[AMA] Ask Me Anything About WordPress 2020

[Deleted member 752298]

Thanks @Festinger for the response

You're welcome man.

@Festinger what is the best plugin for AdSense, to get the most earning.

https://nl.wordpress.org/plugins/ad-inserter/

@Festinger - Are there any plugins available to enable printing order in woocommerce site after payment is confirmed? I have a thermal printer on the wifi. Or do I need to write some custom code for this?

I would recommend to work with Zapier:
https://woocommerce.com/products/woocommerce-zapier/
https://zapier.com/apps/categories/printing

Hello!
If I have a one-page WordPress site selling e-books, which payment system is better for my site?
Do I need to understand what is the WooCommerce?
If I'm a newbie and just starting to understand WordPress, how should I make a one-page website with selling text? Using one of the templates or writing a page from scratch for lessons in YouTube?
Thank you very much!

If you're selling ebooks, you might want to check Easy Digital Downloads, as it's primary designed for digital downloads.

Best way to upgrade wordpress and woocommerce version on a live server. Having problems with updating my site I am on a pretty old version and whenever I try to update wordpress my whole site glitches and I have to revert the update

Create a staging area and update the plugin one-by-one to see if there is an issue with the outdated plugins.
Also, you'll have to check the WooCommerce template files, as they might have been outdated too.

Hello, do you know a plugin that let my customers edit directly in my website and customize PDF into a product that has to be paid for before you can download it? thank you for your answer

You can do this with GravityPDF

I am looking for a good solution for this problem -

Right now I have USD payment on my website. I use PayPal and BTC gateway. This is for global country

I am adding VISA/Mastercard gateway soon. But this gateway will only use by 1 country.

So what I want to do is when people visit from that country they will see country based price and when they checkout they will only see VISA/MasterCard option for payment.
Rather then this specific 1 county the whole world will see USD price and on checkout they only see PayPal and BTC gateway.

Guide me through this please.

https://woocommerce.com/products/conditional-shipping-and-payments/

Hi, I have problem on adding a sub-posts and so on.
I cannot add link here, so i have pm'd you.
Please help me about this.

Thanks.

Sorry, I do not answer these kind of questions through PM.

How to do Wordpress speed optimization with a Linux VPS.

Make sure to understand servers and how to optimize them (Litespeed for example)

Hey festinger!

Whats the best theme for page speed?

Is this guy theme legit?
https://products.moneylab.co/carbonate

would you add to your site?!

I wouldn't go with this theme. Check out GeneratePress for example.

Hi Festinger, glad to find this thread.
Currently I have this problem:
I try to run multilangual website, using polylang (not pro) + lingotek translator.
also using litespeed caching.
My site run without issue when I use cloudflare (free), but when i switch to quic.cloud cdn, lingotek translator cannot connect and keep loading from wordpress dashboard.
so right now I cannot perform automatic translation with lingotek, do you know have to solve this issue.
really appreciate any help you can provide.

The best way to fix this to submit a support ticket with the theme dev, as this looks like a bug.

Can you please tell me what all plugins/themes seobutler.com is using? his guest post page has some very unique filter and other features

These guys are using a custom theme, but as far as I can see from the source code, they are using Affiliate WP, WooCommerce and WooCom Magic Theo (never worked with this one before).

whats your favorite popup plugin? i am currently using convert pro, but its kinda slow and having difficulties to work with mailpoet. if you have any "light and easy" suggestion, it would be very appreciated. i am using elementor too, if that helps.

I love BLOOM & Ninja Popups.

Hello,

1 Do you have inline related posts wordpress plugin?.
2 And what plugin for comments is the best?.
3 any advice to improve google Core Web Vitals assessment?. My site is 95 fast but not passing Core Web Vitals assessment.

Thank you so much.

1. https://nl.wordpress.org/plugins/intelly-related-posts/
   
2. Consider Disquz
3. This is hardly to say without a website

Can you send a list of plugins that every website should have at the beginning?

This question has been asked before multiple times, please check out the previous replies in this topic.

Have you ever come across a situation where your wordpress website crashes at a certain time, everyday?

Yeah, blank pages, no error logs... Yeah, I know them
Best way to check the error logs of your server and disable all optimization / caching modules.

What theme should i use to build an car parts shop?

I recently build a shop using this theme:
https://themeforest.net/item/chromium-auto-parts-shop-wordpress-woocommerce-theme/21832717

It's pretty neat!

Lets say you have a business in wordpress.
Do you use nulled plugins/themes for clients?

Generally no. I always use paid themes for my customers.

Hey @Festinger

Thanks for doing this!

I have a photo studio people rent by the hour kind of like an Airbnb. I am looking for an theme that notifies customers 30 mins before booking and leave a review after. Etc.

That sounds like a custom feature man

Which all plugins you suggest for an autopilot news site ? I need the post translation too.
Thanks in advance.

WP Robot + a text spinner of your choice. Check out the WP Robot website for supported text rewriters.

thanks for the support, I read that you recommended vinemo for videos. I am worried about my videos being taken down
What options do I have for displaying these types of videos including porn?

Hosting porn on Vimeo will get your account suspended. Check out the plugins & themes of WP Script, they are doing well with external hosting of your porn videos.

Hi bro. Here is my question. What do you use when you are creating a post review?. Do you prefer schema pro or others plugins like wp review o product review. Thanks you

Yes, Schema Pro is the most important plugin IMHO + a theme that's dedicated for reviews.

 

[Luke Vader]

This is amazing festinger thanks, one last thing about wp-scripts. Would wp-script work for shock, horror weird content as well? Not just porn. Don't see why it wouldn't.

 

[Tilpo555]

Hey Festinger!
Is there a system for accepting payments on the site (selling a digital product) that would not show the buyer my real name as a seller?
Does this make EDD?

Thank you very much for your answer

 

[Michaeilla]

Is there such a plugin that can copy data being entered into a 3rd party contact form?

 

[Roger Marquez]

hey legend, I hope you´re doing well today!

Is there a plugin that can allow me to show/export how a site is structured in regards to categories, pages, posts, tags, internal links, etc?

Basically, export the data from a sitemap in a more organized and graphical way.

 

[thebotmaker]

Thanks so much for the AMA @Festinger.
How do I find images of a certain size for use with wordpress themes? Or adjust / resize images to suit a given dimension?
E.g. A theme has a section to upload thumbnail-sized pictures like 300x300 dimensions, but when trying to resize larger images to that size, they lose the aspect ratio and become unsuitable.
Is there any plugin / method for doing this?
Thanks!

 

[TooCorny]

Your favorite plugin for boosting woocommerce conversions in all ways.

Abandoned carts, checkout addons for better cvr, upsells, downsells, etc..

 

[TooCorny]

Also, any plugin to rip elementor templates from 3rd party sites?

 

[Pugano]

Hey, great thread as always, I think I have some questions that has not come up before

1. Best Image optimizer plugin? (reSmush, WP smush, or other?)
2. WP Rocket or perfmatters or both? If both do you have a good guide for perfmatters like the one you posted earlier for rocket?

 

[Deleted member 752298]

This is amazing festinger thanks, one last thing about wp-scripts. Would wp-script work for shock, horror weird content as well? Not just porn. Don't see why it wouldn't.

The porn industry isn't really a niche I am specified in. You should'd better contact WP-Script regarding this question.

Hey Festinger!
Is there a system for accepting payments on the site (selling a digital product) that would not show the buyer my real name as a seller?
Does this make EDD?
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Thank you very much for your answer

Yes, that's possible. Use crypto currency as payment method and you're good to go.

Is there such a plugin that can copy data being entered into a 3rd party contact form?

You should check out Gravity Forms, which is compatible with data extraction.

hey legend, I hope you´re doing well today!

Is there a plugin that can allow me to show/export how a site is structured in regards to categories, pages, posts, tags, internal links, etc?

Basically, export the data from a sitemap in a more organized and graphical way.

Already replied to Skype

Thanks so much for the AMA @Festinger.
How do I find images of a certain size for use with wordpress themes? Or adjust / resize images to suit a given dimension?
E.g. A theme has a section to upload thumbnail-sized pictures like 300x300 dimensions, but when trying to resize larger images to that size, they lose the aspect ratio and become unsuitable.
Is there any plugin / method for doing this?
Thanks!

Yes, try to Google the regenerate plugin tool. It will solve this problem .

Your favorite plugin for boosting woocommerce conversions in all ways.

Abandoned carts, checkout addons for better cvr, upsells, downsells, etc..

I love using Jilt.

Also, any plugin to rip elementor templates from 3rd party sites?

As far as I do know: no.

Hey, great thread as always, I think I have some questions that has not come up before

1. Best Image optimizer plugin? (reSmush, WP smush, or other?)
2. WP Rocket or perfmatters or both? If both do you have a good guide for perfmatters like the one you posted earlier for rocket?

I personally prefer reSmush which gives best results in terms of quality.
I do run both on some websites, other's that are Litespeed optimized, I am using PerfMatters.

 

[siarhei]

tell me how to protect the site 100% ?

 

[Nonilol]

I know this is a hot topic and there's certainly multiple ways to approach it, but I would love to hear your opinion on it: What do you do to secure your website?
More specifically:

• Do you use a plugin like Wordfence or do you think it adds too much overhead?
• Do you hide admin login url / use recaptcha? (manually / plugin?)
• Do you secure rpcxml? (manually / plugin?)
• Do you secure wp rest api? (manually / plugin?)

 

[indianmojojojo]

How to upload multiple articles on my WordPress site. I have the article in .txt format and HTML. I will want to do bulk action with a standard template.

Thank you in advance

 

[gpoutcast]

@Festinger buddy, i would like to know what plugin you prefer for automatic resizing - optimization of post images (feature and in-article)?

 

[Pugano]

Thank you! Also what is your favourite plugin for making nice comparision tables for products?

 

[Rufin jazz]

Which is better between Yoast and Rank Math?

 

[Meijersmoney]

What plugin is the best for personalization in Wordpress/Woocommerce?

 

[Clean_up_Krew]

How is this site:

https://meridianpresets.com/
Able to have a notification bar, WITHOUT, plugins. I'm tearing my hair out running this site though websites to try and copy alot of it.

Please can you help?

 

[Deleted member 752298]

tell me how to protect the site 100% ?

You can't protect a website for 100%.

I know this is a hot topic and there's certainly multiple ways to approach it, but I would love to hear your opinion on it: What do you do to secure your website?
More specifically:

• Do you use a plugin like Wordfence or do you think it adds too much overhead?
• Do you hide admin login url / use recaptcha? (manually / plugin?)
• Do you secure rpcxml? (manually / plugin?)
• Do you secure wp rest api? (manually / plugin?)

Thanks a lot for your questions.

1. Yes and no. For custom WP builds, I am using a server side firewall & security overlay. For WP websites hosted on a shared hosting server, I do recommend using WordFence / CleanTalk.
2. Yes, reCaptcha protected to prevent brute-force.
3. It's totally disabled.
4. Yes, manually.

How to upload multiple articles on my WordPress site. I have the article in .txt format and HTML. I will want to do bulk action with a standard template.

Thank you in advance

WP All Import can be very helpful in this case.

@Festinger buddy, i would like to know what plugin you prefer for automatic resizing - optimization of post images (feature and in-article)?

I do use regenerate thumbnails plugin for this & have it setup using a cron.

Thank you! Also what is your favourite plugin for making nice comparision tables for products?

Reviewer plugin

Which is better between Yoast and Rank Math?

A good question. I'll answer this into more detail soon in a dedicated topic.

What plugin is the best for personalization in Wordpress/Woocommerce?

Please explain your target.

How is this site:

https://meridianpresets.com/
Able to have a notification bar, WITHOUT, plugins. I'm tearing my hair out running this site though websites to try and copy alot of it.

Please can you help?

That's custom work

 

[osake]

What's the best recipe theme? Or plug-in that is universal where if I switch themes, the recipes would follow seamlessly? I'm currently using Pixwell - Modern Magazine off themeforest which utilizes the Cooked (Recipe plugin)