u/simplerdrought

Do check please! Over 1.2 million wordpress websites compromised. Hackers made admin accounts and are sitting silently. On some sites they activated Cloudflare/ClearFake malware.

Please search your admin accounts and make sure you don't spot something new/unknow. Check all your folders (esp Plugins) for random PHP files and codes.

Free version of Wordfence didn't detect it!!

Hope this helps someone. Our clients had to learn the hard way! (Plugins weren't even enabled. They come bundled with Monsterinsight Pro)

I'm curious what sort of things people have found/use. I'm talking about small (human coded) utilities. Some examples I have are things like JDiskReport, Glass2k and Blur Autoclicker.

WP Rocket marketing team deserves an award for this one. 🏆

My Multi 50 renewal costs $239.20.

Then I receive an email screaming:

"Upgrade to Multi 100 for only $70! 30% OFF!"

Sounds like an incredible deal, right?

Only after reading the fine print do you discover that it's not a renewal at all. It's just an upgrade that doesn't extend the license expiration date.

In other words:

• Renew Multi 50: $239.20/year

• Upgrade to Multi 100: $70... for the remaining days of your current license

Technically accurate? Yes.

Presented in the most misleading way possible? Also yes.

This is a great example of why you should always read the fine print before clicking the big orange button.

Am I missing something, or is this one of the most misleading renewal emails you've seen?

I have noticed that I am increasingly in the minority here. I never made the jump to Cursor / Claude Code and have found myself quite content with not giving full access to my codebase.

I use AI for boilerplate, but mostly I have my own that I am familiar with from previous projects. When I do need help, I provide the code I am working on and whatever context I decide is relevant.

How outdated is this approach? I have always been frustrated by how quickly I have lost control of the content when I hand too much over to AI.

Not talking about bugs, just UX. What software used to feel great to use but became worse after a major redesign?

So I didn't prioritize MS Office I bought the laptop initially because I didn't think it was very important since I was from tech background. Realized it very late that it's more important than GitHub for my college. So I don't really want to pay for MS Office because it's expensive for my budget. I'm looking for free replacement of it with the same exact or better features. Please help me out and suggest something. I use a windows 11, i5 processor. Thanks!

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For the first time in awhile I felt like Claude was ahead of Codex again..

Are there any languages we don't usually associate with webdev, but where they have great libraries that deserve more attention?

So I'm not asking about the language itself. I'm asking about the tooling people have built for webdev in the language.

Hi everyone,

I’ve been struggling with a question lately, and I’d love to get some perspective from fellow developers, especially those working with agencies or high-end clients.

I can code. I can build a lightweight, highly optimized, secure WordPress site from scratch using pure PHP, custom OOP based plugins, custom themes, custom post types (CPT), ACF, hooks and filters, API's ... etc.

Yet, I see more and more companies (even larger ones) shifting towards Elementor.

From a developer’s perspective, it feels like building a house out of Lego when you have the tools to forge steel. To me, average Elementor sites look bloated, dependency-heavy, and frankly, like something ANYONE with a basic tutorial could patch together.

However, the job market right now feels incredibly frustrating. I’m having a hard time finding a job because I seem to fall into a weird trap: either companies look for high-end full-stack engineers and consider me "overqualified/too expensive" for standard WP jobs, OR they are specifically looking for an "Elementor/Page Builder" – a role I’ve been hesitant to take because it feels like a step backward.

On the other hand I understand the market side of it: it's cheaper, faster to deliver, and lowers the barrier to entry. But my questions to those who actually know how to code but still choose page builders are:

1. What is the long-term value for the client? Isn't maintaining a site with 15 plug-ins and constant elementor updates a ticking time bomb compared to a clean, custom theme?
2. Where is the line between a "developer" and a "page builder"? If general school kids can stack widgets together, what is our actual value-add if we adapt to this workflow?
3. Can Elementor actually be used on a truly high/enterprise level, or is it always just a cheap compromise for clients who don't want to pay for real dev work?

Change my mind. Why should a competent developer ever touch Elementor?

for me it's sharex. i've been using it for like 4 years for screenshots and screen recordings and i never see anyone talk about it. it does annotations, auto upload to imgur, gif recording, ocr on screenshots, scrolling capture. every time someone recommends snipping tool or lightshot i wonder if they know sharex exists.

the other one is everything by voidtools. windows file search is useless for actually finding files fast. everything indexes your entire drive and finds any file in milliseconds. i open it probably 10 times a day and i've been using it since like 2019. it's one of those tools where if it stopped working i'd genuinely not know how to use my computer anymore.

what's your version of this? something you use constantly that nobody ever recommends.

In the pre-ai era generally you just had to worry about search engines and the occasional scraper accessing your sitemap but these days every ai company under the sun is hammering all websites. How are you all responding to this? are you still just referencing a sitemap in your robots as before, reducing the visibility by submitting sitemaps directly to search engines or just skipping them completely?

My site is a data heavy and Im trying to evaluate my options that dont make it too easy to scrape. Looking at larger sites like, imdb, it seems that they dont have a public sitemap

Maybe this is just me getting older, but I feel like software in general has become noticeably less dependable over the last few years.

Not necessarily worse looking.
Not less powerful.
Not lacking features.

Just... less predictable.

A lot of modern apps now depend on:

• cloud sync
• background services
• accounts/logins
• subscriptions
• web wrappers
• live APIs
• constant updates
• online-only functionality

And individually none of those things are bad.

But combined together, it feels like software breaks in stranger and harder-to-debug ways than it used to.

Things randomly desync.
Features disappear after updates.
Electron apps suddenly consume absurd RAM.
Notifications arrive hours late.
Desktop apps stop working because some remote service changed.
A “simple tool” now needs 6 background processes and an internet connection.

What’s interesting is that software is simultaneously more advanced and more fragile.

I miss when software felt more self-contained and deterministic.

Curious whether others here feel the same way, or if this is just nostalgia talking.

Every time localStorage comes up, people say “don’t use it, use IndexedDB, it’s bad,” etc. I get the concerns, but in my case I’m just storing things like a theme preference and a couple of UI flags. No sensitive data, nothing critical. localStorage feels like the simplest option here, but it almost feels like I’m doing something wrong by using it.

Is most of the hate just about people misusing it as a database? Or are there real downsides even for small key/value stuff like this? Also, when would you pick sessionStorage instead?

Curious how people handle this in real projects without overengineering it.

I think AI is cool but it takes so much creativity and problem solving skills away from people especially newer devs. I am in my final year of university and i have first hand experience when it comes to the effect AI has on the young mind. I have seen students just use AI for basic things or really complex questions in my first year to students using AI do to the most basic things for them like they can't even think for themselves anymore. I hope we come to a middle ground where AI helps us be more efficient but doesnt controll your every thought