does anyone know what is causing this issue and how to fix

Hi everyone,

One of the biggest headaches when handing off WordPress and WooCommerce sites to clients is dashboard bloat. As soon as a few key plugins are installed, the admin sidebar turns into a wall of menus, settings pages, and upsell tabs that overwhelm clients and generate unnecessary support tickets.

To solve this cleanly without adding bulky third-party dependencies, I built Precise Expressions Admin Menu Reorganizer Lite.

Lite features:

• Create up to two effective custom menu rules.
• Move Comments under Posts (built in).
• Add the WooCommerce Catalog Hub with links to common product and store screens.
• Rename moved menu items and retain their capabilities.
• Preserve saved historical rules beyond the Lite two-rule entitlement, so upgrading, downgrading, or a Pro license change never deletes those rules.

The Lite version is 100% free and open-source on the official WordPress repository:

WordPress.org: https://wordpress.org/plugins/precise-expressions-admin-menu-reorganizer/

Would love candid feedback from fellow agency owners and freelancers on the setup workflow and edge-case compatibility with complex admin setups.

I'm trying to move a WordPress site from LocalWP to my live hosting account using a 478 MB backup file. Every time I try importing it, the progress bar freezes at exactly 66.53%. I've tried three times with the same result. I've already increased PHP memory and upload limits, checked cPanel error logs (nothing useful), and confirmed there's enough room to upload the file. The weird part is that the live website and WordPress dashboard still work perfectly fine, even while the import is frozen.

I'm wondering if it's a server timeout, temporary storage issue, or something else I'm overlooking.

Has anyone experienced something similar? Any suggestions for troubleshooting a large WordPress migration? I've reached out to my hosting provider too but figured I'd ask here while I wait.

Thanks in advance.

Hi folks!

I used a paid WordPress plan and need to be able to schedule posts. However, an extra team member acts as an editor and we've been having issues.

Any tips?

I noticed the last couple of weeks a sudden drop in sales, and after letting the Google Analytics ai bot analyze what changed it told me there was a 48% drop in traffic from wordpress.org to my site.

My plugin still ranks #1 for a keyword that matters, and it has been in that position for almost a decade. So that's not the issue, but I wonder if this is just me, or are other plugin developers noticing a huge drop in traffic from wp.org?

If others are experiencing the same issue, any idea what's behind it? Yes, ai exists, but everything was completely fine the last couple of months. It's the sudden drop that confuses me. No new competition appeared as well.

I've been running a web site (clevershark.com) on Wordpress since, well, forever. Recently for some reason I've been getting 100+ hits a day from China, mostly to the front page, from different users (according to my Jetpack stats).

Now, I use a caching plugin already (WP Fastest Cache) but when I monitor the mysql log -- which really only runs that one web site -- I'm still seeing TONS of traffic. If I use tail -f on the main mysql log it scrolls by way too fast for me to see anything. So I'm guessing that the caching plugin I'm using is not very effective. There just shouldn't be that many requests, or at least that's what I think.

So, what would be a better caching plugin for me to use? When I try to see the stats for my site I often get the "database connection error" message which would seem to indicate that the db engine is overwhelmed by the requests, forcing me to restart the mysql and apache daemons.

Am I interpreting this correctly? Does anyone have suggestions as to what I could do to remedy this problem?

Edit for more info: I am using wordfence, and it is blocking things like invalid login attempts. My Jetpack stats do show that almost all the requests are for the front page. I was thinking maybe someone is trying to figure out if I'm running an unpatched version of PHP (nope, I'm up to date), but it makes no sense for anyone to check this 100 times a day.

Does anyone have any experience with 889 compliance for Wordpress? My org is asking that all vendors fill out a form verifying that they don't use telecomms or surveillance equipment from some places in China, because we do a lot of business with the fed.

It feels like a fundamental misunderstanding of what Wordpress is - WP isn't hardware? But unsure how to explain this in a way that makes sense to my (very paranoid, tech illiterate) org.

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For the past month or so, I’ve been testing my internal linking plugin for WordPress on different websites.

It was recently accepted into the official WordPress Plugin Directory.

The goal was to have a clean, lightweight solution that offers smart internal linking suggestions without fully automating the process.

Plugin Name : MashLink Auditor https://wordpress.org/plugins/mashlink-auditor/

It also work with ACF fields and custom posts.

Also flag too much anchor text use, broken links, redirection links correction, etc.

Do give it a try!

I would like to get some reviews for my plugins.

Not sure how to go about doing that. What is the best way you've found?

My audience does not really have WP sites.

2026 has been a year of change for those of us who build and manage websites; I have a feeling that many of you are on the move, migrating websites from one CMS to another or building without it. AI is enabling rapid changes on all fronts. Broad market-share numbers tell us very little about your experiences building and managing websites with different tools; that is why I hope that we, as a community, can close this information gap with our own open-source State of CMS survey.

stateofcms.com

Since 2016, the developer community has been conducting annual surveys on frameworks and programming languages. Many of you have probably participated in State of JS, HTML and CSS. But what about those of us working with CMSs? No equivalent survey exists for our community.

The anonymised results will be freely available on GitHub. I will also create and publish an interactive report, but I am especially excited to see what the community does with the data.

Hello,

Kind of a rookie question I guess, but I am struggling to find the best practice. Here is the full view.
I have built a e-commerce website on wordpress. I am using kadence free as theme + I also have woocommerce (I use also polylang for translation, but unrelated to the topic i suppose).

I am starting to look at enhancing my product page, which looks quite kadence factory default. However, options in Appearance < customize are very limited. What would be the best way to remodel my page :

• build a child theme and directly modify css + php there ?
• simply change CSS in "Additional CSS" ? This part looks already quite messy and a future nightmare to maintain and add code snippet for php related stuff ?

Basically, the main features I would like to add would be the redesign of the image + miniatures display, add somes tags like the difficulty level of the product, its size. (those are existing attributes i have)

Hey everyone, just curious about the current freelance market.

Are clients still asking for WordPress for larger CMS sites, or are you all moving to Astro?

Also, with all this AI slop and 'vibecoded' sites everywhere looking exactly the same, are clients actually telling you they can just generate websites themselves now?

Despite the AI boom, solid WP sites still seem to hold the most authority. Are you sticking with WP, changing stacks, or just dealing with clients who think AI can build a pro site in 3 minutes? Thoughts?

Thank you for any reactions.

Hello,

Is there another CMS exactly like WordPress, but built with Node.js?

Thanks.