This was driving me nuts. I'm new to WP. I didn't even know the thing was called a sidebar till a few days ago lol (My sidebar had " About Me/Newsletter and Recent Post") . I want to customize my pg. as much as I can but the sidebar was popping up on every page & I wanted it gone. I know how to delete blocks but for some reason the sidebar was showing only when I went to "VIEW SITE" and not "desktop view" or "mobile view" .

I looked it up and a lot of the info on google is outdated. Glory be to God, I have the solution without reaching out to customer service or downloading a plugin. You can do it on a free WP account.

Step by step: Go to "Appearance" , "Editor" (You'll end up in "Design") , go to "Templates" ( here is where I saw the sidebar in all of the templates) Go to each template & delete the sidebar block from each template (which is what I did) . After I did this, Sidebar gone! I noticed that the blocks I can't delete in " Editor" I'm able to delete in "Templates" .

you can definitely track your progress on " View Site" as you're deleting. If for some reason you want to restore the sidebar on a certain page, go to that template , go to the 3 dots & click "reset". I pray this will help. Have an Awesome day!

Hello,

I’m struggling to understand the distinction between terms like "developer," "web designer," and others.

Personally, I build websites using WordPress, so I don’t write code. I might use shortcodes provided by certain plugins, or perhaps add some custom CSS for instance, within Elementor. I don’t start with pre-made templates, I build the pages myself using Elementor or Gutenberg when a theme only matches with it. I also use plugins to integrate specific features required for each site (such as e-commerce, rental systems, etc.).

Given this, would I be considered a "web designer"? How should I describe my role? And what is a web master ?

Thanks!

Hi everyone,

I’m researching how agencies, freelancers, and businesses manage WordPress websites and Shopify stores.

I’m working on a platform intended to help with:

• monitoring website health
• performance and security reviews
• managing multiple websites
• AI-assisted improvement recommendations
• reviewing and approving changes before publication

Before developing further, I’d like to understand the real problems people face today.

What is the most frustrating part of managing websites or online stores?

What tools do you currently use?

What would you most like to automate or improve?

Please share your honest opinion in the comments. Critical feedback is especially welcome.

This is for product research only, not a sales pitch. Thank you for your time!

When uploading photos. JPG / sRGB; the image looks great. But gallery thumbnails of medium size previews looks over saturated. Is it changing the color tag?

https://imgur.com/a/HW9dpv8

This only started happening since the last month or so.

Anybody know what it could be?

Hello Everyone!

How do you deal with the plugins, which are updated regularly, but the compatibility with your WordPress version has not been tested - according to the authors.

For example, I am just checking again a plugin, which was updated a few days ago, but the compatibility with WordPress 7.1.4 has not been tested and if you look at the details, the compatibility with WordPress 7.0.8 is assured.

Thanks and wishing you a nice day and a great weekend ahead!

If your site doesn’t auto-update, check now. During a full-package core update, older versions unpacked the new files (including setup-config.php) into a predictable folder under wp-content/upgrade/. Attackers poll for that window. Wordfence logged 18,500+ requests in the first 21 hours, and it’s in CISA’s KEV list since Nov 3.

Fixed: 7.1.4, 7.0.8, 6.9.11, 6.8.12 and backports down to 4.7.

Extra hardening, in your site-root .htaccess:

RewriteRule ^wp-content/upgrade/ - [F,L] 

Then check that /wp-content/upgrade/ returns 403.

Hello.

My wife is a website designer using word press. She charges 300$ for full website creation and management afterwards for 6 months. If anyone wants a website built or is interested in getting help contact +220 871 0252

Thank you & Have a great day.

Hi everyone,

I'm stuck with a WooCommerce digital product issue.

I sell virtual/downloadable products (pdf/zip). I integrated a custom payment gateway. Checkout works fine - customer pays, order goes to Completed, I get the money, and the download link even shows up on the Thank You page and My Account page.

But when I click the link, it just says Invalid Download Link. File never downloads.

What I've already tried:

• Product is marked as Virtual + Downloadable • Tried both local files uploaded to WooCommerce and Google Drive direct links (uc?export=download&id=)

• WooCommerce > Settings > Products > Downloadable Products: Method set to Redirect,

• Manually granted permissions from Order > Downloadable product permissions • Tools > Regenerated download permissions

• Tested file names without spaces

• No cache on checkout / my-account pages (LiteSpeed + Cloudflare bypassed)

Is there a hook or fix I need to add to make it grant download access?

Hello, I have recently become webmaster for a publisher with a website that has averaged about 110,000 visits and 35 GB of monthly bandwith since May. I currently have the site on a LiteSpeed server, with LSCache and Quic cloud all tuned to the best performance I can muster on this shared hosting account (yes, I KNOW). Google PageSpeed shows:

• 1.1s FCP
• 1.5s LCP
• 86ms INP
• 0.04 CLS
• 0.6 TTFB
• 2.9s Speed Index

I am looking for ways to speed up the site with the limited access I have to a shared hosting environment, especially the backend. We have about 2,800 subscribers that receive a twice-weekly newsletter delivered via WordPress plugin. Sometimes it takes all day to send out the emails. I would be interested in learning how I might de-couple the backend functions of the site so that composing and sending the newsletter is faster.

A few pre-emptive answers:

• Cloudflare - yes, it is my primary DNS and the site content is delivered via Quic cloud proxy.
• No, I am not using a Page Builder plugin on the frontend - I hate them.
• No, we won't switch to Mailchimp or other hosted solution because of the investments already made in the email template and its integration with our membership database.

I have found mixed results when tinkering with heartbeat timing - backend doesn't speed up with a slower heartbeat. What else should I be looking at?

Thanks in advance for all your kind and helpful responses. 😄