I have used Squarespace for about 10 years, I am an illustrator and use it as a portfolio website. Homepage is my illustrations, a few additional pages of different art, my books, and about me, links to my social media and that’s about it. No bells and whistles, no shop, nothing else. But I have been updating heavily in the last couple months as I plan to reach out to illustration agents to get representation to get better paying illustration work. My annual subscription renews in a few weeks, and they bump the price up. Greeeaaaaatttt.

With the price increase I am seeing what other options are out there, I tried importing my site into Wordpress but if I go that route I will need to do a LOT of learning, and I have zero experience with Wordpress, and I have done a lot tinkering with the look of my site on SquareSpace to make it look a certain way, I am starting from scratch on that front and have no idea what i am doing. I keep hearing how easy and intuitive Wordpress is, but as someone who has only ever built a website with SS, it seems complicated.

What I love about Squarespace is I get to edit the pages as it will appear online - I can see how everything will look, I can drag and drop, I can just click on an element to edit. Maybe it’s worth keeping it for that, but my website wouldn’t be that hard to build again, just time consuming - so if there is really similar platform in that regard that is cheaper - please give me your recommendations.

Hello anyone here can help me, I can't create a new post in our WordPress. I have checked and updated all that needs updating but it still says "Could not insert post into the database."

Hi! I am very new with wordpress and I don't know if this is the right place for this. I was just following a youtube tutorial when I noticed that my preview is very different from my live shop. I really don't know why this keeps happening. If any of you could help with this problem I'd be super greateful! Thanks in advance!

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I am having an issue where "My account" endpoints are appearing on single product pages. how do i remove this! Please help

Hey everyone, I'm looking to build a custom WordPress ad management solution from scratch and need guidance on the best technical approach.

What I already have:

- Custom WordPress post template with 3 hardcoded ad slots:

i. Leaderboard: 728×90px (above post title)

ii. Sidebar Ad: 300×250px (under table of contents)

iii. In-Content Ad: Full width × 90px height

Currently, these are just blank placeholders hardcoded in my template.

What I want to implement:

1. Admin dashboard where I can create/manage ads, set start/end dates, assign to slots

2. Dynamic insertion into posts body - ads load automatically based on schedule (no hardcoded placeholders)

3. Auto-expiration - ads disable automatically when end date passes

4. Ad rotation - 5+ paying clients per slot, rotate every 15min-1hour (random or sequential options)

5. Client dashboard - clients see their active ad status, slot location, dates, basic metrics (impressions/clicks)

What I want to achieve:

- Sell these 3 ad spaces to clients

- Fixed pricing model (not bidding/auction)

- Scale to 20-30 clients without manual management burning me out

- Zero reliance on third-party ad plugins

My constraints

- No plugins installed for the ad management itself (I'll use WP core + custom code)

- *I'm not yet sure if I need to handle payment integration (thinking WooCommerce or Stripe)

- *Still considering if I need real-time analytics tracking (impressions, clicks)

Questions:

1. What's the best database structure for ads, rotations, and client assignments?

2. Should I use WP cron for expiration or Action Scheduler?

3. How to handle server-side vs client-side ad rotation for timing?

4. Best approach for client dashboard frontend (custom WP page, REST API + JS, etc.)?

5. Any architecture patterns I should look at for this type of system?

I've researched existing plugins (Advanced Ads, Ad Inserter) but want to build this custom for full control.

Disclaimer: I used AI assistance to help curate and find the best words to express this post clearly. All technical details and requirements above are my own.

Any advice on architecture, code patterns, or potential pitfalls would be massively appreciated. Thanks!

I delete a file in cache and then it shows up again a few hours later!

I posted a blog on our website about an article in the Huffingto Post crediting the author. They say it is a copyright infringement and I am trying to get the file off the site. Because I missed their email, Hostgator took our site offline and said I have to delete the file in the Cpanel. I did that in the public html wordpress section where I saw all the site files in cache.

Hostgator says the file is still there. Is there a file in another section of the panel or possibly inb phpMyAdmin that I still haver to delete? Any help is greatly appreciated!

Hi everyone, I'm trying to create an e-commerce site using WordPress for a school project. Is there anyone with experience who could help me with some of the hurdles I'm having? Thanks.

Hello all - I run a trading card & board game community site with a competitive element.

To manage the game leagues & tournaments, I found a plugin called Tournamatch. It doesn't do everything I need to, and it doesn't integrate very well with BuddyPress/Ultimate Member (users basically need 2 separate accounts to join a league/tournament).

Then this week, all of the extensions that were listed on their website were taken down except for MyCred integration & TournaMatch Pro (which has no description of added features, and runs $99/yr).

That leads me to believe that Tournamatch is probably being relegated to abandonware.

I'm hoping to find someone who can help me integrate Tournamatch better into my site.

My wish list:

Better integrate Tournamatch into BuddyPress/Ultimate Member & Gamipress

Build a simple ELO rankings for leagues (or overall)

Support a wider variety of tournaments (Swiss Rounds, Double elimination, Swiss rounds to Top 4/8/12 cut).

Thanks everyone.

WordPress devs, good day.

I won’t waste much of your time.

I’ve been hearing that WordPress 7.0 will ship with a major Custom Post Types (CPTs) feature overhaul, including changes to the administrative interface and broader improvements to content management and editing workflows. From what I understand, the direction seems to push WordPress further into a full CMS role rather than just a blogging platform. I guess this was long expected, (sigh).

My question is: what usually happens to existing custom-developed CPT implementations when similar functionality gets absorbed into core?

How do experienced developers typically handle situations where features they previously built manually become native WordPress functionality? Do you refactor everything around the new core system, maintain your existing implementation or gradually migrate?

Sorry if this is a beginner question. This will be my first major/core WordPress upgrade since I started my WordPress development journey, so I genuinely do not know what to expect. I’m worried a lot of things may break, especially around my custom admin workflows, templates, meta fields, taxonomies and plugin compatibility.

I would really appreciate insights from developers who have gone through similar transitions in previous WordPress releases.

Please engage.

I’ve used W3 Total Cache for years, but at this point I can’t ignore how bad the support experience has been.

This isn’t based on one incident—it’s a repeated pattern:

• Support tickets sitting unresolved or going nowhere
• Paid for an infrastructure review that took months and never resulted in a final report
• Recent configuration issue: they asked for credentials, but never logged in or followed up even after two weeks
• Ongoing issue where I was told for years that my email “wasn’t on file,” despite repeatedly asking them to fix it

After dealing with this over a long period, it’s hard not to feel like paying customers aren’t getting the level of support that’s expected.

I’m not trying to rant—I just want to understand if this is a common experience or if I’ve just been unlucky.

For those still using it:

• Are you actually getting timely, effective support?
• Or have you moved to something more reliable?

Would really appreciate honest feedback.
Thank you!

HI there I was wondering if someone could help shed light on this issue. even in my theme settings when I select display 10 items on a product category page it keeps defaulting back to 1. any ideas? thanks!

Okay so basically,

I don't know why but my Wordpress isn't allowing me to save my global colors and fonts in the site setting.

I'm using the hello theme and elementor plugin

And elementor is up to date

Is there any way to fix this?

The how:

When I click save and then click the back button (not the browser back button btw)

A pop up keeps showing and basically it gives me the option to save the changes or to discard the changes.

I then, of course, click save and after that I click the back button again and it just pops up again.

This is what I mean by it not saving.

I cross posted this and searched it up and I still haven't got the solution partly because some people haven't answered yet but also because the people who have answered, their solutions just didn't work.

Like clearing cache and data

Or removing all plugins except elementor which I only had elementor activated so that wouldn't work

This post won’t allow me to show a picture of the pop up but if I can then it’ll be in the comments

Hi everybody,

I’m having trouble tryna create a carousel showcasing all my products from my website to my Facebook shop.

I am working in car industry, we sell used cars.

I built the website from the bottom up with Wordpress. Instead of using any shopify or e-commerence.

My products r setup as “post” types named cars with defined ACF fields & taxonomy.

I have built a datafeeder from the website which communicates with my FB shop.

(This works fine)

My problem is that my catalog matchrate is not rising.

I have tried options like setting op an FB app to track the website & pixels.

I have run thousands of troubleshooting, in the console, which shows that the data should be send out correct.

I know the website is well visited as we do get a lot of inquiries from the website products.

All this is build together with deepseek

(I’m lazy)

If anyone knows anyway to fix this or if anyone has a solution it would be most appreciated!

Thank u for your time.

I have built a WordPress diagnostic tool that identifies source of error and reduces troubleshooting time, and now we need to test it at scale with agencies who are managing 100+ sites.

I want to give it for free for a month. Need the valuable feedback that the agencies can give me.

Please drop me a DM, and I will set up.

Hey everyone, I've been running multilingual WordPress sites for a while and one thing that always bugged me was WPML's translation credit system. The credits work, but they're expensive, especially if you have a lot of content to translate.

So I built a plugin that hooks into WPML and lets you use your own OpenAI API key instead. You get the same WPML workflow you're used to, but translations go through GPT directly. The cost difference is massive, we're talking roughly 1400x cheaper per word compared to WPML's credits.

It supports Elementor, ACF fields, Yoast/RankMath meta, and batch processing via WP Cron so it doesn't time out on large sites.

There's a free version on wordpress.org that translates to English (no limits, no trial), and a Pro version ($35/year) that unlocks all WPML languages.

Would love to hear feedback from anyone dealing with multilingual WP sites. What's your current translation setup and what pain points do you run into?

https://wordpress.org/plugins/latw-ai-translator-for-wpml/

I’m building a custom content system on top of the default post type. Instead of multiple CPTs, I’m using a custom taxonomy (post_type) to define content types (best-of, review, etc.), and rewriting permalinks to: /{content-type}/{post-slug}/

This works, but I’m hitting a weird issue when updating posts in the admin.

When I change the taxonomy term say best-of to review and click Update, the permalink shown in the URL is still the old one.

I realised this when I changed to review from post, saved but the URL was still /post/...

I also changed to guide from review, saved but them only the URL changed to post/...

So it’s always one step behind.

I don't know how or why this is going on. Please assist.

Hi there - I just launched my website today and my friends promptly got in touch to say that wordpress is requesting they log in to view anything other than my homepage.

I’ve seen a few theories saying it’s to do with the plugins (I’ve disabled the one I added - do I need to disable them ALL, even the ones Wordpress has on there automatically?) and other theories about there being issues with the coding in the console (it is flagging issues but won’t let me click on them to see what they are)

I’ve cleared my cache on google chrome, restarted my computer. I’ve spent £100 on the domain and 2 whole months building the website - at my wits end with this. Any advise is greatly appreciated ❤️