If a Contact Form 7 form suddenly has an empty rectangular box immediately above the first field, such as: the box is very likely not another form field and it is not something you accidentally added to the Contact Form 7 form editor. It is probably this element: Contact Form 7 introduced this hidden-fields-container structure … Read more
A recurring issue with Year Make Model Search for WooCommerce causes the first dropdown to work while the dependent selections remain unavailable. The behavior normally looks like: Several users have reported essentially the same problem in the plugin’s WordPress.org support forum. The current support index includes separate threads titled “Only the first MAKE can be … Read more
There is currently a confusing security situation around Animation Addons for Elementor. A site owner running: may receive a Patchstack warning stating that the plugin is affected by a Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability. At the same time: while the plugin’s own WordPress.org changelog already contains: with several security-related changes. That raises an obvious question: If 2.7.4 … Read more
A WordPress plugin package should not contain directories whose names differ only by capitalization. For example: These are four different directory names on a typical case-sensitive Linux filesystem. But that assumption does not hold across all environments. On standard Windows filesystems: are normally treated as the same directory. Likewise, Apple’s APFS supports both modes, but … Read more
Fix “Invalid integer in property ‘reviewCount’” From a Google Reviews WordPress Plugin: on a WordPress page where a Google Reviews plugin or widget is embedded. It is natural to check: and wonder why the error remains. The reason is that these are separate systems. A plugin can successfully retrieve and display your Google reviews while … Read more
Trying to use Advanced Sermons sermons as the source for a Seriously Simple Podcasting RSS feed can produce a confusing result: Looking at the XML can make it even stranger. Instead of seeing every sermon represented as a separate RSS episode, the sermons may appear inside one entry associated with something such as an Episode … Read more
When translating an Amelia booking form, most of the plugin may appear correctly localized while some texts inside the booking process remain in English. Common examples include: This can be confusing because the rest of WordPress or Amelia may already be running in another language. The important thing to understand is that Amelia uses more … Read more
When using Photo Gallery by 10Web with the Carousel layout, you may find that the gallery displays correctly, but visitors seem to have to click the small enlarge/zoom control to open the full gallery. What you actually want is simpler: You do not need to switch to the Slideshow gallery type for this. Photo Gallery … Read more
A strange WordPress caching problem can look like this: Then you purge LiteSpeed Cache and immediately get: Everything may remain normal for several days before the menu disappears again. If LiteSpeed Cache’s page cache is enabled but CSS/JS minification, combine, defer, and similar optimization options are disabled, this is an important clue. LiteSpeed’s own troubleshooting … Read more
If a WordPress/WooCommerce website using GTM4WP shows something like: and drilling into that traffic gives: the first thing to understand is that this is not normally a WooCommerce category, landing-page, or SEO problem. Google explicitly states that when Session source / medium is (not set), a common reason is that GA4 did not receive the … Read more