I tried rebuilding a website using a new child theme on Wordpress Studio (it seems logical to work locally and only upload changes when they're made).
I'm trying to export an XML file from Studio, import that from wp-admin on the live site, and then reconcile the missing images afterwards (which I still haven't solved, as any newly singly uploaded images will have different URLs and it can't see SFTP'd images at all). This seemed to work. Better Search Replace found only two references to localhost, both in posts, so I replaced those.
This doesn't transfer my child theme, and when I do, my website starts trying to access my local computer. I removed one reference to localhost from the theme.json, and now nothing in any file on there has a reference to it. It's still trying. I'm not sure what to do at this point.
Every other plugin or upload option fails. Cloudways' own migration plugin can't do Studio. The database editor fails because, while it says it supports the collation, it won't recognize it when I try to upload. Updraft's migration wanted access to the local computer (so I think still had failed URL replacement) and broke some (not all?) images. Duplicator is looking for a function that I think hasn't existed for years from what I see on Google (mysqli_real_escape_string) and failing me because it requires it. WPvivid gives a blank screen if I try to restore using it. (I haven't tried paid versions of plugins, because at this point I think I may need a Wordpress alternative).
It works locally. Talking to a friend who's been doing this successfully for years, it should be as easy as export, import, let Wordpress sort out the URLs itself, maybe toss in a theme, upload and replace images manually. I'd expect SFTP to solve most of my updating needs anyway. What am I missing?
๐จ๐ป๐๐ฟ๐๐ฝ๐ฎ๐น is a set of AI agent skills that teach coding assistants how to audit, extract, and plan migrations from Drupal 7-11 to any other system.
Open source. MIT licensed.
๐๐ฟ๐๐ฝ๐ฎ๐น has a Migrate API to move content in. It has no equivalent for moving content out. You're on your own.
There are 18+ ways to just create a static page in Drupal. So AI harnesses struggle to figure out how to take out your content. Additionally, the agents have to deal with
โ Hundreds of database tables โ Serialized PHP structures โ Nested Paragraphs three or four levels deep โ Layout Builder data stored as PHP objects โ Rich-text fields full of Drupal-only tokens โ Revisions, media, taxonomy, redirects, SEO metadata
๐จ๐ป๐๐ฟ๐๐ฝ๐ฎ๐น enables your Claude Code, Cursor, Pi Agent Windsurf, GitHub Copilot etc to handle all of it.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Some tech workers in San Francisco hooked up ChatGPT to a Toyota Corolla and got it to drive around a parking lot. This may not sound impressive in the age of the self-driving car until you realize that the LLM driving the car was a general purpose chatbot running on a laptop and not the purpose-built driving system based on millions of hours of training data used by Waymo or Tesla.
The people behind the stunt call themselves DrivingBench and they've posted their code, their prompts, and videos of the experiment online. In the experiment, DrivingBench hooked up GPT-6 Astra, Claude Fable 5.1, Grok 4.6, and GPT-5.6 Sol to a Toyota Corolla and gave the LLMs control over the car's steering, accelerator, and brakes. Then they set up a small cone course in a public parking lot and prompted the chatbots to navigate the space.
The goal, they said, was to find out if untrained, off-the-shelf frontier AIs can drive a real car. The results were mixed. Grok, Sol, and Fable only drove a few meters and didn't finish the course. GPT-6 Astra, however, did eventually learn to navigate the course and complete it. But not without a lot of troubleshooting.
"It's an interesting demonstration of potential emergent capabilities," said Mahns. "It can fail a turn, and then the next turn, next try, it will be able to do that turn and other turns that it hasn't seen before. Not necessarily saying LLMs are gonna put Waymo out of business or something, just an interesting demonstration of where things are, and things are just moving fast."
"Most people that are familiar with ChatGPT have used it in this white collar, kind of like in the computer, and it's definitely imminent to the point that this capability will start having more impact in the physical world. So I think seeing the sparks of this happening, the shift of this utility coming into the physical world, is also somewhat exciting."
Hello! Anyone who uses Woocommerce, have you experienced the Square plugin for payment methods randomly disconnecting?
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If anyone has found a fix for this, Iโd love to let them know so that we can have a functioning website 24/7. Itโs hard to tell if they are just pulling us along and giving excuses or if this is really a bug within Wordpress that others are experiencing too. Thank you!
El pasado 8 de septiembre, la Universidad Tecnolรณgica de Panamรก fue escenario del foro โIngenierรญa y riesgo sรญsmico: construyendo un Panamรก resilienteโ, un espacio de reflexiรณn y anรกlisis que reuniรณ a especialistas para abordar una pregunta que, como paรญs, no podemos seguir postergando: ยฟestamos realmente preparados para enfrentar un sismo de gran magnitud?
Panamรก no es un paรญs ajeno a la amenaza sรญsmica. Nuestro territorio se encuentra en una zona de compleja interacciรณn tectรณnica, vinculada a las placas del Caribe, Cocos, Nazca y Sudamรฉrica. Esta configuraciรณn genera una amenaza sรญsmica que varรญa segรบn la regiรณn, pero que no debe ser subestimada.
La historia nos ofrece una advertencia contundente. El 7 de septiembre de 1882, un sismo de gran magnitud produjo graves daรฑos en Panamรก y Colรณn, afectando edificaciones, el ferrocarril y otras estructuras. El evento tambiรฉn generรณ un tsunami que causรณ numerosas vรญctimas en el archipiรฉlago de Guna Yala. Otros sismos fuertes han afectado distintas regiones del paรญs, recordรกndonos que esta amenaza no pertenece รบnicamente al pasado.
Frente a esta realidad, Panamรก cuenta con una herramienta fundamental: el Reglamento Estructural Panameรฑo (REP). Su desarrollo tiene antecedentes en los primeros reglamentos estructurales de la dรฉcada de 1980. El REP-84 constituyรณ un importante paso para establecer criterios tรฉcnicos obligatorios para el diseรฑo y la construcciรณn de estructuras en el paรญs. Desde entonces, esta normativa ha evolucionado mediante sucesivas actualizaciones, hasta llegar al REP-2021, actualmente vigente.
Pero disponer de una buena normativa no es suficiente. Es indispensable cumplirla rigurosamente. El diseรฑo y la construcciรณn de una estructura segurarequieren profesionales competentes, materiales adecuados, supervisiรณn efectiva y una fiscalizaciรณn que garantice que lo proyectado en los planos se convierta realmente en una construcciรณn que cumpla con las especificaciones.
Uno de los temas abordados durante el foro fue precisamente el diseรฑo sismorresistente de edificios en Panamรก. Sin embargo, hablar de seguridad sรญsmica no puede limitarse al diseรฑo de edificios nuevos. Una parte importante de nuestra poblaciรณn vive en viviendas unifamiliares, algunas de las cuales fueron construidas sin la supervisiรณn tรฉcnica adecuada o han sufrido modificaciones riesgosas a lo largo de los aรฑos.
De allรญ surge, precisamente, la importancia de prestar especial atenciรณn a la vulnerabilidad sรญsmica de la vivienda unifamiliar. Elementos como la adecuada conexiรณn entre paredes, vigas y columnas de amarre, la calidad de los materiales, la configuraciรณn estructural y las condiciones del suelo pueden marcar una diferencia fundamental durante un sismo.
De igual forma, debemos continuar fortaleciendo el conocimiento de nuestra amenaza sรญsmica y de las caracterรญsticas de nuestros suelos. El mismo terremoto puede producir efectos muy diferentes, dependiendo de las condiciones geotรฉcnicas del terreno. Por ello, la caracterizaciรณn de los suelos y el conocimiento de la amenaza sรญsmica local son indispensables para tomar mejores decisiones de diseรฑo y de planificaciรณn urbana.
Otro componente esencial es el Programa de Instrumentaciรณn Sรญsmica (PINS), administrado por la UTP. Los instrumentos instalados en edificaciones y estaciones sรญsmicas permiten registrar cรณmo responden los suelos y las estructuras ante los movimientos sรญsmicos. Esta informaciรณn es fundamental para mejorar nuestros conocimientos y fortalecer nuestras normativas para el diseรฑo y la construcciรณn resilientes.
En este sentido, es importante indicar que la resiliencia sรญsmica va mucho mรกs allรก de evitar que un edificio colapse. Un Panamรก resiliente necesita ciudadanos informados, hospitales y otras instalaciones esenciales preparadas para continuar funcionando, sistemas adecuados de alerta y comunicaciรณn, rutas de evacuaciรณn conocidas y planes de emergencia practicados. Una estructura que permanece en pie despuรฉs de un terremoto es un logro importante; una ciudad capaz de mantener sus servicios esenciales y recuperarse rรกpidamente representa un nivel superior de resiliencia.
Alcanzar ese objetivo requiere que todos asumamos nuestra responsabilidad. El Estado debe fortalecer la fiscalizaciรณn, actualizar permanentemente las normas y garantizar que los procesos de aprobaciรณn, inspecciรณn y supervisiรณn sean efectivos. Los ingenieros y las empresas constructoras tenemos la responsabilidad de mantenernos actualizados, aplicar correctamente las normativas y colocar la seguridad de las personas por encima de cualquier consideraciรณn econรณmica o de corto plazo. Y los ciudadanos debemos informarnos, conocer cรณmo actuar durante un terremoto y participar activamente en los planes de emergencia.
Esta tarea no puede desarrollarse de manera aislada. Necesitamos fortalecer la colaboraciรณn entre los comitรฉs consultivos, el Estado, las universidades, los profesionales, la industria de la construcciรณn y la sociedad. Debemos trabajar en un plan nacional para reducir la vulnerabilidad de nuestras estructuras y, con ello, disminuir el riesgo sรญsmico de Panamรก.
Los terremotos no pueden evitarse. Tampoco podemos saber exactamente cuรกndo ocurrirรก el prรณximo gran sismo. Lo que sรญ podemos decidir es quรฉ tan preparados estaremos cuando ocurra. Por eso, la prevenciรณn sรญsmica no debe verse como un gasto que podemos posponer. Es una inversiรณn en vidas humanas, en infraestructura, en nuestra economรญa y en el futuro del paรญs.
Y esa inversiรณn debemos hacerla hoy, no despuรฉs de que ocurra una tragedia.
El autor es profesor de Ingenierรญa Civil en la Universidad Tecnolรณgica de Panamรก.
Firefox 157 is rolling out a major redesign across desktop and mobile, bringing rounded "bubble" tabs, a curved address bar, refreshed icons and colors, and a more consistent visual language across devices. Mozilla is also adding more themes and wallpapers while bringing back Compact Mode, which the company says "reduces the size of your tabs and toolbar to give more of your screen to the web, with an auto-compact option for smaller screens." The Verge reports: According to Mozilla, the design changes will have "no cost to your browser performance." Mozilla says the overhauled design is a "renewal" for Firefox, following major updates over the last year, like homepage widgets, Split View, a built-in VPN, and controls for disabling the browser's AI features.
Not a "WordPress is dead" post. It served me well for a long time. My sites are small, mostly for reading, and updated once or twice a month, and at some point WP became more babysitting than publishing for them.
What pushed me was a shared server that kept going down. What had been nagging me for longer was the steady drip of Wordfence emails about login attempts, and updating plugins by hand after automatic updates burned me once. I moved everything to pre-built static pages on Cloudflare.
What I don't miss: plugin update anxiety, and fighting the theme with !important.
What I do miss, or at least respect more now: the plugin ecosystem. Someone else builds, maintains and patches every feature for you. Without it, every dynamic thing I add (comments, forms) is code I own. And the owners of the smaller sites I moved can't edit them themselves anymore, so I'm effectively their CMS now.
For a shop, memberships or a team of editors who don't use git, I'd still pick WordPress. Curious where others here draw that line.
BrianFagioli shares a report from NERDS.xyz: Microsoft has made WSL Containers generally available, giving Windows 11 developers a built-in way to build, run, and deploy Linux containers through Windows Subsystem for Linux. The release includes wslc.exe for managing containers, GPU support, networking improvements, health checks, storage mounts, and integration with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and Intune. Microsoft also claims up to twice the performance when Linux environments access files stored on Windows. Docker Desktop, Podman Desktop, and Rancher Desktop are not going anywhere, but developers who only need basic container functionality now have another option built around WSL. One notable feature is still missing: Compose support. Microsoft says adding it is now a priority.
Hi! We have to build a database for users/members and different organizations of a network. That database will be the core of a big non profit project that is very important to us. At first we were thinking on designing the database and developing its interfaces from scratch, but we are now considering using a CRM. It has to be open source (we are considering suiteCRM, CiviCRM, Odoo, ERPNext/FrappeCRM, EspoCRM, Krayin/LaravelCRM, and Dolibarr, but we have yet to study them).
The thing is that we would then use the database of the CRM to hold the members/clients of the network, so we would need a very flexible database, and it being easily connectable via API to different other web services. I know this should be feasible, but would you recommend doing something like that?
The other way would be to make our own database and connect it via API with a CRM so the CRM database stays in sync with our core client/member database.
For you guys experienced in this CRM lands... does any of the proposals sound more practical than the other? or a third idea?
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: Mistral Chief Executive Arthur Mensch has accused leading global artificial intelligence companies of using the debate over the safety of the technology as a cover-up for their "negligence." "The debate that we've seen in the U.S. has been a cover for the negligence of some of our competitors," Mensch told CNBC's Annette Weisbach, adding that it was necessary to make systems that can contain the AI agents. [...]
"When you give them a lot of tools, those systems [AI agents] are very dynamic, so they can go and do things that you do not expect," Mensch told CNBC. "You need to have the right monitoring in place, and the enterprises we work with, we give them those kind of monitoring systems," he said.
Mistral also develops AI models but takes a different approach to OpenAI and Anthropic by working with individual companies to create custom AI tools to suit their needs and integrate them with their businesses. But unlike its competitors, Mistral has no plans to slow down development of advanced models. The lead that U.S. labs have is "not extremely large," Mensch said, adding that his company was confident that its next-generation model will close the gap "very significantly."
"We have been raising the capital needed to scale the compute that we need to train bigger and more powerful models, in order for us to own our own destiny," he said. Earlier this month, Mistral raised 3 billion euros ($3.5 billion) in fresh funding led by memory chip giant Samsung, as it looks to position itself as a European alternative to rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic.
McDonald's is reportedly using AI-powered pricing tools to recommend menu prices based on what customers near individual restaurants are willing to pay. Franchisees technically retain control over final prices, but some told Reuters they feel pressured to follow the algorithm's recommendations. "A corporate document reviewed by the publication shows that McDonald's tracks adherence to the platform, and notes any deviations from the algorithm's price recommendations," reports Engadget. From the report: Reuters got a look at the interface that franchisees use to access this technology and it's pretty creepy. Messages show stuff like "your restaurant is showing MEDIUM SENSITIVITY to price" based on "customer willingness to pay in your area." Cost differences at nearby locations can be stark. Researchers found that a Big Mac at a Fresno, California store cost $5.69, but the same burger cost $6.89 at another branch two miles down the road. That's a 21 percent difference.
The company acknowledges that using this dynamic pricing system could open up franchisees to legal hurdles, all while continuing to push the platform. The pricing portal's terms of service reportedly warns that owners "may be competitors of each other" and "it is particularly important for all Users of the Tool to understand and comply fully with antitrust and competition laws." The document also reiterates that franchisees are "always free to determine the final price," thus potentially absolving corporate from any antitrust concerns.
McDonald's has decried Reuters' reporting as "speculative and uninformed." The company says the pricing portal is "a tool, not a mandate, designed to provide restaurant-specific recommendations to help franchisees deliver value for customers and make informed business decisions." The company has been using some version of this technology since at least 2019, according to Reuters. In 2023, however, CEO Kempczinski boasted to investors that it had developed proprietary tools to evaluate pricing at individual restaurants.
I've spent quite a few years working with CRM and business software, and one thing keeps bothering me.
The software itself is often not even the expensive part.
It's everything around it.
Consultants. Implementation projects. Workshops. Custom configuration. Data migration. Training. Then months later you're still adapting your company to the software you bought.
I always wanted something much simpler:
sign up, bring the data you already have, answer a few questions about how your company works, review what the system proposes, and start.
No consultancy just to get started. No custom code for every company. No โฌ50k implementation before you know whether the product even helps you.
And I also don't really want 15 separate SaaS tools anymore.
My ideal model is one platform with a small number of apps, like Sales, Support and Operations, sharing the same customers, work, automation and context underneath.
AI should mostly remove setup and admin friction. Not be another chatbot bolted onto the side.
So I've been building around a few principles:
onboarding should take minutes, not weeks
importing existing data should be normal
software should adapt to the company
configuration should replace customer-specific code
you should be able to start small and add more later
AI should prepare and configure work, while people stay in control
I'm not really looking for feedback on a feature list. More interested in whether this underlying idea matches how other people experience business software.
If you could replace your CRM / business software tomorrow, what would stop you?
The price? Migration? Implementation effort? Losing your current processes? Getting the team to adopt another system?
Curious which one is actually the biggest blocker.
Iโm using a Salient theme and WPBakery for my website. Iโve made buttons for people to download different PDFโs with text next to the buttons. When Iโm in โediting modeโ everything looks normal (image 1). When I save it and view it all my text shifts to the next row (Image 2).
I have my button in one column and my text in a second column.
A six-month British Transport Police trial of live facial recognition at London railway stations scanned more than 500,000 faces, cost over 320,000 pounds, and produced just one alert with no arrests directly resulting from the technology. That one alert ended up being a false positive.
Despite those results, BTP has extended the pilot through November and expanded it to selected Underground stations. The Guardian reports: British Transport Police said that since the extension there had been three positive confirmed alerts of people who were subsequently confirmed to be complying with sexual harm prevention orders or other imposed court conditions. When Transport for London announced its support for the extension of the trial, it said LFR technology "will target and identify people on police watchlists at key stations chosen for maximum impact" and would "specifically tackle violence against women and girls, whose travel behaviors are shaped by experiences of sexual harassment and sexual offenses."
Fraser Sampson, a former biometrics and surveillance camera commissioner for the UK, said the police needed to show that the use of the technology was proportionate. "There many variables and all need to align: the choice of location, times of day, make up of the watchlist and likelihood of people being present and many more." Sampson, who is now a non-executive director of Facewatch, a company that operates facial recognition systems in shops, added: "We know the technology works, but using it in supermarkets to deter shoplifters and prevent attacks on staff is very different from deploying it to catch people on a public transport network."
"Success in a shop means no such people coming in. Success for the police trying to catch people means people being caught. In that respect the trial doesn't appear to have been very fruitful. Everything depends on the police watchlists; if you're not on a watchlist, the live FRT cameras do not "see" you and they don't retain your image in the same way as CCTV cameras. However, they are processing special category personal data and the technology must be used in a way that is appropriate, proportionate and necessary. It's for the police to show how any deployment meets those criteria and -- as the ICO [information commissioner's office] has recently reported -- for their oversight boards to hold them firmly to account in doing so."
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