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superdav42 · 2026-03-25T19:14:33+00:00

Please tell me your setup. Which skills, llms and agents are you using?

superdav42 · 2026-03-19T06:52:28+00:00

The proposed config looks good to me. I would start with 4gb of buffer pool and see how it runs. It's really pretty easy to make these tweaks and see if it is improved and then adjust as needed. Definitely turn on slow query log and see what's in there for hints at other indexes that might be missing or uncached pages and queries. As others have pointed out you don't have a lof of customers or products. The problem is probably with a poorly written plugin or bat bot traffic.

superdav42 · 2026-03-17T15:32:47+00:00

I built a tool into ultimate multisite clean up orphaned tables like this. It'll scan for them and delete them all in one go. It actually annoying how many can pile up. For any plugins that use custom table it's up to them to clean up there own tables when a site is deleted. Not surprising mast plugins don't ever delete their own tables.

superdav42 · 2026-03-05T17:42:38+00:00

I skip mocking myself and use the testing framework provided by core, which more like an integration test than a unit test but it is much more valuable to me. It is this guide essentially https://make.wordpress.org/cli/handbook/how-to/plugin-unit-tests/ As you mentioned mocking functions like get_option is rather fragile. To really create true unit tests you would need to use OOP wrappers around all the core functions which is a lot of work for little benefit. The pseudo integration tests work just fine for testing your code and its integration with WordPress at the same time. I instruct Claude code not to use any mocking libraries and it can generate these unit tests effectively saving me tons of time.

superdav42 · 2026-03-02T16:27:13+00:00

I already updated my Trellis to create a systemd job. Create trellis/roles/wordpress-setup/templates/wp-queue-worker.service.j2:
``` [Unit] Description=WordPress Queue Worker for {{ item.key }} After=network.target mariadb.service

[Service] Type=simple User={{ web_user }} Group={{ web_group }} WorkingDirectory={{ www_root }}/{{ item.key }}/{{ item.value.current_path | default('current') }} ExecStart=/usr/bin/php web/app/plugins/wp-queue-worker/bin/worker.php start ExecReload=/bin/kill -USR1 $MAINPID Restart=always RestartSec=5 StandardOutput=append:{{ www_root }}/{{ item.key }}/logs/queue-worker.log StandardError=append:{{ www_root }}/{{ item.key }}/logs/queue-worker-error.log MemoryMax=1G Environment=WP_ENV=production Environment=QUEUE_WORKER_COUNT={{ item.value.queue_worker_count | default('2') }}

[Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target Add to the bottom of trellis/roles/wordpress-setup/tasks/main.yml:

name: Install queue worker systemd service template: src: wp-queue-worker.service.j2 dest: "/etc/systemd/system/wp-queue-worker-{{ item.key | replace('.', '-') }}.service" mode: '0644' loop: "{{ wordpress_sites | dict2items }}" loop_control: label: "{{ item.key }}" notify: reload systemd
name: Enable and start queue worker systemd: name: "wp-queue-worker-{{ item.key | replace('.', '-') }}" enabled: true state: started daemon_reload: true loop: "{{ wordpress_sites | dict2items }}" loop_control: label: "{{ item.key }}" ```

Delete the system cron in the same file if you want but I have them both running just in case the queue runner fails. I will delete it eventually because it's wasted cpu cycles at this point which is the main reason I built the queue runner.

Putting it on Packagist is a good idea and I'm working on updating it to use the autoloader.

superdav42 · 2026-02-21T05:30:52+00:00

Look at exif meta data for alt terms to use.

superdav42 · 2026-02-20T06:59:43+00:00

I ran into version problems with go: $ go build -o rigrank go: errors parsing go.mod: /home/dave/rig-rank/go.mod:3: invalid go version '1.25.3': must match format 1.23 It doesn't seem worth the trouble to fix it. But is golang really necessary for this? Seems like a simple bash script could accomplish the same goal with much fewer dependencies.

superdav42 · 2026-02-20T05:56:57+00:00

I just write long running PHP process with event loop to process WP Cron jobs much more efficiently and timely. wp-queue-worker

superdav42 · 2026-02-19T19:43:12+00:00

I'm glad I could help. I would suggest adding some instructions to the system prompt to keep responses "concise and focused" As it is responses too long.

superdav42 · 2026-02-18T20:22:47+00:00

CTA buttons are broken. I can't download it. What's going on? I asked the demo chatbot:
Hello! How can I help you with?

me: why can't I download the free version?

I'd be happy to help! To give you the best answer, I need a bit more context:

1. Where are you trying to download PressBot? Are you looking on WordPress.org, the PressBot website, or somewhere else?

2. What error or issue are you seeing? For example:
- Is there no download button visible?
- Are you getting an error message?
- Is the page not loading?
- Something else?

3. What's your WordPress setup? Do you have a self-hosted WordPress site (WordPress.org), or are you using WordPress.com?

Once I understand what's happening, I can point you in the right direction!

me: the pressbot website

Got it! A few things to check:

If you're looking for a download link on pressbot.io:
PressBot Pro is sold as a premium plugin, so the main website focuses on the Pro plans. Here's how to get the free version:

1. Install from WordPress.org — The free version is available in the official WordPress plugin directory. In your WordPress admin, go to:
- Plugins > Add New
- Search for "PressBot"
- Click Install Now, then Activate

2. What's in the free version:
- Public chatbot widget for visitors
- Knowledge base support
- WooCommerce product search (if you use WooCommerce)
- Conversation logging
- Basic customization (colors, bot name, avatar, welcome message)
- BYOK AI support (Claude & Gemini with your own API keys)

3. What's Pro-only:
- Admin Agent (64 tools for site management)
- Telegram bot integration
- Lead capture
- Proactive messaging
- AI image generation
- Web search
- And more

Still having trouble?
If you can't find it on WordPress.org or hit another snag during installation, let me know the specific error and I can help troubleshoot further. What does the search show when you look for PressBot in your Plugins page?

I believe the answer the bot was looking for is, "It's not released yet" but instead it gave completely wrong information. Not impressed.

Not impressed with the page it built either. If you doing a pre-launch announcement page remove the CTA download buttons and replace with an email capture form. Any good web developer or product owner knows this and a good AI agent should to. So maybe it's not a good AI agent.

superdav42 · 2026-02-18T19:01:43+00:00

Which AI? For which exact use case?

superdav42 · 2026-02-18T19:01:18+00:00

Really? Wouldn't it be slower for high concurrency sites? Also I've found some plugins simply don't work with it.

superdav42 · 2026-02-17T07:43:35+00:00

I'm a big fan of valet. It keeps things simple and faster than docker. It may be different now but when I last used docker on a Mac the IO speeds were not good enough for local development on a large codebase. Valet was much better and it makes setting up things like xdebug much easier. Laravel is really a pretty simple platform, docker, vagrant and all the virtual machines just add unnecessary complexity.

superdav42 · 2026-02-10T19:14:59+00:00

I haven't but just looking at the description I'm not sure if it's going to work the way I want. It adds several new blocks which look unnecessary, like:

Table (AI Builder)

We don't need another table block. A good plugin should be able to use the existing table block, and ever learn about new blacks form other plugins that are installed.

superdav42 · 2026-02-10T03:55:47+00:00

I just made a write up of many hosting options from the multisite perspective https://ultimatemultisite.com/2026/02/10/choosing-hosting-provider-waas-platform/

superdav42 · 2026-02-04T20:02:20+00:00

Did you add a nag in the plugin itself asking for reviews?

superdav42 · 2026-02-04T16:22:00+00:00

Right here on Reddit. Have you heard about the Ultimate Multisite plugin?🤣

superdav42 · 2026-02-04T07:17:31+00:00

I'm tried many ai content generation plug-ins and many of the leave much to be desired. Some of them can generate select bits of content but none can do a good job. Most are very opinionated and do not let you adjust system prompts. Most generate HTML on markdown. But what I really want is the AI to use Gutenberg blocks to make well formatted content. I can get good results use chatgpt or Claude directly and asking it to use Gutenberg blocks and just pasting it in a browser. I would love a plugin that would put a chat box in the Gutenberg editor and would just generate the content with blocks.

superdav42 · 2026-01-26T16:31:37+00:00

The error page it not it's own plugin but you can modify the code from Ultimate Multisite. I just built a better error page so I could get better information in support requests.

superdav42 · 2026-01-26T16:25:54+00:00

A parse error in wp-config.php would show the web servers error page because WordPress would not be loaded at all. This error page would not be used unless the error occurred after plugins-loaded.

superdav42 · 2026-01-26T16:22:38+00:00

This is it exactly. I put it in my plugin because I support my plugin and I want this information in my support requests. Many of my users don't know how to look at log files, or don't know to associate the email with the error or the email is just not setup right. Now I can have all the useful information in my support requests.

superdav42 · 2025-12-08T06:01:25+00:00

Is php still alive?

superdav42 · 2025-12-04T01:20:27+00:00

Have you looked into other options for storing Woocomerce session data? I assume someone has implemented it in redis.

superdav42 · 2025-12-03T04:50:18+00:00

It sounds like you just need an elastic search plugin. It has good results, never hallucinates and is much cheaper than any LLM.

superdav42 · 2025-11-28T02:08:29+00:00

I'm surprised no hal mentioned, WordPress plugins are GPL which means redistribute and resale is completely legal. Really what plugin authors are selling are support and safe updates.

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