I manage a WordPress site hosted on SiteGround for a friend. The website keeps going down due to updates of some sort or another, and I'm trying to resolve this issue.

SiteGround forces major and minor auto-updates at least every 3 days (if available), and offers the option to autoupdate plugins (which I have on). Inside of the WordPress admin page, none of the plugins are set to auto-update, and I can see some offering to update individually/manually.

My question is this: what is the intended update model for WordPress? Should I just set everything to autoupdate to the extent possible? Although I'm facing issues now, my other software experiences tell me this is a bad idea. I'm used to "update when you want or need a new feature, but nothing will break if you don't", but is this just not how WordPress was designed?

Thanks!

When looking for plugins how do people sort through all the 'free' plugins that sound great but are actually 'fremuim' where all the key features are actually in a PRO version?

How do you locate the fully featured proper open source plugins that are well maintained and used?

As a middle ground, we could implement a solution for the bottom tier: small to medium sites and blogs. These sites don’t necessarily need a full-fledged MySQL database.

SQLite seems to be the perfect fit:

• It is the most widely used database worldwide
• It is cross-platform and can run on any device
• It is included by default on all PHP installations (unless explicitly disabled)
• WordPress’s minimum requirements would be a simple PHP server, without the need for a separate database server.
• SQLite support enables lower hosting costs, decreases energy consumption, and lowers performance costs on lower-end servers.

What would the benefits of SQLite be?

Officially supporting SQLite in WordPress could have many benefits. Some notable ones would include:

• Increased performance on lower-end servers and environments.
• Potential for WordPress growth in markets where we did not have access due to the system’s requirements.
• Potential for growth in the hosting market using installation “scenarios”.
• Reduced energy consumption – increased sustainability for the WordPress project.
• Further WordPress’s mission to “democratize publishing” for everyone.
• Easier to contribute to WordPress – download the files and run the built-in PHP server without any other setup required.
• Easier to use automated tests suite.
• Sites can be “portable” and self-contained.

Source and other links:

• https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/09/12/lets-make-wordpress-officially-support-sqlite/
• https://make.wordpress.org/performance/roadmap-2023/#category-database-optimization
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/sqlite-database-integration/

I wanted to make a category on my blog, where I post either single images, or groups of a few images. I don't think they really would need a proper post, but I simply wanted a place to post images

I guess a gallery is the ideal way of doing this, but then they would all end up in one huge gallery instead of a feed of images.

Do you have any ideas on what would work best for this? It is basically an instagram type of feed, where I can share images without really too much fuss and where they are easy to browse

Maybe a feed from the image library instead?

This might not be new, I hadn't dealt with WordPress/WooCommerce in a while.

Currently (v8.8.2) in a new WooCommerce installation the "Checkout" page is created using blocks, like so:

<!-- wp:woocommerce/checkout-payment-block -->
<div class="wp-block-woocommerce-checkout-payment-block"></div>
<!-- /wp:woocommerce/checkout-payment-block -->

(...)

The problem

This might introduce breaking changes to the plugins and themes you normally use. For example, I couldn't add a new field - programatically or using a plugin.

The fix

Remove the blocks and revert to using the shortcode:

[woocommerce_checkout]

I want to run a Wordpress site, where users can sign up and publish their own blog/journals. Its for a niche hobby, where each user can sign up, and start sharing their experiences and updates they do with their hobby.

My initial plan is to have a main front page feed with updates from all uses, but also a page for each user to group their posts. Also options to follow each user and intergration to ActivityPub.

How would you suggest I did this? Do I need any plug in, or would a vanilla installation work fine for it?

Looks like I'm gonna have to migrate the Daily Drop to buttondown after all. This AI content theft is a **** move by @wordpress and I hope they pay dearly for it.

I want to make an online store but don’t want to pay $$$$ for Shopify. I looked into woocommerce and it looks exactly like what I want but hosting companies seem to charge extra for woocommerce options. I have deployed my own Wordpress in the past and know enough about front and back end to work things out on my own. Can I just get one of the standard Wordpress option and install woocommerce on it or does it need something extra in the backend that justifies the extra cost?

Also who do you recommend that is cheap and still fairly reliable. It’s a small shop for handmade customized items.

@wordpress If a account doesn't purchase a package after the 7-day trial period, what will happen to the account and store? Will they always be in the state it was set to at that time?

@wordpress What payment methods buyers can use to purchase items from the stores on WordPress

@wordpress Hi,How to set the payment method of article payment plan to other payment tools other than Stripe.
I sent you messages on Messenger and it may have been put in spam. But I have received messages from you back to me, so you can see those messages when you check them

@wordpress I see that the free trial version does not add PayPal settings. In addition to adding PayPal, what other online payment tools can be added?

I want a simple theme for my blog. I like this theme but any similar are welcome

@wordpress Why does WordPress still only support Stripe payments? Wouldn’t it be very convenient for users to pay and receive money by allowing the use of more online payment tools? For example the Paypal in the United States that is the most widely used and has the largest number of users in the world.

Internal documents obtained by 404 Media show that Tumblr staff compiled users' data as part of a deal with Midjourney and OpenAI.

GBTI Member Article: Hudson Atwell shares his wp-cli staging plugin that helps users import a remote database into a local environment.

I love how @wordpress just randomly decides to stop collecting stats. Then one day I'll open the #Jetpack dashboard and find it telling me to activate stats again. That invariably says it failed, but actually works (reloading the page shows it). But then there is a gap where it decided not to bother collecting information.

Like below where apparently at some point on January 8/9 it just deactivated itself.

#WordPress

If this post appears in the @wordpress community then this hypothesis will be confirmed!

Source

If this post appears in the @wordpress community then this hypothesis will be confirmed!

Source

Is it possible to publish posts on Lemmy from your Wordpress blog? If this post appears in the @[email protected] community then this hypothesis will be confirmed!

https://www.informapirata.it/2024/01/02/is-it-possible-to-publish-posts-about-lemmy-from-your-wordpress-blog/

Let me clarify that with that it's great for writing blog posts, but layout? Geezus it sucks.

Hi all, I recently started my own ecommerce store with Woocommerce and I'm wondering if there is a free backup solution? So to backup my store, database - everything - in case something goes tits up. I have a NAS drive which could be used for storage. Any ideas? Thanks

The new extended character limitation in VS is great, but that doesn't mean the #blogging era is over! 🙅

Our #ad-free blogging platform has recently been updated to the latest @wordpress , which comes bearing gifts! 🎁

Did you know you can share your #blogs to the #Fediverse as well?

Explore all the features and get #writing!👇

https://vivaldi.com/blog/power-up-your-blogging-skills-vivaldi-community-blogs/

I'm about to move a wp site installed with a one-click installer, but want to make a "proper" installation at the new host. Are there any special issues with such a transfer I should be aware of?
@wordpress
#wordpress

Hooked up my @wordpress blog with the new ActivityPub integration. Easy to configure. Feel free to follow along here - @bradbarrish.com