Hi everyone,

I'm using the SheetLink plugin to send all the inputs from my free WPForms form to a Google Sheet. SheetLink is connected to my Google Sheet, but no matter what I do, the form inputs don't appear in the Google Sheet.

I've attached screenshots of:

- My WPForms form and a field ID

- My SheetLink rule

- The Google OAuth settings

- My Google Sheet after I click "Test" on the rule

I'm not sure how I should fill out the fields in the SheetLink rule. The SheetLink documentation doesn't seem to provide an example either. Whatever I enter in the Field ID and Keyword fields, it doesn't work.

Could someone please explain how these fields should be configured or point me in the right direction?

Thank you for your help!

It first loads fine, then squishes into this with a robot in pieces. What in the?

Sorry, early morning so had little imagination for the title!

A client receives a pdf report with real estate data. Their want is to be able to upload this pdf to their website and have the data mapped with defined fields (custom post type). Including images eg. somehow uploading images and again mapping to image fields.

This data would be presented to their clients in a nicely formatted pwd protected page.

Completely vague I know! But has anyone worked with a task like this? I have a feeling this is well beyond my pay grade.

Hey everyone,

A while back at work, we had to replace a stack of bloated role management plugins that didn't fit our setup. I built an internal tool to fix it, and it turned out pretty nice.

I took that base concept and rebuilt a new, lightweight plugin from scratch: Aikon Role Manager.

Open-sourced, MIT.

Core Features:

• Role & Capability Editing: Create, edit, or delete custom roles and modify individual capabilities with a clean UI.
• Post Type Overrides: Set capability overrides specifically per post type.
• Multiple Roles per User: Assign multiple roles to a single account for permission stacking.
• Instant User Switcher: Test role permissions in 1-click directly from the Users list (includes privilege escalation protection).
• Safety Settings: Lock down critical roles and post types to prevent accidental administrative lockouts or changes.

Since it was born out of real work frustrations, I’d love to get your feedback, hear about any edge cases, or take feature requests!

Plugin Page:https://wordpress.org/plugins/aikon-role-manager/

Source: https://github.com/aikonse/aikon-role-manager

I recently interviewed Kathy Zant at WordCamp US 2026 about AI transparency, privacy, and security for r/Wordpress website owners.

One of her most important points was that businesses outside the EU may still need to pay attention if people in the EU use their websites or AI-powered features.

Some of the issues we discussed:

• Whether your business is acting as an AI provider or deployer
• When users may need to be told they are interacting with AI
• Transparency requirements for certain AI-generated or manipulated content
• AI chatbots connected to WordPress
• The privacy and security risks of giving an AI tool access to personally identifiable information

The practical takeaway was to create an inventory of every AI feature being used on your website and ask:

1. What does this AI tool do?
2. What information can it access?
3. Are visitors clearly told when they are interacting with AI?
4. Are we the provider, deployer, or both?
5. What safeguards prevent the tool from accessing customer information it does not need?

Here is the interview:

Watch the Kathy Zant interview on YouTube

What are WordPress site owners overlooking most right now: AI disclosure, privacy, security, or access to customer data?

This interview is for general educational purposes and should not be considered legal advice.

This is the craziest summer I've ever lived.

Hallo, ich habe hier eine Homepage übernommen und soll die pflegen. Das Theme Avada ist noch in Version 4.0.3 installiert und das Plugin layerslider in 5.6.6. mein Kunde sagt das ist schon etwas älter ist, weil die Seite schon einige Wochen nicht mehr gepflegt wurde (ich glaube eher Jahre). Lizenz haben wir nicht mehr. Also müssen wir das Ganze jetzt neu kaufen. Gibt es etwas, was ich beachten muss beim kaufen beim Upgrade weiß das einer?

Hello, I have taken over a homepage here and should maintain it. The theme Avada is still installed in version 4.0.3 and the plugin layerslider in 5.6.6. my customer says that is already a bit older, because the site has not been maintained for a few weeks (I think rather years). We no longer have a license. So we have to buy the whole thing again now. Is there anything I have to consider when buying when upgrading, does anyone know that?

Does anyone else find it annoying that when creating a gallery in a block post or page using the default gallery block, there's no customisation options to make the gallery display as Mansory, or other types of views? I don't really want to install a plugin to be able to do that. Wordpress has a native gallery but it's just missing so much.

How does everyone solve this? Just curious. I've currently gone the way of custom CSS and assigning a class to the gallery and each image in it so it displays as mansory, but it's still annoying that this is needed.

I've been building something called Stonewright because I kept running into the same problem when using Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, and other AI coding agents on actual WordPress projects.

Giving an agent access to WordPress is easy.

Being reasonably confident about what it changed afterwards is the harder part.

So instead of making another thin REST wrapper, I started building the workflow around the write itself:

inspect → plan/dry-run → approve when needed → snapshot → write → read back → verify → audit/restore

Stonewright now works across Elementor, Gutenberg/FSE, WooCommerce, ACF, media, content, SEO integrations and WP-CLI.

Elementor is still probably the deepest part of the project because that's where I personally needed it most.

For example, after an Elementor mutation it can snapshot the document, perform typed writes against the actual Elementor schema, regenerate CSS for the specific post/loop target, read the result back and then require explicit frontend verification instead of treating a successful API response as proof that the page is fine.

Gutenberg also has a browser-assisted finalization path now for blocks that need the actual editor runtime to serialize correctly.

There are currently 389 Plugin abilities and 101 Direct tools, but they're not all dumped into the model context. Stonewright exposes smaller task-aware surfaces depending on what the agent is doing.

It's still a public beta and I absolutely don't claim automation can't break things. The goal is to make failures easier to catch, understand and recover from.

Free and open source:

https://github.com/cosmincraciun97/stonewright-wp-mcp

If you find something stupid, please open an issue. That's genuinely more useful to me right now than a star.

Hi,

We have been dealing with a pretty bad hacking attempt on a wordpress site.
I cant revel what site it is, but they managed to get in when Elementor was vulnerable in the last two weeks.

What they did.

Installed "User editor" and changed a few customer accounts to have full admin capabilities.
Installed GTM4WP plugin and the GTM-T77JRSFZ, this was only picked up from doing a pingdom/pagespeed test and the JS payload was there. This injected RIVBYTE.COM into the site

/019 this is the malware file, which is a CC stealer.
Wordfence nor Immunify picked this up.

After I spotted the odd GTM in pingdom have I managed to back trace the hack.

I have WP ACTIVITY LOG from melapress which was logging everything, and using CODEX found everything from the logs.

To top this off the modified the woocommerce/templates/checkout/form-billing.php

If you have been hacked recently this incase its wide spread!

I’m a web developer tired of just installing caching plugins. How do you properly diagnose slow sites (TTFB, DB, images, JS, plugins, etc.) and which tools + learning path actually teach this from beginner to advanced?

I’m a WordPress theme developer. I release free versions of my themes on the official WordPress Theme Repository and sell the Pro versions on my own website.

Recently, I’ve noticed that my Pro themes aren’t getting as many sales as I expected.

I’m curious about the current market:

- Are other independent WordPress theme developers experiencing the same thing?

- Has the demand for premium themes decreased?

- What’s currently working for you to convert free theme users into Pro customers?

I’d appreciate hearing about your experience, especially from developers selling themes independently.

Using Motopress (V6+) and experienced that booking do not sync ical for some properties within the same account. Each property has own Ical on motopress and on booking.com side.
What works is simply recreating calendar on booking and assing to sync calendars within motopress. That is not long term solution while every new booking demands this. No errors on booking.com or motopress/wp side. I do not expect immediate but in some timeframe up to 1 or 2h should be fine. Anyone else experienced similar? This is not isolated motopress issue rather booking.com but affects my product/service in general.

Website uses the Exit Game Child Theme and has ThemeREX Addons.

The site has an H1 title that says "Home", but it can't be seen when you visit the homepage. Google can still see it, and I believe it's not good for SEO.

I've been trying for a couple of hours to find where this H1 is coming from so I can change "Home" to something else or simply delete it, but I can't find it anywhere. I've looked through pretty much every setting I can think of.

Does anyone have any idea where else I could look or where this might be coming from?

https://preview.redd.it/7tcflhp42plh1.png?width=909&format=png&auto=webp&s=22ecef796469abdf3c517098af07433a8ada7700

Hi fellow redditors :)

I built my website for this niche passion project I have: https://tracksintime.com/ The idea is basically a gallery to recreate old pictures of derelict narrow gauge railways in Bosnia. Very niche, very special, very passionate about it :D I am not in IT at all, so I learned myself how to build a website, that was part of the journey for me.

Right now I am at my limits of what I can do with WordPress and while the website works, I am not 100 % happy with its functionality. The issue I have is with the interactive map, for example here: https://tracksintime.com/ostbahn-2/ You click on the marker and the pop up window that appears is the best I could do. I was imagining it would be bigger, you could browse pictures in it directly without clicking and opening a new window on top of this pop up, with tiny arrows to browse the pics. It is not very user friendly or intuitive.

It is built on following:

Theme: Twenty Twenty-Four
Map: Treweller
Settings for the marker look like this:

https://preview.redd.it/yi1jmbis0plh1.png?width=1052&format=png&auto=webp&s=dd475606d9c2aca4ee5eaba304c166b41ae17021

Do you know how to improve it? Are there better maps available? An other tip for the website? I feel it is maybe to complicated to get through all the pages to the final map (clicking on top on "list of railways", then choosing one specific railway..).

I was searching online and asking AI, but always ended up with some dead end suggestion..

Thank you.

Recently, I got a project to build an ecommerce website, and it’s been an interesting one.

Some pages were built with WPBakery while others used Elementor. I’m much more comfortable with Elementor, so I tried importing the demo content for the Elementor pages.

The problem? Some of those pages were apparently built specifically for WPBakery. When I tried opening them with Elementor, the layout was completely messed up.

So I decided to bite the bullet and rebuild the page from scratch in Elementor.

Then I hit another issue.

It’s a contact page, and I wanted to use Contact Form 7. But apparently, adding a CF7 form directly through Elementor requires the Pro version.

What confuses me is that Contact Form 7 is a separate plugin and isn’t even an Elementor feature. Why should I need Elementor Pro just to drop a CF7 widget onto a page?

Has anyone else run into this limitation with Elementor Free? What’s your preferred workaround?

Hey guys, I was wondering if someone could tell me how I could link the url attribute of the Gutenberg Cover block so that it can be populated with a custom ACF field.

As far as I can tell, the Cover block doesn't natively allow its url attribute to be bound, while there are other blocks, like core/image, that do allow bindings for some attributes.

Is it possible to modify core/cover so that it accepts a binding for its url attribute, or would it be better to create my own custom block?

This is related to a question I posted on Reddit a few weeks ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/s/CJNbItoLvX

Thanks a lot!

I’ve been working on WordPress malware and compromised website cases, and one pattern keeps appearing: removing the visible infected files often doesn’t solve the actual problem.

A site can look completely clean and still contain a hidden persistence mechanism.

Some of the areas I normally investigate include modified PHP files, wp-config.php, .htaccess, functions.php, wp-content/uploads, unknown admin accounts, wp_users/wp_usermeta, database injections, wp_options, malicious cron jobs, compromised plugins/themes, and other hidden backdoors.

This becomes even more important when several WordPress installations are hosted under the same hosting account. Cleaning only one site may not be enough if another compromised installation is responsible for reinfection.

I’ve also seen cases involving spam URLs, gambling/casino injections, malicious redirects, SEO spam and unauthorized administrators.

My approach is therefore: identify the infection → investigate persistence → remove malicious code → check the database and users → close the likely entry/reinfection path → harden the site.

If anyone here is dealing with a WordPress infection that keeps returning, feel free to describe the symptoms. I’m happy to suggest what areas I would investigate first.

Need help please. I am having issues with Nsv menu in the header.

I am using Elementor Pro once setup the nave menu is not been responsive in a search engine like Google hie does this get fixed

Thanks

I'm having an issue where many of my images are cropped top and bottom on iPhone but not on desktop. I've tried using different blocks, checked all settings, but no luck.

The first three images are good, after that they are cropped (only on mobile view). They look fine in the editor btw. Any ideas?

https://www.abiggercamera.com/darins-photos/