Does anyone have any suggestions for a live blogging solution? I was using 24LiveBlog and as of June 2026-- WordPress booted them for security issues. It was a decent product and I was getting ready to pull the trigger on a paid subscription.

I run a news website and our live blogs generally are for sporting events (24 was strong there), boring council meetings, and sometimes other breaking news events.

I found out today as I tried to set it up for a college football game and ended up getting Arena to hold me thru the game. But it was worfully inadequate --most liley because I had zero time to learn or really explore it.

Thoughts? Suggestions? Thanks in advance!

Why is WordPress said to always be insecure?

I've noticed that the size of a request often has almost nothing to do with the amount of work behind it.

Something like "just change this part of checkout" can end up touching shipping rules, coupons, taxes, payment gateways, order status, emails, caching, and a couple of plugins that all expect the original flow.

Meanwhile, a page that looks like a much bigger job can sometimes be straightforward.

Over time I've become much more careful when someone describes a WordPress change as "small."

What's the most deceptively simple request you've worked on that turned into a much bigger technical problem?

I’ve been building my site for a while and one issue I cant seem to figure out a solution to is the pagination glitch that happens on page 2. So I have 16 products with default sorting with 12 on a page. On page 1 it displays correctly with the first 12 products. When I hit page 2, it now says I have 16 pages and puts a single product on each page, except page 1 which is still the first 12 products. I have very few plugins and have played around with several themes (currently using hello elementor) but it has been an issue thats been present since the very beginning and I cant figure out why. Ive tried all the solutions that come up with a search, but nothing even matches this specific issue I’m having. If anyone has an idea of a fix for this I would appreciate it!

I am looking to use Claude design + Claude Code (or Codex) to build a fresh Wordpress site which will need e-commerce functionality. The site is currently using Elementor + Woocomerce. Has anyone done this? Not seeing a lot of people leveraging design + code for Wordpress sites. TIA

I'm normally using Joomla but I have a need to use WordPress for a project and I have a question.

After a bunch of plugins were installed there are many items in the menu I don't want to be there but I can't see where to delete or remove them.

Where do I go to do that?

Hey guys, I’m working on a project where the client must be able to create multiple landing pages by her self, but she isn’t a tech a person.

Based on your experience, which block builder could be more intuitive and easier for someone without experience?

To be honest I only have experience with Elementor, but as a developer, I prefer to do everything by code instead of blocks.

I’m thinking about positioning myself as a WordPress Systems Engineer for remote companies.

The idea is to combine WordPress/PHP development with the infrastructure side — Linux, Nginx, PHP-FPM, caching, databases, CI/CD, performance, and server architecture.

Do you think this kind of hybrid role still has a future, especially with AI changing the development landscape so quickly?

For those already working in remote WordPress/engineering teams, is there actually demand for people who understand both WordPress/PHP and infrastructure?

Or is it better to specialize heavily in one area?

Would love to hear some real-world perspectives from people working in this space.

我在使用WordPress安装了Blocksy后，安装其下的主题卡在71%久久未动，最后显示网络错误，我修改了php和wp-config了，一样无法安装我想要的主题。

我看了下它那个说明，图1是它们系统要求，图2是我的，这个可能是我安装不了的原因吧？那我是否要在网上购买服务器？我本地电脑的服务器能否调试？而且我安装后还显示404 Not Found

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I've been trying to do this for the past hour or so and nothing has worked. So I wanted to ask the community how they've set up this integration.

I want to use Claude to help me write and edit my blog posts. My WordPress installation is hosted on a VPS and my preferred Claude interface is the CLI, though I'd consider an in-WordPress interface if the experience is really good.

Any tips?

Straight up: this is our company account and this is our own plugin. Rule 1 allows one post like this, so this is the one we get.

We build WordPress sites for clients. Every few months the same thing happens. Someone wants a form that hides half its fields until you pick an option. Or one that takes a CV upload. Or one that's twenty questions long and needs splitting into steps, because nobody finishes twenty questions on one screen.

Then you go looking, and you find this. WPForms, on their own plugin page:

> This plugin is the Lite version of WPForms Pro, which comes with email subscription forms, multi-page contact forms, file uploads, conditional logic, and extra payment integrations.

Ninja Forms puts the same three behind paid add-ons. Fluent Forms is the honest exception and credit where it's due: their free version does have conditional logic.

We got tired of the choice being pay per site or write it by hand, so we wrote it once properly and put it in the directory under GPL.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/2ranq-forms/

Conditional logic, multi step forms, file uploads, entries stored in your own database. 23 field types, 45 styles, 29 templates. Gutenberg block and an Elementor widget. There's no pro tier and there isn't going to be one, so none of that is a teaser for something else.

We installed it next to WPForms Lite this morning and measured both.

Ours: 80 files, 1.75 MB on disk. About 14 KB of CSS and JS gzipped on a page with a form, and no jQuery.

WPForms Lite 1.10.0.5: 4,536 files, 29.3 MB on disk. About 31 KB gzipped, plus jQuery. 9.7 MB of that is bundled vendor libraries, and 2,138 of those files are the Square payments SDK, which you get whether or not you ever take a payment.

One thing in their favour before somebody corrects us: WPForms does not load its assets on every page of your site. We went looking for that argument in their code and it isn't there. It loads where a form is.

Ours isn't finished either. No payments. CSV export only, no XLSX. And no Cloudflare Turnstile in this version, because the directory's automated scanner can't tell Turnstile apart from a CDN and flags it either way. That one comes back in the next release. It's also only days old, so there's no track record to point at yet.

Here's what we actually want out of this post. We're an agency, not a plugin business with an upgrade prompt to feed, so building the next feature costs us nothing extra. Tell us what you're paying for right now in a form plugin, or what you gave up on and worked around. If it belongs in there, we'll build it and it ships free. We'll reply either way, with a rough timeline or with why not.

And if you do install it, we'd rather hear where it broke than that it's nice. Odd themes, builders other than Elementor, big entry tables, multisite, RTL.

I'm looking for a WordPress plugin for a tour company's shuttle/transfer bookings. We have fixed routes and need pickup → destination selection, specific dates/times, fixed pricing, passenger counts. Does anybody have any suggestions

These SQL injections have been coming in daily to this site which has still seemingly managed to avoid infection simply because of the changed database prefix. This one uses the “author not in” query bug inside some crazy nested query to place the payload in the database.

This is all related to the WP2Shell bug which was reported over a month ago. The site had auto updates disabled and still managed to avoid getting infected because of some seemingly silly security practices like changing table names and database prefixes. As far as I can tell all of these failed. I was alerted to the issue because the site got locked in a loop of timeouts, perhaps related to these malformed queries. Unfortunately I’m going to have to do some kind of a forensic workup even though there were no clear indicators of compromise because requests to the batch endpoint resulted in many 207 codes which means they may have succeeded.

But when I saw the giant block of 0s and 1s and hex codes in the logs, my heart dropped into my stomach. Stay safe out there people and leave auto updates on. It’s worth the chance of breaking your site every once in a while.

I want to display our pdf newsletter on a page, with our normal header and footer. What hind of block or plugin would make this look good?

The File block isn't it.

I've recently switched from Windows to Mac while continuing to prepare my texts in Word (now under MacOS) and copying them to WordPress.com website. While there was no issues with this workflow under Windows, now I get a heavy mess.

Sometimes spaces are missing, and words are glued together. Sometimes lots of "nbsp" are added. Footnotes get pasted but hyperlinks don't work as planned (links now lead to something called applewebdata).

I thought I'd switch from Word to Pages. Now, it's better with the text but the footnotes are missing altogether when the text in pasted into WordPress.

Did anyone have same problems? How would I solve them?

Thank you.

Currently running a b2b site built on Astra theme. We have sales reps on the road using mobiles and tablets that complain about slow admin processes such as searching for products, adding admin orders and all general back end admin processes.

- 1600 products with png images
- 100-200 active users
- 28 plugins, all kept up to date
- 0 php snippets
- HPOS enabled
- Regularly maintained and kept updated
- Caching enabled and regularly purged but my hosting doesn’t support Memcached or Redis

Plugins list:
Admin Columns, Astra Pro, B2BKing Core and Pro, Complianz, Cost of Goods, Elementor, Email Templates, Fibosearch, Fluent forms, Global Payments, Max Mega Menu, Members , PiWeb disable payment method, Webtoffee invoices/packing list templates, Woocommerce update manager, Woopayments, WP Mail Logging, WP Mail smtp, WP Rollback, Zapier for woo and Zapier for wordpress plus four custom built plugins designed for admin processes such as stock inventory control, profit reports and projections , UI improvements etc.

Any ideas that I can look into to improve loading speed and improve ajax lookup speed

After WCUS I wrote a blog post about one of the main issues I kept hearing with block themes: it's really hard for agencies to just write and deploy code for design elements without losing control once it was deployed. Basically components. We have patterns and parts and blocks and a few things, but no easy way to do what we used to do with classic themes.

I'm curious how others are solving this or if it's just a non-issue for the majority of WordPress developers.

https://www.briancoords.com/agency-workflows-components-and-highlights-from-wcus/

Hi everyone,

I’m currently trying to improve my workflow for building WordPress websites for clients, and I’m curious how professionals and agencies actually handle this.

I mainly use WordPress and I’m currently looking at Kadence Blocks.

What I’m struggling with is the actual workflow.

Let’s say I have a custom design for a client. Do you really build every section manually in Gutenberg/Kadence, adjusting containers, columns, spacing, padding, typography, responsive settings, etc.?

That feels like a lot of clicking, especially when AI can generate HTML and CSS for an entire design very quickly.

At the same time, I don’t want to build the whole website as one huge custom HTML block, because I want the WordPress backend to stay clean and maintainable. Ideally, the client or another developer should still be able to edit content later without digging through HTML.

So I’m wondering how experienced WordPress developers handle this:

Do you build everything with blocks?
Do you have your own library of reusable sections and patterns?
Do you combine Gutenberg/Kadence with custom CSS and code?
Do you let AI/Codex generate parts of the site?
And how do you handle more complex sections, like event listings, custom cards, filters, etc. without spending hours recreating everything manually with blocks?

I’m basically trying to find a good workflow that is fast for me as the developer, but still results in a clean and maintainable WordPress site for the client.

Would love to hear how agencies and freelancers actually do this in practice.

I know, first world problem…. But I’m trying to implement gravity forms with n8n on a load balanced Wordpress setup. I have everything looking right but it’s just not connecting. n8n is on an internal data network, and Wordpress is running behind haproxy on three nodes, the site is on 80/443 in front of the load balancer but 8083 behind. All ssl is done at the load balancer.

I’m thinking it makes the request but doesn’t know how to get back if Wordpress gives it a url and port that depends on the load balancer. Or one of the three nodes makes the request but it responds back to another node.

Anyone have any ideas?

Most AI writing plugins call an AI API with a generic prompt and hand you filler that reads like every other AI-generated post. I kept running into that on my own sites, so I built Versoo Content Ops to fix it — it's free, on wp.org, GPL: https://wordpress.org/plugins/versoo-content-ops/

The core idea: you set your brand context once — audience, tone, topics, a writing sample — and every draft gets generated against that specific context instead of a generic "write a blog post about X" prompt. It runs on WordPress 7.0's built-in AI client (Settings → Connectors), so it uses whatever AI provider you've already got configured there. You still need a real provider key set up—the plugin just doesn't need a separate one.

Past the draft generation, it also runs a 13-check SEO pass automatically, rotates generated titles across 15 headline formulas so they don't all end up sounding the same, and includes a free tag-cleanup tool for orphaned/duplicate taxonomy terms. Everything is currently free — no paid tier exists yet.

Curious whether other people building on WP 7.0's Abilities API have run into the same generic-output problem, or found different ways around it. Feedback (including "this doesn't actually solve it, here's why") is genuinely welcome.