so that both the old and new approaches to publishing work simultaneously.

It's difficult to explain the whole idea in a Reddit post, so I've made a short introductory video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwwNvoXX484

I'm looking for WordPress site owners who would like to experiment with this new way of publishing. If you're interested, give it a try on your site and let me know how it goes. I'd be particularly interested in hearing about any problems or limitations you run into.

I was hoping I could tryout Wordpress without having to pay. My club's website is on SquareSpace and they have raised our subscription fee, so are looking at other options.

I installed Wordpress on my Raspberry Pi4, but if I want to try out a template, it says I have to pay. Is there anyway to try out templates without a subscription? I've been managing our site for several years, and if anyone else takes over, they will need a WYSIWYG to make changes.

I need some more experienced eyes on this but they have made the support premium only and i do not want to buy it right now in the testing phase. I hope someone here can point me in the right direction what happened and how can i make sure it never never happens again.

My Setup (across 4–5 WordPress sites i have used this Plugin with Cloudflare):
Disabled Elementor's own caching
No other caching plugins installed
Connected Cloudflare via API token and added everything they wanted in their documentation
Enabled Cloudflare CDN + caching
Left CSS/JS defer & minification OFF (Premium feature), and HTML minify OFF (testing phase)
Google Fonts optimizations: skipped (Elementor handles them)
"Auto Prefetch On Hover": ON
"Enable Disk Page Cache": ON (default)
Auto-updates in general for WordPress enabled for plugins/core/theme of course

What Happened:
Days 1–2: Everything worked flawlessly, it felt like cloudflare and this plugin worked good together and made my clients with a slower all-inkl hosting a lot faster and cloudflare handled all the delivering.

Day ~3–4: Client reported the site is broken
Solution: Manually purged cache → everything back to normal

Content has been static for months, no updates pushed during this period, i would know it was just a couple days

What I Can't Figure Out:
Why would cached pages break after a few days with no changes? Did cloudflare say this cache expired without any changes and decided to send broken stuff to the visitors? Why did it not load the cache new every 24 hours of 48 hours if something can expire?
How does Super Page Cache + Cloudflare actually work under the hood? Am I misunderstanding the caching flow?

What's the correct workflow to set this up once and never worry again? I need to be able to ignore these sites for weeks/months and know everything stays healthy. (I know i could use a SSG but i do not know how it will behave with contact forms in elementor so ill leave it for know)

Did I miss a critical setting? Are there hidden options or best practices I should have enabled from day one?

TL;DR: Super Page Cache worked great for 2 days, then client's site broke. Manual cache purge fixed it. No updates were made. What am I fundamentally missing about how this caching setup should work long-term?

I recently noticed that Sucuri found a virus on a site that Wordfence was installed on. and did not detect. Is Sucuri a better solution overall or does someone recommend paying for both?

I am building a Woocomerce site where I am selling a product in different Vials means a packet of 3, packet of 4 and so on.

On Shipstation these products are not added by Vials it’s just 1 product and they’re QTY.

Now since my Woocomerce have more products and different SKUs it’s not being Sync properly.

Dose anyone else faced this issue if yes please suggest how did you tackle this problem.

hi all, recently started my own personal blog and i'm still trying to get the hang of it. I don't reallly know what I'm doing (though I'm using a template) and i yap about diffferent topics on my blog (e.g. work and personal) What's the difference between a page & a post?

Hi everyone,

I have a luxury black car and chauffeur service in the Dallas-Fort Worth area website: blaccktieride.com.

My target audience consists of busy corporate executives, event planners, and high-end travelers who expect a flawless, premium experience. Right now, I feel like my website doesn't fully reflect that "luxury" status. It feels a bit dated, and more importantly, it isn't loading as fast as it should.

Current Setup:

CMS: WordPress
Theme/Builder: Divi
Caching/Optimization: LiteSpeed Cache plugin

The Core Goals:

Speed Up Performance: I'm struggling with heavy page bloat from the builder. If I turn on heavy optimizations like CSS Combine or Guest Optimization in LiteSpeed Cache, it tends to break my mobile navigation menu.

Modernize the Visuals: I want to transition to a more high-end layout. I am looking into cleaner typography pairings (like a sharp Serif header with a clean Sans-Serif body) and a matte dark color palette (deep charcoal over harsh pure black) to look like a premium fleet.

Optimize for Conversions: We have the traffic, but booking friction is real. I need to simplify the home page booking fields down to the basics (Pickup, Drop-off, Date/Time) without overcomplicating the initial user view.

My Specific Questions for the Community:

How can I safely configure LiteSpeed Cache with Divi so I don't break my mobile menu scripts when minifying/combining files? Which specific scripts should I exclude?
What layout modifications or UI tweaks would you suggest for the Hero section to make booking a ride feel effortless?
Are there specific design elements or imagery choices you've seen work well for luxury transportation brands to instantly establish trust?

Would love to get some brutally honest feedback on the current layout, technical optimization tips, or design inspiration. Thanks in advance!