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Setting up a learning website for referred clients only

25 August 2026 at 19:08

Good day everyone,

I'm working on a website that's basically a learning platform open only for existing company clients + their referred family and friends, so basically an entire referral-only based registration system. The courses are entirely free and there's only one membership tier... like I said the only "catch" is that it's only open for existing clients and their loved ones. The list of clients lives in Hubspot where we email them from, which will also be where we'll email them their referral links/codes from to subscribe to the course website.

We've already licensed LearnDash for building the courses, keeping track of user progress, certifying them etc., which came with MemberDash. As you probably know, LearnDash was already clunky on its own and hard to customize as precisely as we want (especially aesthetically for brand guidelines), but the bigger problem was that MemberDash kept causing issues. It was taking over our registration pages and forcing its "Pick your membership tier" interface on them (which like I said doesn't make sense as we only have one tier.) Its media protection features were literally hiding everything up to including the freaking site logo no matter how much I adjusted the settings, its "default" member pages looked like crap. It was just a nuisance, so we've deactivated it.

I've now installed Ultimate Member which has honestly been so much more efficient and streamlined in comparison (in an ideal world we'd have a free addon option where I can fully WYSIWYG customize the widget appearance in elementor to maintain brand guidelines, but hey, CSS exists + LearnDash has been just as much of an annoyance in that regard, so, what else is new. I'm literally just a designer not a frontend dev but learning CSS throughout this has been fun.)

Now as you may have guessed, what remains is to find a way to connect the website to hubspot to 1. Generate referral links/codes from client contacts on Hubspot 2. Allow only those with the links/codes to register (and generate other referrals later for their families if they'd like.) 3. Obviously we'd prefer if it were free at least to start. Idk if it's relevant but the number of clients is not huge (at least relatively); we're talking <4000 contacts.

Any reliable built-in or addon that can do that?

Thank you so much in advance.

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When I try to upload to WordPress, I get an error, and my websites' content disappears from view!

25 August 2026 at 16:32

My website hosting company claims everything is online. My other computer shows the same error, as do multiple browsers!

They give their usual "clear cookies and cache" advice, but private windows and Tor do not help either.

This happened once before but somehow resolved.

Any ideas?

Thank you.

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Submenus stuck open when using the navigation overlay.

25 August 2026 at 15:01

I've been building a website for my workplace, and for some reason follow the release of the new wordpress update there is a issue with the Navigation Overlay. The issue I'm having is that submenus when on the Navigation Overlay are stuck open and I don't know why. I've tried this with a new install of wordpress through local to check it's not just the website I'm building.

I've tried this on 5 different popular block themes and I'm getting the same issue, this is happening when the submenu visability is set to either hover or click. Here are some screenshots.

Any help would be welcome.

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PSA: Critical (9.8) account takeover in TranslatePress, update to 3.3.2 now

25 August 2026 at 11:37

https://preview.redd.it/mb2hmgs0ujlh1.png?width=2428&format=png&auto=webp&s=a0c69c72cdb3f65e680eaa240bc11eaa863faa80

Heads up if you run TranslatePress (Multilingual): all versions up to 3.3.1 have a critical unauthenticated account takeover vuln (CVE-2026-19632, CVSS 9.8). An attacker can pull the raw admin password-reset URL through an AJAX action and hijack the admin account. Wordfence reported blocking active attacks within 24 hours of disclosure, so it's being exploited in the wild.

You're exposed if automatic string saving is on (the default) and an admin's profile language is set to a published secondary language. Fix is to update to 3.3.2, or deactivate the plugin until you can. Source: Wordfence Intelligence.

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Creating a E-learning website for a client.

25 August 2026 at 12:40

I have been searching for awhile on the best way to design a single course website using WordPress also open to using other platforms if it would be more optimal, but still havent found a answer for my particular case. Basically my client has a English learning school that has 4 different course levels and wants to have a electronic platform as well so what would be the best way to design it if the site needs to support payment, live zooms, tests, landing page, student logins, easy to use dashboard to add new content, and a automatic creation of a certificate for each student.

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How to add a profile picture and description to bio for staff profile.

25 August 2026 at 12:38

We have a meet the team section in our Wordpress site that has multiple bio inserts. The bios can only be chosen from a select drop down and even when selecting the right person in the drop down the description and profile picture in their staff profile won’t translate to the bio. There isn’t any option for me to add a picture or description beyond what I put in the staff profiles section. I hope I’m explaining this right, but how do I add a profile picture and description to a specific persons bio for our meet the team page in Wordpress?

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Submenus stuck open when using the navigation overlay.

25 August 2026 at 11:18

I've been building a website for my workplace, and for some reason follow the release of the new wordpress update there is a issue with the Navigation Overlay. The issue I'm having is that submenus when on the Navigation Overlay are stuck open and I don't know why. I've tried this with a new install of wordpress through local to check it's not just the website I'm building.

I've tried this on 5 different popular block themes and I'm getting the same issue, this is happening when the submenu visability is set to either hover or click. Here are some screenshots

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How do you decide which security vendor to trust?

25 August 2026 at 10:21

I am handling a WP security product, so I have an interest here. I will not name it or link it, and I am not asking you to try anything.

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I want to understand one thing: how the security decision gets made for client sites at agencies and freelancers.

  1. How do you decide to trust one vendor over another? What do you check before it goes on a client site?
  2. Does a reseller or affiliate margin change which one you pick, or does it not matter?
  3. When a hack or a blacklisting happens, how do you handle the cleanup? Outsource it, your own team, or resell an existing service to the site owner?
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[PROMO] I built a SaaS for WooCommerce reviews and I'm giving away a free year to 25 users to get feedback

25 August 2026 at 09:31

I've been in the WooCommerce plugin space since 2017. I built CheckoutWC, which many of you might be familiar with, and sold it to Kestrel in 2024.

Earlier this year I launched a new SaaS called Reviewbird. My goal is just to provide the absolute best product review solution for WooCommerce.

But, transparently, in our new AI-saturated-slop-world I'm struggling to get in front of customers and make the pitch. And I'm struggling to get feedback - good or bad.

People register, I email them to ask them how things are going, and they never respond. This is very strange and new. I never had any issues getting feedback from CheckoutWC customers.

I don't know if this is because people are a bit checked out right now - constantly getting advertisements for new software products. Or they're too busy navigating tarrifs.

Or maybe it's a generational thing - the newest crop of solopreneurs just isn't very active on email?

I have no idea! (I'd love to hear what you guys think)

All of that to say, I really need feedback from real customers with real stores. So I'm going to give a free year to the first 25 people who want it.

How to get a free year: Just sign up and email support[@]reviewbird.com and mention this post. I'll do the rest.

All I ask in return is brutally honest feedback! Tell me what Reviewbird does well and what it sucks at. What it's missing. Basically tell me how I can help you grow your store.

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Need help with twenty-twenty-four I am at my LIMIT

25 August 2026 at 09:19

I’m having a strange issue with the WordPress Site Editor / block theme header.

My header looks significantly taller inside the Site Editor than it does on the actual frontend of the website. The spacing also seems inconsistent between the header template part, the full template preview, and the live page.

My header structure is roughly:

  • Columns block
    • Column 1: menu button
    • Column 2: site logo
    • Column 3: Group
      • Cover block used as a circular β€œBook a Table” element

I already checked or changed the following:

  • Header margin: 0
  • Header padding: 0
  • Cover margin: 0
  • Global block spacing: 0
  • Minimum heights
  • Cover aspect ratio
  • Removed the main Cover/image below the header to make sure it was not creating the gap

The strange part is that the same header appears with noticeably different heights depending on where I view it:

  1. Header template part editor
  2. Full template editor
  3. Actual frontend

There also seems to be extra white space below the header contents even though I cannot find any margin or padding responsible for it.

Is this caused by the Columns block, the Header template-part wrapper, global styles, or some editor-specific CSS?

I would mainly like to know how to make the header height consistent between the Site Editor and the actual frontend, and ideally control its height reliably.

In the Pics you can see how It is in the editor and then how it looks live.

EDIT: Guys I figured It out thanksπŸ₯Ή It was a padding thing. And it was hidden somewhere I could only find it when I was inspecting the element and I wouldnt figure it out because the live thing looked way different than the editor view. Seriously they gotta shut that down what the hell😫 Anyway thanks a lot!

https://preview.redd.it/47exgp1e5jlh1.png?width=1840&format=png&auto=webp&s=df256ea25e2aee39eb2c117dd19157df04464e68

https://preview.redd.it/l1zde6pf5jlh1.png?width=1906&format=png&auto=webp&s=3539618fa7a58fa0c20afecea9a0ebc9e9493acd

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[PROMO] I released a WordPress plugin that builds an LiteSpeed LSCache crawler sitemap from real visitor demand

25 August 2026 at 06:30

Full disclosure: I’m the developer.

Most cache-crawler setups start with a normal sitemap. But an SEO sitemap answers β€œwhich URLs exist?”, not β€œwhich URLs are actually worth warming?”

URLs Most Wanted records the URLs real visitors request, tracks their demand, validates them server-side, and generates a separate sitemap for the built-in LiteSpeed Cache crawler.

The idea is simple:

- URLs with demonstrated visitor demand can be warmed first.

- Rarely used URLs do not have to consume crawler resources repeatedly.

- Cacheable visitor paths such as pagination or filtered listings can be included even when they do not belong in a normal SEO sitemap.

The plugin does not replace LiteSpeed Cache or its crawler. It only gives the crawler a demand-based source of URLs.

Ask ChatGPT about URLs Most Wanted

It is free and available on WordPress.org:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/urls-most-wanted-for-litespeed-lscache/

I’m curious whether demand-based cache warmup would be useful on the WordPress sites you manage, or whether you generally prefer to crawl every available URL.

https://preview.redd.it/212zspfv8kch1.png?width=1319&format=png&auto=webp&s=7c6f2ab21d3844397ce16d3bfebbf6e287a1b697

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[PROMO] Try our Free AI ChatBot

25 August 2026 at 05:37

We are glad to announce that we have just released Fabio Chatbot Lite, a free AI-powered chatbot plugin, on the official WordPress.org repository. πŸ†“

✨ What it does:

  • πŸ“„ Reads your posts, pages, tags & categories to answer visitor questions about your content
  • πŸ’¬ Understands bbPress forums, topics & replies
  • πŸ›’ Reads WooCommerce products, including prices, discounts & reviews
  • πŸ“Š Comes with an Analytics page showing what visitors ask and how well the bot answers β€” including a "Gap" score to spot the content it struggles with

It's BYOK, with our in-house connectors for Mistral, OpenAI and Gemini, plus Anthropic to come. We'd love for a few of you to give it a spin on your own site and tell us how it goes! πŸ™Œ

https://wordpress.org/plugins/fabio-ai-chatbot-lite/

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Which cookie consent platform is actually worth using?

25 August 2026 at 04:53

I’m comparing a few cookie consent platforms and would love some real-world opinions.

I’m mainly looking for reliable cookie/script blocking, GDPR & CCPA support, Google Consent Mode, easy setup, good performance, and reasonable pricing.

Which platform would you recommend today, and what made you choose it?

Would especially love to hear from anyone who has tried multiple platforms.

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All in one WP Import Issue/Backup

25 August 2026 at 04:50

Hey guys.

I have export wordpress website from this all in one WP plugin and then trying to import the backup of around 547mb.

But due to host restrict upload to 2mb the errors shows "your file exceed the limit said by your host web server".

And then I try to update htacess file in file manager and then try again but still same issue.

Please help anyone..

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