Hi everyone! I started college and a lot of the practice sheets I've been given are in the forms of PDF files. So far I've gotten by putting the answers on paper, but I find I do better when I can scribble and annotate directly on the sheet. Is there a software where I could do this for my touchscreen laptop? Thank you so much :)
Hey r/WordPress! Quick disclosure: I made this, so its self-promo, but I'd love honest feedback.
Think of a real shop. You can see whos walking around and whats in there baskets. Online, you usually only find out after they've left. ShopSocket is my solution to this.
What to expect:
A live screen in your WooCommerce admin showing:
No refreshing. It just moves on its own.
What your shoppers see
The truth
Here's a 2.5 minute video of it in action: https://youtu.be/BKwID6t_kpQ?si=9IOuDOC9ZAAUB4x2 Plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/shopsocket/
Store owners: would you want customers to see that others are holding the same product, or would it put them off, any other suggestions/feedback?
To make PDF-files searchable..
I once had a program to do it, but I had some PC issues and had to reinstall and I forgot what the program was called.. Can't seem to find it..
I just want a simple, FREE one:
Upload PDF - run scan - export searchable PDF file
No need a browser/mobile version, just one that works for pc, and no logging in.
I currently maintain a site with a few thousand posts across several post types as well as a WC storefront. Relevanassi search results are ok after a lot of tuning, but I still see many irrelevant results for common search terms and keyword based search feels outdated.
I’m considering creating a custom plugin for meaning-based AI/vector-powered search plugin.
Before going further, I'd like to hear from others that have worked on content-heavy sites. What are you using for search on sites like this and have you had good results? Has anyone tried the WP 7 AI Client / Abilities APIs for search yet?
Self taught SWE here. The way I have got into the field was by spending nights and weekends tinkering with the code for years. I was hooked on that dopamine: learning a new technology or concept, gaining an edge in my knowledge. Being able to transfer my effort into some unique idea. Even after work I always had one or two side projects that I was working on, and I liked it.
With advances in AI, code has become so much cheaper, and the barrier to entry has fallen considerably. The struggle was a big part of what made it fun for me. Spending hours trying to understand something, finally getting it to work.
Now, I feel like the reward for doing this is barely there anymore. The average Joe with a $20 subscription can build something. It will likely be a total slop, but it doesn't really matter. I'm no longer competing just with people who know how to build things. I'm competing for attention with a bunch of projects produced by people who otherwise would never have been able to make them.
Even learning new stuff has kind of lost its spark too. I know I can still do it the old way, but it's hard to justify spending hours banging your head against soemthing when you can just ask the AI to explain it to you.
I still enjoy my profession and what I do, and I have no intention of stopping. But it feels like I've somehow gotten burnt out on one of my main hobbies without actually losing interest in it.
Maybe I'm just being petty because I liked having something that wasn't easy for everyone to do. I don't know. How do you guys deal with this?
Hey guys, I’m working on a project where the client must be able to create multiple landing pages by her self, but she isn’t a tech a person.
Based on your experience, which block builder could be more intuitive and easier for someone without experience?
To be honest I only have experience with Elementor, but as a developer, I prefer to do everything by code instead of blocks.
I’m primarily a UX/UI and visual designer. Most of my web development experience comes from building sites with WordPress, Elementor and Bricks, so I understand how websites are structured, but I don’t really know how to code from scratch.
I’m considering spending the next few months seriously learning HTML, CSS and JavaScript, mainly so I can have more control over my designs, build custom interactions/animations, troubleshoot things myself, and push WordPress/Bricks projects further.
With AI tools becoming increasingly capable at generating code, I’m wondering how valuable it is today for a designer to invest a significant amount of time into actually learning front-end development.
For designers who also code: has knowing HTML/CSS/JS significantly improved your work or career?
And if you were starting today, would you still learn them properly, or would you focus more on design fundamentals and use AI to handle most of the code?
Hey everyone,
Looking at the market over the last ~4 years (since AI involved), it feels like the WP agency ecosystem has reached a turning point. We’ve gone through post-pandemic hiring booms, tech layoffs, and the shift toward Gutenberg/modern JS workflows.
However, modern WP job listings feel much harder to come by lately. For self-taught devs, learners, and existing WP developers looking to plan their next career move, it’s hard to tell where the industry is actually heading.
I’d love to start a discussion and hear directly from agency leaders, lead devs, and freelancers:
Looking forward to hearing your thoughts and real-world experiences.
Which hosting platform would you pick for a small production app: Render vs Railway vs Cloudflare Workers?
I’m building something like a inventory management app and website — authenticated users, a Node/TypeScript API, PostgreSQL, background jobs/cron, and potentially a few thousand users over time.
Currently considering **Render, Railway, and Cloudflare Workers**.
For a production app where reliability, scaling, DB latency, and predictable costs matter, which one would you choose and why?
Would you recommend something else like **Fly.io, AWS, or Vercel + another backend** instead?
Curious to hear from people who’ve actually run production workloads on these.
I'm looking for a workable solution or recommendations to provide a client's credentials to that client in the event of my untimely demise or absence. (E.g. hit by a bus - falling out and need to hand everything over, etc.) I also don't want to mix MY credentials with theirs.
So my primary work isn't webdev, but I do some for clients as part of my general services. Generally this means me building everything from scratch and leaving the client(s) out of the day-to-day management entirely.
I'm trying to figure out the best way to have their business' credentials saved, updated as they are changed, and set aside for if I get "hit by a bus" so they won't be locked out of everything.
I also don't want them "futzing" with things (because some of these clients have impulse control issues and would 100% give their credentials to someone on Fiver to update a paragraph on their website at 2am when I don't answer my phone.) So access while I'm not dead or fired isn't a real option.
I understand that I can make "organizations" in some of the password managers and have emergency hand-over to pre-selected people, but I work alone, and don't "have a lawyer" that can manage it for me.
I, like many of you, have spent years employing throttling schemes and generally hardening websites against bots. Now bots are called "agents", scrapers harvest with impunity and the whole nature of the web has changed in the past 2 years. It seems that I now have to play nice with bots for the sake of seo and the next wave of internet commerce will be bot-to-bot with no human intervention. LOL!!! How are you guys feeling about, reacting to, adjusting for this new reality?
I’m wondering whether maintenance, testing, security, or something else becomes the bigger challenge.
The announcement post - https://wordpress.org/news/2026/08/browser-extension/
I’ve been noticing this more and more in web apps.
Three options hidden in a dropdown.
Yes/no hidden in a dropdown.
A multi-select pretending to be a dropdown.
Then a list of 200 items where you’re expected to scroll until you find yours.
I run into this a lot when reviewing products with dev teams.
I get why we do it.
Dropdowns are compact and easy to reuse.
But compact doesn’t always mean easier to use.
A few choices? Show them.
On/off? Switch.
Multiple choices? Checkboxes.
Huge list? Search.
That’s pretty much the rule I use now.
I think for a lot of people, their introduction to automation was LLMs and, shall we say, "modern AI". So they don't see what computers were already capable of just before LLMs.
I build a lot of automations with AI, and 90% of the steps can be done in traditional code. The remaining 10% just requires an API call to the LLM. So most workflows can actually be made fully reliable if you learn traditional code.
Even if you need an agentic architecture, the more determinism (hint: CODE) you introduce in it, the more reliable (and cheaper) your AI agent becomes.
I don't know why most people don't realize that.
Obviously after OpenAI model found the WP2Shell Remote Code Execution 3 weeks ago - everybody noticed. So other AI and security companies including Anthropic, PWNai and Aikido wanted to prove they can too 🙂
7.0.3 release post: https://wordpress.org/news/2026/08/wordpress-7-0-3-release/
Patchstack security advisory: https://patchstack.com/articles/wordpress-7-0-3-released-12-vulnerabilities-found-and-fixed/
