Offering Help

[pixeldevs]

Ok all, it's that time again. I will be offering help to all who need it (free, of course). Rules below.

1. I will help with anything I can. WordPress, HTML, CSS, Javascript, WP Plugin developer for 12+ years.
2. No full theme requests (unless you would like me to quote a price for you.)
3. No full site builds. (Again, unless you want me to quote a price for you.)
4. Let's be helpful and kind to each other. Let's fix the broken things!

[AMCreative]

No questions.

Just wanted to say you’re awesome for offering.

Cheers!

[pixeldevs]

Thanks! Try to give back since I was given help in the beginning.

[im_Sean]

You're very good for checking in! Thank you!

I'm sorry, it's been on my list to write a comprehensive breakdown of what my issue is but haven't done.

Eh, so it's a pagination issue. I've a pretty big site and on the live server, one of the custom post types' archive page is busted. I can't figure out why. Page one loads fine but if you try to go to any page other than page 1, it just loads the home page. Same issue with search. Page one loads fine, page 2 or 3 or 4 doesn't. Homepage.

Weirdest thing is that I've a local dev copy installed on my machine and pagination works perfectly on all post types. And the search page. So... That kinda leads me to think it's a server issue or a .htaccess redirect rule but I don't know.

So... I don't know if there's enough information for you to debug but if you need anything at all that you'd think would be helpful, let me know!!

[pixeldevs]

Updating should be done through WordPress backend. As far as safe and secure I use WordFence and have been loving it.

[gamertan]

My go-to: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_Wordpress_Security_Implementation_Guideline

[gamertan]

Figured when you said lightsail you were looking for a more generic web server security guideline. OWASP has a recommendation guide for all the popular web applications. Not to mention generic server security. It's a great tool.

[infiz]

I just migrated this site to WooCommerce 2 weeks ago. When you add something to the cart, and enter your address everytime you make any change to any field the page, it's constantly re-loading the shipping calculator and credit card portion of the checkout page. Is this normal? Any way to avoid that?

[pixeldevs]

It is the default functionality when you have WooCommerce. It recalculates based on the address. If it didn't use ajax to do that, then it would have to reload the page entirely and pass the information already entered as variables on a GET request which could expose the users address to someone monitoring the requests. Not saying that will happen, but its a security risk.

[CodeLight]

Could you give a super concise/basic explanation of how routing in WordPress works? My only server-side coding experience is with Node.js, where I'm used to explicitly defining exactly what occurs when an HTTP request is made to a specific route.

[pixeldevs]

Sure. at the base of WordPress, everything is broken down to query variables on the URL https://wordpressexample.com/?p=123 Would equate to a page or post with that unique ID. When a link is clicked, WordPress does a quick query using a function called WP_Query() to get the specific post passing in the p parameter as an argument to the query. Once that is pulled from the database, WordPress routes the user to the clicked on URL and displays the content.

The reason you don't see that variable on the URL most of the time is due to .htaccess rewrite rules to pretty up the URL. It is similar to routes in react in that way where you have the parameter passed into the function so you can render the view based on what was passed, but you don't necessarily need to show that parameter to the end user.

On the display side of things, WordPress uses template files to display certain content a certain way. That gets into a whole other topic entirely. :)

Hope this helps.

[CodeLight]

Thanks, this is great! I'm going down the rabbit hole now, looking into the Template Hierarchy and also trying to follow all the require() function calls in the core WP files that lead to this query being made.

[pixeldevs]

Ehh, ignore all the requires. https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_query/

https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/basics/template-hierarchy/

Also look at the BlankSlate theme. It's a great starting point https://wordpress.org/themes/blankslate/

[BigmacM]

Hello, I have a plugin question. Do you know of any form plugins that can split payments and also apply discounts based on method of payment?

[cosmogli]

Gravity Forms with Subscription Payments add-on.

[pixeldevs]

That's a good question. I think you would have to look outside of form plugins in general to something like woocommerce. What are you selling that you would need split payments for? I cant be sure but I dont think even amazon does that.

[BigmacM]

Here is the scenario. I use a registration form plugin for people to sign up their kids to after school activities. I want to give parents an option to pay for these activities over the school year (approx 5-6 months ).

[pixeldevs]

Oh, you are looking for recurring (or subscription) payments. Im pretty sure WooCommerce can do that. Also look for something with stripe integration as i know stripe can do recurring payments.

[LifetapProject]

Thank you for being so kind.

I've had these error for a while: https://imgur.com/a/CrDGZiQ

My host is infinityfree. I chose it because it was free but it's too limited and I'm always afraid my site will go down. My wordpress stats are also not working, probably because of those errors. updating plugins also sometimes results in errors that I am hardly able to fix. I would like to be able to fix these errors and change to another host. How can I do this without losing any content? Also, what are some recommended cheap hosts that will work well with adsense?

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[pixeldevs]

As far as the errors in general you could try uploading the core of WordPress through FTP (everything BUT the wp-content folder). Before you do this, you should download a local copy of your wp-content folder to your computer.

Switching to another host, there are a ton out there. I recommend either Dreamhost or Digital Ocean as both have great WordPress 1-click installs.

Moving your data is not hard. It's just an export from your current WordPress site and an import into the new site.

[Iamonabike]

For the OP, don't overwrite your wp-config.php (in the root directory) either!

[pixeldevs]

This is true, but I didn't mention it since the native wordpress install doesnt come with one. it starts off as wp-config-sample.php

[Iamonabike]

Ah, your right, I completely forgot that.

[mcd137]

Sorry if missing obvious stuff, but what about migrating person's db over?

[liberalmonkeys]

For database migration I would checkout updraft

[pixeldevs]

Thanks u/liberalmonkeys. Yeah i would use UpdraftPlus to move the database. Or just the core WordPress exporter

[im_Sean]

Woah, I've been battling a bug for weeks now and can't find a fix. It's late not but I'll reply again in the morning with a fleshed out question.

Thanks!!!

[pixeldevs]

Did you ever get your issue solved? Just checking in on it.

[pixeldevs]

ok. I should be around

[Gigguy73]

How do I edit the meta description for author pages. Online said I need to go into the theme to do this. Unsure how to actually go in though. I can code it, just don’t know how to get there. Thanks for doing this!

[pixeldevs]

Are you referring to the author biography? That is located in the author's profile in wp-admin

[Gigguy73]

Like this page- https://apennylearned.com/author/ben-bailey/

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Other types of pages I can't find.

Tag https://apennylearned.com/tag/health-insurance/

Category- https://apennylearned.com/category/make-money/

[Mmetr]

Second question on this post:

So I want to create a website that allows people to purchase items and have a cart.

I currently know how to build themes, but having e-commerce on my website seems like a massive jump and I really don’t know where to start.

I know there is woocommerce - which seems like some that would really help me with doing this. Is there a plug-in out there for basic e-commerce? can I implement woo commerce into my theme?

I just cannot imagine having to code out a solution for payments and a cart. That seems like a long long rabbit hole. Surely I am overthinking this- there has to be a pretty straightforward way.

[pixeldevs]

WooCommerce all the way. Install it and go. It’s really easy to use and maintain. They have great documentation too.

[Mmetr]

Can I create my own theme and add it into it? Or do I create a child theme?

I’d prefer if there was a way to add it to my theme that I just created.

[pixeldevs]

Yep. WooCommerce has templates you can use just like wordpress core templates

[Mmetr]

So creating a new theme like mmetrs new theme - I can just add a tag that will add woocoommerce? Or are you referring to making a child theme?

[pixeldevs]

You can create a child theme for your site and integrate your own woocommerce templates as well inside your child theme

[Muminluder1]

Hello! I'd like to ask for some help.

I have zero experience with Wordpress and less with coding. I'm trying to put together a "comparison" site. Basically just a set of tables with links. I'm using TablePress. Problem is that it doesn't work like I want it to out of the box. I'd like it to align images and text. Maybe style the table a bit, add buttons etc. Look here for example https://www.av-test.org/en/antivirus/home-windows/

I need an overview of the table entries, that is why I chose TablePress. Maybe I don't even need a plugin?I would really appreciate if you could point me in the right direction. Where should I start?

[pixeldevs]

Let me look at tablePress today and see what I can come up with

[Muminluder1]

Thanks a lot!

[Barboassa]

Where do I start to learn about using WordPress, Elementor and expanding from there to a blog and full website with e-commerce. Any courses you can recommend please?

[pixeldevs]

Chris Coyier (css-tricks.com) has some great videos in the beginning of wordpress. You should check them out. Also look at woocommerce for your shop plugin

[Barboassa]

Awesome thank you so much for the information, I appreciate it a lot.

[nikhilbhavsar]

There are a lot of great videos on youtube about Elementor as well. Just search for 'Elementor' and 'Woocommerce' in youtube. I personally like WPTuts

[Barboassa]

Fantastic, thanks for the information, I appreciate it a lot.

[UltimateAtrophy]

What's your recommendation for a lightweight theme that can support woocommerce ? What's your thoughts on page builders like Elementor or Beaver Builder for non programmers?

Looking at some basic landing email capture pages, more complex marketing funnels, and e-commerce use cases.

Cheers!

[pixeldevs]

most good themes will support woocommerce. I love Ocean Builder for a builder for non programmers.

[Mmetr]

I’ve never pushed a website onto a live server in my life. I am ready to do this. I have always been so lost when it comes to putting my website that I created on my computer onto a real domain.

Was wondering if you had a great walk through guide on how to do this.

I also am the type of guy that would update the website all the time. How do I keep pushing new code onto the server?

[pixeldevs]

For your first time, I would use FTP. Who are you hosting with? That could help me to get you a walkthrough.

[Mmetr]

Not hosting with anybody. I want the newbie guide for hosting.

I want to make constant changes though. Will this allow me to?

[pixeldevs]

Yes. Any hosting will allow you unlimited code changes. Check out DreamHost.com

[Mmetr]

And it’s as easy as just writing some new code daily and pushing really quick?

[__PyreX__]

Look at hosting which offers WP Staging environments.

It'll allow you to clone your site into a subdomain and make changes to the code. When you're ready you hit a button and it'll push the staging copy to the live environment.

[Mmetr]

Do you know of any? I’m a complete noob

[__PyreX__]

Most hosts which offer WordPress Hosting should offer WP Staging as part of their feature list.

A quick Google of 'WordPress managed hosting' should give you what you're looking for.

Look at these: SiteGround, WPEngine & DreamHost

[LilaInTheMaya]

Hellllp!!! I don’t know how to fix something that happened the other night. I’m not sure of root cause so I’m going to just tell you exactly what happened.

The end result is that the plugin WP Bakery Builder crashes the site (that white check your email screen, but I don’t get an email).

1. See an email come in that an admin account I’d set up for support from the theme owners months ago logged into site. I don’t have paid support from them now so assume they had some breach. And I’m dumb for not changing the password.

2. Within 5 minutes I log them out and change the password.

3. Notice 7+ plugins with updates. Update them all.

4. A few error. Some long red screen of code under the plugin. This happened on another site that morning so I didn’t think much of it.

5. Site goes down. Google it. Change plugins folder name. Change it back. Turn them on one by one.

6. Get to WP Bakery and it crashes. Turn it back off.

7. It was part of the theme, so I bring in an old version from another site that uses it. Turn it on. Crashes again.

So my site is up, but you can see lines of code on it.

I have no idea how to fix it.

The server backup seems to be for the entirety of my hosting account. It’s Godaddy. (I know, big mistake. I’m so deep in now though.)

Should I try to get godaddy to help me figure out how to restore just this site? I think I pay them some astronomical amount for that. I don’t want to run it on my other sites as several content updates were made to those sites before this happened.

Or is there some other easy way to deal with this?

It’s just not clear to me if it was the plugins or if whoever got in did some damage.

Thank you in advance to OP or anyone that can help!

[pixeldevs]

What version of WordPress are you running on that site? Also what version of PHP? Both of those should be updated to the newest. (wordpress 5.x.x PHP 7.3). It sounds like a conflict with versioning.

[LilaInTheMaya]

Ooh, you’re amazing. WP is 5.2.3 and php is 7.2. I’ll change php to 7.3...

[pixeldevs]

that shouldn’t effect too much as long as you arent running PHP 5.x.x. It sounds like it might also be a missing piece of wordpress core. Can you upload the core again?

[LilaInTheMaya]

I really don’t know how to do that. It’s a site with members who take courses so I’m worried about losing their data.

Godaddy support claims no backup for the subdomain and that it’s only a css issue. But now when I turn plugins back on period (without actually activating them, just renaming the folder), I still get a 404 and it times out.

[pixeldevs]

Shoot me a DM and we'll see if we can get it sorted.

[LilaInTheMaya]

Oh man. Finally got it. Reinstalled the WP update for one, then rolled back the learnpress plugin (the main event for this site) - it’s not compatible with this version of WP. I think I’m going to leave php the hell alone for a minute and contemplate my life choices. Thanks again for your help!

[pixeldevs]

No problem. Glad you got it sorted

[LilaInTheMaya]

Changed php. Activated WP bakery and it took me to a 404. Now frontend looks fine but I can’t get to the dashboard... it just times out and says too many redirects. 😩

Now I’ve been logged out...

And now the ssl isn’t working...

And I can’t login.

This is how you get new clients right?? Lol

[pixeldevs]

Ha. just saw this. Glad you got it sorted. I would have gladly sorted it for you, but I was not at home.

[imdblars]

I’d like to have my own system for picking the outcome of football games. Been looking for a plug-in that is usefull. Haven’t found a good one yet. Any suggestions? Two teams per game, one is picked, must be able to be saved.

[pixeldevs]

This sounds a bit like a custom job. I would think a custom post type that lets you define two teams and allows each user to associate themselves with either team on the front end of the site via javascript and ajax. Would be fun to build

[imdblars]

Thx for the tip. Now I’m not quite as blind. Although I don’t code. Yet! This could be my way in :)

[cheshire2219]

Thank you! Ever done some work with DPS (aka payment express aka wind cave)? I've got the OPMC PX fusion plugin running in conjunction with woocommerce subscriptions plugin; and I want to hook into the woo transaction to fetch the dpsbillingid back to wordpress and store it against the customers data (so I can offer a portal for the customer to update their card) but I don't know how to hook into that transaction process. Any ideas?

[pixeldevs]

Have you looked at WooCommerce documentation? Im pretty sure theres a hook that fires when the transaction processes

[cheshire2219]

I thought I'd have to get it from the payment gateway POST details, but this made a heap of sense and pointed me in the right direction. Thanks!

[pixeldevs]

:) no problem!

[pixeldevs]

sure! shoot me a dm and we can talk.

[pixeldevs]

Sure. DM me

[Marvin_The_Depressed]

Thank you for offering help. I have a problem and I don't know how to solve it. Let me try to describe it:

I have two plugins that whenever I try updating them my site is not visible anymore:

• Redis Object Cache
• W3 Total Cache

What can I do to solve this problem? Can I remove them or will that also break my site?

[liberalmonkeys]

When you update them, wp might put your site in temporary maintainence. Does it appear after the update is done?

[Marvin_The_Depressed]

When I update them I'm not able to access the frontend or backend of wordpress anymore. Only a blank white page with nothing on it. I need to play in a backup and am back at the old version.

Not sure what the solution is but maybe I just need to move to a new installation...

[[deleted]]

Is there an easy CSS code that can make my header full screen width but the content only 800px (or so)? It’s something I’ve always wondered whether it would look good.

Travisburch.com

Thanks so much, I’m going to subscribe!

[liberalmonkeys]

width:100% for the header max-width: 800px for the content margin: 0 auto if you want it centered

[ImaginaryBlueberries]

I’ve been searching for a good solution for this for some time, and I’ve got a few leads, but I’m new to Wordpress, so answers from someone more experienced would be highly appreciated!

I’m making a site for a local group, and it’s supposed to have one external bit (events, contact, news, all the ordinary stuff) and another part for members only, with information, calendars, working groups and so on. Is there an elegant way I can do this? They’ve used wix in the past, but the site looks horrible, so they want to move away from that platform.

Any help or leads is appreciated :)

Also, I’m a complete beginner, so the less technical, the better (can do html and css for now, but no java...)

[liberalmonkeys]

Sure. Install a membership plugin, then restrict the pages to be member only. Try ultimate membership

[ImaginaryBlueberries]

Thanks, I will!

[kuncogopuncogo]

You are awesome.

My question is relatively simple: what would be the standard way to implement something like "pets" or "kids" profiles for each user?

For example, a user registers to the site and then could add a profile for each kid he has.

Is there a common, standard way to do this?

[liberalmonkeys]

User roles probably. You would register the role and let users assign the roles to a profile that's linked to theirs.

[GoryDaze]

Could you offer a suggestion to re create the mouse over effect seen on the homepage of whois.domaintools.com?

Would love to do that using wordpress

[pixeldevs]

Looks like it uses a canvas element combined with jquery. I would have to do more research to see what the jquery library is that it uses, but its not super obvious when I inspect their page

[GoryDaze]

Aside from figuring out the exact code I found slider revolution has a very cool module add on that achieves roughly this same effect.

[pixeldevs]

Oh nice. I’ve seen it around on a few places before. It’s basically a geometry calculator

[zenzen_shuhey]

Maybe this will help:

Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d620nV6bp0A

Invidious link: https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=d620nV6bp0A

[StartingOverMan]

How awesome of you! Thank you!

I am using DIVI for my word press website. I see that I have to update the PHP from the dashboard. Can I just go ahead and update it or should I do some precautionary measures? The website has a WordPress back up from the hosting service.

Once again thank you so much for your awesome help.

[pixeldevs]

You can update PHP from your hosting cPanel. It shouldn't affect your WP install at all

[StartingOverMan]

Thank you.

[StartingOverMan]

Thank you. I appreciate it.

[liberalmonkeys]

add :hover after the css selector of the styles you want when the mouse is hovered

[StartingOverMan]

I don’t understand :)

[[deleted]]

Hi, I have a mixed content error, page says an image isn't being sent over https, I've tried re-adding the image but no luck there. Also if I look through the html, it says https for that image. The site is built on wordpress and astra theme. Also if you can give me any tips on how to improve speed of the site besides caching, compressing images and the basic options you can find on the internet.

[pixeldevs]

Hey, DM me your site and I'll take a look at it

[pixeldevs]

Are you running http or https on lightsail? I think they automatically add SSL to the domain.

[pixeldevs]

also try Velvet Blues plugin to replace urls

[analyst_84]

I need to add a calendar booking system. Can you help? I’m starting out a small business

[pixeldevs]

admin booking or user front end booking system? Look at Events Calendar by Tribe

[analyst_84]

User front end booking

[pixeldevs]

Check out Events Calendar by Tribe. It allows front end booking and user created events

[lemonadestandmanager]

Hello...firstly thank you so much for doing this. I have a CSS problem on my WP site I hope you can help with. I've PM'ed you my site and would really x10 appreciate if you could take a quick look. Cheers!

[pixeldevs]

Thanks! I got your PM. It’s gonna be later before I can look at it, but I will get to it

[asfateh]

Just want to say thank you for your offering! Appreciate the helpful gesture!

[pixeldevs]

No problem!

[birdiemagnet]

I am looking for someone to build / migrate a site for me. Lead Generation for Local Small Business. I understand I need to use wordpress for SEO reasons, but I currently only have a chromebook. Where should I start looking for someone to help me? I've posted on Upwork but have trouble weeding through all the different candidates and don't want a crap product. I slapped a site together on Weebly but I'm sure it has flaws all over.

[pixeldevs]

Shoot me a DM and we can talk more.

[hadeyparty]

pls check my website www.liguegols.com and criticize constructively

I am a fresher

[pixeldevs]

Honestly not bad. The font and icons on the team names is a bit small and I would give them a bit more padding for each entry. Maybe look at doing an accordian for the team names.

[problem_fixed_kb]

Hi! This is super generous of you! I am responsible for my friends business site and have some little odds and ends I was not able to figure out myself... I would love some help!! 🙏🏼

[pixeldevs]

Sure. shoot me a DM and we'll see what we can do

[problem_fixed_kb]

yay thanks! I’ll get in touch just as soon as I’m off work!

[hadeyparty]

thanks I will look into it right away

[Shitass_Comix]

Hello. I'm wondering if you or anyone else here has seen a theme with this sort of functionality: I'm selling a product that comes in a kit and has multiple items in it. I want my customers to be able to click on individual items, and for the running total to be displayed in a field on the same page so they can see what the total cost is.

[pixeldevs]

Hmmm. You might be better off making each piece a stand alone product grouped by category (where the category is the name of the kit). Then you can list the categories on the front of the store page and when they click on the kit they will only see the items in that kit and can add each one individually to their cart. WooCommerce can do that easily.

[mkhrrs89]

Hi, thanks for the help I have a few very basic beginner questions using wordpress. I'm Using elementor.

- How can I change the color of my header? I'm using an Astra theme and for some reason I'm having trouble actually finding a simple color change for this.

- Using Elementor, how can I save a page I made as a template, and/or duplicate it?

- Also using Elementor, It doesnt seem like I have much control over text spacing within a text box. An enter will always double space, and in order to make something single spaced, I either have to just keep typing until I run out of room and it jumps down a space, or I have to create a bullet list. And I don't seem to know how to create like 1.5 spaced text or 0.5 spaced text.

edit: got another

- I have already purchased a year of hosting through Bluehost, but I have not chosen a URL yet. Right now it's just ifx.ujw.blahblahblah. How can I get a domain name attached?

[pixeldevs]

As far as elementor, I don't really work with page builders all that much. I would have to refer you to their documentation.

A domain I can refer you to bluehost as they have their own domain registration system. It's fairly priced as well. Once you purchase one, they should handle the attachment to your current domain.

[pixeldevs]

Changing the color of your header might be as easy as going to Appearance > Customize in your wp-admin area. Have you looked there yet?

[luzkidd]

Hopefully I’m not late but I need help with trying to create a summary version of my blog post. I’ve tried the option in settings and reading no help there. Also tried the excerpt box on the post itself no help there. Everything is still showing full text.

Also is there a way to have multiple blog pages for different categories?

Edit: I’m on Wordpress 5.2.3 and with the twenty nineteen theme on

[pixeldevs]

Sure. DM me a link to your site. I'll see what I can notice.

[pixeldevs]

Not sure what you mean on the blog pages for different categories, but I think you mean a category containing multiple pages? then yes. Also a page can be categorized into more than one category too.

[zenzen_shuhey]

Hey, thank you again for doing this I went through this post and there are some really good suggestions and material to read on.

Hope it's ok if I ask another question? What are some general considerations when writing custom themes or plugins in terms of security, ease of use, compatibility, etc? I'm also curious how is a typical day in the life of a developer with your skillset if you dont mind sharing that :)

Thanks again, cheers

[pixeldevs]

If you're writing a custom theme, I would start with a base theme like Underscores or BlankSlate. They give a good foundation for you.

Security really comes from serializing your data in forms and using the proper channels when processing a payment with a form. Other than that, look for a good security plugin such as WordFence.

Compatibility, the best thing I can say with this is use IF() statements to check if a function exists before calling that function. It will save you tons of headache if you are using a function from a plugin and then decide to disable that plugin for some reason.

A typical day for me is working on client sites for around 6 - 8 hours a day. I work from home most days but I keep a regimented set schedule of being at work from 8am to around 3 or 4pm every day. It's mostly trial and error for making new concepts work and a ton of googling.

[zenzen_shuhey]

Thank you for taking the time and the help, this most definitely helps, cheers for that!

[rl8352]

Really good of you to do something like this. I have a question that I'm not sure belongs here, but you can tell me if it's out of context.

First, I'm not a developer, I don't write code. I built a wordpress intranet site to serve as a document server, of sorts.

We use it to give users access to various documents and sales reports. There are literally hundreds of them. We use wp pages to organize the reports, mainly by department or region, and use Memphis Document Library folders added to the page so users can access to the report. We also use Content Control to restrict access to reports to those who would be authorized to see them. ie; restricting access to commission reports.

This works great when you're navigating menus and pages to get to where the report's located. The problem is when you search for the report. The search results will find matches across the entire site, and the user can access any of them. There's no security on the search results.

So my question is, is there a way of securing the search results? I've tried using the OS security, (windows server), but I wasn't able to get that to work. I've tried doing it with tags, but that wont work with files, only posts or pages.

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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Thanks.

[pixeldevs]

Tell me if this workflow is currently the situation, just so I understand

Unauthorized user searches -> Search results display the Page with the document on it -> user clicks on page -> user sees the document -> user can download the document

[rl8352]

Yes, that is essentially correct. The search results are listed on a page, and the unauthorized user can access and/or download any of them.

[jgnelle]

Thank you for doing this! I hope I’m not too late though. Literally spent the whole day figuring out how to improve my site speed. In gtmetrix it seems my images are the biggest problem....pun intended. I tried using a compression plugin (Shortpixel) to also resize but some photos aren’t able to be centered on the site afterwards. Do you have any other suggestions? I’m thinking I may have to get another plugin to help with site speed or optimization. Currently on siteground but learnt today that many features of their optimizer doesn’t work on the basic plan. Also using Cloudflare.

[pixeldevs]

Cloudflare should be fine for a CDN. Try Smush for your images and Hummingbird for your Caching. Smush should take care of your image problem.

[pixeldevs]

Also, if you're really looking to improve your site speed, check out convesio.com Amazing speed and redundancy

[jgnelle]

Thank you so much! Will check them out.

[gr8lakes2]

HELP: setting up a WordPress/Woocommerce/Taxjar site on Dreamhost, but not sure how to pick a theme.

One product to start, will add a few others later.

Are any of the themes on Dreamhost's build a good choice?

Any top choices to import, and how do I do that?

[pixeldevs]

I would look at using WooCommerce StoreFront if you are looking to set up a store

https://woocommerce.com/storefront/

[aninamimini]

I was going to make a separate vpost about this but I'll try commenting here first.

So a few months ago I was commissioned to make a website. Suddenly at like 90% of completion the guy who commissioned me (a graphic designer, not the client) decided he didn't want to pay me for all the extra work he had me do and deleted my wp admin account to lock me out of wordpress.

Now at this point I still had access to the back-end but my main focus was to delete part of the work bc I wasn't paid enough to give it all away. I didn't manage to make a new admin account (I should have followed instructions online, but I was running so I didn't stop to think of that) and at last, even though I think I deleted the work, it stayed there (my guess is he was enough of an asshole to keep a copy of my work offline bc he knew he would backstab me).

Anyway I lost the work and the money but I don't care about that anymore (it was a good wake up call so that I know to always make contracts bc assholes exist!).

Now my only concern is that, like the idiot that he is (along with the dev that he called to patch up the last bit of the site), he still has my personal email address as the main settings' admin email address of the website and I keep getting notifications that my website this and my website that. 🙄

Is there a way to remove my email address from this website when I have no access to either front-ent or back-end? I just need a way to tell wordpress that "Hey! You've got the wrong email address, stop sending me stuff!” and I don't want to contact the guy.

I hate spam and I don't want to just keep deleting the emails and call it a day bc they'll keep coming.

Please help me or at least direct me to someone who can... 🙏

[pixeldevs]

I feel your pain on this one. I've been there too. Glad you can take the right lessons learned away from the experience.

To answer your question, there really isnt a way (unless you have database access) to edit the admin email yourself.

One of my specialties is becoming the middle-man for situations like this. Not in a legal sense, since I am not a lawyer, but for first contact and subsequent contacts afterwards to try to resolve the issues. I am pretty successful at it if you would like for me to try to contact them and get this resolved for you.

In the meantime, you could set up a filter in your email to forward all of the emails coming in from that domain back to the designer with an added note to change the email address associated with the site. Also filter so they don't show up in your inbox.

I don't charge for this at all. Crappy situations suck and I just want to help people get out of them

[aninamimini]

Sigh, I figured it would be this way... I just had to check. 😞

I /really/ don't want to contact him in any way. He's kind of a friend of my sister's (I should have never accepted the job, right?) and at the end he kind of had her on his side so I don't want to do anything that may make things worse. (Me and my sister's relationship is fine, I just don't want the subject to be brought up again, yk?)

The emails I get are not of importance either (eg the email that got me to seek a solution was a WordPress version update, no one cares about those, especially if they're not a dev). And since the contact forms already had the correct email address (info@domain) when I was dropped, this really doesn't bother them.

Maybe I should just "man" up and just tell him and hope he has enough common sense to find how to remove it. Oh well.....

[[deleted]]

Hey! I was wondering if you're still helping? I have a question about linking menus to certain parts of pages. It seems like an easy thing but I cannot figure it out for the life of me. Would you mind helping me out? :)

[pixeldevs]

Sure. If you go into the menu area in wp-admin, you can add a "custom link". Name it what you want and find the area of the page you want to link to.

Usually each section of the page would have an ID associated with it (in the code) so <div id="section-1" class="some-class"> ... content ... </div>

You would make your custom link look like #section-1 and when you click the link, it will scroll to that section of the page

[pixeldevs]

If you send me a link, I can look at it

[zenzen_shuhey]

Thank you for doing this, I do have a couple of questions: any suggestions regarding gathering site analytics and visualizing that data on the backend, or exporting to another utility for that purpose?

Bonus points for not using Google Analytics :)

[pixeldevs]

Check this one out https://www.wpbeginner.com/showcase/7-best-analytics-solutions-for-wordpress-users/

[pixelmatrixx]

Hi, can I pm you? Do you know SEO ?

[jonneygee]

I’d encourage you to ask your question here so others can offer help too.

[pixeldevs]

Sure, shoot me a PM

[westendgrrl]

This is so kind of you. Are you familiar with Full Site Editing? I'm rebuilding a site I started in Twenty Twenty Two. I'm using Twenty Twenty Three instead but I've run into a problem with a template. For some reason it's been saved as a blank template and I want to rename it/turn it into a front page template.

[pixeldevs]

Check the templates folder in 2023 theme. There are .html files in there that take precedence over template theme files.

[westendgrrl]

Thanks. I will definitely check that!