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.