I'm aware of trac, before making a feature request there I'd figure I'd get the temperature here. Simply - so many sites these days turn comments off, and there's a cottage industry around blocking comment spam besides, does WordPress even need comments as a core feature? I feel it might be better to move the functionality off into a plugin that ships with WordPress in 8.0, and then maybe even remove it entirely from core in 9. Thoughts?

Hi all WordPress peeps. quick question, have been runnning askimet plugin for about 3 years. I dont run a blog website and any forms I have are created by elementor. do i really need askimet.

I run WooCommerce and an lms

The default theme editor does not have the option to upload an icon.

Hi all WordPress peeps. quick question, have been runnning askimet plugin for about 3 years. I dont run a blog website and any forms I have are created by elementor. do i really need askimet.

I run WooCommerce and an lms

I'm a dev at Tide and I've been building out a WordPress plugin in my spare cycles. Before I sink some more time into it I'd rather find out whether I'm solving a problem anyone actually has, so I'm posting the plan here while it's still cheap to change.

Quick context on Tide if you haven't run into it: it's threshold cryptography, meaning keys get split across a decentralised network of nodes (we call them ORKs) so no single party, including us, ever holds a whole key.

What the plugin does right now: you pick which post meta keys are sensitive, and those get encrypted and decrypted in the browser. WordPress never sees the plaintext. Neither does MySQL, your host, your backups, or the 23 other plugins you've got installed. Whether a given user is allowed to decrypt is decided by a Tide policy enforced across the ORK network, so it isn't a current_user_can() check sitting in PHP that an attacker can just walk around once they've got admin.

The honest downsides, because I'd rather you hear them from me:

• You can't search, sort or filter on encrypted meta. meta_query on those keys is dead.
• WP-CLI and any REST consumer that isn't going through the browser path sees ciphertext and nothing else.

So my actual question. Post meta felt like the natural first target because it's where custom fields and ACF and half the plugin ecosystem park their data, but I'm not convinced it's what people are losing sleep over. Would you rather see this applied to:

• form submissions (CF7, Gravity, WPForms entries sitting in the DB in plaintext forever)
• WooCommerce customer and order fields
• private uploads and media
• user profile fields
• membership or CRM style plugin data
• something I haven't listed

It'll be open source, and there's a free tier so you can run it without talking to anyone in sales first.

Two things I'd genuinely like answers to: what data on your sites do you wish WordPress simply never held in readable form, and what would stop you installing something like this even if it were free?

Happy to go into the crypto in the comments if anyone cares about that part.

Getting meaningful customer feedback feels harder than ever.

Let’s say you have 10,000 customers, but only 1 or 2 people mention on Reddit, Facebook, or another platform that they dislike a feature or want something changed.

How do you decide whether that feedback represents a real product problem or just a personal preference?

For example, many WordPress companies place promotional or sale banners inside the WordPress dashboard.

Some users find those notices annoying and feel the dashboard should stay clean.

But other users may actually benefit from them because they discover a discount they would otherwise have missed.

So one feature can create value for one group while frustrating another.

I’m curious how product teams handle situations like this.

Do you look mainly at:

• Number of similar complaints?
• Percentage of affected users?
• Support tickets and feature requests?
• Usage or behavioral data?
• Revenue/business impact?
• User interviews or surveys?
• How easy or risky the change is?

And how do you avoid overreacting to a few loud users while also not ignoring valuable early feedback?

Would love to hear how other product teams approach this.

I'm a dev at Tide and I've been building out a WordPress plugin in my spare cycles. Before I sink some more time into it I'd rather find out whether I'm solving a problem anyone actually has, so I'm posting the plan here while it's still cheap to change.

Quick context on Tide if you haven't run into it: it's threshold cryptography, meaning keys get split across a decentralised network of nodes (we call them ORKs) so no single party, including us, ever holds a whole key.

What the plugin does right now: you pick which post meta keys are sensitive, and those get encrypted and decrypted in the browser. WordPress never sees the plaintext. Neither does MySQL, your host, your backups, or the 23 other plugins you've got installed. Whether a given user is allowed to decrypt is decided by a Tide policy enforced across the ORK network, so it isn't a current_user_can() check sitting in PHP that an attacker can just walk around once they've got admin.

The honest downsides, because I'd rather you hear them from me:

• You can't search, sort or filter on encrypted meta. meta_query on those keys is dead.
• WP-CLI and any REST consumer that isn't going through the browser path sees ciphertext and nothing else.

So my actual question. Post meta felt like the natural first target because it's where custom fields and ACF and half the plugin ecosystem park their data, but I'm not convinced it's what people are losing sleep over. Would you rather see this applied to:

• form submissions (CF7, Gravity, WPForms entries sitting in the DB in plaintext forever)
• WooCommerce customer and order fields
• private uploads and media
• user profile fields
• membership or CRM style plugin data
• something I haven't listed

It'll be open source, and there's a free tier so you can run it without talking to anyone in sales first.

Two things I'd genuinely like answers to: what data on your sites do you wish WordPress simply never held in readable form, and what would stop you installing something like this even if it were free?

Happy to go into the crypto in the comments if anyone cares about that part.

Getting meaningful customer feedback feels harder than ever.

Let’s say you have 10,000 customers, but only 1 or 2 people mention on Reddit, Facebook, or another platform that they dislike a feature or want something changed.

How do you decide whether that feedback represents a real product problem or just a personal preference?

For example, many WordPress companies place promotional or sale banners inside the WordPress dashboard.

Some users find those notices annoying and feel the dashboard should stay clean.

But other users may actually benefit from them because they discover a discount they would otherwise have missed.

So one feature can create value for one group while frustrating another.

I’m curious how product teams handle situations like this.

Do you look mainly at:

• Number of similar complaints?
• Percentage of affected users?
• Support tickets and feature requests?
• Usage or behavioral data?
• Revenue/business impact?
• User interviews or surveys?
• How easy or risky the change is?

And how do you avoid overreacting to a few loud users while also not ignoring valuable early feedback?

Would love to hear how other product teams approach this.

edit again: i think it's fixed now by disabling my caching plug ins! i will have to check back in probably after giving it some time and on non-private browsers to see how things look!

edit: if this makes a difference, i went into inspect element on a page that shows the old menu and it has the old url in the html(?) but on a page that shows the new menu it shows the new url - is assuming that still means a caching problem is likely?? sorry im not familiar with backend stuff, clearly..

hi guys!

firstly, i'm sorry if i use any incorrect terminology or have made any silly mistakes. i also hope this post makes sense. i learnt to use wordpress and elementor through an assignment for uni, but i don't have knowledge as extensively as this issue goes.

the company that i work for has a wordpress page that was made by someone else who no longer works here and i cannot contact him for help. as i have experience with wordpress, i update it pretty regularly when we sell/receive stock, etc.

a few months ago, i created a new elementor page for a category of products we sell. i added it to the menu and everything was fine. however, recently i replaced that page with the product category link and i have updated the navigation under appearance -> menus -> save menu. i tried both navigating it as a product category and as a custom link, yet both have the issue below:

almost every single page on the company website is still leading to the old page when i click the link on the menu? but a handful of pages are showing the new page?

my only guess is that this is a caching issue, however i have cleared/changed the cache through:

1. elementor -> tools -> clear files & data
2. speed optimizer -> caching -> manual cache purge
3. elementor -> theme builder -> header (the person who built the website has a bunch of templates) -> edit with elementor -> edit wordpress menu -> cache settings (i then changed it from default (active) to inactive, which still didnt fix this issue)

i have tried checking from private browsers which is how i know that on almost every page on the website, the menu is not updating.

i know it would probably help to post the links, i just don't want to dox where i work so i hope this was descriptive enough.

any help would be greatly appreciated! i'm sorry if i sound stupid or anything! i'm really interested in wordpress design and this is a new learning opportunity for me. it's hard building from what someone else has made and not knowing what they've set everything to.

edit again: i think it's fixed now by disabling my caching plug ins! i will have to check back in probably after giving it some time and on non-private browsers to see how things look!

edit: if this makes a difference, i went into inspect element on a page that shows the old menu and it has the old url in the html(?) but on a page that shows the new menu it shows the new url - is assuming that still means a caching problem is likely?? sorry im not familiar with backend stuff, clearly..

hi guys!

firstly, i'm sorry if i use any incorrect terminology or have made any silly mistakes. i also hope this post makes sense. i learnt to use wordpress and elementor through an assignment for uni, but i don't have knowledge as extensively as this issue goes.

the company that i work for has a wordpress page that was made by someone else who no longer works here and i cannot contact him for help. as i have experience with wordpress, i update it pretty regularly when we sell/receive stock, etc.

a few months ago, i created a new elementor page for a category of products we sell. i added it to the menu and everything was fine. however, recently i replaced that page with the product category link and i have updated the navigation under appearance -> menus -> save menu. i tried both navigating it as a product category and as a custom link, yet both have the issue below:

almost every single page on the company website is still leading to the old page when i click the link on the menu? but a handful of pages are showing the new page?

my only guess is that this is a caching issue, however i have cleared/changed the cache through:

1. elementor -> tools -> clear files & data
2. speed optimizer -> caching -> manual cache purge
3. elementor -> theme builder -> header (the person who built the website has a bunch of templates) -> edit with elementor -> edit wordpress menu -> cache settings (i then changed it from default (active) to inactive, which still didnt fix this issue)

i have tried checking from private browsers which is how i know that on almost every page on the website, the menu is not updating.

i know it would probably help to post the links, i just don't want to dox where i work so i hope this was descriptive enough.

any help would be greatly appreciated! i'm sorry if i sound stupid or anything! i'm really interested in wordpress design and this is a new learning opportunity for me. it's hard building from what someone else has made and not knowing what they've set everything to.

Hello!

I have a contact page that appears hidden, at first...

When you go on the website, and click "Contact" the form is there, but it's "missing".
You can only see if it you drag your mouse across the page and then everything appears.

It's only when you refresh the page that the form loads properly. (see pics below)

Anybody else have this issue? Or know how to fix it?

https://preview.redd.it/1aahpj7q96oh1.png?width=1121&format=png&auto=webp&s=85a00d096aad85e5dd2704a3a113235c946758ac

https://preview.redd.it/a0j8lvtq96oh1.png?width=1131&format=png&auto=webp&s=1e121e14501a7fb35430b1bf764ff18d73bb3855

https://preview.redd.it/dxsxsu9r96oh1.png?width=1136&format=png&auto=webp&s=a6f3496834985923a709e79f35e38aa9c6078da7

Hello!

I have a contact page that appears hidden, at first...

When you go on the website, and click "Contact" the form is there, but it's "missing".
You can only see if it you drag your mouse across the page and then everything appears.

It's only when you refresh the page that the form loads properly. (see pics below)

Anybody else have this issue? Or know how to fix it?

https://preview.redd.it/1aahpj7q96oh1.png?width=1121&format=png&auto=webp&s=85a00d096aad85e5dd2704a3a113235c946758ac

https://preview.redd.it/a0j8lvtq96oh1.png?width=1131&format=png&auto=webp&s=1e121e14501a7fb35430b1bf764ff18d73bb3855

https://preview.redd.it/dxsxsu9r96oh1.png?width=1136&format=png&auto=webp&s=a6f3496834985923a709e79f35e38aa9c6078da7

Hey new to Reddit, but after many failed attempts at coming to the 'best' conclusion from researching my options, I'd figured I'd ask here.

I'm helping a freelance therapist build their own website as they grow their business and I'm suggesting we build on WordPress rather than Squarespace, Wix, etc. The only obstacle left is choosing a booking plugin to automate the appointments part of the job. I've already looked into Bookly and Amelia (as well as non-WordPress native apps like Acuity, Square Appointments, Calendly, etc).

Their needs are fairly simple:

• An automated bookings end for customers to select available dates.
• An integration/some sort of connection to Google Calendar.
• A payment option. One that preferably avoids or has the smallest transaction fee (with more expensive services, the fees begin to really quickly add up).
• SMS reminders.
• A level of security and confidentiality, so customers do not see unavailable appointments or only a greyed-out option and for the therapist to only handle bookings with the most basic level of details.
• In terms of appointments, its just one therapist, one location, appointments both online and in-person, deposits are sitting under a question mark until the transaction fee issue is resolved and a small handful of service options (think like 5 max, including a 15-minute free 'get to know each other' consultation).

If I'm missing anything obvious, feel free to point it out.

At the moment, I'm mostly leaning towards the Bookly plugin but even there the payment question still stands- even PayPal transactions have a 2- 3% fee per transaction, which I understand isn't out of the ordinary compared to the rest of the market but I figured I'd throw the question out there as well.

I'd be more than grateful for some insights/recommendations. Thanks.

I use The7 (theme) right now, and I'm hoping to add a feature to video playback. Let's say I film a video "tour" of a facility that occasionally arrives at a "crossroad" location, i.e. a centrally located reception desk. I want to give the viewer the option to continue the virtual tour by going left, or right. If they click the left side of the frame, a new video loads, and the virtual tour continues to the left side of the facility.

I use Vimeo for hosting, and I know they have an interactive video feature available. However, this requires the Enterprise tier subscription, plus additional fees. I assume the high cost is because many "interactive" users are monetizing their content. They'd use Vimeo's interactive features for more complex monetization, which may justify the higher costs. I just want to create some basic "A or B" interactivity.

It seems like a (paid) WP plugin might accomplish the fairly basic needs I have for interactivity, at a more contained price point. I've used SliderRevolution before, it's the first plugin that comes to mind. Does anyone have other suggestions for plugins I should consider? It'd be great if the new video "populates the frame" upon the user clicking "left or right," in a seamless way. But mainly, the interactivity is the goal.

I'm looking to build my first Wordpress site and wondering if anyone has any coupon codes or anyway for me to get a discount on my first year or any month?

Thanks

Hey new to Reddit, but after many failed attempts at coming to the 'best' conclusion from researching my options, I'd figured I'd ask here.

I'm helping a freelance therapist build their own website as they grow their business and I'm suggesting we build on WordPress rather than Squarespace, Wix, etc. The only obstacle left is choosing a booking plugin to automate the appointments part of the job. I've already looked into Bookly and Amelia (as well as non-WordPress native apps like Acuity, Square Appointments, Calendly, etc).

Their needs are fairly simple:

• An automated bookings end for customers to select available dates.
• An integration/some sort of connection to Google Calendar.
• A payment option. One that preferably avoids or has the smallest transaction fee (with more expensive services, the fees begin to really quickly add up).
• SMS reminders.
• A level of security and confidentiality, so customers do not see unavailable appointments or only a greyed-out option and for the therapist to only handle bookings with the most basic level of details.
• In terms of appointments, its just one therapist, one location, appointments both online and in-person, deposits are sitting under a question mark until the transaction fee issue is resolved and a small handful of service options (think like 5 max, including a 15-minute free 'get to know each other' consultation).

If I'm missing anything obvious, feel free to point it out.

At the moment, I'm mostly leaning towards the Bookly plugin but even there the payment question still stands- even PayPal transactions have a 2- 3% fee per transaction, which I understand isn't out of the ordinary compared to the rest of the market but I figured I'd throw the question out there as well.

I'd be more than grateful for some insights/recommendations. Thanks.

We've been struggling with setting up a staging environment for a multisite network with mapped domain. We've gotten as far as the redirect phase but not sure how this is solved with mapped domains. Wondering if anyone has ran into anything like this before. Any tips are appreciated.

Looking for help converting an Antigravity website to WordPress
Hi everyone,

I have a website that was built using Antigravity with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. I want to convert the existing website to WordPress while keeping the exact same design, layout, animations, and functionality.

The website has a large number of files (around 1,700), so I’m looking for someone experienced with WordPress who can handle the conversion properly.

If you have experience converting custom-coded websites to WordPress and can preserve the original design, please comment or DM me. This is a paid job, and I’m happy to discuss the budget.
Thanks!

Can anyone recommend me a code snippet plugin with a find and replace function to easily and user-friendly find and replace code blocks (several lines of code)?

Thank you!

Hey everyone! I'm creating a website for my therapist services. My schedule is irregular, which means that most free booking plugins I've already tried (like BookingPress) aren't compatible or allow, at best, manually changing the schedule up every week (Simply Schedule Appointments). However I'd be needing a plugin that a) allows to set different available timeslots every week and b) do this for at least two weeks in advance, since having availability for only the current week does not seem like a good approach. Ideally I'd not have to set every event/appointment manually as well. If you have any suggestions, I'd be grateful! :)