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@BlakeWhittle7 Cloudways uses DigitalOcean (among others) with a 2X markup for their management panel and support, how is that cheaper?

New client call today, and he wanted to keep his WP site on DigitalOcean. I told him that we'd like to move it to Cloudways for easier, cheaper, and more efficient management. He still hesitated, and said that he's been managing things fine for years without server access and never had to do the things I said we need to do (like PHP upgrades!) I did a quick check on the call, he's still running PHP 7.4. Changed his tune a little bit. We're still proceeding, but carving out any responsibility for management or maintenance on the site. If the site crashes, not my problem. If it gets hacked, not my problem.

You buy a German anvil. It contains 83 moving parts and requires winding twice a day. It's forged from excellent steel, holds tolerances across all three striking faces to within three microns, includes a beautifully indexed horn-adjustment mechanism nobody asked for, and requires a proprietary 11-point spanner should you need to replace the rebound calibration bushing. It runs flawlessly for years, but one day it starts up in limp mode because the onboard anvil-management system detects that it's overdue for its 50,000-strike inspection. You search AliExpress for a Chinese anvil, and are presented with a multitude of offerings from such household-name brands as DUKXJYIBF, HDBTGMXI, AND UEJQIP. They're all priced to within a few pennies of each other, appear completely identical except for the nameplate, and obviously all came out of the same factory. You text your blacksmith friend to ask if they're legit. He tells you he got one like that from KIXJBU a few years ago, and that it's been great and a terrific deal. You thank him, but KIXJBU seems to have folded so you buy the one from UEJQIP. When it arrives, it feels suspiciously light. You scratch it and realize it's iron-plated aluminum. You buy an American anvil. It's five times the price of the competition, but it comes from a brand that your great-grandfather used to love. It comes boxed with a warranty registration postcard, twenty pages of safety instructions, assay certificate, and a regulatory slip which lists its FCC certification and ITAR registration. It looks just like your friend's KIXJBU. There's a "Made In China" sticker on the bottom. You buy a Russian anvil. It arrives coated in cosmoline, wrapped in newspaper from 1974, and weighing 40% more than advertised. The finish looks like it was machined with a shovel. The face is not flat, but somehow this does not matter. You drop it off a truck, accidentally leave it outside for six winters, and use it to straighten a bulldozer blade. It's fine. You buy a Swedish anvil. It comes flat-packed in a long cardboard box with cheerful Neo-Grotesk lettering and a line drawing of a smiling man assembling it with an Allen key. The instructions contain no words, only pictograms showing the anvil face, horn, waist, feet, and 112 identical-looking fasteners. Halfway through assembly, you discover that the pritchel hole was installed upside down, but only because you used peg B17 where you should have used peg B71. Once assembled, it is clean, stable, and works better than it has any right to. You immediately wonder whether you should have bought two. You buy a Japanese anvil. It arrives wrapped in rice paper inside a paulownia box, accompanied by a certificate bearing three generations of signatures and a photograph of the first production example being presented to the Emperor. The face has been hand-polished by a seventy-eight-year-old master whose family has made striking surfaces since the Muromachi period. You are given detailed instructions for oiling it with a cloth folded in a specific way. It is the most beautiful object you own. You never quite work up the nerve to strike it.

@Habbo Just bring back gambling

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@uglyrobot How does chatGPT push changes to Cloudflare Pages?

My sister needed a new website. Had already bought WordPress hosting and a domain. Couldn’t figure out how to build a site. 50 plugins preinstalled, upgrade notices everywhere, overwhelming. I’ve been in WP for over 15yrs I no longer can build a site with it. In 10mins set her up with free Cloudflare pages and a few prompts in Codex (included free in her ChatGPT Plus sub) and it built and deployed a beautiful fast secure static site for her. Now she can just tell ChatGPT if she needs any updates and it just does it. Why WP?

@adityaarsharma I don't think Claude can reliably interact with Elementor. There's no underlying API, so it does everything by selector matching which is extremely inefficient

Today I edited my 100+ page site without opening WordPress once. Told Claude what I wanted. It read my Elementor elements, rewrote the hero, fixed the copy, updated everything, cleared all caches. I was smiling the whole time. This is what people rushing to new frameworks are missing. WordPress people did not get left behind. The ecosystem is the moat. 20 years of plugins and community is the reason AI can actually do something useful on top of it. I believe WordPress remains. Not out of nostalgia. Because the evidence keeps pointing that way. And with WordPress 7 coming, I am just getting started. Will be sharing some more WordPress + MCP flows ahead!

@ImVictorGuardia Fíjate en el tiempo que lleva publicado el piso. Para pisos que llevan poco tiempo en venta (par de semanas), en el 99% de los casos no aceptarán ofertas, a menos que el propietario tenga mucha prisa.

Mañana es la primera vez en mi vida que voy a ver pisos para comprar Alguien sabe algún tip? Se puede negociar o está mal visto ? Mi estrategia de quejarme de todo para que me bajen el precio tiene sentido o es ridícula ? 🤣 Me tengo que fijar en algo que normalmente pasa desapercibido pero que después es importante?

@andrewhoyer Easy implementation: Create a digital product for credits. Then create a custom payment gateway that uses the credits from a customer as the currency, and make it apply to all products other than the credits product

Hey Woocommerce big brains, I need your help with a "credits" system. Think arcade: You buy 25 credits. Pinball takes 1 credit to play, TMNT takes 2 credits. How can this be applied in Woocommerce? I want to have a suite of products that can be purchased with varying numbers of credits (effectively a $0 purchase, using previously purchased credits). I also want a couple of products that sell credits. Does anything exist that does this, or can an existing plugin or feature be modified to achieve the idea?

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@oportunista_net El Wayback Machine es increíble, ayuda muchísimo al comparar precios. Excelente trabajo!!

@DeoThemes I’ve had better performance with Vultr

Digital Ocean Premium or Vultr high frequency for server? 🤔 Price is almost the same, but what about performance? Been using both, still can't decide between two.

@rmelogli Add a posts widget, set the post type to products, give it a query ID on the widget settings, and modify the query with some custom code to just show products on sale developers.elementor.com/docs/hooks/cus…

Does anyone know how to achieve this in Elementor? I want to publish a page that has a custom WooCommerce product archive, for example only products on sale, or only products that start with "Hello". How can I do that?

@cdils The CLI will do it. wp db import db.sql

How do you deal with large database migrations? I've got one north of 4GB that I'm trying to import to a WP site. I've tried importing via MigrateDB Pro and directly via TablePlus but both ultimately fail.

@benswrite @CristianRaiber It depends on the company. Small companies don’t usually have pre-stablished raises based on seniority. If you don’t ask for it, you won’t get it.

@CristianRaiber Appreciate that bro. It takes someone to hand in their notice to get a pay bump Which is a kind of insult to say the least.

@benswrite You are pretty much on min wage. Any reason for not switching during 12 years?

@schutzsmith Yes, although GF is by far the most powerful and customizable forms plugin out there, it has always lacked in design out of the box.

@himadmouhtar Thanks! I am a dev BUT at this point it feels like we shouldn’t have to keep making these custom solutions for plugins that have not updated to use modern form elements :/

Anyone know a forms plugin on WordPress that can make toggles and buttons like this?!!??! Just wasted a few hours on gravity forms and ninja forms to try to figure out something like this. Neither seem to be able to look like that. Even with custom css.

@schutzsmith I don’t think there’s a tutorial for that specific example you shared, I have done some pretty complex customizations on GF with CSS and JS, but if you’re not a dev it might be simpler to find a plugin that does that out of the box.

@himadmouhtar Link to a tutorial that works?

@bretwp @tomasg_dev No hosting will be able to help much in that regard. Malware in WordPress can be quite sticky, it spreads everywhere and usually adds backdoors to keep infecting the site. The best solution is to start with a clean install.

Would a 'safe' host offer support with that? For the record there was a malicious file found in the Theme (that was WAY out of date due to invalid license) That's been updated and all theme files replaced. Plugins are up to date and theme files replaced. htaccess is clear and as far as I can see no other malicious files in place but I'm def not an expert with this part.

Is there a 'safest' Managed WordPress hosting? Got a client having recurring issues with some malware, the current host has 'cleaned' it, I've cleaned it best I can, still issues.

@markzahra @dcwhatwhat Developers capable of being lead devs are too scarce to be subject to local wages, I can assure you for 50k you are not getting a lead dev, you might get a senior-ish dev that will be good at following instructions

@dcwhatwhat That's fair. In Malta, the average is typically lower unless you work in the gaming industry. It's obviously tough to target the UK/US/AUS with our average, especially when you take into consideration things like free health care and so on which we benefit from locally.

Dear WordPress developers, what about this job opportunity, its responsibilities, and its benefits would you say need improving to attract the right people for the role? rebelcode.com/careers/open-p… Don't hold back.

@markzahra You have to pay at the very least 2X of what you’re offering for a lead dev