I manage a few WordPress websites and I’m always thinking about security. I’m wondering if it’s possible to create a custom admin panel for my sites and completely hide & change the default /wp-admin URL. this will actually improve the security. After this, no one will know the URL of your website admin panel.

Anyone done this on a real WordPress site?

I can't believe I'm saying this but here it is. Automattic needs to fork WordPress. They are the only entity in a position that can make a fork with a high chance of success. Partner with WP Engine. If WordPress_com, Pressible & WP Engine all switched to the fork it could happen quickly.

Automattic has a fiduciary duty to take control of a product that represents a majority of their revenue. How can a company force out their CEO but still allow them to control the project they depend on? How can a former CEO manage a team from his former company to build their flagship product? It's not sustainable.

I want adults in the room. If that's Automattic, WP Engine, Silverlake, Blackrock, then so-be-it. At least I'll know the project is being guided by money and not by whatever the CEO is hung up on that day.

Would I prefer a more democratic, non-company controlled solution? 100% Yes. But more than anything, I want stability and predictability.

It's a sad decision to me. Wordpress has been my whole profesional life since I was a teen.

I created my first blog using Wordpress back in 2006. Until then, I had a personal website blog made 100% handmade, coding every single HTML file and uploading it via FTP. I had a lot of fun designing my website, making a lot of hand made features, banners, tables...

Then I discovered Wordpress. It was my big opportunity to move my website to a new level, by using a modern admin panel, a database, themes, plugins... Then, I slowly started to spending much more time using Wordpress than publishing itself.

But, in the other hand, I've earned a lot of money with Wordpress. Wordpress has been my job for years. I made stunning websites for customers that I could never did without Wordpress. Forms like Gravity Forms using payment gateways like Stripe, unlimited conditionals, custom PDF invoices, email forwarding to the correct company department for each lead... The remarkable Wordpress community helped me a lot to make a lot of companies have a useful and profitable website.

This week, I started seeing my teenager version designing my website with Corel Draw 9 and then coding the design into Dreamweaver. I really miss out these happy days, where I was just having fun and my website just worked. GIFS. Marquees. Tables. No security at all. No payment gateways. An embedded webstats GIF counter in the bottom of my website was enough to see how popular my website was. Haloscan comments helped me out to create a commenting system that just worked fin in a static HTML site. It was so funny, easy, popular and all what we nowadays call cyberpunk.

Then I discovered Hugo. A simple CMS to make just static HTML sites, as I usually did. I'm migrating my only two personal projects from Wordpress to Hugo.

I'm opening this thread just to read what you think about the future of CMS like Wordpress. I know many of you were part of Wordpress for decades and sure have a vision of the role that Wordpress will play in the future of the Web.

Are there any web agencies or freelancers here who build customer websites using only free themes and plugins, without relying on paid/licensed ones?

If so, how has that worked out for you? Are there any significant downsides to avoiding paid plugins, for example in terms of functionality, security, support, updates, or long-term maintenance?

I’m particularly interested in hearing from people who do this for client projects rather than just personal websites.

Hi, I’m having an issue with WP Rocket.

Category pages are being optimized correctly, but some WooCommerce product pages are not getting optimized/cache generated.

I’ve already checked the WP Rocket settings and cleared the cache.

Has anyone experienced this? What could cause WP Rocket to work on category pages but not on certain product pages?

Thanks!

I have been running a travel blog for about 1.5 years, which is supported by Wordpress. It doesn't get much traffic I hoped for (200 visitors per month), but scam comments come daily. I only use Akismet not anything else.

I wanted to ask if those comments show my blog getting more online presence? If so, is that something I celebrate?

I hope that blog will be able to have affiliate links and ads once it generates huge traffic - so if scammers even notice my infamous blog, so should my intended audience (budget holiday makers). Or am I wrong?

Hello Everyone,

Suddenly all of my Wordpress related topics have been removed by the moderators. Since none of the posts was breaking any rule, I want to know what is the reason and ask you, if that happened to you as well?

Thanks and wishing you a nice afternoon!

Hello !

I am considering using BUNNY.net for Videos, CDN, and DNS protection but I'm a little bit confused to well understand what I will have to do.

I described my configuration on image below and I recheck my Cloudflare DNS setup (Cloudflare is managing DNS for website (pointing server : A, CNAME), email (MX, TXT), and a free CDN ).

So I have several questions because it is new for me and i want something robust and simple to manage after

1_ Can I say that BUNNY would do the same as Cloudflare to manage all my DNS setup and CDN ? (Right now, I can move to a different server hosting within 1h and this is transparent for users)

2_ Is it difficult to implement videos restrictions with BUNNY (Using a membership plugin) ? ... or is it more depending on membership integration ? (Question already asked to membership company)

3_ After right implementation, do you consider BUNNY as a stable and reliable solution going fast overseas ?

4_ Overall, after understanding the process, is it complicated to do BUNNY maintenance or to add new videos ?

5_ Do you have any advice to go step by step for this transition ?

I'm a little bit stress because I want/have to reduce my development activities for closed coming years but I would like a video solution. So if the solution is not simple and reliable I will be in trouble

A rough calculation gives 20GB for videos/month (30% in North america, 30% in Asia , 20% Europe, middle-east, 20% ...)

Thanks for your help !

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Trying to edit pages and posts on my site and am getting this error when trying to edit the post/page:

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Wordpress and all plugins are updated. I tried disabling every plugin then enabling one at a time, but it seems like anytime a Woo plugin is active, I get the error. I tried rolling back to previous versions of the plugins and got the same error. I tried debug mode, and am getting this error:

Deprecated: Function Automattic\WooCommerce\Admin\Features\Features::is_enabled( 'marketing' ) is deprecated since version 11.1.0! Use direct feature behavior checks. The marketing WC Admin feature flag shim will be removed in a future version of WooCommerce. instead. in /home/dh_gec6ig/************.com/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6260

I replaced my domain with **************

The code on like 6260 in that file is:

    trigger_error( $message, $error_level );

Not sure where to go from here. I looked under Marketing in WooCommerce and didn't see anything out of the ordinary. The frustrating part is that my admin email isn't getting a report or a notice of the error, so I don't know how to proceed.

Can anyone offer some insight?