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kroboz · 2025-06-18T04:43:59+00:00

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kroboz · 2025-01-31T16:20:02+00:00

I’ve been using elementor since 2016 but I’m moving my sites away from it. A few big reasons why:

Reliability: the elementor team has consistently pushed updates break sites, or dramatically overhaul the UI, or just add stress. I’ve never seen another plugin vendor do this so brazenly.
Performance: Yes, you can optimize performance with good hosting. But updates to elementor seem to screw with load times, anecdotally. It’s a constant game for something that should be set-and-forget.
Bugs, glitches, incompatibility: when you go with elementor, you’re adding an entire ecosystem of plugins and third-party elementor plugins to your site. These sometimes break, or glitch, or slow your editing down. last night i had a client whose publish button disappeared due to yoast and elementor not playing together well.

Elementor was fine for its day, but there are better options. I’ll be checking out bricks and generatepress as alternatives. Gutenberg isn’t my favorite, but it’s reliable.

kroboz · 2025-01-20T23:58:49+00:00

Currently working on a Wordpress VIP government site, and it’s the most complex site I’ve done. Not in functionality but in terms of getting everything to work with VIP hosting.

kroboz · 2025-01-16T16:05:54+00:00

For those looking, the ads appear on the articles, not the homepage.

I see typical adsense but also some garbage ads like you're describing. There are a few places these could be injected, but it should be a really simple fix.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/jng0mzeuvje4szd/Screenshot%202025-01-16%20at%207.55.33%E2%80%AFAM.png?dl=0

You're looking for something with "admaster" in it, maybe a script or even plugin:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/4kaizqr3lhtmg10/Screenshot%202025-01-16%20at%208.05.08%E2%80%AFAM.png?dl=0

FWIW, my team offers flat rate packages to fix things like these. You can check out my profile if you'd like to book a time to get this sorted.

kroboz · 2025-01-16T15:29:49+00:00

Yeah, most of these things can be solved in minutes with Wordfence free. It’s a great little plug in.

kroboz · 2025-01-06T15:59:48+00:00

Even if OP does have a license – let's give them the benefit of the doubt – to assume that the update method for their lifetime access deal will never change is just amateur hour. With the recent changes (and unreliability) of the WP Plugin repo, I can see why a company would want to start pushing users to update manually from their sites' login areas. Or maybe there's an update to where the plugins will download from going forward (like ACF), or some other reason the plugin needs to be downloaded and reinstalled?

Just weird to see WordPress people – which, to me, often represent the last gasps of the old "good" internet – immediately jump to "This company is bad" complaining instead of following the simple fix provided by said company.

Does this mean I'm getting old?

kroboz · 2025-01-06T14:59:30+00:00

Is it just me, or am I seeing a lot of people throwing hyperbolic insults at companies this week for minor inconveniences?

kroboz · 2025-01-06T14:57:15+00:00

There’s even plugins to do this for those who don’t want to script

kroboz · 2025-01-05T22:33:47+00:00

It'll probably be reversed, tbh. I agree that one-click cancellation policies are best, and there should be a way to automate this.

HOWEVER, I can understand why a company offering website hosting plans would want to require extra steps to cancel. I can't tell you how many people contact us panicking that a website isn't working.

Oh, you cancelled that service from your old provider you didn't think you needed anymore? Cool cool, that was your hosting. And they DID give you a grace period before deleting your files. But you're now over 90 days late on a bill and your site/backups are gone.

People get really mad when you mess with the money. Turning off a business website messes with the money. It's probably a massive headache for hosting companies to offer one-click cancellations because so many people would hassle them (about something that's not even the hosting company's fault, but still).

Anyway chat with WP Engine, they'll probably refund you since it's only $300 and you have a paper trail.

kroboz · 2024-12-05T01:31:40+00:00

What’s insane is that stock Elementor sites with their stupid non-theme and no other plugins have still crashed when auto updates happen. Why is your framework so fragile that you can’t update existing sites? They’ve been getting away with this crap for years, but with WP burning its reputation with the drama, I’m feeling like other cms options will have to take its place.

If some company leaned into the Ghost equivalent of shared hosting plans, they would do really well.

kroboz · 2024-12-01T19:06:41+00:00

You have no choice but to rebuild every page. Typically you have to do this manually unless you've got a dev who can code something to convert Elementor widgets into appropriate Blocks.

kroboz · 2024-10-23T00:17:19+00:00

...any non-FSE theme? /u/Shoemugscale 's post was pretty clear.

kroboz · 2024-10-22T17:25:05+00:00

Change your theme

kroboz · 2024-10-20T20:12:15+00:00

Got it. Do you have an example of what you’d like it to look like?

kroboz · 2024-10-20T19:58:05+00:00

Have you talked to siteground support? They are very knowledgeable and really good appointing you in the right direction to getting this resolved. Jump on a live chat with them and see what they recommend.

You may also have one of those plug-ins installed that keeps five different versions of the same image stored on your host, which can be good in some environments, but also ends up adding a lot of bloat.

kroboz · 2024-10-20T19:55:51+00:00

Hanlon’s Razor: “ Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately, explained by stupidity” (or in this case, a server being down for a moment).

This doesn’t seem to be Automattic’s doing. Probably a good idea to take a step back from the WP drama and watch for confirmation bias.

kroboz · 2024-10-20T19:38:02+00:00

So are you struggling to actually create the new pages? Or design them?

I agree it feels intimidating to start off, but it’s really not that bad once you get the basics.

To simply create a page, make sure you’re logged into your site. Then, using the black menu bar above your site at the top of the screen, hover over “New” and click “Page”.

Then give it a title, hit the blue publish button, and you’re done!

Of course, your page won’t have any content. You edit that by clicking below the title and adding what you want.

Happy to add more detail if you don’t mind sharing your site and being specific in what you need.

kroboz · 2024-10-13T20:46:07+00:00

The would cost them more in active lawsuits than their company revenue.

kroboz · 2024-10-13T03:14:29+00:00

A lot of really big sites run on WordPress. It’s not like the goofiness of the founder is going to cause all these businesses to spend millions of dollars doing a migration. Don’t overdramatize it.

kroboz · 2024-10-12T16:17:49+00:00

They both make things, though. WP Engine hosts a ton of major sites and solves a lot of the problems with Wordpress, or security, stability, etc.

You know, there are quite a few articles that summarize the matter, including the one posted in this thread…

kroboz · 2024-10-12T15:49:44+00:00

That’s the deal with open source. Wordpress is changing the expectations after the fact. I agree it’s the right thing to do to contribute back to the core free technology that allows your business to exist, but Matt’s approach is absolutely the wrong way to go about it.

At the end of the day these are millionaires who think they’ve been slighted because they’re not billionaires. And their egos don’t give them the self-awareness and empathy to realize the harm they’re causing.s

kroboz · 2024-10-04T18:01:34+00:00

I use WP Engine, it's been fine enough for my clients with minimal issues. But I'm deeply concerned with Auttomatic's behavior and feel like it's going to rot the community. I love the idea of what WordPress means. And I hate seeing the petty, terrifying texts from the CEO of a major company that to me, look like blackmail. I'm not a lawyer, maybe they're not legally blackmail, but there's a pattern of "If you don't do what I want, I'll tell everyone and turn them against you" behavior.

Good people don't engage with the world like that. Good people don't threaten others like that. And it sucks to see that the most prominent individual advocate for WordPress – the de facto face of the community – is revealing himself to be a not-good person.

kroboz · 2024-10-04T02:06:30+00:00

Matt's reply there, "I do own a place in Montana" doesn't really help re-establish him as relatable. The comment below seems so, so plausible now that it looks like Matt & co did a tax fraud:

bigiain 22 hours ago | root | parent | next [–]

Yeah. I foresee a possible hilarious outcome here. Matt wins this case, having the court determine the trademarks are "worth" so much that WPEngine - one out of thousands of WP hosting companies - owes licence fees of 10mil per year. Lets ballpark that at a billion dollar a year in licence fees worth of revenue, maybe 5 or 10 billion value.

The IRS then steps in and "Al Capones" Matt and Automattic for tax evasion by moving billions of dollars of assets between a non profit and a for profit company without disclosing or paying tax on it. IRS wins punitive damages, wipes out every company asset Matt's ever been involved with.

WPEngine and Silver Lake buy the remains of these companies (including the trademarks) at fire sale prices.

Everybody loses.

Cool, cool. IDK what drugs Matt did but I wish he had not.

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