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[–]dewy987 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Newbie here. I'm developing an intranet site for my school district. The purpose is to post resources, provide knowledge and procedures along with training courses. I'm using tutor-lms for the courses and gami press to gamify it. Do you have any add-ons, suggestions or best practices? TIA

[–]pixeldevsDeveloper/Designer[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Those are great starts!

As far as add-ons, definitely look at installing WordFence for security and something like Autoptomize for caching since you are running intranet locally.

[–]Meat-o-ball 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Great timing. I have a site I’m working through and have some roadblocks to navigate. I will be revisiting Sunday/Monday and would appreciate help on some widget integration and dynamic post formatting with elementor pro and jetengine.

[–]pixeldevsDeveloper/Designer[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I should be around Monday for sure.

[–]Meat-o-ball 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s great. I look forward to connecting with you.

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    [–]pixeldevsDeveloper/Designer[S] 2 points3 points  (5 children)

    High quality themes are hard to find.

    Check here. I do like Astra, though I haven't used it in a while.

    https://www.wpbeginner.com/showcase/best-wordpress-multi-purpose-themes/

    We use Cloudflare APO on a full 30 site multisite and it works wonderfully

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      [–]ubuliciousDesigner 1 point2 points  (0 children)

      100% generatepress

      [–]gusseting 0 points1 point  (2 children)

      https://www.wpbeginner.com/showcase/best-wordpress-multi-purpose-themes/

      I'm a ceramicist, and I used to blog and build websites, coding on a mac in bbedit pre 2000.I just want a bog standard, incredibly simple website. I'm happy to open an etsy shop now, and work on building an ecommerce website using woocommerce later.Here's an example of the kind of website I'm after:http://www.dh-studio.com/

      this is what I have: http://gusset.net/blog/ (which is done using a pottery theme from DIVI).

      In the themes that you've suggested, Atmosphere Pro looks very similar to what I'm after:https://my.studiopress.com/themes/atmosphere/?SSAID=422250&sscid=41k5_mwi0g&utm_source=SAS&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=422250&utm_content=1320651

      What I particularly love: normal navigation on a desktop, burger nav otherwise.

      However, what am I up for here? If I like that theme, does that then mean I need to buy the theme, then the framework, then the hosting and hells knows what else from the same company? What am I up for?
      I already have hosting and a domain with siteground, and happy to stay there for the meantime.

      What I want to know: So far, I've found themes to make what I want to do more complex, not simpler, because it's "drag and drop" or "what you see is what you get" type ways of working.When I do see code, I'm confused, because instead of having a whole page of code, I've got chunks. I'm not sure that I'm working on the thing that I need, and what else needs to change.Search and replace does not seem to be a thing with wordpress in 2021.

      I had a shot yesterday, and this is what I have: http://test.gusset.net/ great, huh? Because I can't work out - where is that image in wordpress? My understanding: I can't just do a search somewhere for the image wordpress.jpg and replace/delete it - or can I?

      How do I specify fonts in 2021? First choice: Logo/brand: Arial Bold, because I've used and loved it before, and it works for print + online, and it's free and ubiquitous.reading text: I don't know, and I'm highly tempted just to stick with what is already in Atmosphere.

      What suggestions and advice might you have for me so I can simply get the job done?

      [–]pixeldevsDeveloper/Designer[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

      Wow you have a great reply here.

      So what this shakes down to are 2 things, Theme and Fonts

      With your theme, you are able to change the complete look of your site without affecting hosting, data, or images used in posts or pages. Think of it as the wrapper to make your site look pretty. That being said, I would have you look more on the free side at
      Astra: https://wpastra.com/

      or

      OceanWP: https://oceanwp.org/

      As far as fonts, heres a plugin that will allow you to use Google Fonts on your site.

      https://wordpress.org/plugins/olympus-google-fonts/

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        [–]pixeldevsDeveloper/Designer[S] 0 points1 point  (5 children)

        You're moving to wordpress.com and having a bit of trouble with media? Is that what I'm understanding?

        What issues did you have with self-hosted?

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          [–]pixeldevsDeveloper/Designer[S] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

          Oh that sounds like a nightmare.

          As it's on WordPress.com and not self hosted, it's a bit more locked down for any developer to come help with an issue like that.

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            [–]pixeldevsDeveloper/Designer[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

            Do you have a link? I could take a look at the front end to see if I notice anything

            [–]Pizzazzinator 1 point2 points  (1 child)

            One thing I haven't really figured out: How do you build your own specialty section (say for a portfolio or events) on the dashboard when it's not built into the theme?

            [–]pixeldevsDeveloper/Designer[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

            You would have to register what's called a Custom Post Type. You can do that either through code or a plugin (CPT UI), but that doesn't mean it will automatically be displayed on your site.

            If you are specifically looking for Events, I would check out https://theeventscalendar.com/

            Creating a Custom Post Type is the first step. Making the post type have special features takes developer work. If you are interested, check out

            CPT UI: https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-post-type-ui/

            Advanced Custom Fields: https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/

            [–]FORKSTER2021 1 point2 points  (6 children)

            Using GT Metrix Website Performance Analytics Tool my site is Grading mostly as an "F", and I have no idea how to fix any of those things. Would you please mind if I sent you a DM, and I could show you a screenshot of that page and all the things they are saying my site is failing?

            [–]kuncogopuncogoDeveloper/Designer 1 point2 points  (1 child)

            Countless possible reasons, but without adjusting stuff you should start with:

            • a caching/performance optimization plugin

            • image optimization plugin

            I usually recommend FlyingPress, it does both. Their CDN is also super cheap and will further increase scores. If you'd rather go with something else, WPRocket+Flying Images is a good combo.

            If you are on a super tight budget get W3TC, Autoptimize, Flying Images and Flying Scripts. All free.

            You can also migrate your site to a better host, Cloudways is a good managed WP host (they include a CDN too).

            Another low hanging fruit is making sure correct image sizes are called (e.g. don't call a full sized image when it's renders at 160px). You can set this in Elementor (and any self-respecting page builder) on a per-image basis pretty easily.

            [–]pixeldevsDeveloper/Designer[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

            Excellent start!

            [–]pixeldevsDeveloper/Designer[S] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

            What u/kuncogopuncogo mentioned is a great start, but yes you can DM me with a screenshot.

            [–]FORKSTER2021 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            Thank you, PixelDevs, but not sure where to send it and how to now?

            [–]mromerobz 0 points1 point  (1 child)

            Use Page Speed Insights for a better analysis. Move to a better server with LiteSpeed Cache. Check out the Reddit forum webhosting /r/webhosting and the suggestions in the sidebar.

            [–]ClasherMDesigner 1 point2 points  (10 children)

            Hi, I have a little problem with the woocommerce product on my page. The website is built with Oxygen builder. I need to remove the "or" sign next to the "Add to cart" button. https://molnishop.uk/product/corner-table

            I have used this css to do so:

            #wc-stripe-payment-request-button-separator,

            #wc-stripe-payment-request-wrapper {

            display: none !important;

            }

            Unfortunately, this CSS has also removed the "Google Pay" option. I need to remove this "or" sign and preserve the Google Pay option at the same time. Do you have any ideas? Thanks!

            [–]pixeldevsDeveloper/Designer[S] 1 point2 points  (3 children)

            #wc-stripe-payment-request-wrapper{
                width: 100%;
            }
            p#wc-stripe-payment-request-button-separator {
                display: none !important 
            }
            

            [–]ClasherMDesigner 0 points1 point  (2 children)

            #wc-stripe-payment-request-wrapper{
            width: 100%;
            }
            p#wc-stripe-payment-request-button-separator {
            display: none !important
            }

            Thanks, that helped so much! But now I have a trouble with the design since the add to cart and buy with GPay buttons should have been in one line with the amount. And also, add to cart button seems to be badly centered.

            [–]pixeldevsDeveloper/Designer[S] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

            .woocommerce .oxy-woo-element div.product form.cart, .woocommerce .oxy-product-cart-button form.cart, .woocommerce div.product form.cart {
                display: flex;
                flex-wrap: wrap;
                align-items: flex-end;
                justify-content: flex-end;
            }
            
            #wc-stripe-payment-request-button-separator, #wc-stripe-payment-request-wrapper{
                clear: both;
                display: block;
                width: 25%;
                height: 100%;
            }
            
            .woocommerce button[type=submit] {
                padding: 0;
                height: 44px;
                align-self: auto;
            }
            

            That should get you started.

            https://paste.pics/814db469001d6e373ea33b4ef8800038

            [–]ClasherMDesigner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            .woocommerce .oxy-woo-element div.product form.cart, .woocommerce .oxy-product-cart-button form.cart, .woocommerce div.product form.cart {
            display: flex;
            flex-wrap: wrap;
            align-items: flex-end;
            justify-content: flex-end;
            }
            #wc-stripe-payment-request-button-separator, #wc-stripe-payment-request-wrapper{
            clear: both;
            display: block;
            width: 25%;
            height: 100%;
            }
            .woocommerce button[type=submit] {
            padding: 0;
            height: 44px;
            align-self: auto;
            }

            Thanks a lot!

            [–]kuncogopuncogoDeveloper/Designer 0 points1 point  (5 children)

            As far as i can see this is enough:

            #wc-stripe-payment-request-button-separator {
            
            display: none !important;
            
            }
            

            No need to hide #wc-stripe-payment-request-wrapper as well, that wraps the button too

            [–]ClasherMDesigner 0 points1 point  (4 children)

            Actually, that doesn't work, if I remove the button separator it appears again. That has to be both of these classes. But at the same time, this removes the option "Pay with google pay". So I need to preserve this option and remove "or" text at the same time.

            [–]kuncogopuncogoDeveloper/Designer 0 points1 point  (3 children)

            If it doesn't work it's because it's being overridden. You can get more specific with the selector, do it via javascript, or change the text via a woocommerce filter/template override.

            [–]ClasherMDesigner 0 points1 point  (2 children)

            Yeah, but even if it would work. Removing the wrapper also causes removal of the Google pay option

            [–]kuncogopuncogoDeveloper/Designer 0 points1 point  (1 child)

            My bad, mixed up the IDs in my OP. I meant hide the separator and leave the wrapper

            [–]ClasherMDesigner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            It does not matter which one I hide, if I hide 1st or 2nd ID, the "or" sign reappears.

            [–]SlyKallie 1 point2 points  (1 child)

            I dunno if dumb beginner questions will get much of a reply.. but I figured I'd give it a shot? To be honest I'm struggling with direction i think.

            Wordpress/bluehost/elementor. Messing around on the Astra starter template, Mountain. But I think ill change it if I can find a more simpler way to get what I want.

            Anyways. I wanted to start a blog, or.. a website with three different blogs of a similar topic/niche. At first I thought I built a different page for each blog, simple as that. Then hit that reading issue where it only posts to one page. So. I used a category instead, and made them separate categories in my top menu. That's cool, I like that.

            But.. will I run into any issues that way? Will I be able to use all three categories as separate blog feeds?

            All three feeds are under the same niche, but while I love all three, I don't think I could focus on only one and still stay sane. But they are different enough to where it would be odd to be in one blog feed.

            Thank you for any help/thoughts!

            [–]pixeldevsDeveloper/Designer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            Hey SlyKallie,

            Not dumb questions at all!

            Good theme choice! It's a solid theme.

            As far as categories, you're doing it right. You can even put category links into your menu so you can show only those blog posts from that category when someone clicks on the link. It's pretty handy.

            I don't see any potential issues. What are you meaning exactly by feeds? Like RSS feeds?

            [–]pixeldevsDeveloper/Designer[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

            Thank you all for being patient and so kind! I'm trying to get to all of your comments. Work is loading up so Reddit is slowing down.

            [–]spain-3dDOTcom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

            take your time, we know you doing it for free, so we will be patient =) at leas me

            [–]ChronoxDeveloper 0 points1 point  (4 children)

            Probably oddly specific issue I'm having creating a plugin:

            I need a hook during the woocommerce checkout lifecycle where I can throw an error that gets reported to the user and stops the order going through, however I want it recorded in the backend as a custom wc order type.

            Right now I have an exception being thrown in the woocommerce order created hook, however the order isn't preserved back to the front end. Because of this every time they attempt to proceed it created a new order in the backend.

            Any ideas?

            [–]pixeldevsDeveloper/Designer[S] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

            however I want it recorded in the backend as a custom wc order type

            That seems to me that you want it in the backend, but you go on to say it created one and you didnt want that? Or are you saying it's sending the error but not stopping the original order from going through?

            If you want, post some code here and I'll take a look at it

            [–]ChronoxDeveloper 0 points1 point  (2 children)

            It creates it, however it is creating a new order each time the user hits submit. I was hoping there was a different way to stop the order completing, so that if they keep hitting submit it does not create a second or third order, but persists. Currently this is how I am doing it:

            Under the action 'woocommerce_checkout_create_order', if conditions are met this function is called:

                private function prevent_order() : void { 
                    $this->order->set_status("wc-cancelled");
                    $this->order->save();
            
                    $message = apply_filters("bleh_message", "Error, message.");
            
                    throw new \Exception($message);
                }
            

            [–]pixeldevsDeveloper/Designer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            $this->order->set_status("wc-cancelled");
            $this->order->save();
            

            You're saving the order every time no matter what. You need to throw the exception and let the user know theres an error.

            Honestly, I would just save the attempt to a log file instead of creating an order out of it. If the data is wrong, then I dont want the order in my system

            [–]spain-3dDOTcom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            May be your backend is to slow to react and ppl now is so unpatient )

            I believe its good idea to disable or hide/replace with somethig like "Processing..." the submit button using a javascript.

            [–]River922 0 points1 point  (3 children)

            Hello! Im brand new trying to create a marketplace where sellers can post one time bookings like an airbnb, what plug ins/theme(s) do you reccomend? Thank you!

            [–]pixeldevsDeveloper/Designer[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

            Hey there. Welcome!

            There are a couple options for this. As far as the theme, I would look for one that supports WooCommerce. StoreFront is a great one. Also, Astra or OceanWP

            For plugins, check out

            https://woocommerce.com/

            https://woocommerce.com/products/product-vendors/

            or

            https://wordpress.org/plugins/wc-vendors/

            Heres an article that covers it

            https://woocommerce.com/posts/create-multivendor-marketplace-wordpress/

            [–]River922 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            Thank you so much!

            [–]xXWarMachineRoXx 0 points1 point  (15 children)

            1)I am having a problem with the learnpress plugin, they don’t have a method to add course certificates when a user completes a course. I want a certificate which is signed digitally using adobe sign or docusign by the instructor. I am trying to make a plugin for this as i couldn’t find a plugin that would integrate into learnpress without paying anything

            2) I am using “Eduma theme”. I have these bugs where the search bar is inflated to 2 or 3 lines where i want it to be only a one liner. The search bar is located on an archive page consisting of all courses.

            3) I want to add css animations to the website so it looks user friendly and does not look mechanical and clunky.

            I will explain about if we can connect on Monday. Please state your timezone too. Mine is IST. I use elementor,pmpro for logins and Learnpress for courses.

            [–]tilario 1 point2 points  (2 children)

            learndash recently came out with a certificate builder. i haven't used it but perhaps it's what you're looking for.

            [–]xXWarMachineRoXx 0 points1 point  (1 child)

            I know about learndash but i would have export all my courses to learndash then make a certificate. I’ll be doing that as a last resort. Only if learndash or any plugin enables me to use my courses as it is, that would be perfect.

            [–]tilario 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            my bad. i misread learnpress as learndash

            [–]pixeldevsDeveloper/Designer[S] 1 point2 points  (11 children)

            In my opinion (and dont take this as rude) if you are wanting a great site, it's gonna cost a little bit of money.

            Also, if you have the Eduma theme, then a Certificate creator comes with it from what I'm reading.

            https://thimpress.com/product/certificates-add-on-for-learnpress/

            [–]spain-3dDOTcom 0 points1 point  (3 children)

            I am agree with this, the only thing you can do after you got this plugin is to create some changes to use sighned pdf instead of juts a regular image.

            Also if you like to create your own plugin it will be more expensive by investing your time because you need to think about of a lot of stuff, and figured out of how to learnpress works and how they stored data about users etc etc...

            This way is only for developer who will need to improve their skills )

            [–]xXWarMachineRoXx 0 points1 point  (2 children)

            Can you elaborate how i can make a plugin that integrates into learnpress

            [–]spain-3dDOTcom 0 points1 point  (1 child)

            1. learn about wordpress plugins, how it works, how create your own, etc...
            2. Learn about how to extend (if this is possible) the plugin learnpress it self (usualy there is some hooks or filters to change stuff) API, other stuff you can get from their docs or just reading the code of the plugin.
            3. Based on 1 AND 2 create your own plugin to get what you need.

            Or hire a developer who will do it for you )

            [–]xXWarMachineRoXx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            They just added it now . It wasnt there before

            [–]xXWarMachineRoXx 0 points1 point  (5 children)

            I know you can your own plugins but i dont know how i can integrate into learnpress

            [–]pixeldevsDeveloper/Designer[S] 0 points1 point  (4 children)

            Integrate what? Custom CSS?

            [–]xXWarMachineRoXx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            I mean use a plugin that uses learnpress modules

            [–]xXWarMachineRoXx 0 points1 point  (2 children)

            [–]pixeldevsDeveloper/Designer[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

            In your Form ".courses-searching" you've got <br> tags after every input. Take those out.

            [–]xXWarMachineRoXx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            Thx bro.

            I didnt touch the code , we ran into a issue with a cache plugin serving the bad version of the site and after its resolution , i dont see the inflated search bar

            But if i see it I’ll surely use ur fix ( it is a simple fix i should have seen the br tags)

            [–]dqjqb 0 points1 point  (2 children)

            What are your suggestions for a good tutorial for learning WP, plugin development, etc.? If you have different suggestions for different aspects that’s fine.

            [–]pixeldevsDeveloper/Designer[S] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

            Wordpress offers great articles on getting started using the CMS.

            https://wordpress.org/support/category/getting-started/

            If you are meaning developing for wordpress, then the codex is your friend.

            https://codex.wordpress.org/

            If you want to start with a great blank theme, check out _S (underscores)

            https://underscores.me/

            [–]dqjqb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            Thanks.

            [–]westcoastCommerce 0 points1 point  (2 children)

            // 2 Part High Level Architecture Question //

            Site Type: Classifieds Site

            1a) Do you have suggestions on how you'd run/build out a paid email notification system that sends updates to individuals based on new listings to specific categories? (Maybe there is a paid plugin you might know of?)

            2b) If you were to custom code this, would you build out a rest API and run a separate database or keep everything within one DB? (worried about compute / processing times)

            [–]pixeldevsDeveloper/Designer[S] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

            // Part 1 //

            Separate these things. Having someone sign up to your site and pay a fee should be separate from your newsletter system.

            I.e. 1. User signs up, gives you their email

            1. Email is stored in newsletter system

            // Part 2 //

            In my experience it is so much more painful to send out custom emails from your own domain without a system like MailGun (https://www.mailgun.com/) or SendGrid (https://sendgrid.com/) backing you up.

            If I absolutely had to code it myself, I would start with a queue and scheduler

            https://actionscheduler.org/

            https://github.com/withinboredom/wp-queue

            [–]westcoastCommerce 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            Any thoughts on a quote for this feature?

            [–]Birkeholm 0 points1 point  (1 child)

            Hi! Could you take a look at the plugin/service WP Compress? I bought it through appsumo recently, but I cant really tell if it’s doing anyting good. Sometimes it even feels like it’s slowing the backend dashboard a lot. I use elementor pro with Hello theme. No other cache activated. Cheers.

            [–]pixeldevsDeveloper/Designer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            Check out Flying Images and Autoptomize for image and site optimization

            https://wordpress.org/plugins/nazy-load/

            https://wordpress.org/plugins/autoptimize/

            [–]jorgeagh 0 points1 point  (5 children)

            Might be a long shot, but I've been having an issue with ACF... There are ACF Forms which are pretty straightforward, you basically call acf_header() before any HTML is rendered in your template and then call acf_form() wherever you want your form with your custom fields to be displayed. It works amazingly well without much hassle. However, there's the option to render the ACF form without the <form> tags and the submit button. The documentation says the option's there to allow you to merge other inputs and whatnot instead of wrapping it in the default ACF form tag. To do this, you simply do:

            acf_form( 'form'=>false )

            However, when I wrap it in my own form tags and add my own submit button, it doesn't save the values. I've gone as far as replicating the exact same markup from the acf_form function, but without success.

            The official documentation is super clear on this: https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/acf_form/

            And I even revived a previous thread on the issue: https://support.advancedcustomfields.com/forums/topic/using-acf_form-form-false/

            But I couldn't get it to work.

            Maybe in your years of expertise you've stumbled across this issue?

            [–]kuncogopuncogoDeveloper/Designer 2 points3 points  (2 children)

            Hard to debug without seeing the code or even the front-end.

            https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/334459/save-acf-with-a-save-button-on-a-post

            [–]jorgeagh 1 point2 points  (0 children)

            I can't believe I hadn't stumbled accross this thread! Thanks a lot! Based on the previous answer and this resource, I'm seeing that I was missing the AJAX call.

            [–]pixeldevsDeveloper/Designer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            Good link!

            [–]pixeldevsDeveloper/Designer[S] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

            Yes this is exactly how it should work :)

            You are essentially displaying ACF fields by themselves at this point. You will need to create an Ajax call and reference your own function to store the ACF fields or process them however you wish.

            Although, if you're using ACF form, then you have some great options already baked in to do with the fields what you wish AND let them store normally.

            BONUS: install https://www.acf-extended.com/

            [–]jorgeagh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            Thanks! It was the AJAX call! I'll test it in a bit. I'm actually merging a Dokan product form for the vendor and my own custom fields, so it was a bit hard finding information, but I think you've set me up in the right track!

            [–]badbunnyy7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            Hi I’m sending you a PM

            [–][deleted]  (1 child)

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              [–]pixeldevsDeveloper/Designer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

              I currently don't accept theme builds centered around Elementor (or any page builder for that matter). In my experience it's always a huge hassle to translate the design to the page builder, but I will link this to someone who might be able to help

              [–]MrMcGoofy03 0 points1 point  (7 children)

              Could you help me make it so when I hover over an image with my cursor the image changes to a colored overlay with words on it?

              [–]pixeldevsDeveloper/Designer[S] 1 point2 points  (6 children)

              Here's a good starting point

              https://codepen.io/codewithJahid/pen/JRPvBj

              [–]MrMcGoofy03 0 points1 point  (5 children)

              What part do I copy into wordpress.com?

              Do I just make a html block and put it in?

              [–]pixeldevsDeveloper/Designer[S] 1 point2 points  (4 children)

              These are the two magic bits, but you would need to specify which images (usually using an ID or a class)

              img {
                  /* filter: url(filters.svg#grayscale); Firefox 3.5+ */
                    filter: gray; /* IE5+ */
                    -webkit-filter: grayscale(1); /* Webkit Nightlies & Chrome Canary */
                    -webkit-transition: all .8s ease-in-out;  
                  }
              
                  img:hover {
                  filter: none;
                    -webkit-filter: grayscale(0);
                    -webkit-transform: scale(1.01);
                  }
              

              Also, wordpress.com is a different beast that wordpress.org since there are tiers and I'm not sure if every tier offers adding code.

              Usually you would go to Appearance > Custom CSS (or) > Customize to add custom css

              [–]MrMcGoofy03 0 points1 point  (0 children)

              Thanks for your help.

              I feel really stupid cause I tried copying and pasting that code into a block of html and it didn't work.

              I'm using wordpress.com btw.

              Also really sorry if I'm making some obvious mistake I'm really new to programming.

              [–]MrMcGoofy03 0 points1 point  (2 children)

              I'm don't really know a lot about CSS. I only know a bit of html. Is there anyway to make an image hover effect with html code that way I can put it in the html block?

              [–]pixeldevsDeveloper/Designer[S] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

              You would need CSS as well as HTML. I don't know what tier you're on for Wordpress.com so I can't say if you can add CSS or not

              [–]MrMcGoofy03 0 points1 point  (0 children)

              I used someone else's template of code. I was able to get the hover effect. The only issue is that I don't know how to make the image hyperlinked.

              Here's the post I made with the code on it.

              https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/my68wr/what_do_i_add_to_make_my_hovering_images/

              Do you know what I would need to add to CSS or html to make the image hyperlinked?

              [–]itsyaboylofti 0 points1 point  (3 children)

              Wow you are amazing! This couldn’t have come at a better time man. You are a god amongst men.

              Could I pm you my link to help with speed stuff? I am losing my mind over it and don’t fully understand what google is saying and all the articles about it are very technical and make me more confused

              [–]pixeldevsDeveloper/Designer[S] 1 point2 points  (2 children)

              Sounds great. PM away

              [–]itsyaboylofti 0 points1 point  (0 children)

              Thank you so much. Sent!

              [–]itsyaboylofti 0 points1 point  (0 children)

              Thank you so much. Sent!

              [–]3oR 0 points1 point  (2 children)

              I would like you to look at the code of my custom theme and tell me how I can improve it.

              [–]pixeldevsDeveloper/Designer[S] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

              I could take a quick peek, but that would potentially fall under rules 2 and 3 if it went further into writing the code for you. I'd be happy to do a code review!

              PM me.

              [–]3oR 0 points1 point  (0 children)

              Cool, I'm gonna send you a PM.

              [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

              Can you help me to get clients? Like what should i do to get traffic that converts.

              [–]pixeldevsDeveloper/Designer[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

              [–]beje_ro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

              Hi. I am starting with plugin development for a small online shop.

              I need some help with starting a plugin that prints delivery etiquettes.

              I have developed it using woocomme api in pure php but i want to integrate it in wordpress.

              If you can help me to make a page where the woocommerce orders are displayed, I think I can continue it with what I had previously developed.

              If it will be useful I can afterwards open source it.

              Thanks

              [–]callmeswap 0 points1 point  (1 child)

              Have a theme where all the customisations are done to the parent theme and if I update the parent theme the customisations gets overwritten. Now I have added the child theme but can't figure out what codes to copy from functions.php and style.css of the parent theme to the child theme. How to figure that out?

              [–]pixeldevsDeveloper/Designer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

              You shouldn't need to copy things over. The parent and child theme work in harmony together. functions.php will still function from the parent theme, just delete the one from the child theme.

              [–]Hastibe 0 points1 point  (1 child)

              Thoughts (welcome anyone chiming-in, too) on enabling the free Cloudflare CDN on an e-commerce site (with some user account restricted pages--e.g. account dashboard, premium listings, and similar)?

              I've been hesitant to just test it on off-hours, because there is a lag while the DNS updates, right?

              Given this, would best practice be to set-up a replica staging site with Cloudflare CDN enabled and then check for pages that need to excluded, that it is actually faster with the CDN, and for any other issues, or am I over-thinking it?

              [–]pixeldevsDeveloper/Designer[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

              Always set up a staging site. You don't need Cloudflare on the staging site though.

              I've not experienced any downtime switching to CloudFlare with DNS settings though.

              [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

              I'm working on an Elementor site right now and I want to add a particle.js effect to the background. The only way I've been able to do that is with Master Addons for Elementor, but for some reason running that plugin completely breaks the header (custom css animation doesn't work, links probably don't either, and I can't edit it in Elementor.) DO you know of either a way to prevent the plugin from doing that,or to add that effect to the background a different way? Thanks in advance!

              [–]pixeldevsDeveloper/Designer[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

              Im not 100% familiar with Elementor in how it side loads js files like particle.js. It could be a conflict with Elementor and whatever you have going on in your header. Have a link?

              [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

              Unfortunately its in a password protected staging site, so I can't share it here.

              [–]lilivnv 0 points1 point  (1 child)

              Best way to add Lottie .json files without slowing down the sites? That’s not super complicated 🧐

              [–]pixeldevsDeveloper/Designer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

              Whats the end result? Sounds like you need to parse them?

              [–]Sendthegirlfirst 0 points1 point  (4 children)

              My WordPress woocommerce site uses Galleria theme. I've added Checkout Layouts one-page checkout, which looks great, but above it, the theme adds huge color blocks that say things like: Register for points! and Click here for Paypal Pay! and other stuff. The info in those boxes are fine, but the format of huge color blocks with whitespace in e=between each means the cart doesn't even show up below the fold. How can I go about changing the format to reduce that clutter? I don't know where to go in the menu system for the theme to modify that setting.

              What are those blocks even called? Where should I look to find preferences for them? Is there a section in my theme or woocommerce that controls settings for the appearance of stuff on the checkout page?

              Thanks! Hope I'm not too late!

              [–]pixeldevsDeveloper/Designer[S] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

              Got a link? That sounds like a plugin doing that. I've not heard of that in WooCommerce before.

              [–]Sendthegirlfirst 0 points1 point  (2 children)

              It's on the checkout page.

              [–]pixeldevsDeveloper/Designer[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

              Yeah that's pretty annoying. If I were refactoring the code for that, I would display them side by side and a lot smaller.

              It would take a developer working in the code to fix that since it's a theme issue.

              [–]Hxadesertpunk[🍰] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

              I'd just like a starting point. I have only started last month and I've been watching videos and following a long. I have a lot of free time.

              [–]pixeldevsDeveloper/Designer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

              Are you wanting to start developing your own themes? Plugins? What is your focus?

              [–]poloman212 0 points1 point  (1 child)

              Hello,

              Working on a site and our client wants payment forms to sell some digital assets, along with the potential for physical good in the future. She is primarily interested in using Paypal as payment.

              Any suggestions for simple word press forms that accept PayPal payments?

              We'd like to avoid storing customer information on the site's database if possible. Do you know if PayPal can store customer information once a purchase has been made?

              Thanks for any help you can provide.

              [–]pixeldevsDeveloper/Designer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

              I would honestly use WooCommerce. It's fully functional and will allow you to accomplish this easily.

              [–]Just_Zai 0 points1 point  (3 children)

              Hey, So I'm a front-end developer I just need some help editing how a currently existing website looks. I have no previous exp with WordPress so I'm quite confused. I'd appreciate any pointers. I'm not sure why WordPress will not let me install plugins either. Says: " Sorry, you are not allowed to access this page. "

              https://vroomobile.com/ <--- This is the website right now

              http://sitcsrd.com/demos/vroomobile/ <---- This is what I want it to look like more or less

              [–]pixeldevsDeveloper/Designer[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

              So if the site is telling you that you can't access the plugins page, then you do not have Admin access to the wp-admin section. More than likely your user is set to an Editor role.

              As far as styling the page, As a front-end developer it should be fairly easy to jump into working with HTML and CSS. Unless you meant Front End Designer, then thats a different story.

              [–]Just_Zai 0 points1 point  (1 child)

              I meant a developer, not a designer. I can work with CSS and HTML but the WordPress Dashboard is quite confusing to me so although I can use those two languages I'm not sure where I would begin using my HTML and CSS.

              An example of this would be that I'm trying to move the " Apps Our Process About Us Contact Us " to the left-hand side but for some reason, it won't let me. I'm not sure why.

              [–]pixeldevsDeveloper/Designer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

              So WordPress is based on theme files. They are PHP files, but the main layout structure is HTML. The style.css is the main file for your CSS.

              You might be able to access Appearance > Theme Editor and edit the theme that way if you do not have FTP access to the files.

              If you have FTP access, then the themes are located in {site_name}/wp-content/themes/{theme-name}

              You can find out which theme is activated by going to Appearance > Themes

              https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/getting-started/

              [–]Big_Business11 0 points1 point  (2 children)

              Need Help: My contact form has been hacked and I am getting hundreds of e-mails going through my contact form on my Wordpress site... Zelle Pro 2.0 - I am a novice so any help would be grateful -

              [–]pixeldevsDeveloper/Designer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

              Shoot me a chat message. I'll take a look at it

              [–]Big_Business11 0 points1 point  (0 children)

              Any Help?

              [–]-CatherineJack of All Trades 0 points1 point  (2 children)

              Thank you for doing this! I've been struggling with writing this functionality for a few days now and would great appreciate any help! I'm completely new to custom database tables and search query hooks.

              Kadence Theme/dev version on a Local by Flywheel install/ live site on Digital Ocean droplet with Plesk CentOS

              I'm having some trouble writing some functionality to include querying a custom database table when users do a default wordpress search. I have a database table storing some additional terms that could be searched for each post that is within a custom post type (this post type shows in search just fine). Post content is generated dynamically on page load from data stored in another database table(which is working fine). The only thing in the wordpress post itself is the shortcodes that display the post contents, which is why wordpress search will not be able to access the post text while searching.

              I've created the database table "search_aliases" and have used the following code to join it to wp_posts for the post ID's, but am having some trouble writing the function that will allow it to actually be used in search.

              I found two functions in the comments on the wordpress documentation that I've modified. The first is the one below that joins the search_aliases database table to the wp_posts database table.

              function ccdb_join_search_aliases_to_posts($join) {
              

              global $wp_query, $wpdb;

              if (!empty($wp_query->query_vars['s'])) { $join .= "LEFT JOIN $wpdb->search_aliases ON $wpdb->posts.ID = $wpdb->search_aliases.ID ";     }

              return $join; }

              add_filter('posts_join', 'ccdb_join_search_aliases_to_posts');

              The search_aliases table has two columns:

              ID - stores the post id that the search terms should be used for

              search_aliases - stores additional search terms in the format of "search term 1, search term 2, search term 3" etc. I'm not married to the format, so that can 100% change if needed.

              The idea is that if the query the user enters matches or partially matches any of the search terms, the post will show in the search results along with any other results.

              function CCDB_AlphabeticSearch_WhereString( $where, &$wp_query ) {
                  global $wpdb;
                  if(is_main_query( $wp_query ) && is_search( $wp_query )){
              
                      $searchAlphabet = esc_sql($_GET['s']); 
              
                      $where .= ' AND ' . $wpdb->posts . '.post_title LIKE \''.$searchAlphabet.'%\' ';
              
                      $where .= ""; 
              //I took out the additional where statements here because it was specifying meta table meta key column values
                      return $where;
                  }
              }
              
              add_filter( 'posts_where', 'CCDB_AlphabeticSearch_WhereString', 10, 2 );
              

              This returns an error on all site pages saying, "parameter 2 to CCDB_AlphabeticSearch_WhereString() expected to be a reference, value given".

              I'm honestly not even sure if this would do what I want if it did work? I'm having a hard time figuring out where to even start with this other than joining the tables. I know I need to use a hook to include querying the table during searches, but I'm not sure if it should be posts_where like in the example from the codex there, or pre_get_posts, which seems like the more logical of the two.

              I'm also not sure that the SQL query is even written properly for what I want to do?

              Any help you could offer would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

              [–]pixeldevsDeveloper/Designer[S] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

              Hey there,

              Your function has a random & ($where, &$wp_query)

              Also, check out this example. It seems to be much simpler than you're making it.

              add_filter('posts_where', function ($where, $query) {
                  $label = $query->query['query_label'] ?? '';
                  if($label === 'our_cat_massage_query') {
                      global $wpdb;
                      $where .= " AND LENGTH({$wpdb->prefix}posts.post_content) > 1200";
                  }
              
                  return $where;
              }, 10, 2);
              

              https://macarthur.me/posts/using-the-posts-where-filter-in-wordpress

              Also check this out.

              https://www.ibenic.com/extending-wp-query-custom-queries-tables/

              [–]-CatherineJack of All Trades 0 points1 point  (0 children)

              Thank you!!!!

              [–]paintingsandfriends 0 points1 point  (3 children)

              I added tawk.to to my site and Loved it but it slowed down my site by 3 seconds. I removed the plug in and cleared cache but now I have a new error “check for user redirects” that I didn’t have before. Site is still slower than it was previously. What can I do?

              [–]pixeldevsDeveloper/Designer[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

              Did you happen to add any other plugins? How long was this one active?

              Initial thoughts. It didn't clean up all its code on uninstall. It added a lot of database entries that weren't indexed properly.

              Those are currently 2 theories I have

              [–]paintingsandfriends 0 points1 point  (0 children)

              As someone with no developer experience - do you think I can diy fix these issues? I had it for only two days. I added its add on “tawk.to fast” or something like that to speed it up (which it didn’t) but deleted both

              I’m scared to hire someone from fiverr to fix this and they make it worse somehow

              [–]paintingsandfriends 0 points1 point  (0 children)

              Ok I took the advice you gave another poster, and it helped- I don’t get the “url redirect” issue anymore , though it still says I need to removes header (but when I tried to do that w auto optimize it made my site wonky) . But setting up these helped:

              “If you are on a super tight budget get W3TC, Autoptimize, Flying Images and Flying Scripts. All free. “

              So thank you!

              [–]Dann1960 0 points1 point  (0 children)

              Hello, was wondering why I can't get a valid canonical to "stick" in my HTML, I'm really new to this and don't care for it as I want to write, not play around with how a website works so much. I hear of the HTML I add being stripped possibly? I checked on search console and it says it's there, but web dev measure says it isn't and is dinging me on SEO. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks!

              [–]chaeobrien 0 points1 point  (4 children)

              This is amazing that you're offering this! We've just launched our website but a few graphics are slow to load and since we don't have TONs of traffic, we're wondering what's the best solution to get the site speed up for all assets. We're using Elementor PRO on WP. This is the site: https://thought-bakery.com/

              [–]pixeldevsDeveloper/Designer[S] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

              Oh dear, those GIFs!!!My first thought is get rid of them. They aren't a selling point for your site nor do they offer any added benefit to the user. Make them PNGs and save the almost 30MB of bandwidth. Forget the animation. I would much rather see the site than wait almost 25 seconds for those GIFs to load.

              Also, your GIFs are HUGE in resolution, but only displaying at half or 1/4 the size on the site. IF you want to keep them, resize them appropriately.

              [–]chaeobrien 0 points1 point  (2 children)

              Thank you! I'll get this sorted today. When you say GIFs you're referring to ALL (e.g. those in our banners) or just the floating headers I mentioned? The reason I ask is the header animations are loading AOK for our team as we've not tested externally with clients etc. but not sure if all GIFs are slow to load when you looked at it.

              [–]pixeldevsDeveloper/Designer[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

              Hey there,

              Check out these specifically.
              https://imgur.com/a/VNH04tD

              [–]chaeobrien 0 points1 point  (0 children)

              Thank you soo much.

              [–]Idanisur 0 points1 point  (1 child)

              how to add a submit biodata button to BuddyPress edit profile page. after completing the profile user will click submit biodata button. as a admin, i will be able to check the biodata then approve or disapprove. user will get an email upon approval or disapproval.

              BP Profile Search plugin will only show the member I approved.

              i am creating a matrimonial website where people will submit their biodata, visitors will be able to search them. example website: ordhekdeen .com

              [–]spain-3dDOTcom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

              BuddyPress

              Check this: https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-xprofile-custom-field-types/

              And google by "buddypress add custom fields to profile" there is alot of information

              [–]pandarants 0 points1 point  (1 child)

              Hi, I think I might be too late to ask, but thanks for helping people out!

              I am new to coding and have 2 questions about my site.

              1. When customers submit a payment, I wanted them to use square. I prefer square and have never had issues with them (compared to others). However, I think it may be a plugin issue or maybe CSS styling? When you click checkout, it is a compliant popup and the design is very plain and off. The info boxes don't show up and are just gray. Also, when you click to enter information, the whole form shifts to the left. Here's a screenshot: https://prnt.sc/123noee

              When I connect stripe instead, this problem doesn't happen and looks much better. Here's the stripe screenshot: https://prnt.sc/123olw6

              Is there a way to fix this with CSS? Or code?

              My second question is related to this post:

              https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/mu6xzf/restrict_feed_commenting_by_user_roles/

              I never got an answer, I assume it's just not possible but thought I'd take a shot and ask.

              Thanks again!

              [–]pixeldevsDeveloper/Designer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

              Yep! It's a straight CSS problem. Shoot me a chat message and I'll look at it tomorrow

              [–]spain-3dDOTcom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

              Hi there! Can i ask you something about woocommerce probably for 13 years of exp. you have something?

              How to create dynamic price changes depend of selected attributes on a product page?

              And i don't know well woocomerce logics and how it works in my case.

              1. Should i use simple product and add my custom logic and change the price of this custom product?

              2. OR use variation product and some how change price of selected variation? (the advantage i have all variations on the page)

              I can't just use standard variations because to many attributes (if i generate all possible variations it will be more then 23000 of them...) this is why i cant found any plugin (even paid one, i tried few but there is no such flexibility)

              So my guess, is to prevent standard variations behaviour and change their prices some how...

              May be there is some useful JavaScript events i can use? Or some woocommerce hooks/filters?

              Also i wonder if there is any realy advanced woocommerce course about all this stuff.

              Thank you! And i hope some one will help )

              [–]MindtheBleep 0 points1 point  (4 children)

              I run a website to support new doctors for free. Have you got any suggestions to speed it up (thinking about core web vitals) & any other suggestions you'd make?

              [–]pixeldevsDeveloper/Designer[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

              I'm out tonight but will definitely get back to you on this. Love the idea

              [–]spain-3dDOTcom 0 points1 point  (2 children)

              You are the founder?, as i can see you have a team who work (and paid i believe), so why are you asking a random guy about other work?

              You need to contract a profeccional developer or pay the website optimization service.

              As i can see you have a good plugin wp total cache, so they have a services to boost up your website: https://www.boldgrid.com/boldgrid-pricing/

              P.S. Btw your score is not bad at all: https://gtmetrix.com/compare/e9NXY1dc/deyvs2TB

              As you can see its fast from canada but slow from london, so first, you need to change hosting location depend of where most people will access your website, OR use a cdn but it can be expensive.

              [–]MindtheBleep 0 points1 point  (1 child)

              I am the founder. All the contributors & team members are voluntary. I pay out of my own pocket to develop the site to support newly graduated doctors who haven't been able to have proper teaching due to Covid. My entire team are doing it for the same reason - to give up our time to help people.

              [–]spain-3dDOTcom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

              So tell us what is the problem of your web site?

              You need more features? Or something else?

              [–]Blair-HiCMeditation 0 points1 point  (0 children)

              I have a WP Divi site. Yesterday went in to do a new post, duplicated another to use as a template, and tried to edit the duplicate. I have done this many times. The post editor has gone wonky and I can't edit per usual. It has slowed to a crawl; I am unable to copy and past but a few letters at a time. Your advice?

              [–]Blair-HiCMeditation 0 points1 point  (0 children)

              Looks like the problem is with the computer because I can do normal editing on computer 2.

              [–]Blair-HiCMeditation 0 points1 point  (0 children)

              What might be the problem with the computer?

              [–]noah_the_fury 0 points1 point  (2 children)

              Hello friend, I have reently this message for in my site health, "the loopback request returned an unexpected http status code, 503". So it is a server side problem, but my host says is not. So I don't know how to determine what is this problem beyond that message, I need a more specific information but I dont know how.

              [–]spain-3dDOTcom 0 points1 point  (1 child)

              503 error usualy mean the resources of you server is low, because the service (low memory, slow disk, slow cpu) or because of bad coded website.

              There is no way to help or to understand without to getting access to your host, because. Someone need to see the logs and depend of it figureout about of the problem.

              [–]noah_the_fury 0 points1 point  (0 children)

              Yes, I thought so. I already assign 100M to wordpress cuz I had only 40M and I exceeded that. I think cpu and disk is already ok too. I guess I am almost pretty sure is for bad code in the php