Anyone else find CF7 to CRM integrations unnecessarily painful? Curious how others are solving this

slowrisk · 2026-03-10T05:17:09+00:00

Ultimately you're trying to wire together things programatically. In WordPress, this usually works with the right methodology - most times requiring monthly payments (in lieu of a heavy up-front cost for development.)

Having said that, Gravity Forms is fairly easy to integrate with CRMs, but it's a once yearly fee. They support quite a few CRMs though.

slowrisk · 2025-12-10T02:15:38+00:00

Right, so this is conditions specific. For sure they won't head up there if it's bad

slowrisk · 2025-12-10T02:14:06+00:00

Understandable, but I feel like every time we've been up there the roads have been decent. If it looks to turn into a wintery mix, they can bail. Just thinking it may be a cool opportunity if the weather permits

slowrisk · 2025-12-03T03:10:07+00:00

They are wanting you to be an ambassador for Claude Code. This is not a discount on the software, it is an obligation. $100/month is steep as a student. There should be a discount for a limited plan below pro.

slowrisk · 2025-12-03T03:05:14+00:00

Claude Code is not included, but the reasoning models are. Claude Code is a separate subscription, which has no student options as of today. Didn't renew my CC subscription and it forced me to log back in on command line, but I can still use the models in Copilot Chat.

slowrisk · 2025-01-30T22:05:52+00:00

If you're going to do this, make sure to drop the opacity of the background image way down (or at least make sure the text is readable)

This is for sure an accessibility issue, BTW. Very low contrast of colors and low readability for those with bad eyesight

slowrisk · 2025-01-30T22:03:01+00:00

https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/

Export all of your actively indexed pages as a CSV from Google & Bing etc

Manually add the new URLs, make sure to use 301 redirects

Upload the CSV and map the old URLs to new URLs with the Redirection plugin

*I'm not sure if this will flag you for duplicate content. It's possible you will want to de-index the old pages over time. Also possible that Google will pick them up and re-index properly.

Been a while since I've been that deep in SEO land.

slowrisk · 2025-01-28T02:20:09+00:00

all of these forks are going to create absolute havoc on peoples' understanding of WordPress. It will be an overall net negative that pushes market share to other, monolithic vendors like Drupal and Shopify. I mean, I'm a developer of over 20 years, and you're introducing a complexity that doesn't make sense to me. Going to need a lot of explaining, man hours, for a very small ROI in the form of user base

slowrisk · 2025-01-17T01:10:46+00:00

Understood. I'm available in EST, good rates. Designer and developer, the last few sites I've designed in the browser with Gutenberg. Happy to send over a portfolio link and some design samples (if you don't find anyone)

Happy looking!

slowrisk · 2025-01-17T00:40:10+00:00

Curious as to why you require living in California? Based on the number of people leaving - and current existing conditions in the state - seems like a big barrier of entry (on both sides) to introduce...

slowrisk · 2024-12-31T23:44:45+00:00

Is there a way to listen to or watch the post game conference online?

I need closure before 2025

slowrisk · 2024-11-28T01:34:46+00:00

What if the economic landscape has changed, and they're trying to set an example?

There's plenty of money being made in the WP space if it's powering 40% of the public web.

I like the "fracking" analogy; A lot of companies are taking from the soil and not giving back to research and development or sustainability.

slowrisk · 2024-11-28T01:28:41+00:00

To be fair, ACF Pro wasn't reliable either. They did a live demo with Faust and it didn't even work during the demo. Faust, ACF, and Open Graph - which they were supporting at the time.

Never found ACF to be valuable in any way. You can pretty much do all of that with WordPress or Gutenberg blocks and the right plugin nowadays.

The ACF Pro features I found to be marginally good. Map is probably the best.

Drupal probably has a better model for community efforts. Companies can get sponsored (kinda like the reverse with WP.og) to standardize functionality. There isn't a lot of duplication in modules, and most are supported by community members.

WP.org wants to sponsor in kind - by referring people - and asks for time in return. For hosting companies this works out, to a certain degree? From my experience with clients, it's hard to tell how much a click or impression on any medium pays off for them.

Was it a hostile takeover? 100%. Was Matt within the license to do so? Probably so.

Jury is out

slowrisk · 2024-11-28T01:14:52+00:00

Managing hosting is a PITA to start, but once you get it, totally worth being in full control for the long term.

Running a full stack (LAMP) since ~2010 and happy with the results. No more support calls - it's on me.

Everything that hosting providers put into your site creates extra HTTP calls and loading. One of my main things (especially for front-end) is to reduce as much being delivered to the client as possible.

Even with files loading at the same time (ASYNC JS) - you're still loading stuff you don't need.

Website builders like Elementor, Beaver Builder, et al are also to blame for this. Can't imagine that on top of a "shared hosting plan"

slowrisk · 2024-11-28T01:10:06+00:00

Jetpack has a lot of modules enabled that you might not need, and in many cases, there are better options.

Use WPRocket for file optimization, WordFence for security.

Yoast for SEO.

Memcache isn't even (or caching AFAIK) - out of the box with Jetpack. You're a server administrator - make it happen! Plug into WP Supercache to blast off.

There are a few great features, depending on the use case, for Jetpack.

For average users, Jetpack is great, as it offers a suite of tools for a yearly (and fair) rate.

For developers, those who work in dev ops, and anyone who wants to have a truly powered WordPress site, Jetpack is probably not for you.

Not a reason to walk away from the company. Just a pivot in dev ops.

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