I'm hoping this is a simple fix and I'm only confused because I'm new to WordPress. Please help!

I installed a theme called Wedding Photographer Nook because I liked the layout, however I'm having trouble with the way it's set up for the home page and posts page.

I want new posts to go to a seperate page which operates like a blog, but doing this by going to the page I want to set it as the posts page instead removes all the formatting and reformats it to the theme's homepage, which does not display latest posts. In Settings > Reading I try switching the settings around and it doesn't do anything at all.

Basically I just want to remove whatever it is that causes the posts page to reformat into this homepage template the theme has set up so that I can set posts to go to the page I designate.

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These buttons show up on all my pages. I only started building the site a couple hours ago so go easy on me please lol

Hi everyone!

I'm building a website for my first paying client, a home-based beauty technician who offers nail, eyelash and eyebrow services.

I'm looking for a free WordPress booking plugin that can handle a specific booking workflow.

Here's how I'd like it to work:

1. My client sets her available days and time slots from her WordPress dashboard.
2. When someone visits the website, they can see the available time slots and choose one.
3. The customer selects the services they want (nails, eyelashes, eyebrows, etc.) and submits a booking request.
4. My client receives a notification and can manually accept or reject the request before it becomes a confirmed appointment.

There's one important detail: appointment durations are not always the same.

For example, a simple nail appointment might take 30 minutes, while a more elaborate design or a combination of services could take 3–4 hours.

Ideally, I'd like a plugin that can handle different appointment durations depending on the selected services, while still allowing my client to manually approve each booking.

My main requirements are:

• Display available time slots to customers.
• Allow customers to select one or multiple services.
• Support variable appointment durations.
• Keep booking requests pending until manually approved.
• Allow my client to manage availability and appointments easily from her phone or WordPress dashboard.

I've looked into Simply Schedule Appointments and a few other plugins, but I'm not sure which one supports all these features in its free version.

I'm currently developing the website locally using WordPress and XAMPP, and I'd prefer to avoid paid plugins if possible.

Does anyone have experience with a plugin that can handle this workflow? I'd really appreciate any recommendations or advice!

Thanks!

Hi! I am putting a article on snowsites wordpress and the embeds are not centering. I use the centered button and paste using the embed links in the generic embed button. Im working with instgram links. How can I get them to center on the site when they keep going to the side. Thank you!

I made WPGraft. You give it a website address and it clones that page into your page builder as fully editable elements.

It works with Elementor, Webflow, Instatic, Bricks, Breakdance, Divi 5, Gutenberg, Oxygen (6 and Classic) and Beaver Builder.

The part I care about is what happens after the copy. You get elements you can move, restyle and delete like anything else in the builder.

It launched on Oct. 30. 45 sales so far and 1 review, 5 out of 5.

A question for the people here who build client sites: when you take over a site from another builder, do you rebuild the layout by hand or start from a clone?

I run a managed IT business in South Africa and look after a fair number of client WordPress sites. Over the past while I've been building a Python script to check those sites from the outside, and it's caught enough real problems for our clients that I figured it was worth sharing.

It's called WordPress Exposure Audit.

What it does
You point it at a site and it writes a self-contained HTML report you can hand to whoever owns it. It looks for things like:
Backup archives, database dumps, .env, .git and old wp-config copies left lying around
Author names leaking through REST, ?author=N, sitemaps and oEmbed (not just the one route everyone closes)
Plugin, theme, core and PHP versions checked against known CVEs, plus plugins that have been quietly pulled from the directory
Old uploads still downloadable but invisible in the Media screen
Security headers, TLS, XML-RPC, open registration, SPF/DMARC

Why I built it
Most "is my site safe" checkers just list paths that returned a 200, which is wrong on loads of sites. A site that redirects unknown paths to the homepage looks like it's serving /backup.sql. An early version of mine reported five critical findings on a tidy site, all false. So most of the effort goes into calibrating how each site answers a missing path, and the report tells you when it couldn't check something rather than giving you a green tick.

The safety bit
It's GET and HEAD only. No logins, no form posts, no password guessing, no payloads. It's not a pen test and the report says so. Single Python file, standard library only, Python 3.9+:

python3 wp_audit.py --site https://www.yoursite.com

Where I'd love your help
It's been tuned against the sites I manage, so it's seen a limited range of hosts, caches and WAFs. If you'd run it against sites you own or look after, I'd really appreciate hearing about:

False positives (anything it flagged that wasn't real)
Anything it obviously missed
Odd hosting setups where calibration fell over
Please only run it on sites you own or have permission to test. Issues and PRs are welcome on GitHub, and there's a --selftest if you want to add a case for a response shape it doesn't handle yet.

Apache 2.0, free to use. Hopefully it helps a few of you lock things down a bit tighter. Cheers!

I'm trying to understand the best way to approach a situation where WooCommerce, a payment gateway webhook, and an external fulfillment system can all update the same order within a few seconds of each other.

For example, say a customer completes checkout, but the payment gateway's confirmation webhook is delayed. Meanwhile, a fulfillment integration picks up the order, and then the webhook arrives while another background process is updating its status.

My understanding is that WordPress doesn't provide transactional guarantees across all of these operations, and relying on order status alone isn't necessarily enough to prevent duplicate processing.

Would the better approach be to make every operation idempotent using unique event IDs, or would you also implement some form of locking around order updates?

I'm also curious how HPOS changes the equation, particularly when plugins are still using older post/meta-based assumptions.

For developers who've dealt with this at scale, how do you prevent duplicate fulfillment or conflicting state changes without creating a system where failed jobs leave orders permanently locked?

I'm less interested in specific plugin recommendations and more interested in the architectural approach you'd trust in production.

Can anyone guide me on how to integrate the Elavon Payment Gateway with WordPress without relying on any third-party plugins or paid app subscriptions?

We only need a direct, synchronized connection between Elavon and WordPress to process payments.

If anyone has experience with Elavon API integration or can share relevant documentation, tutorials, or code references, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

I’ve been building custom WP themes for a long time (ACF, CPTs, the usual). For forms I mostly use CF7, occasionally Gravity Forms.

Recently a client needed a scholarship application collecting hundreds of submissions, each with several file uploads. WP didn’t feel like the right tool: public upload folders, sensitive documents, and a site that quietly turns into a 100GB file repository. We went with Cognito Forms using their JS embed. It worked well, and the WP site stores none of the sensitive data.

I know GF can store uploads outside the public path and you can bolt on retention rules. I’d still rather offload it. Retention, access control, and breach liability sit with the vendor instead of with me and a client who will never purge anything.

Now another client takes job applications through their WP site, and I’d like to steer them the same way, maybe Jotform. Am I overthinking it? What do you use for this, and is there a hosted option you’d recommend or avoid?

Really noob question here.

Im contributing to a blog that left their website very dry for the last year, so I offered to take care of it. I asked the "boss" and he gave me my login/password that I access through the website.

I see that I can make normal post, I cant seems to find where to create image gallery or even install plugin.

Am i working with the free version, or maybe a restricted login?

Thanks for the help

Hello everyone

Anyone using cloudways here and noticed that their website actually became slower after shifting to lightening stack as compared to earlier hybrid stack?

Hi everyone!

I've published a plugin called WhatAvatar, and I'd love to share it with you!

Link to the repo: https://wordpress.org/plugins/whatavatar/

After years working on WordPress, I've noticed that, when it comes to user avatars, we don't really have many options. You can use generated avatars, Gravatar, or allow image uploads. That's all.

That’s why I created WhatAvatar. Instead of risky image uploads (innapropiated or copyrighted images) or boring generated ones, WhatAvatar lets users build their own avatars right on your site.

But there's another idea I wanted to explore: giving avatars a purpose beyond just looking good.

Then is when I added the concept to lock avatar parts behind goals. Whether it's completing a course, spending points, or making a purchase, users can unlock exclusive items for their avatars.

This turns avatars from an afterthought into an actual reward system, giving users a new reason to interact with your site.

I'd love to hear what you think! Do you think customizable + unlockable avatars could bring something interesting to the WordPress ecosystem?

Would love to meet with WordPress folks who're attending Web Summit in upcoming week in Lisbon.

Lets meet over coffee ☕ we can talk about WordPress products, investment, partnerships & how can we stop AI :D

I have been using the Reddit Checker Firefox add-on to track the upvotes on posts I publish to Reddit subs (displaying in extension bar). Recently it's stopped working. Has anyone seen any add-on or extension for any browser that tracks upvotes. Reddit is an important source of site traffic, so it's important for me to track reader response.

Hey all , I just received this letter and working on fixing my website as we speak . Little freaked out about this tbh . Any recommendations?