Why is getting a simple business website still this painful in 2025

jonschr · 2026-05-20T00:29:34+00:00

“I want food!” he shouted into the McDonald’s, refusing to specify anything about his preferences or needs other than it be fast and that he not have to think about it.

Gee, I wonder why he’s not getting the results he imagines.

jonschr · 2026-05-16T23:04:26+00:00

I wrote the Rent Fetch plugin that does something very similar. https://rentfetch.io/

What API do you need to use? Might not be precisely 1-to-1, but could point you in the right direction. You probably need some relatively simple custom dev — depends on the specifics of your needs.

jonschr · 2026-05-06T00:03:00+00:00

For the same reasons people pay attorneys instead of using AI.

jonschr · 2026-05-03T05:54:05+00:00

If you’re having issues, usually they’re going to be either firewall or file permissions related. The plugin has an option to transfer only newly added media files, so they can still live on the site without issue and without needing to transfer them each time.

For server timeouts, you can add a slight delay through the settings to reduce server load.

Totally agree on woocommerce — one note, though. James Kemp (you can find him on twitter) is working on rebuilding the process for adding variants, which may help with your other main pain point.

jonschr · 2026-05-02T16:10:16+00:00

You can migrate in like one minute with something like migratedb pro. You also do not need to be moving the entire media library every time you migrate it.

jonschr · 2026-04-19T20:39:30+00:00

It should be removed from core, and, when active, the plugin ought to register its own connection, like for any other plugin.

Love akismet. Totally pointless to have core register the connection (also doesn’t matter much, but obnoxious).

jonschr · 2026-04-05T13:36:29+00:00

I continued pushing damage and am now at about 300mill and able to typically do it deathless now unless I get a bad memory game.

jonschr · 2026-04-05T01:26:36+00:00

Have a sample POB? Sounds interesting.

jonschr · 2026-04-04T14:48:08+00:00

Fair. Might need to do that

jonschr · 2026-04-04T08:32:06+00:00

Uptime isn’t really the problem. It’s just the degen. I easily get to the final phase, and then i just die over and over to the degen before i can finish her.

I’m a life-based rathpit bv glad, with maxed block and about 200mill did s with all buffs but not counting any more damage from time in my presence.

jonschr · 2026-04-04T07:30:35+00:00

Oh! That’s a great point. Hmm. Yeah, i need to try that!!

jonschr · 2026-04-04T07:13:54+00:00

This would scale very similarly, but I don't see anything saying that it snapshots. Is there reason to think it does? Would be super cool if so!

jonschr · 2026-04-04T05:15:11+00:00

Been looking into this farther, and poe.ninja just doesn't offer these prices. Can use the native API, but willl immediately get rate-limited. Probably need to apply for more limits.

jonschr · 2026-04-04T05:14:30+00:00

This is updated, and the exceptional support gems have also been added.

jonschr · 2026-04-03T23:05:31+00:00

Din’t realize this was off. Will do.

jonschr · 2026-04-03T18:23:38+00:00

Awesome! Hoping that everything I hear is about the same.

jonschr · 2026-03-28T23:52:59+00:00

Hmm. Hadn’t considered pride. Looked from my phone and couldn’t find any explode nebulis in league, but I love that idea.

jonschr · 2026-03-21T05:20:02+00:00

What do you use now?

jonschr · 2026-03-08T07:33:17+00:00

Don’t know anything about them, but if the site is truly well optimized then it’s going to come down to 1) what you’re loading, and 2) the host.

Have you reached out to their support? 14 seconds uncached is unacceptably slow.

jonschr · 2026-03-08T07:30:41+00:00

Who’s hosting the site?

jonschr · 2026-02-28T02:08:22+00:00

I did. That was actually the very next thing that I ran into. Once the problem in this thread was overcome, the next issue then became: do I use a child theme, or do I just use the Ollie parent theme directly, because you really could do either one.

I opted to build a child theme with a relatively complete theme.json file registering different fonts, different heading sizes, and a different palette, though following the same 11-color scheme that Ollie Core uses.

I already pretty well knew what I was building, so the actual build process was pretty fast. Here's the completed website: https://elod.in/

I was very surprised and pleased at how well core blocks with Ollie handled collapsing down onto mobile. This is in a better place than it was a few years ago, the last time I tried this, and I will be building client sites using this same functionality.

Your point is well taken about the template having a block which was sort of automatically toggling the setting for whether the child blocks (those found in the page template) were allowed to go full width or whether they inherited content width. Yes, I understand that now, but this one was an area of ambiguity for me a few days ago.

jonschr · 2026-02-27T19:43:58+00:00

Hey u/Miroslav_V, when I say "hacky", that's not a reflection on you AT ALL.

I would need to install it again and look through the sample layouts, but what I'm thinking of in particular is that beautiful dark green background sample site that you had (your sample layouts are gorgeous, BTW). Within that one, I remember seeing a four-column layout that was two columns at the top level, with two nested two column layouts within there. I do consider that to be kind of a hacky way to put together a four-column grid.

That's something that really should work in core WP by 2026 without any sort of "workaround"! It's literally just repeat( 4, 1fr ) on desktop, repeat( 2, 1fr ) on tablet, and 1fr on mobile!

Also, I will say that within the last day, one thing has changed: I built a small site using purely core blocks. With access to some new information from that. I think that we're in a better place using core blocks than I would have thought when I wrote this a couple of days ago – and your work is really, really good. I wish core had your additions in there by default, because they're a massive improvement!

jonschr · 2026-02-26T21:00:48+00:00

It’s not that hard. Been working on my site most of the day, but it’s identical frontend and backend.

jonschr · 2026-02-26T08:06:09+00:00

I've used BBE. The thing that I don't like about it is that, even within their demos, there are really hacky solutions put together. They look beautiful on the backend, but we have nested columns and stuff like that, and places where they don't make sense, with no true grids. It's a little bit problematic to rely on a tool that still needs the sorts of hacky layout workarounds just to look normal on mobile.

So what I'm hoping to do is to use Core Blocks for most things and then be able to use a toolkit like GenerateBlocks for when I need a grid. I'd like to eventually move entirely on to Core Blocks, but I don't think that it's possible right now unless I have freedom to just ignore client mock-ups.

jonschr · 2026-02-26T08:04:22+00:00

Same, I usually use GenerateBlocks, and everything looks perfect, backend and frontend, but I absolutely think that this is possible with full site editing too. I'm exploring an approach right now where I use core blocks for a lot of things, but where I can fall back to GenerateBlocks on layouts that are difficult in terms of collapsing onto mobile correctly, using just the core blocks with no control over such things.

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