Is this happening to anyone else? I'm a Kadence lifetime user. My license key is not working as of this week so when I try to build with premium layouts I get an error message. I contacted support on Tuesday and again later this week and have not had a reply...I was hoping for a fix before the weekend, but that looks like it's not going to happen.

Hi!

Does anyone know how to transfer system.io domain to wordpress? A step-by-step would be helpful.

Thanks!

So it’s been a few weeks since 7.0 has been released and I’m kinda surprised nothing happened. No cry’s or screams of fear that peoples sites haven’t burned down. Does this mean that things are safe or is everyone like me waiting for 7.01 and others to say it’s good to go?

This is a warning for anyone looking at Kadence right now about what will be coming and we we all know it.

Liquid Web, after buying Kadence (or before I have never heard of them until this sale), seems to have fully embraced the AI build process from Claude Code. All tells are there. Its a clone of any other Claude website with the eyebrows and the numbers. They are going to sell "Kadence AI" soon, and I expect fully that Kadence is now a pile of shit owned by equity. I can't fault whoever built it for running with it and closing the sale. But as a "Founding" lifetime purchaser for Kadence, I can't recognise what I am looking at.

Kadence will be recommended a lot, and is here, because it's generally a good theme with great hooks and is good enough for a developer that needs to hand a site a customer wants a bit of control over.

But watch out. Don't invest today for something that might be milked for everything it can be by the new owners.

Liquid Webs website is absolute horse shit. Its a testament of the money hungry hype train of AI and if you think Kadence is safe now you are probably in for a surprise.

My suggestion:

Learn to FSE, learn to ACF Pro with Gravity Forms and CPT and templates. Learn to develop WP and don't settle for what's coming. Don't settle for a builder, or a theme or anything bundled and sold, especially if you are going to rely it for income.

We dropped Kadence about 2 years ago for full FSE or ACF/Templates, but I have a few legacy sites on it. And I went to do some work for a customer and realised so much had changed in the ownership that the brand trust we had is now in the toilet.

Just be careful making a decisions about developing into something you have no idea what the road map is anymore.

I have launched my free WordPress app for macOS. I strongly dislike the Gutenberg editor, and I couldn't find a Mac app with an onerous subscription. I built this entirely in Claude Code, but I still think it turned out really well.

https://cpoteet.github.io/Quill-Releases/

Hey everyone,

I’ve fully transitioned away from heavy page builders and now build exclusively with native blocks to keep performance tight and avoid bloat. The speed improvements have been great, but I’m running into a workflow shift when handing sites over to clients.

With older page builders, it was relatively easy to lock down specific elements so clients couldn't break the layout. Now, with the block editor, giving them the freedom to edit content sometimes means they accidentally delete a container or mess up a flex layout.

For those of you doing custom block-based builds for clients:

Are you heavily using templateLock on specific patterns and blocks?

Do you rely on a specific role manager setup to restrict block access, or keep it strictly native?

How do you strike the balance between letting clients edit text/images easily without letting them destroy the carefully crafted structure?

Would love to hear how you structure your handoffs to keep the site safe from "accidental" client edits.

Hey there, I have a questions.

• What is the current Job Requirement for WordPress designer who design a website using Elementor Page Builder?
• What skills require to get a remote Job as a WordPress Designer?
• What is the Scope of WordPress?

Hello,

I need to set up a website for a car dealership and wondering what are tried n tested options.

I want a clean blocked base website that will be fast.

. please suggest a good theme

Thank you

I am using webp images

But the avif is 50% smaller i really want to use it

But i am afraid of the browser comitablity

Hey...i will try to explain this.

I will start out by saying i am very new at this, and i have done multiple searches for this answer already...cannot find it, so that is what brought me here.

I purchased a domain via namecheap. I got that working with wordpress. I was able to navigate to my website with said namecheap domain.

Then i realized as i was typing out the email address associated with that name of my company ,i thought it seemed too long long to write out in an email, so i set up a shortened, alias domain within google, so people could type out the shorter version when emailing me.

So i was testing the email, and realized nothing was going through to that alias email address.

So in namecheap, i changed the nameserver from custom DNS, back to BasicDNS. The email then started working.....

HOWEVER....the URL no longer worked for my website. I dont know why.

Can i not have a BasicDNS use a google alias, AND point that URL to my wordpress site?

Hope this makes sense.

Howdy,

I started work on Pixy Image Optimizer late last year and it has landed in the WordPress plugin directory today. It requires no registration, works across Apache, LiteSpeed and Nginx without configuration, and will convert and compress AVIF and WebP in bulk or on demand (real time). It’s free to use and the goal is a faster website. Here is what it has to offer:

• Speed Mode: it’s toggled ON by default and will rewrite image links on the site. Optimization happens on the go, and the format (AVIF, WebP, or fallback to MozJPEG) is selected in real time. Toggle OFF if you prefer serving images locally. Works on any server or hosting account that can run Wordpress regardless what image manipulation libraries are available.
• Bulk Optimize: Convert your entire library to AVIF, WebP, or both. Works on any server or hosting account that can run Wordpress regardless what image manipulation libraries are available. In this case optimized versions are saved next to the originals and served locally via rewrite rules in .htaccess (Not working with Nginx in this mode).
• Lazy Load + LQIP

In both modes AVIF is the preferred format, WebP is served as a fallback, and if WebP is also not supported by the browser, compressed images in original formats are served.

The primary goal is site speed, so the plugin probes random mobile and desktop visitors asking them to compare optimized vs. unoptimized images anonymously. The RUM data is reported directly to the stats dashboard for convenience. So is the PageSpeed Insights score which is tested and updated every now and then, so you can have a more complete picture of your site’s performance without running tests manually.

For now Pixy won’t delete the originals, thus at the time it can’t help if the goal is to free up space, but it will also not occupy space with optimized versions unless you use the bulk optimizer.

It also won’t work on LocalWP and other local installations.

Here it is: https://wordpress.org/plugins/pixy-image-optimizer/ and should you give it a go, I’d be thankful for your feedback and your ideas.

A while ago I released a simple plugin that hosted Google Fonts locally.

It worked, but after optimizing WordPress sites for clients over the years, I kept running into the same font-related problems:

• Sites loading 10+ font files when only a few were actually used
• Multiple font weights downloaded but never rendered
• Google Fonts coming from themes, plugins, page builders, external CSS, and JavaScript
• Fonts being preloaded unnecessarily
• CLS caused by fallback fonts not matching the real font metrics

Most font plugins solve the first problem: host Google Fonts locally.

But I wanted to solve the rest too.

So over the last few months, I rebuilt the plugin completely into EasyFonts 2.0.0.

WordPress.org: https://wordpress.org/plugins/easyfonts/

Current features

• Real browser usage tracking — measures which fonts and weights actually render for real visitors.
• Used vs Unused font reporting — quickly identify fonts and weights that are never used.
• Smart font preloading — automatically preloads above-the-fold fonts based on real usage data.
• Zero-CLS fallback fonts — generates metric-matched fallback fonts to reduce layout shifts.
• Combine all font CSS into a single optimized stylesheet and remove duplicate font-face rules.
• Automatic local hosting of Google Fonts with no manual setup required.
• Detect fonts loaded from almost anywhere — stylesheets, @import, inline CSS, theme/plugin CSS files, external stylesheets, and Web Font Loader (webfont.js).
• Variable font support for modern font delivery.
• Inline font CSS option to eliminate additional requests.
• font-display control (swap, optional, fallback, block, etc.).
• Font subset optimization to reduce font file sizes.
• Bunny Fonts support.
• CDN support for hosted fonts and stylesheets.
• Per-family and per-weight Load / Preload controls.
• Multisite support.
• WP-CLI commands.

The feature I'm most interested in getting feedback on is the usage tracking.

The goal is to be a genuinely useful free alternative to OMGF, while also solving some of the font optimization problems that self-hosting alone doesn't address.

I'd love honest feedback from people already using OMGF, Bunny Fonts, Perfmatters, or self-hosting manually.

What font-related issue do you still struggle with?

And what feature would make you consider switching from your current setup?

Hi Everybody!

I'm trying to diagnose a very strange performance problem and I've reached a point where I can't figure out what's actually happening.

The site runs on WordPress and uses the SmartMag theme. I bought the theme for around $100, but unfortunately my support period has already expired.

The weird part is that after a lot of testing, the evidence keeps pointing back to SmartMag itself, which doesn't make much sense because it's a very popular theme with thousands of installations.

Here's what I've tested so far:

Switched to a default WordPress theme → performance becomes excellent. Switched back to SmartMag → performance degrades dramatically under concurrent load. Disabled every single plugin. Disabled SmartMag Core. Disabled WP-Cron. Checked OPCache. Checked MySQL performance. Checked autoloaded options. Checked custom code in functions.php. Query Monitor doesn't show any obviously slow SQL queries.

Some numbers:

Default WordPress theme

-50 concurrent users -~28ms average response time -Handles the load without any issues

SmartMag (all plugins disabled)

-50 concurrent users -~12-20 seconds average response time - Massive slowdown

I also created a simple test page with almost no content and the problem still exists.

Even more interesting: when testing a file that only loads WordPress via wp-load.php, I sometimes see execution times around 0.2 seconds, but under load it can occasionally jump to 5-6 seconds.

This makes me think the problem happens somewhere during WordPress bootstrap or theme initialization rather than during page rendering.

At this point I'm not trying to blame the theme. Since SmartMag is widely used, I'm assuming either:

I'm missing something obvious, There's a known SmartMag bottleneck, Or there's some interaction between SmartMag and my hosting environment.

Has anyone seen similar behavior with SmartMag or other large magazine/news themes?

What would you investigate next? Which hooks, theme initialization routines, or profiling tools would you focus on to find the exact bottleneck?

Any ideas would be appreciated because right now I'm running out of things to eliminate.

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Hey everyone! 👋

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Hey

I manage several WordPress sites and got tired of juggling WPScan, Lighthouse, and various SEO tools just to get a full picture of what's going on with a site.

So I built Pulse WP, a free tool that runs a complete audit in under a minute: security vulnerabilities (CVE database updated every 12h), performance, accessibility, and SEO.

Free, no account required. Would love feedback from people who actually maintain WP sites.

Scan your WordPress 👉 pulse-wp.com
Demo report 👉 pulse-wp.com/report/demo

I have installed Defender plugin for security but it keeps being the reason why my wordpress site is disconnecting to ManageWP... I already tried whitelisting all IP from manaewp.. How to fix this? I cant really uninstall defender

We have an issue with our mobile side. The addresses on our stores do not show up.

They show up just fine on the computer side and it does not matter which browser.

Everything on my Wordpress portal shows properly.

All my plugins are updated.

But when accessing on mobile devices, addresses don't show.

Any thoughts here?

Dan

No offense to Gutenberg fans — this is partly a joke, partly an experiment.

I’m testing a workflow in **Web2Elementor** where a Gutenberg page can be converted into an editable Elementor JSON template.

The idea is simple:

**Gutenberg page → conversion → Elementor JSON → import into Elementor → editable layout.**

https://youtu.be/pTmNtxzdK6E?is=97rFEu0vypTADwGz

Backend devs love clean blocks, structure, and “the WordPress way”.

Frontend people just want to move things 3px to the left and make the client happy.

I know this may sound like WordPress heresy, so please don’t burn me at the stake yet.

Would you use something like this, or are you staying loyal to Gutenberg? No drama, just frontend jokes.

**(Be gentle in the comments… it’s my birthday 😅)**

A discussion with friends and acquaintances made me think about AI bots and WordPress sites. They told me that Google, OpenAI, Anthropic and others run bots that crawl websites, partly for AI training, search, retrieval, or whatever else happens behind the scenes. They also said that allowing these bots might become important if you want your content to be mentioned, cited, or used in AI answers.

But from a normal WordPress site owner’s perspective, I see a basic problem:

How would I even know?

WordPress itself does not show me whether GPTBot, ClaudeBot, OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot or similar bots visited my site. Analytics usually shows human visitors and referral traffic, not raw crawler requests.

Many WordPress users also do not have easy access to raw server logs. And even if they do, they would still need to know which user agents belong to which AI crawlers and what those requests actually mean.

But the bigger question for me is this:

Even if I could see that an AI bot requested one of my URLs, how would I know whether my site was ever mentioned, cited, used as a source, or included in an AI answer?

With Google Search, we have Search Console.
With visitors, we have analytics.
With WordPress, we have plugins for almost everything.

But is there anything practical for AI crawler visibility or AI mentions?

Are WordPress site owners currently tracking this somehow, or are we basically blind unless we have server-log access and know how to interpret AI crawler requests?

The view count suggests people are at least curious, but the lack of concrete answers suggests the tracking side is still unclear.

[Update]

That makes me wonder how SEO people are supposed to measure this reliably. With classic search there is at least some kind of chain: crawling, indexing, rankings, impressions, clicks. With AI answers, I don’t see the same chain yet. If crawler visits, mentions, citations and referrals are all separate signals, how do we know what actually worked?

Hey everyone,

When I shared BrikPanel with you here 2 months ago, it had 80+ active installs and just 1 review on wp.org. Today it's at 200+ active installs and 17 reviews, all of them 5 stars. Before anything else, I want to thank the reddit community for giving the plugin this kind of momentum.

Over these 2 months I added some new features, and a few of them were things people requested in the last post. I'm sharing this post to show you what's new and to keep you in the loop on where the plugin is heading.

Here's the list of what 3.0 brought:

-Cohort retention, customer LTV, and RFM segmentation
-You can pull your Google Ads and Meta Ads spend into the panel and see your real ROAS and net profit (I'm still waiting on Meta's review approval, it'll be live in a couple of weeks)
-Two-way Google Sheets sync (edit stock/status in a sheet, it flows back into Woo)
-Site-wide Cmd/Ctrl+K search is here; orders, products, customers and pages all in one place
-You can export your dashboard data to Excel
-Bulk product editing can now update things like categories, tags and shipping settings too
-Added vendor support, so you can add different vendors and keep a list of them

Like I said in the previous post, let me repeat it here: the plugin will stay completely free on wp.org forever. I might add extra stuff on top as a paid version later on (I'm planning to build an AI mentor tool down the road), but this current version will always stay fully free.

Like the title says, my main goal is pretty clear: get WooCommerce as close to Shopify as I can, and show that the open source world can at least match closed source on quality when it comes to e-commerce.

There's still plenty missing; if you've tried it, write down what you didn't like or what's lacking, and just like last time I'll read all of it and add what I can. Thanks again, genuinely, to everyone who supported it, gave feedback, wrote a review, or said something kind.

🔗 https://wordpress.org/plugins/brikpanel-admin-panel-dashboard-for-woocommerce/