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Distance based shipping rate plugin?

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By: /u/Low-Kaleidoscope4767
14 August 2026 at 22:41

First time creating a WordPress site. I am a florist, and I need to create a place where customers can enter an address that they want their flower arrangement delivered to. I also want it to tell them how much it will cost to deliver to the address they entered. I want custom tiers: for example, 1-5 miles from my business would cost $3, 5-10 miles would be $8, 10-15 miles would be $14, 15-20 miles would be $21, and so on. Does it need to be a distance-based shipping rate plugin, or could it be done on a form plugin? TIA!

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Robots That Walk and Talk Are Coming To Car Factories

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By: BeauHD
14 August 2026 at 22:30
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: At a BMW factory in South Carolina, a human-shaped robot with a screen for a face recently stepped from a charging station toward a stack of green plastic boxes. It grasped an auto part from one of the boxes, pivoted, placed the part in a trolley, then pulled the trolley across the floor. The robot's slow, stiff movements suggested a worker with a bad hangover rather than a technological revolution. "They're still slower than humans," Ulrich Wieland, a BMW vice president in charge of logistics at the factory, in Spartanburg, told reporters invited to see the robot in June. But, he added, "they're advancing fast." Automakers have used robots for decades, but they are usually powerful, one-armed machines that are fixed in place and perform repetitive tasks like welding body frames or applying adhesives to door panels. Now, most major automakers are betting that robots designed to resemble human beings, known as humanoids, will usher in a new wave of automation and efficiency. Equipped with artificial intelligence, they are expected to move around and do tasks now done by humans without any modifications to factories or heavy equipment. Unlike most of the robots now in use, humanoids would respond to voice commands and theoretically solve problems and react to unforeseen events. They would never take a lunch break, join a union or require health insurance. To optimists, robots could rescue U.S. manufacturing by increasing productivity, solving shortages of skilled workers and giving Western carmakers a fighting chance at competing with Chinese rivals that enjoy lower costs. Boring but important jobs like sorting parts would be done by robots, freeing humans for more interesting and specialized work.

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Any way to easily replace Fancybox lightbox on WordPress theme?

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By: /u/artistic_engine
14 August 2026 at 20:46

Hey gang,

I've built a website using the Nostalgia WordPress theme. Link is below:
https://quanticalabs.com/wp_themes/nostalgia/portfolio/

I like most of what the theme has to offer, but my question is this: Is there a way to easily replace or override the lightbox gallery function with another? The one that is currently built into the theme is called Fancybox, and is utilized for image viewing in the Portfolio section. I'd like to deactive or replace it somehow with another type (Simple Lightbox, Firelight lightbox, etc.)

Would this require some hardcore PHP editing or are there tools out there (plugins, etc.) that would assist?

Thanks a bunch for your time,

_C

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Wordpress is Driving Me Insane

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By: /u/Infinite_Design_Ops
14 August 2026 at 19:40

I'm brand new to building a website. I need one for my business. I was under the impression I could learn Wordpress and use that. I was under the impression it was somehow user friendly.

I'm accustomed to learning curves when using new software. But Wordpress is so convoluted. I can't figure out where anything is. I start typing some text into the page and then preview it and it's not there on my site. But there's a ton of other stuff I didn't add which is there. All from the theme I guess. I can't figure out how to edit the theme or the text or get anything to work the way I want it to.

I've spent days and I just can't figure out this block editor thing. It's driving me insane.

Any thoughts or advice?
How to make this work?
More training needed?
Or is it just really bad for beginners?

Why can't Wordpress just be a WYSIWYG editor that lets us drag and drop items onto the page and then edit them however we want? That's what I thought it was 🙁

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I’m trying to make this Notion CRM actually useful what would you change?

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By: /u/eve9656
14 August 2026 at 18:44

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I’ve been working on a Notion CRM for small agencies and service businesses, and I’m at the point where I’d rather get honest feedback than keep adding random features.

The main workflow is built around:

Leads, companies, contacts and deals being connected

Deal health based on expected dates

Weighted pipeline value based on deal stage

Automatically organizing connected information when a deal becomes Won or Lost

I’ve included an example with realistic data so you can actually click through the workflow instead of just looking at screenshots.

If you were using this for your own business, what would you change, remove, or add?

Especially interested in anything that feels confusing, unnecessary, or like it would become annoying once the database gets bigger.

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Ex-Cambridge Professor At Center of Plagiarism Row Found Dead

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By: BeauHD
14 August 2026 at 18:00
Former Cambridge professor Jason Arday, who resigned last week amid allegations of plagiarism and questions about his academic record, has been found dead at age 41 in London. The BBC reports: Jason Arday was found "unresponsive" at an address in Battersea, south London, on Friday afternoon, emergency services said. Metropolitan Police officers were called by the London Ambulance Service. A 41-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene and his next of kin have been informed, the force said. Arday resigned as a Cambridge professor of sociology of education last week after allegations of plagiarism and questions about some of his achievements. He had denied the claims. In a statement, the Met Police said: "At this time his death is being treated as unexpected, but is not believed to be suspicious." The 41-year-old academic had denied any plagiarism - but admitted errors in his work - and last week said the recent furore had led to "an unrelenting level of public scrutiny and personal attack." The row first erupted after another academic -- self-defined "race realist" Nathan Cofnas, who was sacked from his Cambridge role in 2024 -- said he found numerous instances of plagiarism in Prof Arday's work and questioned some of his stated achievements. [...] Announcing his resignation last week, Arday said the "personal cost" of the scrutiny had become "too great." He said: "While criticism is an inevitable part of academic life, what I have experienced has gone far beyond scholarly disagreement. "The relentless accusations, speculation and public commentary have taken a profound toll on me and on those I love." He stressed that his resignation should not "be mistaken for an acceptance of the narratives that have surrounded me."

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Flock Announces Changes Amid Backlash Over Its License Plate Reader Network

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By: BeauHD
14 August 2026 at 17:00
Flock Safety is tightening controls on its nationwide license plate reader network after mounting backlash over privacy and documented police misuse. By January 1, law enforcement customers will be required to use automated auditing, tie searches to specific case numbers, and accept a shorter seven-day default retention period. Critics, including the ACLU, argue the changes still leave too much surveillance power in police hands. The Associated Press reports: In an interview, Flock CEO Garrett Langley said many of the product changes will make what were once optional guardrails mandatory for its users to implement by Jan. 1. Among them: All law enforcement customers will have to implement an audit tool that's intended to flag abnormal search behavior. When the system detects abnormal behavior, the user would be locked out pending an internal review, the company said in a description of the changes provided ahead of Thursday's announcement. Flock, which says its customers own the data that the cameras record, is also shortening the standard data retention window from 30 days to seven. It said it will allow data to be preserved for longer when it is evidence tied to a case number. Law enforcement users will now also be required to enter a code from their records management system tying each search to a specific case before it is run, something Langley said civil liberties advocates have long been calling for. Overrides for emergencies would be automatically flagged for review, the company said. Customers will also be allowed to decide which offense types -- such as homicide or arson -- outside agencies can search their data for, which would allow a customer to block outside searches related to immigration enforcement, the company said. Langley said that change will give individual cities and departments control to use the system in a manner "consistent with community values." Critics say Flock's changes don't address the core problem: police can still decide for themselves when and whom to search without judicial oversight. The ACLU called the shorter data-retention period "a step in the right direction," but dismissed the other safeguards as "retreads" of inadequate protections, while Institute for Justice attorney Robert Frommer called the reforms "window dressing" from a company in "panic mode." He argued that searches should instead be approved "by judges with real warrants."

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Problème de stock sur ma boutique Woocommerce

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By: /u/queenlou93
14 August 2026 at 17:59

Hello la commu,
J’ai créer une boutique en ligne avec Woocommerce sur mon site WordPress en revanche, j’ai des problème de stocks.

Lorsque je renseigne une quantité définie pour un produit, lorsque certaines personnes commandent, les quantités restantes sur le site ne correspondent pas avec les quantités vendues. Idem lorsque j’exporte sous Excel les ventes, je ne retrouve pas les mêmes chiffres sur mon site.

Quelqu’un aurait-il une solution ?

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DIY reporting tool for collecting customer problems/topics from CS?

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By: /u/sunrisedown
14 August 2026 at 15:38

Hi there,

Are there any recommendations for how to collect/report/quantity the topics and problems customers contact customer service for?

Meaning the CS agent afterwards inputs what it's about, some context potentially etc.

Though effort and friction needs to be low to ensure adoption and usage.

If there are good commercial or open source solutions, I'd be happy to learn about them.

For moving forward, I'm at first thinking ieally DIY solutions as software implementation takes ages.

Hence successful DIY solutions that make use of, widely known office tools, Microsoft 365, excel, power BI or similar would be of special interest.

Wondering how to build up and grow the pre populated topic selection without insight into what's incoming yet? Any templates to get inspired by?

How's this kind of work step or software actually called in the CS/CRM field? Not even sure what to search for to learn about best practices...

Thanks a lot!

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France's Top Court Blocks Social Media Ban For Under-15s

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By: BeauHD
14 August 2026 at 16:00
France's Constitutional Council has struck down a law that would have banned children under 15 from social media, ruling that it disproportionately restricted freedom of expression and lacked adequate privacy safeguards around age verification. President Emmanuel Macron has asked the government to rewrite the measure, with the goal of putting a revised version in place before spring 2027. Reuters reports: "The Council holds that the contested provisions, on the one hand, disproportionately infringe upon the freedom of expression and communication and, on the other, fail to provide the legal safeguards necessary to ensure the right to respect for private life," it said. French lawmakers had approved the bill in July, becoming the first in Europe to follow Australia, whose world-first ban barred access to platforms including Facebook, Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube for under-16s in December. Lawmakers there are considering stricter penalties after data showed mixed success. Countries around the globe, including China, the United Arab Emirates and Turkey, have either instituted measures intended to curtail or bar access to social media for young people, or have said they were planning them. The European Union has said it was planning to seek stronger protections for children from harmful social media features.

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PBS Station Fears Losing 50TB of Data After Being Ghosted By Cloud Provider

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By: BeauHD
14 August 2026 at 15:00
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: After its cloud storage provider went defunct, a PBS affiliate decided to sue a data center provider to regain access to 50TB of TV shows, videos, and other data dating back 70 years. As reported this week by Current, a trade newspaper covering public broadcasting, St. Louis affiliate Nine PBS filed a lawsuit against Iron Mountain Data Centers on July 28, seeking access to the data. In the litigation filed in Denver District Court, Nine PBS says that its cloud storage provider, Open Source Storage (OSS), used one of Iron Mountain's Denver data centers to store the channel's data. However, OSS is being unresponsive, and Nine PBS says Iron Mountain has refused to release its data. The data in question includes the station's coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic, East St. Louis' history, The Great Flood of 1993, and over 11,000 files, The Denver Post reported in July. The lawsuit claims that "most" of the data is "unique and irreplaceable," according to the Post. Last month, a judge blocked Iron Mountain from deleting or modifying the data. In a hearing on Wednesday, a judge ruled that Iron Mountain must hand over any physical devices holding the data, Current reported today. The judge also said that Nine PBS must find a third party, such as a former OSS worker, who can help retrieve the data within 30 days and without sharing or corrupting data belonging to other OSS clients. Nine PBS is already communicating with a former OSS employee "who is willing to help," the report said. If complications arise, such as from the data being encrypted, another hearing will be scheduled. Nine PBS and Iron Mountain must provide updates by September 14. Iron Mountain's spokesperson said the company only provides physical infrastructure, such as the building, network connectivity, power, and environmental controls. "Our customers rent space for their servers and other hardware. These are the client's assets. We don't have access to the data on the hardware/servers because they belong to our customers," the company said. If it granted "unauthorized access to third-party hardware without a court order," Iron Mountain said the company would violate basic data privacy protocols, breach its contract with OSS, and "potentially [expose] confidential data belonging to other clients of OSS."

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When it comes to CRM for retail, what CRM are you using in 2026 and how are you using it?

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By: /u/Content_Most2673
14 August 2026 at 14:26

Our abandonment rate has been higher than I'd like for a couple of months and I haven't landed on a fix yet. People get most of the way through checkout or spend real time on a product page, then drop off without any clear signal why. Some recover on their own within a day or two. Most don't.

I've got a recovery flow running on email and I've been testing SMS on top of it, but I honestly can't tell how much of the return traffic is the emails doing their job versus people just remembering to come back on their own. Splitting the flow based on exactly what was in the cart versus sending a generic reminder feels like it should matter more than it does sometimes.

I'm stumped. What's actually working for people running abandonment flows right now? Email only, SMS on top, retargeting ads, some mix of those? And more specifically, how are you sequencing it, timing wise and message wise?

I'm not looking for the textbook answer, I'm more interested in what you've tested and kept because it worked.

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Booking system with conditional pricing or custom pricing

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By: /u/falison
14 August 2026 at 14:01

Looing for a booking system that allows this situation

Customer picks date + time, fills out form when booking, price changes based on their answers. So it calculates the price based on their responses, and charges that for the booking. I don't want it to be extras that they addon to a booking. It needs to ask questions and then calculate the price based on those answers.

I don't want to use a form plugin, as I need it to tie into a booking system. Using a form doesn't fix the issue of someone then needing to still pick a time.

I use Woo for other products sold on this site so happy to tie it into that.

Any suggestions? thanks

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2026 Drupal Association At-Large board election closing today 14 August, 23:59 UTC

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By: /u/cmkn
14 August 2026 at 13:58

🗳️ Board Election Reminder: Voting is currently open for the 2026 Drupal Association At-Large board seat! The Board Election is closing today 14 August, 23:59 UTC

That is:
- 7:59pm Eastern, Aug 14
- 4:59pm Pacific, Aug 14
- 05:30am on 15 Aug - India time
- 9:59am on 15 Aug - Australia time

Search for messages from "[[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])"to find your ballot

If you were signed up as a Ripple Maker (Drupal Association member) as of 24 hours before the election opened you should have received a ballot from Helios Voting. ( [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])).

Voting began 22 July at 00:00 UTC and closes 14 August at 23:59 UTC.

Learn about the candidates and the election timeline here:
drupal.org/association/board/elections/election-2026-dates-and-candidates

This election uses approval voting: rather than picking just one candidate, you may vote for every candidate you approve of, and the candidate approved by the most voters wins. More on how approval voting works:
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Questions or trouble voting? Contact [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])

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Ukraine Finds Nvidia AI Chip In New Russian Missile

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By: BeauHD
14 August 2026 at 14:00
Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from Kyiv Post: Ukraine's military intelligence (HUR) has identified an Nvidia Jetson Orin computer module inside Russia's new S-71 Monochrome air-launched cruise missile, potentially indicating the use of artificial intelligence technology in the weapon, the agency said Wednesday, Aug. 12. The finding was published in the 'Components in Weapons' section of the HUR's War&Sanctions portal, which documents foreign electronic components found in Russian weapons used against Ukraine. The latest research identified 35 electronic components in Russian weapons, according to the HUR. HUR specialists identified the Nvidia Jetson Orin module in the S-71 Monochrome, a new Russian air-launched cruise missile. The agency said the use of the computer module may indicate the integration of artificial intelligence technologies into the missile. The HUR did not provide further details on the specific functions performed by the Nvidia module in the weapon.

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How much does it cost to build your own CRM?

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By: /u/Jazzlike_Tooth929
14 August 2026 at 13:27

There are lots of features that are very specific to my company I wish I had available in a CRM, which don't exist in off-the-shelf tools.

Everybody says building CRMs (and indeed any software) has become absurdly easier thanks to AI. I'm not technical though, so I won't be be building this myself.

How can I hire someone to build a CRM for me? Where do I look for these people? And, most importantly, how much does it cost and how long does it take? Any hint would be extremely useful

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Judge Orders Google To Make Rival App Store Installs Easier

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By: BeauHD
14 August 2026 at 13:00
A federal judge has ordered Google to remove what he called "anticompetitive friction" that makes rival Android app stores harder to find and install. The order is part of the remedies stemming from Epic's antitrust victory, which already requires Google to carry competing app stores inside Google Play and give them access to its app catalog. The Verge reports: It's been nearly three years since a jury unanimously decided that Google had an illegal monopoly over Android apps, and almost two years since Judge James Donato decided the best way of undoing that monopoly would be to crack open Android app distribution. Donato ordered Google to carry rival Android app stores inside its own Google Play Store, and to provide rivals with complete access to Google's full catalog of apps, for several years. But Epic argued that Google is still making it too difficult to install rival app stores, showing the entire courtroom a live demo of how many steps it currently takes -- and Judge Donato agreed that some of those steps were unnecessary "anticompetitive friction" and ordered Google to remove them. [...] The judge wants these changes fast. "Have it done by a week from today," he told Google. "If there's some problem with that, let me know."

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