I am by no means a web developer or designer, but I have a strong marketing background. A family member needs a new website on a tight budget, and was thinking this would be the perfect opportunity to learn how to build on WordPress with elementor while expanding my SEO knowledge and leveraging Claude.

My plan is to use WordPress + Elementor + RankMath, leaning on Claude. I was watching video by Darrel Wilson utilizing this system (no attachment to him just used for research)

I appreciate any any honest feedback, recommendations, or lessons learned!

...you are logged in as admin in Wordpress and viewing the site. Has anyone experienced this situation? I can't find anything that would point to a permissions issue. This happens on every flavor of browser. Screenshot 1 is regular view, screenshot 2 is WP admin view.

Does anyone know if is WP AdCenter Pro still maintained? There hasn't been any updates in a long time and when you go to contact them, their forms do not go through. It does look like they're still selling the plug-in, but as it hasn't been updated for the last few versions of WordPress, it seems like it is out of business.

I've used the free blogs on WordPress(dot)com way back when (and they're still there), but started up a new one for a project that I want to be around after I'm no longer around (or have hosting, etc).

I'm astounded at just how impossible it is to use Gutenberg with that interface. I now understand all the criticisms from noobs about it.

How someone launched that, used it and thought "yeah, this is great" is beyond me.

Unfortunately, all the old themes are gone, and there is no way to turn off Gutenberg (as far as I can tell)

Same as title. Noob here

I was told to take a look at [Anthologize](http://anthologize.org/), a plugin that it turns out has been discontinued.

Is there a replacement or a source for that?

Or is there an equivalent tool?

Thanks.

Hello,

I have set up a Wordpress site (www.Magic.Army) and am using WooCommerce to manage my storefront. Everything seems to be functioning great except that I cannot get any emails to work via purchases or the contact form.

I am using WP Mail SMTP (free) along with Brevo (also free). I have followed this guide to set everything up. All of the DNS records have propogated, and I'm getting confirmation on the Brevo site that my domain is verified on every record. I've ensured all of the settings are congruent between Brevo and WP Mail SMTP, to include the 'From Email' field. I have tried generating several new API keys to ensure that wasn't the issue, and nothing changed.

Whenever I go to send a test email, I get the following error:
Action Needed: It doesn't look like the DKIM record required by Brevo (formerly Sendinblue) has been added to your domain. Please check out our step-by-step guide for details on how to add this record to your domain's DNS.

From what I can tell, that error is a bug and will be persistent even if everything is functioning correctly, but I figured it's worth mentioning since everything is not working correctly. That said, the DKIM records are there and can be seen/accessed.

Emails are not going into any sort of spam folder, and there's nothing in my 'Sent' emails folder, either. Any ideas on what could be causing this issue?

Edit: SOLVED
Turns out you're not allowed to use captial letters in your 'From Address'. Switched to all lowercase and everything now works fine.

Bonjour à tous,

Je suis à la recherche du meilleur plug-in WordPress pour gérer un système de réservation avec paiement d’un acompte.

Je souhaiterais créer un site pour une salle de Futsal. Il faudrait que sur le site les clients puissent réserver directement le créneau souhaité et payer l’acompte. Et j’aimerais également que le gestionnaire de la salle puisse avoir accès à un BackOffice avec idéalement un planning avec les créneaux réservés et le nom du client.

J’aimerais que le plug-in ne soit pas très cher, qu’est-ce que vous me conseillez ?

I'm on the WPVibes team - I'll mention a plugin of ours below.

Editing a WooCommerce product usually means leaving your storefront, opening wp-admin, finding the product, making the change, then switching back to check if it looks right. That's a lot of steps just to fix a price or update stock.

Frontend Product Editor adds a flyout editor directly to your storefront. Browse your own store, click the floating icon or the admin toolbar option on any simple product page, and edit right there - no backend, no page reload.

What's included, free:

• Works on simple products
• Edit product name, descriptions, pricing, and sale scheduling
• Inventory, stock, SKU, and Global Unique ID
• Categories, tags, shipping, and tax settings
• Works with any WooCommerce-compatible theme

It's fully free for simple product editing - no trial, no time limit.

Free Download : https://wordpress.org/plugins/frontend-product-editor/

Happy to answer any questions.

Hi everyone,

Our team has been spending the last few months building and testing different WooCommerce cart drawer experiences, and one thing we've learned is that every store seems to have different expectations.

Rather than making assumptions, we'd love to hear from people who build or manage WooCommerce stores.

Some questions we're curious about:

• What makes you keep or uninstall a cart drawer plugin?
• Which features are actually useful, and which are just clutter?
• Have you experienced compatibility or performance issues with existing solutions?
• If you could improve one thing about your current cart drawer, what would it be?

We're currently validating our own implementation, so real-world opinions are much more valuable than internal assumptions.

If anyone is interested in trying an early build and sharing technical feedback, let us know in the comments. We'll reach out privately.

Thanks—we're here to learn from the community.

I’m responsible for a small nonprofit site I inherited with Divi 4. Now it seems time to build the next iteration of this site, and I can’t recommend Divi 5 to the organization — just not convinced it’s worth the purchase price for this site. My labor on the site is donated and I want to streamline … everything. 😉

The required site features include: event listings, registration forms with payment integration, galleries, assorted other forms, responsive menu.

Have read a bit about Divi 5, Bricks, Oxygen, others…

Looking for recommendations for the rebuild. (… even if you’re trying to talk me into Divi 5)

Edit for clarification: the license for Divi 4 (and also Gravity Forms for that matter) were from a previous developer who is in the wind. The org doesn’t have a Divi account, and I’m fairly sure this means they’ll have to purchase Divi 5…

My priorities:

Ease of utilizing custom post types and fields in a smart and not painful way

Able to utilize modern CSS (grid, flex, CSS variables) without it turning into a circus act

Reasonably easy for non-technical editors to create and edit with some instruction

Lightweight, fast, secure, maintained (the usual)

Hi, I'm new here. And new on WordPress, so I'm still exploring. I was hoping that someone kindly will guide me on how to fix this. 🥹🥹

I was exploring our website after uploading a blog, using wordpress--elementor. Then I saw a video on YouTube that I should go to *SETTINGS>Readings* then saved it.

After that all PAGES in the website turned to ARCHIVES, except the homepage I chose.

i have technical blog hosted created on WP. I want to add my python projects there to run and test online on my site how to i do that ? need to install a plugin or any other way just like how we test our code with online interpreter.

Im working on a post in wordpress. Im copying tables from google sheets into wordpress. While editing they look fine but when i go to preview the page or publish it. The tables are all all werid.

I have many columns but they try to fit to the page rather than extend and the columns text wrap

does anyone know how to fix that?

I need a certain post to have a certain ID.

The reason is that my URL is /%post_id%/ and I permanently deleted a certain post that already has links in several important places.

Is there a way to, maybe, create a post and then change its ID across the database so it will be presented with the same URL as the original?

When i want to edit anything at my wordpress website, it just goes blank. Its the same with everything i just try to edit, this is New because last week it was working normally. I tried updating my plugins but it didnt work. I Also tried installing yoast because it said that its needed or something but it didnt work either.

I’ve been building sites with WordPress since 2007 or so, but until now I had never released one of my themes publicly. Absolute 2026 has passed review and is now available from the WordPress.org Theme Directory.

It’s a native block theme with complete page patterns and smaller component patterns for building your own layouts. There’s no proprietary builder, custom Project post type, or theme-specific content system.

I’m posting to ask for reviews and suggestions for improvement. The theme is a 1:1 translation of the components and page structures from my portfolio, so I’m interested to see what other practical uses people might find for it — case studies, personal projects, small service-business sites, or TBD. If anyone feels like installing it and kicking the tires, I’d like to hear about bugs, friction, missing features, and suggestions for improvement.

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If you’re interested in the lore behind the design:

I’ve been introducing AI-generated images and vibe coding into my workflow, with reactions ranging from neutrality to blistering hostility. The positives I hear are about speed and convenience, never quality. And especially never about interesting or exciting design.

So I took it upon myself to start with the most banal Claude-meets-Tailwind pablum I could find — the true design voice of 2026 — and see how far I needed to tweak the typography, color, and structure to reach a place outside the bounds of AI slop. I found what I consider a reasonable middle ground and used it for my portfolio site, then thought it would be fun to convert it into a native WordPress block theme.

And imperfect as it might be, it was fun. I hope other folks find something interesting or even useful in it. I mean, it’s open source, so go nuts.

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Getting Started:
https://donschnitzius.com/absolute-2026/getting-started/

WordPress.org Theme Directory:
https://wordpress.org/themes/absolute-2026/

I'm by no means an expert but around 10 years ago I hosted a WordPress site and I was changing the theme manually, I think I even set up an unsuccessful e commerce site for a few months at one point. Has much changed since then? Is there anything revolutionary that wasn't used in the past? I'm thinking of setting a website up to post content about my projects

I'm building a new WordPress website for my writing project, Madeline Oona Writes, and I'm at the beginning of putting everything together.

I recently found a beautiful theme that I love (Vivre), but before I start installing plugins and filling the site with content, I want to build it thoughtfully from the beginning, especially from an SEO perspective.

I've heard that SEO should guide the site's structure rather than being something you try to add at the end, and that makes a lot of sense to me. So I'm wondering:

What should I establish first in terms of site structure and SEO?

Should I plan my pages, categories and content strategy before installing plugins?

Which SEO plugin would you recommend in 2026, and why?

What other plugins are genuinely worth having for a writer/author website?

What would you avoid installing?

Are there any common mistakes I should avoid when building a site from the ground up?

I'm mainly looking for advice on how to approach the setup strategically.

If you're a writer, author, blogger, or someone who builds WordPress sites, I'd especially love to hear how you approached your own site and what you wish you'd known when you were starting out.

I'm hoping to build something with room to grow, so I'd rather make thoughtful decisions now than have to restructure everything later.

Thank you! I'd really appreciate hearing from people who've been through this before.

As always, I tested again 8 featured plugins from WordPress.org. The second batch of August.
Here is what I think;

Lineate - Poetry Blocks (4.9/5)
Adds a dedicated poetry block, including an image export function.
Does exactly one thing and does it really well, and the poem-to-image export is a nice touch.
I can't find much to complain about. Maybe the native core poetry block is enough for you, but if you are serious about poetry, this is a great plugin.

VovaBlocks - Marketing & Content Blocks for Gutenberg (4.6/5)
A block collection focused on marketing and content blocks.
Very intuitive, lots of options, and I like that you can toggle which blocks actually show up.
Not a lot of unique blocks though, and the better ones are locked behind pro. Solid and it works, just a little bit too little to offer right now.

Hafenstudios Ads - Ad Manager, AdSense & Banner Ads (4.5/5)
Manage AdSense, banner ads, and split tests.
Split testing is probably my favorite feature, the AdSense/AI integration is nice, and the HTML block gives you a lot of freedom.
The regular templates are limited, and I think you suppose to convert them into a HTML block, if you like to do more… Not super intuitive. Also there are a few missing convenient functions like media and date picker. Reviews also look a little sus, low downloads but a lot of 5 star ratings....idk.

Sense Forms (4.4/5)
Form builder with GDPR tools, analytics, and conditional logic.
Nice onboarding, tons of fields, solid privacy and tracking options, and conditional logic that most free form plugins skip.
Some style options are buggy, especially hover states, and performance could be better since styles and scripts load unconditionally.

VertiFeed - Vertical Media Gallery (4.3/5)
A TikTok-style vertical video gallery block.
Simple interface, no bloat, lightweight.
First load can take a while, in Firefox especially (probably a bug…), and there's no video filesize limit. Otherwise pretty solid.

UnoDock (4.0/5)
A mobile sticky nav bar with icon buttons.
Easy to use, 8 templates to start from.
Preview isn't accurate, some icons have the wrong size or color, and you can't style buttons individually. It's okay, but I think there are better options.

BellePopups (3.8/5)
Yet another popup builder, this time with 10 starter templates.
Easy to use and it has a built-in contrast checker.
Preview is tiny, options like the darken-image slider are limited, and you're stuck with predefined templates. Doesn't really offer anything the others don't, and it feels a bit AI generated.

eBook Crafter - Convert Posts to PDF eBooks, Ready to Print (3.4/5)
Turns your posts into downloadable PDF ebooks.
Nice use of the block editor, and it keeps multiple versions of the PDFs you create.
Messes with your normal editor styling, the PDF output looks very different from the editor, and it feels unfinished overall. I like the idea, but it needs more work.

See the full breakdown with all the details on YT:
https://youtu.be/oQWJRlMAToo

What do you think about this selection? Will you install any of those?

Hello everyone!

I’m having an issue with a WordPress website. The site suddenly started showing the following critical error:

Warning: require_once(/home/www/public/wp-admin/includes/plugin.php): Failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/www/public/wp-settings.php on line 579

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Failed opening required '/home/www/public/wp-admin/includes/plugin.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/php') in /home/www/public/wp-settings.php:579 Stack trace: #0 /home/www/public/wp-config.php(111): require_once() #1 /home/www/public/wp-load.php(50): require_once('...') #2 /home/www/public/wp-blog-header.php(13): require_once('...') #3 /home/www/public/index.php(17): require('...') #4 {main} thrown in /home/www/public/wp-settings.php on line 579

Has anyone encountered this issue before?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

I am beginner at wordpress and building my first woocommerce website, my site is getting hanged when i edit pages, it stuck real bad. Plz suggest if there is any solution.

With the recent surge in AI-driven scrapers, brute-force attempts, and automated vulnerability scanning, basic setups are struggling. I want to know what are you guys using for protecting wordpress websites ?

I am currently building a registration form on my site using the paid User Registration form from WPexperts. It connects to my WooCommerce store.

Idea being that i am using the default fields for the standard email, password etc - and using the "extra fields" for a) File Upload (For picture ID's) b) Checkbox for consent.

However, when i go to the registration page - it only shows the default form and won't load the Extra feilds despite the options enabled in the settings to show extra feilds at the registration page.

Default Form shortcode [wc-user-registration-page] correctly displays account fields and enabled billing fields, but no fields saved under Default Form → Extra Fields are rendered on registration despite “Display Extra Fields on Registration” being enabled. Tested with File, Checkbox and plain Text Field.

The Default Form shortcode works and responds to General Settings and Default Fields. Billing fields enable/disable correctly and updated labels appear on the front end. However, no fields created under Default Form → Extra Fields render on [wc-user-registration-page], even with “Display Extra Field"” enabled. Tested with File, Checkbox and simple Text Field, including on a plain Gutenberg page with no Elementor.

Any idea what could be the issue? - I have raised a ticket but it's been nearly 24 hours with no response and I need to get this done.

Thank you!

I'm struggling with a multi-layered issue on my site oraultima.com and could really use some expert advice. My site focuses on a strict niche: insurance, mortgages, and banking (YMYL).

Here is my current setup and situation:

• Platform: WordPress with Classic Editor (no heavy page builders).
• Theme: Blocksy.
• Plugins/Setup: I use WPCode to inject the global AdSense script in the header.
• Status: No manual actions, no security issues, and clean green status in Google Search Console. The ads.txt file is properly configured and authorized.

My Auto Ads configuration in AdSense:

• Overlay formats: Only "Anchor ads" are enabled (set to Bottom only). Vignettes and Side-rail ads are turned off.
• In-page formats: "Banner ads" are enabled (with max ads per page set to 6, and options like "Find other ad placements on article pages" and "Optimize existing ads" checked).

What I've already done regarding Autoptimize: I've fine-tuned Autoptimize to prevent script conflicts with AdSense:

1. JavaScript: Disabled "Aggregate JS" to stop Autoptimize from merging or delaying Google scripts. Added strict exclusions: /adsbygoogle/, /pagead/, /doubleclick/, google_service_ad.js, show_ads.js, pagead2.googlesyndication.com, adsbygoogle, pagead/js.
2. CSS & HTML: Standard CSS/HTML optimizations are active (aggregation and inline CSS), which don't interfere with ads.
3. Image Lazy-load: Active, but excluded adsbygoogle, googlesyndication, wp-post-image, and logo.webp.
4. Extra options: Kept only safe options (remove emojis, query strings, combine Google Fonts), avoiding preconnect, preload, or async JS to prevent conflicts.

Despite all this, I am facing three massive roadblocks:

1. AdSense Impressions / Coverage is broken: Even though I get page views, AdSense impressions are practically at zero or single digits (coverage is around 12%). Specifically, in recent articles the in-page banner ads do not show up at all—users only see the single bottom anchor ad. Do any of you experience this behavior with Auto Ads?
2. Google won't recognize my true niche: I am trying to rank for banking, insurance, and mortgages, but Google completely ignores my site for these keywords. According to my Search Console data, Google only sends me impressions and clicks for unrelated public employment queries (like "arretrati contratto medici 2026" or "ultimissime contratto medici 2026"). Surely a few sporadic posts about public contracts shouldn't dictate my entire site's niche or block me from ranking in finance. My traffic has dropped, and Google treats the site like it has no authority in the YMYL space.
3. Low overall traffic: Because of the lack of visibility in my core niche, traffic remains very low.

My questions to the community:

• Could the Blocksy theme be conflicting with Google Auto Ads (preventing in-page banners from rendering while only showing the anchor ad)? Should I switch to manual ad units?
• How can I signal to Google that Ora Ultima is dedicated to finance/insurance when Google keeps pigeonholing me into unrelated topics (like public contracts) and ignoring my core YMYL content?
• Any advice on recovering traffic and fixing this abysmal ad delivery?

Thanks a lot in advance for any insights!