I created a wordpress account, and was not given a chance to add a username like I could previously, instead it used my email, which I don't like, but now I can't change that. I tried deleting my account and starting over, but it wouldn't let me do that either. I know I can change the username on the individual sites, but still, I do not like seeing my email as my username, it just feels personal, even if I'm the only one who can see it.

I knew SolidWP Security had been bought by Kadence, but how the hell do I access my account now? Whenever I try, I'm redirected to liquidweb, but their login portal doesn't recognize any of my account info. Where do I go?

Hello everyone,

For years now I've been on the lookout for an appointment booking system that caters to my needs, but I have yet to find one that matches the features I'm looking for and has modern features. I thought I'd come here to ask for some help in the hopes that someone can point me in the right direction.

My work is quite simple, I'm an architectural designer and my clients book me to visit a different house everyday to measure and draw existing homes.

I am looking for the best booking plugin to allow my clients to book a date & time for their specified address. A lot of the appointment booking plugins I am seeing are for single locations, for instance barbershops, hotels, etc.

I am currently using a somewhat outdated plugin that doesn't seem to be around anymore or supported, called Booked by Boxy Studio. This was included in a Wordpress theme I purchased called "Entrepreneur"

Any help or guidance would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you.

Gutenberg only - no page builders.
I have a backup, but would like to figure this out -

I'm working on a site and have Columns containing two smaller columns - the one on the left contains a featured image, and the one on the right contains a short description.

Template is for a single item post.

I had it set up so that the image in the left column, remaining in its original aspect, would fill its column horizontally or vertically scale (maintaining aspect ratio) to no more than 75% VH.

This ends up in a Query loop. It's basically a bunch of artwork with descriptions. However, after the update, I'm getting some layout issues that look like the bottom image, with a big gap between the artwork and the text. So, I'm trying to figure out what's causing the gap.

I do have some CSS set up, but I haven't changed this & it's been working for months.

Let me know what other additional info I can add here that might help. Hoping this is a fairly known or easy thing to fix.

Not sure how to troubleshoot this - any suggestions appreciated!

Thank you!

https://preview.redd.it/2blhmhop4tkh1.png?width=1052&format=png&auto=webp&s=95b201b9e43efd792c419de2c81abc022c336c8a

Any one have experience with coutoire theme + gutenburg.

I found it very difficult and so frustrating any tips!

I have experience with Shopify since 2019 but WP is another story for me right now as a nube I like gutenburg and love to master it

Thank fam (:

I have installed lumise product designer plugin and want to add 10 templates on a product.

Please comment so that i can dm you and can discuss further.

Is anyone else experiencing a super slow and glitchy editor since updating to 7.1? I updated yesterday and since then it's been so glitchy and slow. The auto saves take forever and trying to drag a section causes a massive freeze. I didn't have these issues before updating yesterday.

Anyone else experiencing this or have tips?

Hey guys, I am getting a huge spike in my analytics since August 12th.

At first I thought, one of my articles got popular, but after checking analytics, i realised almost 56% of the devices have resolutions like 1368x1368, or square.

That's how I know these are bots. I installed an advanced bot blocker that already blocked 8 bots, ips I mean.

But, how are you guys avoiding or securing your sites? I don't want to stuff my site with random plugins, i already set up cloudflare too. But bot traffic isn't stopping.

Is WordPress as glitchy as Jetpack for long articles?

I have some wp ltds that I don't use and want to sell. I've checked the terms of the ltds and it's allowed, I'm just wondering if anyone has had any experience doing it. I don't want to get ripped off.

I'm setting up a small independent research and publishing organisation, and I'm trying to build its website completely from scratch.

The difficult part is that I'm doing this alone. I don't have a developer, designer, IT person, or technical team that I can call later. I'm also working with a genuinely limited budget, so I can't simply hire an agency and have them figure everything out for me.

I've been using ChatGPT and Claude to learn and work through things, and I've made a rough architecture/plan for the website, but I've reached the point where I'm realizing that I don't really know what I don't know.

I'm not looking for someone to simply tell me "use WordPress" or "use X hosting." I want to understand how I should actually approach building and maintaining this properly as a non-technical person.

The website will essentially be the public-facing platform for a small research organisation. At a high level, it needs things like:

• A main institutional website with information about the organisation
• Research areas/topics, with content organised under them
• Different types of published research and written material
• Research articles/reports with things such as authors, abstracts, keywords and downloadable PDFs
• Articles and shorter blog-style pieces
• Opportunities such as internships/fellowships/etc.
• Some forms where people can submit information and potentially upload files
• An internal/admin workflow where submissions can be reviewed before anything is published
• Certificates/ID-related workflows for some of the programmes
• The ability for me to keep adding content and categories myself without needing to edit code every time

I have a much more detailed site map and workflow diagram already, but I'm deliberately not posting the whole thing publicly because it contains some of the organisation's planned structure and ideas.

My main concern is choosing the wrong foundation.

I don't want to build half the website and then discover that I've chosen a system that can't handle something I need, or that maintaining it requires a developer.

For example, I'm currently trying to understand questions like:

1. What should I actually build this on? WordPress, Ghost, another CMS, a combination of services, or something else entirely?
2. How much of this can a CMS handle natively? For example, if I have many research areas/categories, can I create them dynamically so that adding another category later doesn't require coding?
3. How should I handle research publications? Ideally I want structured publication pages rather than simply uploading random PDFs to a blog. I'd like metadata such as author, abstract, keywords, category, date, etc., while still keeping the PDF available.
4. How should forms and file submissions work? I may need people to submit applications/documents and have those submissions go to me for review. I'm considering external form services as well as native CMS forms.
5. Do I actually need a database/server architecture beyond what a normal CMS provides? I've seen people suggest things like AWS, MongoDB, SQL databases, custom backends, etc. That sounds excessive to me for what is fundamentally a research organisation/content website, but I don't have enough technical knowledge to confidently say that.
6. What should I be paying for and what shouldn't I be paying for? My budget is limited. I'd rather spend money on a good domain, reliable hosting and essential services than build an unnecessarily complicated stack.
7. What am I likely to regret later? This is probably the question I'm most interested in. If you've built and maintained websites for small organisations, research groups, nonprofits, publications, think tanks, etc., what decisions would you make differently if you had to do it again?

Most importantly, if you're experienced with this kind of project, I'd actually prefer you to ask me questions about my requirements before recommending a stack.

I'm trying to learn enough to make sensible decisions myself, rather than blindly following whatever AI recommends.

I'm not looking for someone to build the whole thing for free. I mainly need help understanding the architecture, what is realistically achievable for a solo non-technical person, and what I should learn/do first.

If someone here has experience building a website for a small research organisation, publication, think tank, academic project, nonprofit, or similar organisation, I'd really appreciate your perspective.

I can share the more detailed sitemap/workflow privately if that would make it easier to give meaningful advice.

Basically: if you had to build and maintain something like this alone, with very little money and no developer on standby, how would you approach it?

I really love this field and I genuinely want to build a career in it and become good at it but lately I feel like I’ve lost my direction.
I know how to use wordPress and framer to some extent I’m definitely not a professional but I’ve learned the basics and managed to figure out quite a few things on my own i also helped a friend build a website for a client before, and I’ve made several fictional projects just to practice, so I have a basic understanding of how the process works.
The problem is that I don’t know what to do next.
There are so many things to learn, so many tools, so many different paths, and I constantly find myself jumping from one thing to another. One day I’m learning WordPress, the next I’m trying Framer, then I’m watching videos about SEO, freelancing, web design, development, marketing… and somehow I end up feeling like I’m not actually moving forward.
I think what I need right now isn’t another tutorial. I need a direction** **.
For those of you who are experienced in web design, WordPress, Framer, freelancing, or running a web agency .
So any advice !!!
Thanks for all

Hi, we're using WPBakery for some simple page layouts. When adding an image and specifying that it should link to a custom URL, the image not only does not function as a link but also previews an incorrect URL. This seems to have started with the WPBakery 9.0 upgrade, because this all worked fine before.

Here is the Single Image element, with the custom URL destination specified. (The formatting is also odd.)

https://preview.redd.it/bw8ejmseeqkh1.png?width=352&format=png&auto=webp&s=cacde6c887ba53330ef153609fb3e00e0bac8af8

Then, on the live page, the linked URL is different, reflecting what it used to be from the content that was cloned:

https://preview.redd.it/8gt1meokeqkh1.png?width=439&format=png&auto=webp&s=9d69c65e3905ff53a115f9a617fbde6cb9fe8e16

We tried cloning an old image, which keeps the old URL but the image is not actually clickable despite appearing to be a hyperlink (glove pointer on hover).

And creating a totally new one is not clickable at all even while specifying a custom URL. Are any other WPBakery users experiencing this?

Hi folks,

Been managing a bunch of client sites and hit that wall where the Media Library just stops being usable once you're past a few thousand images/videos. "Just install a caching plugin bro" doesn't really cut it at that scale. Wrote up everything that actually worked for us here, but here's the gist:

The database is probably your real bottleneck

Turns out wp_posts isn't indexed well for big media libraries by default, so admin queries crawl. Adding an index on post_type, post_status, post_date (plus one on wp_postmeta for meta lookups) made a noticeable difference for us. Also worth trimming how many image sizes your theme registers — we had way more than we needed and it was just bloating wp_postmeta for no reason.

If you're not already running Redis or Memcached for object caching, that's basically mandatory at this scale. Longer TTLs on attachment queries especially.

The admin UI itself is dumb about large libraries

You can drop the items-per-page in Media Library with a filter — we went down to 40 and it noticeably sped up load times once we crossed 10k files. There are also some plugins that do virtual scrolling so it's not trying to render your entire library at once, which helps a lot.

Offloading to S3/R2 was honestly the biggest win

If you're still storing everything locally, this is probably the single best long-term fix. We went with Cloudflare R2 mainly because of no egress fees — WP Offload Media handles the syncing and URL rewriting for you, and you can set it to nuke the local copies after upload so you're not double-storing everything.

Also — check your inodes if you're on a VPS

This one bit us before we knew to look for it. Every file = 1 inode, and once you're at 50k+ files you can run out of inodes before you even hit your storage cap. df -i will show you where you stand. If you're close, start cleaning up old revisions, unused thumbnail sizes, spam attachments, that kind of thing.

For actually organizing the chaos

Media Library Assistant is great if you need bulk editing or EXIF/IPTC stuff for photography sites. FileBird or Real Media Library are nice if scrolling through one giant flat list is making you want to throw your laptop.

Anyway, full writeup with the actual code snippets is here if you want to go deeper on any of this. Curious if anyone's dealing with even bigger libraries (20k+) — what are you doing that's more extreme than this?

Je cherche des conseils pour simplifier la gestion des expéditions sur ma boutique WooCommerce.

Je fabrique et vends moi-même des créations en carton. Comme les produits peuvent avoir des formes assez particulières (par exemple des épées en carton), je vais également fabriquer moi-même les cartons d'expédition.

L'idée serait de standardiser au maximum avec 2 ou 3 formats de colis, dont je connaîtrai précisément les dimensions et le poids à vide. Selon les produits présents dans la commande, je saurai donc dans quel format de colis ils seront expédiés.

Je cherche maintenant la solution la plus simple pour gérer toute la partie expédition, principalement en France dans un premier temps, puis en Europe.

Idéalement, j'aimerais pouvoir :

• proposer plusieurs modes de livraison (domicile / point relais) ;
• calculer automatiquement un tarif de livraison cohérent selon la commande et le colis nécessaire ;
• utiliser plusieurs transporteurs si c'est avantageux (Colissimo, Chronopost/Shop2Shop, Mondial Relay, etc.) ;
• générer et imprimer facilement les étiquettes d'expédition ;
• renseigner automatiquement le suivi dans WooCommerce ;
• envoyer au client son numéro et son lien de suivi ;
• éviter autant que possible de gérer manuellement des dizaines de tarifs selon les pays, poids, dimensions, transporteurs, etc.

J'ai découvert des solutions comme Boxtal, qui semblent pouvoir centraliser une bonne partie de tout ça, mais je n'ai aucune expérience avec ce type de service.

Pour une petite boutique WooCommerce qui expédie avec seulement 2 ou 3 formats de cartons standard, est-ce que vous conseilleriez un service/plugin comme Boxtal ? Ou vaut-il mieux configurer directement les différents transporteurs dans WooCommerce ?

Je cherche surtout quelque chose de simple à gérer au quotidien, fiable, et qui puisse évoluer ensuite vers les expéditions européennes sans devenir une usine à gaz.

Merci pour vos retours d'expérience !

Just curious if anyone else has this problem. My other company sites I made for myself pre-AI are all wordpress. Work, great, look good. No reason to switch out wordpress.

But laziness and AI kicked in so once Claude Code absorbed my entire digital existence through a guardrail free, local terminal instance of itself, connected to various servers, I just told it to go sort out the WP sites. Broke one immediately, my fault, my custom CSS scattered around did it.

But I let it assume management making whatever changes needed. They are mostly static white-collar sites.

Anyway, my about page on one of them is completely wrong. So I went in manually to fix it. The page that displays and the page with correct slug and post # ID in WP are completely different. I have no idea what it did. To fix it I essentially had to make "about2" and redirect the menu lol.

There is also a menu item that it hard coded in so it doesn't even display in the menu editor. I asked it to use a logo for a branded software as it's menu selection so it hacked it in. Looks fine but... lol.

So, word to the wise. Keep building wordpress manually and why not? It is wordpress.

Hey folks,

I kept catching the same things right before handing a site off to a client. WP_DEBUG still on. A test post I forgot to delete. Admin still named admin. Small stuff, but the kind of small stuff that looks bad if a client notices it first.

So I built Noshi-Kanamer. It checks things like noindex, debug mode, admin usernames, and leftover test posts it created, then spits out a plain-text summary you can keep or send along with the handoff. I ended up adding a few other things I use during client work too, like hiding blocks clients shouldn't touch and finding unused images.

It's free on WordPress.org, no trial gimmick: https://wordpress.org/plugins/noshi-kanamer/

Still actively building on it, so if there's something you always check before handoff that I'm missing, I'd genuinely like to hear it.

Here's how we fixed it:

a) Replaced the custom .htaccess configuration causing 403 errors.

b) Replaced it with the standard wordpress .htaccess rules.

c) Updated WordPress from 6.7 to 7.0.4 through hostinger dashboard.

d) Updated Elementor and other plugins.

e) Cleared and rebuilt the affected assets and caches

If you are using Elementor Pro -> go update N O W.

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-32475

I kept reading that you can't run a big directory site on WordPress without a heavy theme, a page builder, and 30 plugins. So here's the counterexample I built.

It's a wedding directory for San Diego. 1,000+ venue and vendor listings, cost guides, planning dashboards for couples. The technical setup:

• Hand-coded theme, vanilla PHP/CSS/JS. No page builder, no jQuery, no Font Awesome, no Google Fonts.
• Custom post types for venues and vendors, built as parallel structures with shared code instead of forked templates.
• Custom taxonomies driving all the category and location filtering.
• All design tokens (colors, spacing, type) live in one foundation.css. Site-wide restyles are one-file edits.
• Custom icon font instead of an icon library.
• Images resized to actual pixel dimensions and served as WebP at the edge by the host. No compression plugins.
• 5 plugins installed, only three 3rd party (RankMath, Updraft & FluentSMTP), plus two custom ones I built for the directory itself.

Results: 1,400+ pages indexed by Google, Lighthouse 100/100/100/100 on desktop and 97/100/100/100 on mobile.

The thing that made the biggest difference was treating WordPress as a plain CMS and refusing every "just install a plugin for that" moment. Almost everything a directory plugin does is a custom post type, a taxonomy, and a query.

Free site, no ads, no paid listings. Happy to answer questions about performance or structure.

sdweddingdirectory.com