I am working for a small-medium sized corp that has 5 child companies that I am designing websites for and building out in Wordpress. Initially I got some time to do some research in data analytics and web designing. Now though, I am literally just making the sites in wordpress and am still an intern. Like I make the pages in wordpress, and then present it to my superivsor and marketing manager for them to review weekly.

I work 3 days a week and get paid 19 an hour.

They basically told me that they wont have the budget to actually hire me but want me to stay till the end of the year to try and get as many of the websites made as I can. I *want* to do this but I am afraid that I am getting underpaid to do this kind of work.

I am aware im not a full blown web dev, but I do write basic scripts for funcitonality and I am making the site essentially fully on my own. I feel like I should at least get like a different job title so that I can put it on my resume.

My goal is eventually to be an actual web dev. I have an associates in computer and web programming and have built websites from scratch with html/css/js, php, sql servers. I am still working on growing my knowledge of technologies but Its a start.

I guess I just want some advice on what I should do not only with my position, but moving forward with careers.

Thanks in advance.

Hey, I need to change the language of: "Instrument-making trade" , please help me.

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Since March, for every new customer in my two-person web shop, I have been offering my services in two variations: using WordPress or a much faster AI-powered solution, with the exact same cost for both options. And for the last thirty customers, seventy percent choose WordPress over the AI-powered version.

For me, it was quite surprising, and it appears that the critical factor was not design in any way, shape, or form. The only reason I could think of is that people who choose WordPress have some editing capabilities, while for the AI-powered sites, any change had to be approved by me. And when a customer asks, “so if I need to change the price list this Saturday, I just wait,” they tend to change their mind and go for the much clumsier CMS option. There also seems to be some confusion about the images in the design, mostly among clients over fifty, asking me if my site is not a chatbot in the website clothes. So I think I understand their concern, and until I invent some kind of a WordPress plugin architecture, any dynamic elements would require either custom coding on the WordPress side or a separate database, which most often means Supabase. And for thirty percent of clients who sign up for the AI option, it turns out that it is their only option after the launch because they will never edit the site again, ever. So it is much better to have a mobile detailer who needs nothing but a WordPress page with booking than to have an unhappy customer because their Saturday night edits have gone live only after my morning approval.

Finally, there is one crucial technical consideration for me in choosing between the platforms, and it is the hosting. For now, I have a couple of clients on Hostinger, a couple of older sites left on SiteGround from the previous year, and one Wix customer who still refuses to leave it for unknown reasons. But when it comes to WordPress, the critical consideration is whether a customer can update something at 11 pm without asking me for permission first.

Is Gutenberg fragmentation impacting your wordpress plugin architecture? (Block-only vs. Legacy theme compatibility)

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​Specifically, I’m constantly torn between two paths: building exclusively for the Block Editor vs. maintaining backward compatibility with classic themes.

​Here is why this choice creates such a massive headache:

​The Block Approach: Building features as Gutenberg blocks offers intuitive inline previews, live interactivity, and a seamless visual editing experience. It keeps the codebase clean, modern, and light. A pure block version of a plugin might easily stay around 1MB.

​The Compatibility Trait: To make that same plugin work smoothly on non-block/classic themes, you have to ship a mountain of legacy overhead—extra database storage logic, classic settings UIs (like Option Pages or Meta Boxes), complex fallback conditional checks, and duplicate frontend rendering routines. That lean 1MB plugin suddenly bloats into 10MB just to support both worlds.

​This constant tug-of-war between modern UX and legacy support feels like a developer's nightmare. You either sacrifice codebase simplicity or lock out a significant portion of users who still rely on classic themes and page builders.

​For those of you actively building and selling plugins:

​Which path do you lean toward? Are you moving to Block-only, or are you prioritizing maximum backward compatibility?

​How do you handle the technical debt and code bloat if you choose to support both?

​Would love to hear how other developers in the community are tackling this tradeoff.

Hi! I recently got my first small freelance job, and I’m having trouble figuring out how to price my work.
Basically, I was asked to make some changes to an existing WordPress website that I didn’t originally build. I added a blog page and 3 blog posts (so 4 pages in total), added alt text and SEO titles to around 40 images, adjusted margins and image sizes, and manually optimized around 40 images from JPG to WebP and re-uploaded them to the website.
I charged around €120 for everything in total.
Was that too little or too much? And how do you usually determine your prices for this kind of work?

Hi,

I have recently startet learning Wordpress to build a website. I'm using Astra as the theme, Elementor as the page builder and Woocommerce for the shop.

The problem is that the Website has to be 100% danish, because that's the audience i'm building it for. When i choose a theme that i like, some parts like the shopping cart or product page are in english, and it doesn't seem possible to change it.

I have seen that some paid themes like GeneratePress supports danish as a language, which i imagine would solve the problem.

My question is; is it only possible to make the website 100% danish, if the theme supports danish? Do you know of any free themes that could be used?

Thank you in advance!

Hi! I have several sites with large media folders. I also have a local server and a Synology NAS for storage. Is there a best practice for backing up a server? I know, db + rsyn files but anything that makes this easy? A docker container? A script for rotating backups? Maybe even active backup for business from Synology? How do guys do it?

I haven't touched the Guttenberg blocks in a couple of years and instead used Spectra due to it being easier to make containers and layouts. While I like the idea of using the default option and not having to add another plugin, I wasn't able to do really what I wanted to with it.

I'm curious what it's like currently? Especially when it comes to laying out pages?

The short version;
Please try to break my plugin, and give me feedback - on everything you can think of!.
The plugin adds three product types to WooCommerce: Ticket, Timeslot Ticket, and Pass. Customer buys through the normal shop, gets a QR code. Your door staff open a full-screen scanner page on their phone and check people in. No app to install, no external ticketing service, no per-ticket fee.

The Long version;

Three new WooCommerce product types, each enabled individually:

• Ticket - validity window plus N uses, fixed or customer-picked start date
• Timeslot Ticket - per-slot capacity, recurring schedule generation, unpaid reservations auto-released
• Pass - season / membership / annual, with guest passes, cardholder photo and scan cooldown

At the door

• Scanner page at /check-in/ on your own domain, full screen, no app install
• Native BarcodeDetector where the browser has it, in-page decode where it doesn't
• Colour-coded http responses result: valid / used / expired / cooldown / not found
• Cardholder photo shown beside a pass result so staff can eyeball it
• Dedicated Scanner role - check-in only.
• Validation is server-side, and there's a REST check-in endpoint if you'd rather point create/use your own custom scanner.

Admin

• A dashboard per product type: search, manual check-in, resend, reset, cancel
• Check-in analytics by day and hour, with CSV export
• Runs on manage_woocommerce, so shop managers don't need admin accounts

Customer

• Tickets and Passes tabs in My Account
• QR on screen, or a printable PDF("ticket")
• Live status (active / used / expired / cancelled / not yet valid) and uses remaining
• export for .ics so it can be added to calendar the most common calendars
• Guest pass hand-out and photo upload from the account page It's brand new and I'd rather hear what's broken from this sub than from a venue on a Friday night.
  

Requires;

• WooCommerceWP 6.5+
  
• PHP 8.0+
  

Find 'n try it here;

• Wordpress.org - Tickets & Passes for WooCommerce

• Playground Blueprint (3 product pre-setup)

Its GPLv2, 100% free, no pro version, nothing to upsell you. I'm happy to any hear feedback! - both good and bad.