Hey r/WordPress,

Just launched Addifect — a free WordPress plugin that adds live WebGL shader effects to any site.

Works with Elementor, Divi, Gutenberg, Bricks, any theme. No coding required. You create your effect in the Studio, then drop one line anywhere in your editor:

<div data-addifect-block="hero"></div> The free version includes several shaders to get started. Everything runs at native WebGL performance — no Three.js, no bloat. Would love feedback from the community on the concept and implementation.

🔌 wordpress.org/plugins/addifect

https://preview.redd.it/i0hjtpxwgbbh1.png?width=722&format=png&auto=webp&s=1ef3310b835d47584a1c3786335ffa9e2d60c629

I manage small B2B Websites (usually less nach 50 pages, sometimes no blogposts at all)
Should I disable the WordPress Rest API or Not?

What drawbacks can I expect?

Hey everyone, I need some pedagogical advice for a class I’m currently running. I’m teaching a practical web module to a group of absolute beginners through a local public employment program. Most of my students are between 45 and 65 years old, and they face a massive digital divide. No background in IT, web dev, or servers.

I’ve been managing the technical side by translating everything into everyday analogies like explaining security plugins as a physical door lock or SEO as a billboard on a main street. It’s been working great to keep their anxiety down, but now the curriculum requires me to introduce AI tools inside WordPress.

I am absolutely dreading the logistics of this. I want to avoid the nightmare of having them register on third-party platforms, setting up OpenAI/Claude API keys, or dealing with credit card fields for "free trial credits." Half of them will get locked out of their emails just trying to find a verification code, and we'll easily waste two hours of class time on administrative troubleshooting.

Have any of you taught AI concepts to this demographic? How do you give them that "wow" moment of seeing AI assist with text, layouts, or images inside a CMS without getting bogged down in complex setups? Are there any plug-and-play tools that don't require external API keys just to run a basic classroom demo? I'd love to hear how you structure your lessons to keep tech anxiety low when the topic sounds intimidating. Thanks!

This is an inquiry post for WordPress websites. I'm working on a 'Hand-Off Guide' to make the transition between web designers and new WordPress website owners easier.

For you Web Designers: when you sign off on a website with a new website owner, how do you prepare them for running/maintaining their website?

Do you offer them a baseline for being able to contact you for any help they may need?

Anything else you might provide them with once you've signed off on the project?

And for you new WordPress website owners, what questions do you have once you've received your new website?

Please comment below with your thoughts, as a designer and/or new website owner.

What question are NOT asked, yet really need to be asked?

How can the new website owner prepare themselves to be ready to run/maintain their website?

What are some of the questions YOU wanted to ask but didn't, for whatever reason.

I appreciate your comments.

I've seen a lot of posts here from beginners who installed Elementor or Divi on day one because every YouTube tutorial says "just use a page builder, it's easier." And I get why, drag and drop feels less scary than touching code or even the block editor.

But I think it's quietly hurting people in this sub specifically.

A few things I keep seeing:

• People get totally stuck the moment something breaks, because they never learned the underlying WordPress concepts (templates, the loop, how themes work) — they only learned that specific builder's UI
• Sites get slower and bloated because builders ship a ton of CSS/JS you don't need
• Switching themes or builders later becomes a nightmare because everything is locked into builder-specific shortcodes/markup
• It trains people to think WordPress = drag-and-drop tool, when honestly the native block editor (Gutenberg) does 90% of what most beginners actually need now

I think recommending a page builder to brand-new beginners is well-intentioned but kind of a trap. It optimizes for "looks good in 20 minutes" over "you actually understand what you're building."

Curious if I'm wrong here, did a page builder genuinely help you learn, or did it just let you avoid learning? Did anyone start with one and later regret it / have to redo everything without it?

The problems I've had with the plugins I've found so far include:

- they don't allow to customise the payload of the request (a lot of the ones I found have this limitation)

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- forminator: it has a lot of integrations but the webhooks one doesn't give the option to define auth or payload

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- uncanny automator: it integrates with forminator but if I add the bearer token on their "authorization" field I get a 401 from the service straight away, if I add it as an explicit header I have to leave it in clear text and I'm not a fan of that, but the main issue is that the action in automator just hangs forever

I have no experience with PHP so while I know it would probably be super easy (it's trivial for me to do this in Python or Go), it would add a lot of overhead doing this myself

this is for a small project so I'm not super keen on a paid plugin

Hello everyone! I’m having an issue picking a theme. I need one that is not a blog and does not automatically add a shopping cart! I can’t seem to find an option. Anyone have suggestions?

Bonjour,

J'aurais besoin d'aide. Je ne suis pas experte en Wordpress. J'ai le theme the7 the child.
J'aimerais que mon menu (en haut) soit fixe. Hors quand je scroll vers le bas, il bouge vers le bas, il sélargi légerment. Je n'arrive pas à corriger cela.

Quelqu'un pourrait m'aider ?

Merci beaucoup !

Hi all, I've just about finished my first Wordpress build using all free versions of Astra/Gutenberg/Spectra. I have a couple of things I just can't figure out! Hope someone can help....

My off canvas menu in mobile view is white background and the navigation text/font colour is black. On the social media icons block below the menu I can't change the first colour from white to black - therefore it's rendered invisible.
The hover and active colour is fine as it's red. I know how to get to the design part and change the colours to custom but they just don't change after publishing - and revert back to being white and invisible!. In a similar kind of annoying problem the active colour on my desktop navigation doesn't seem to work either! Tried everything...

Appreciate any help as I don't think I can sort this without adding code which I'm not familiar with - but would try anything if someone could give me a beginner walk through.

Thanks in advance....🙏