I have submitted my first plugin to wordpress, i got few initial feedback quickly within a day, which I fixed and resubmit again, then got next feedback also within a day. But now Its been more then a week, I did not get any update. I just want to know how much time it usually take and what is the acceptance rate.

We migrated our established Wordpress / WooCommerce site from Divi to Bricks in August, and our Google rankings took a huge hit almost immediately. Product pages that previously ranked in positions 1–3 dropped to 30–50.

We found some issues after the migration, including incorrect heading tags, infinite scrolling, and some indexing problems. Most were fixed within a couple of weeks. During these two weeks though I think a lot of wonky stuff was going on, including links on important pages being directed to the dev site… dumb- I know.

It’s now been about three months, and rankings still haven’t recovered.

Has anyone experienced something similar after a WordPress redesign? Could Google genuinely take several months to recover after the issues are fixed, or does this suggest something is still wrong?

*EDIT: It appears that my issues stem from admin access for student organization leaders being slightly limited for safety reasons. It's looking like I'll have to request plug-ins be added by the Ultimate Admins (aka Web Services). Thanks for all your help guys! You'll probably see me around with further questions.

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I recently took on a new role as the Publicist for a student organization at my college, which includes social media management and website admin. Our site (and socials) have been collecting dust for almost 3 years, so I've been in the process of getting back into everything. Our WordPress site is hosted through the school along with most of the other student org websites, (org.collegename.edu/organizationname), and that's been making it difficult for me to figure out where to start. I'm excited to build experience in this useful field and am raring to get started.

The site needs a total revamp. None of the information is current, the branding is no longer accurate, and it's functionally not customizable. To be clear: I'm so down and excited for the challenge, but my research is informing me that WordPress pretty much needs a hosting application so new themes and plugins can be installed. I've tried to do preliminary edits and I would agree with that assessment. I'm accessing the software via web as far as I can tell.

Basically, I'm pretty sure my school is hosting the site so I don't have full control and can't add new themes or install plugins. I've emailed our Web Services but I'd like to get a fuller understanding while they take forever to get back to me.

Is anyone with greater knowledge of WordPress able to confirm or deny my assumptions? I'm open to using code or importing from other sites... but quality of life-wise I'd really like to install Elementor lol. Any other student web admins?? Useless beginner looking to learn, here.

Shout out YouTube University for all the WordPress guides though! Thanks in advance.

I run a small web agency and have been using ACF for years, mostly for custom WordPress builds.

One of the more interesting things we’ve built was a custom quiz builder for a client. They can manage questions and answers in the backend, automatically generate all possible answer combinations, and assign different outcomes. Visitors then get personalized recommendations based on their answers.

Got me curious about what other developers have built with ACF beyond the usual custom fields and page templates.

Anyone built their own tools, workflows, or frameworks around it? Would love to hear what you’ve come up with.

I have just saw that learndash has changed it's website and there is a message that they no longer give me that price and I have to pay about double or triple price at my renewal date. That it will be atomatically move to that package. How can I build a training system with another plugin? I am using WordPress with Learndash. I am not able to pay that much and not for 10 websites.

Local WP's Connect only works with WP Engine and Flywheel, and my sites are on different VPSs on different providers, so every time I wanted a site locally it was wp db export, rsync, wp db import and a search-replace...

So I ended up building an add-on for it, SSH Sync for Local. It just uses your SSH access (key or password), and it does pull and push of files and the database. Before a push it shows the files that will change, and the last push can be undone.

github.com/fabiomsnunes/local-addon-ssh-sync

A pulled site runs all the live plugins, so I added a safe mode that blocks emails, turns off backup plugins and puts Stripe in test mode. It only covers some use cases for now, but it's on by default.

There's also a small CLI (ssh-sync pull/push/undo) next to Local WP's localwp.

It's free and open source (MIT), no paid version, no upsell, nothing to sell. macOS only for now and still early (v0.1.3). I've only tested it on my own servers, so I'd really like feedback from other devs!!
And if it breaks please open an issue on GitHub.

I made new checkout page using elementor pro but final checkout page is narrow like this . I tried all settings nothing worked. what to do? Already purged all cache. Elementor full width selected in page settings

We are at 30 odd plugins. Every round of updates break something, one plugin we depend on looks abandoned and we had a security scare last quarter. Starting to wonder whether this is just the cost of Wordpress or a sign we should move. How bad is it for you? If you did leave, what did you move to and was it worth it?

They’re making that assessment while ignoring my links that are embedded onto my posts as blocks, rather than text which are linked to other posts…

So I’m guessing I should stay away from embedding links to my other pages, and linking text instead? Is that goes Google prefers the links to be made or is that an oversight from Rank Math?

When pasting a URL text, Wordpress can either embed the link as an alternative or just just paste the url text

Explanation

Hi everyone — I'm the developer of this plugin (a small studio in Tokyo). Posting under the [PROMO] rule for free open-source plugins on WordPress.org.

The problem it solves: if a delivery estimate is calculated on the server, a full-page cache or CDN freezes whatever date was true when the page was cached. After your order cut-off passes, the product page can keep promising a date you already can't meet.

What the free plugin does instead:

• Calculates the estimate in the visitor's browser at view time (your site's timezone, DST-aware), so it stays correct behind caches — including right after the cut-off

• Counts forward from your open weekdays, cut-off time, preparation time in business days, and carrier transit days

• Uses official holiday calendars: UK bank holidays from GOV.UK (by division, including substitute days) or Japanese national holidays generated from the statutory rules, bundled for 2025–2028

• Shows the result as an estimated range with its basis stated — never as a guaranteed date

• Makes no external calls, stores no personal data, and doesn't touch orders

• Includes an admin simulator that walks through the calculation day by day, and a fail-safe: if a date would fall outside the bundled calendar data, the estimate is hidden instead of guessed

Plugin page: https://wordpress.org/plugins/soroban-delivery-dates/

There's an optional paid add-on sold separately, but everything above is the free version.

If you run a WooCommerce store selling into the UK or Japan, I'd genuinely like feedback: what would you need to see before trusting an estimated delivery date on your own product pages?

Hi everyone,

I'm using Avada 7.16.4 with WooCommerce and I'm redesigning my store's checkout and Thank You page using Avada Layouts.

I'm trying to display the customer's billing and shipping details (name, address, email and phone number) on the WooCommerce Thank You page.

I've noticed that Avada documentation mentions a "Woo Order Customer Details" element, but I cannot find it in my installation, either under Layout Elements or Design Elements.

I can access dynamic data options such as "Order Billing First Name", but this seems to require creating several separate text elements, which is not ideal.

My questions are:

1. Is there a native Avada or WooCommerce solution to display all customer details in a single element?

2. Is there a built-in shortcode that can display these details on the Thank You page?

3. If not, would creating a custom PHP shortcode using the Code Snippets plugin be a safe and reliable solution?

4. Is there any risk of conflicts with Avada, WooCommerce or Stripe?

I'd prefer to avoid installing additional plugins or modifying theme files.

Thanks in advance for any advice or recommendations.

Hey I'm using Foxiz theme now, free. I got the zip file, it works, I have used it on various websites, it works fine. Now I have installed it on a new website, but there the demo importer isn't showing any demo templates? Is there any way to fix it?

Hi,
I'm looking for a plugin for our clubs website.
It should be quite simple, type in a password and you can access the members area. There will be some downloadable documents and some sort of comment field or similar so members can post buy/sell/trade offers for the rest.
It's important that the sites in the members area cannot be accessed without the password in the first place.

So generally, quite simple is what I'm looking for, any recommendations?

Hi everyone,

i am new to wordpress page builders and looking for good a one to start with.

can you anyone suggest some good wordpress page builder?

i would love to know which one easy to use and good for begiener .

pls share your recommendations. thanks!

WordPress sites collect tracking from everywhere: a GA4 plugin, a Meta plugin, a cookie banner, Site Kit, a theme snippet, Tag Manager. When something double-counts or stops reporting, it's hard to tell which piece sent what.

I built Pixel Debugger, a free Chrome extension that shows every ad and analytics request a page sends, decoded in the side panel:

• which pixels are loaded vs. which actually sent events

• each event's exact name and values (value, currency, products) as sent

• Google consent mode commands your cookie banner issued, as observed on the page

• possible duplicate events (two plugins sending the same thing)

It's not a plugin, so there's nothing to install on the site, and it works on any site you can open. Browser-only: it can't see server-side events.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/kknfboekekeaagdoineimnebhlmiohpb

I'm the developer. Free, no account.

Hi, I am making a site https://dtwaalf.be/ and there is a store cart that keeps appearing under my footer, it started doing this recently I did not change anything, it's also not visible in the editor only if you travel to my site so I can't select it and delete it. Does anyone know how I can get rid of it?

Probably months ago, there seemed to be an update that caused WordPress not to show my site's font size as the same across the (1) editor and (2) live site.

This causes a lot of tedious zooming in and out. I wonder if y'all know how to mitigate this—or if we should just hope for a reversal update.

I know it's 2026 and no one reads code anymore but I was recently brought onto an FSE project and was appalled that I was staring at a sea of grey lines of HTML comments. I haven't done much WordPress development nearing on three years but I can't believe this is how we're "supposed" to write code. And I was shocked to learn how thin the developer tooling was around this stuff.

Anyways, here's the grammar:

https://github.com/nickzou/tree-sitter-wp-blocks

Realistically, there should really be an LSP that can be like:

<!-- wp:template-part {"slug":"header","tagName":"header"} /-->

And then you get a squiggly that was like "header.html was not found" if the file is missing but the grammar is a start.

quick routine i run through on any new WordPress site before touching anything else. all keyboard, no mouse, takes about 5 minutes.

• load the page and press tab once. a good theme shows a "skip to content" link right there. plenty of themes don't have one

• keep tabbing. a focus box should show up on every link and button. if it disappears for a few presses, something is hiding it

• tab through the header, the menu, any popups. you should be able to reach every link and button, in an order that makes sense

• hit enter on a few of them, dropdown menus especially. a lot of them only open on hover and do nothing with enter

• tab into a contact form, fill it out, submit with enter, no mouse at all

• open any modal or lightbox, hit esc, see if it actually closes and puts you back where you were

if more than one of these fails it's usually a theme or plugin problem, not something one setting fixes. w3c has a longer version of this if you want to go deeper: https://www.w3.org/WAI/test-evaluate/preliminary/

anyone run a different order than this, or have a step i'm missing?

Beginner here, making an ecommerce site, for now i've been trying to learn and used AI just for guidance and did all the block by myself im using GeneratePress + Blocks / WooCommerce, i want it to be fast and lightweight as possible. How trustworthy is it to tell AI to generate code for the CodeEditor so i dont have to do everything by hand surely it cant be bloat code since it needs to be correct in order for the blocks to exist? Need some tips for the most optimized/efficient way of making a website

Hey everyone! I came up with yet another simple way to protect my and client WordPress sites. One of the simplest and super effective way is to put /wp-admin/ and wp-login.php behind basic authentication. admin-ajax.php should be excluded though because it's used in the public site for ajax stuff even though it's in /wp-admin/

So my idea is that even if someone manages to create an administrator account, they still won't be able to log in or perform any administrative actions until they are approved/trusted.

I manually approve/flag high privileged users such as Store Manager (WooCommerce), Editor or Administrator roles via WP-CLI (I could easily add a UI for this though).

Should I release this as a free/paid plugin? Anyone interested in testing it?

Just a heads-up: you might accidentally lock yourself out and it will require adding some lines to wp-config via FTP or file manager via the control panel 😃

I also made it so if anything important changes in the WordPress site like admin email that automatically deactivates the trust of the users e.g. a site is hacked and the admin email is changed that blocks access to all high privileged accounts for security reasons.

Slavi

Is it common to install plugins downloaded directly from their home page, rather than from the official repo?

I'm wondering if I should release something before it makes it into the repository (from what I was told, the review process can take up to a month, or even more).

I maintain OpenPorte, the community-maintained open-source fork of ALTCHA Spam Protection v1 (self-hosted, privacy-friendly CAPTCHA for WordPress). Version 1.30.3 fixes a high-severity issue, so if you run it with Contact Form 7 or HTML Forms, please update.

The issue: to show its widget inside those forms, the plugin expanded every shortcode in the displayed form, including what visitors typed into fields or put in the URL. So anyone, without logging in, could make the site run any registered shortcode. The CAPTCHA did not stop it. The bug came from the original plugin (ALTCHA Spam Protection 1.6.0 / 1.7.0). Advisory: GHSA-hvr5-q69x-jp62 (CVSS 7.3).

Still on ALTCHA Spam Protection? Every version up to its last GPL release, 1.26.3, is affected, and that plugin is no longer maintained, so no fix is coming there. OpenPorte 1.30.3 imports your 1.x settings and keeps the free, self-hosted features, including the [altcha] shortcode. Only the paid altcha.org SaaS mode wasn't carried over.

The fix: only OpenPorte's own [openporte]/[altcha] tags are rendered, and only from the form as the admin wrote it.

Heads-up: other plugins' shortcodes inside Contact Form 7 / HTML Forms forms may stop rendering. Neither form plugin renders them on its own. If yours still render after the update, another plugin is expanding them, and it may have the same kind of flaw, so check with its author. There's deliberately no switch to bring the old behaviour back. If the change breaks one of your forms, ask on the support forum and I'll help.

A lesson for anyone writing WordPress plugins: never run do_shortcode() on output that contains visitor input. WordPress assumes shortcode content comes from someone allowed to write it.

Thanks to Erik Debye for the private report.

• Release notes: https://github.com/openporte/openporte/releases/tag/v1.30.3

• Advisory: https://github.com/openporte/openporte/security/advisories/GHSA-hvr5-q69x-jp62

• WordPress.org: https://wordpress.org/plugins/openporte/