I ran across this when looking at people's portfolio sites and I love the tiles in their gallery and its sorting system. Does anyone know how I could achieve this effect and what plugins I'd need (free).

Thanks!

https://hglightingdesign.com/

hi. i am an amateur web designer trying to make a magazine website of my own. i wanted to make it on wordpress initially but the bloat, security issues, and my want for this cool ipod interactive component i am still adamant on making happen and my annoyance with matt because i come from tumblr was putting me off. that's why i went with astro: it was faster, had more support for weirder stuff, and was a lot cheaper (i'm not keen on spending more than $5 for hosting monthly for the rest of my life).

as for site content, it'd be similar to other wordpress music mags i've seen (news, reviews, artist recs, photo galleries, team/author pages) and it was a great idea to do it frugally on paper but i think i am slowly driving myself insane with this site as the build problems and arbitrary code problems pile up. i think my solution would either use wordpress as a headless cms for my astro site or just wordpress if i get really fucking tired.

i've never used wordpress myself before, but i do have a background in amateur blog making so all i ask is:

1. what are the cheapest, least headache inducing, and most customizable ways/resources i can use to make a wordpress blog that will have a lot of posts and authors?
2. is it possible to use custom typescript components in wordpress or do i have to convert everything to javascript?

example of the component i frankensteined together with typescript and tears

Dear experts, I'm a newbie. Could you please tell me what's going on? I have already built the webpage using Elementor, saved it, and clicked on "Publish". However, when I opened the webpage using Google, I found it was still blank, exactly the same as when I first created the page. It seems as if my editing didn't actually get published. The page's publishing time was also at the beginning when I created the page. But when I clicked on "Edit" and "Preview", it showed the already-built website. What's the problem here?🤯

Hi everyone, I've just released a plugin called Your Right Campaign Voter Outreach that's designed to help small political campaigns in the US and Canada with door to door voter outreach and Get Out The Vote (GOTV) efforts leading up to an election!

The plugin allows a campaign to import a CSV of voter data from their local election authority, such as their local county, and use that data to create custom walk lists for door-to-door campaigning. The candidate or their campaign imports the voter data, then creates a list from that data that a volunteer can use to go house to house soliciting support. For the volunteer, the list appears in a custom volunteer portal where each voter's name and address is accessible to them.

As a volunteer walks their walk list, they can mark off each contact along with a relevant status, such as pledged to vote, not home, moved, etc. They can also mark whether a person has received a mail in ballot, voted early, etc as well as leave custom notes for each voter. The volunteer portal is optimized for mobile and designed to be used in the field. Volunteers can also search voters on their list by contact status, vote status and and name / address as well as filter their contacts based on even / odd addresses so one team can split up outreach on a single block.

All voter contacts are logged in real time and each volunteer can log a support score for a voter, indicating how likely a voter is to vote for the candidate's campaign. This tool is designed to make it easy for small campaigns who may be low on funds to easily manage Get Out The Vote efforts for local and municipal races.

Encryption of voter data is present out of the box and the plugin also supports storing a custom encryption key and salt in your wp-config.php file for extra security. Voter data is protected with custom user roles and the plugin makes it easy to set up volunteers who have access to walk a walk list or search and edit voter data. As far as I'm aware, this plugin is one of the only options available for a campaign who wants to truly self-host their own voter data for free.

You can download the plugin free on WordPress.org or learn more about the plugin on my website. I'm also working on creating a manual for the plugin that goes over the whole process of importing voter data and setting up a campaign in more detail.

Download Your Right Campaign Voter Outreach from WordPress.org

Hell everyone,

I'm looking for a backup plugin for WordPress which can backup to remote endpoints with FTPS/SFTP or webdav. It should support schedules backups and retention periods of at least 30 days.

I did checkout BackWPUp but it doesn't work with my FTPS storage (hetzner).

I have a couple of non commercial websites that are in no way critical but it would be nice to back them up.

I would appreciate any recommendations.

hit this on a woo/wp site and figured it's worth writing down before someone else marks a design task done too early.

i was making design/css changes, mostly on static pages. the layout kept looking broken. when i added a query string to the url, the page looked correct. that usually means something is serving an old cached version.

i cleared the normal caches: browser, private window, wp/plugin cache. still broken. later i purged the server/cdn page cache and the design came through properly.

so the checklist i use now after design-related changes:

1. check in a private window

2. clear wp/plugin cache

3. if it still looks wrong, purge server/cdn page cache too

4. only then mark the task done

plugin cache alone is not always the full stack. if a query param fixes it but a normal visit doesn't, look one layer higher before rewriting css again.

I am a software engineer with 8 years of experience and I need to start developing webs for some projects:

\- An art shop

\- A beach bar (with online shopping)

\- A clothes brand (with online shopping)

\- A site for a NGO

I may work in other projects in the future if I can keep the web development as a side job.

As other non-technical people might need to manage the site for uploading new products, news, interacting with users, managing contents... While keeping it powerful and being able to implement an online shopping system, I decided that WordPress is probably the best option.

I would like to apply some software engineering techniques to the sites: version control, CI/CD, testing, website for testing, local development, docker (or similar) support...

I have found the bedrocks ecosystem, which feels like WordPress with proper software engineering techniques already built-in. I have found that they already offer a software called Radicle that includes all the tools of the ecosystem, but its usage is locked behind a paywall. I am not sure if this is the right tool and I wanted to know what other experienced WordPress developers think about it, as I am seriously thinking on buying it. The fact that this is closed source code is a big if for me, but I understand that this is part of their business model.

Would you be willing to pay the $240 for unlimited sites when using Radicle? What is your experience with the bedrocks ecosystem, especially when it comes to a solution like Radicle? Do you think that in the long-term is going to save me enough time to make it worth of its price?

I read in other posts that some people consider it an over-engineered solution, but maybe it is better to have an over-engineered solution over needing to reinvent the wheel in each site just to be able to use basic software development techniques.

What do you guys think?

?? Thanks

Hi everyone,

I am writing about letting you know about my free and open-source theme and plug-in pair that comes with its own built-in accessibility checker: AWT.

Creating accessible web sites in WordPress with seamless mobile compatibility and dark mode support has never been easy, until now. Meet AWT: it's accessible, free, and open-source.

If you give it a try, let me know your thoughts. Thanks.

Hello Everyone,

I'd be intrested in the fact, that how do you deal with the different policies (Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, Cookies Policy, Complaints Policy, Appeals Policy, Malpractice Policy, Adjustment Policy)?

Do you have own implementations, use plugins or do you handle them on other levels - for example in different contracts?

Thanks in advance,

T.

I'm looking for something that sounds incredibly simple, but I can't seem to find a plugin that actually does it.

Here's what I need:

• One central dashboard on the main site to manage banners, images, or custom HTML.
• Ad placements across multiple sites in a WordPress Multisite network.
• Centralized control — update the content once, and it automatically updates across all sites.
• Simple integration — ideally using shortcodes, widgets, or predefined ad placements.

Basically, a lightweight ad management plugin, but built specifically for WordPress Multisite.

No complicated ad server, no external platform, no unnecessary features. Just a simple way to distribute and manage promotional content across a network of websites.

Am I missing something obvious?

Surely I'm not the only one who needs this?

Has anyone found a plugin that does exactly this? Or is this genuinely a gap in the WordPress plugin ecosystem?

Hi, I created a menu with unlinked header items and linked sub-items. I used the method of putting a # inside the URL, and then moved the sub-items underneath that. The problem is that the menu doesn't work in the footer. It only displays the header menu item. How would I get the sub-items to appear? The site is unrecables.org.

Two quick questions:

1. Since you use WordPress, what are the must-have plugins you recommend for a website?
2. How has AI helped you with design? Have the results been good, or do you still prefer traditional design methods?

Hello everyone, i just would like an easy form builder that is not contact form 7. I dont know but i think the plugin is not moving into the right direction? Any of you also changed to another clean thing (clean would be nice as i would like not to use something like Gravity) or evenbuilt something custom with Claude?

Thanks a lot for your help!

IM TRYING TO CONNECT TO MY ACCOUNT AND IM TRYING TO ACCESS THE PORTAL BUT ITS GATED BY AN EMAIL CODE THAT I DONT RECEIVE THE EMAIL TO.

NO SUPPORT NO NOTHING.

WTF IS THIS ?

Looking for something upscale, feminine, quiet luxury but serious at the same time.

Something like this? Any ideas for a home page hero like this? Was hoping to not have to build it out completely from scratch.

Thanks

With the 7.0 update, directly viewing and editing the code in-line on Visual Editor is no longer an option.

Has this change caused any issues for you? Do you think Wordpress should give back users the option to view and edit the code directly in-line on Visual Editor?

[Clarification: Viewing and editing the code is still possible, it's just that users now need to click on the block and open a modal to do so.]

[Update: A hero developed a plugin that enables code view by default!]

I have a products that I have edited pricing of now I want to edit my page with the price before clicking to get to cart. I had someone set this up for me. I am then editing the code and getting this when I click to publish my changes. The person has also set this up with elementor but when on my phone it's not letting me edit the actual text on the page. Anyone able to help me with how to do this as ChatGPT hasnt gave me the answers lol

Whenever I send a link for my blog to someone it seems to pull through the web url as normal but it says underneath 'no title' and then pulls through a thumbnail image for a random image I've uploaded to my blog. Could possibly be the last image I uploaded.

How do I set this thumbnail image so its the same all the time (just my title and logo would be fine).

Gemini has given me mostly answers like use a plugin or CSS but neither are available to me whilst using the free version of Wordpress.

It did suggest uploading the logo image as a 'featured' image but that pulls it through full size into my home page and ruins all my formatting. So i really dont want it there. I'm tempted to create a random page and see if I can set the feature image there but surely there's a better way?

Hello, I am currently building an e-commerce website on wordpress.org. I have a product that has a monthly subscription as well as other plans. But the appearance of it on that product page, I would like to change. I want to change it to a drop-down menu instead of all of the plans listed.

The regular customizer won't let me change that part. I was trying to learn CSS but I'm still unsure about it and if it'll still be accessible after I change the code. I am new to WordPress, plugins, and coding, so any tips will be useful!

Edit: Changed my product to a variable product and just listed the monthly subscription as its own thing because the other option is behind a paywall. Thank you guys for the info!