For the past half year, AI-Artificial Intelligence on the Web is everyhing everywhere and all at once – ask any SEO junky, social media designer, or frantic backend coder. But fortunately as a WordPress Designer and Developer I could safely ignore AI because it was constantly “arriving”. Truly, trying to get into AI incurred waits …
Four years ago I did a review for a client on what were the major dedicated VPS-Virtual Private Server options. It is important to identify a dedicated server because that means you are the only user of the server and have access to its IP, transcode, and password so you can customize the hardware and …
Having attended the January Buffalo Meetup and gotten some good advice about email tools, it seemed a natural to try out the nearby Rochester NY meetup and see if the crew their could supply some insights on how to speed up response time for the mobile side of websites – particulary Woo Commerce. Well low …
“WordPress is not in Kansas Anymore” means WordPress is no longer a simple, easy to use app anymore. Manybasic features of WordPress are being compromised. Simple point and click, drag and drop operations are subject to more complex steps. And pledges of WYSIWYG edits or”no coding required” development are being qualified or directly compromised. In …
Readers of this blog will have seen since the beginning of this year a steady stream of pleadings for better stability from Elementor Builder. The most recent review, just a week ago, noted the continuing problems with flexbox, template code, and the debilitating collisions/conflicts with Elementor’s own 3rdparty addons that take hours if not days …
As always we start off with a look at some CSS Help Tips and Tutorial Resources which will be reviewed with special attention to attendees recommendations for CSS websites chock full of at the start of the Meetup. This is aalways a helpful start off point into the CSS World. So without further todo – …
The first question to answer is why duplicate a WordPress website? For someone who has created dozens of XAMPP & Laragon temporary WP websites the need for creating a temporary WordPress website seems obvious:1 – Testbed to try out a new theme or plugins in a secure & web realistic environ ;2 – An open sample …
In a recent Meetup on Speed Matters we did some simple exercises with Google’s Page Speed Insights to illustrate the information that this free website speed tester provides. But at the same time we got some extra insights which were enlightening. Here is the simple Elementor Gallery post using first flexbox in component layouts and …
Here are basic CSS Help Tips and Tutorial Resources which will be reviewed at the start of the Meetup. This is a helpful start off point into the CSS World. And a smapler of Yellow Pencl as one of the Best CSS Style Editors There are 3 advantage:s to Yellow Pencil It is easier to …
WP Tavern has been reporting stories which show WordPress and Automattic under duress for the past few months. It started with the May 12th 2022 story WordPress Community Attributes Declining Market Share to Performance Issues, Increased Complexity, and the Lagging Full-Site Editing Project. This is a tough indictment for WordPress and some of the evidence …
3 years ago we we did a meetup presentation on WordPress Page Styling which highlighted changes in WordPress Page Design. The big underlying trend was the rapid standardization of new CSS features in the top 5-6 desktop and mobile browsers. WordPress vendors in turn took advantage of these CSS styling techniques in 4 ways: 1- adding animation, …
In 2018 MasterWP.guru wrote an optimistic review of BoldGrid Cloud WordPress. The report examined the Pros and Cons for BoldGrid Cloud WordPress and found many positive features Pros: + fast and easy full WordPress install, easier than most manual installs + reasonable performance for editing and runtime operations + SSL support right out of the …
From the meetup on Methods for Fixing up Gutenberg Editor’s Styling Problems there came a 4 step plan. First was to use the Classic Editor for posts and pages that did not need extensive styling – fast, easy-to-use, and ever more capable with Advanced TinyMCE plugin[See our upcoming free Meetup – Classic Editor Hot Tips …
Over the past 7 years Gutenberg has gone through several name changes – The Gutenberg Editor, Block Editor, Gutenberg Block tool, and now the Block Builder with FSE-Full Site Editing features. In sum, Gutenberg with its JavaScript driven blocks is being advanced as the primary UI engine for the evolving WordPress Core System. *** Table …
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DIY Creation of Gutenberg Block can quickly become non-trivial as seen below: Simple – edit existing Block code as described in BoldGrid tutorial. Most code is HTML and CSS. Challenging – WPBeginner describes how to create your own block using Genesis Block Editor. May require PHP or Javascript as well as HTML, CSS or SCSS. …
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As a MVP-Minimum Viable Product the Gutenberg Editor is in continual beta to keep up with tough competition and changing requirements of “No Coding Required”, WordPress Visual Design and Editing . But this is a common condition for the top tools such as Elementor [over a year of beta versions with move to Flexbox layout, …
The Mobile Presence Meetup was filled with as many questions as facts and answers. However, important facts evident in the presented Hootsuite slides – Mobile device usage, at 92% of all internet connections. simply demands attention. And the the second HootSuite slide puts “mobile devices” into perspective – it shows the multiple flavors for mobiles …
Mobile WordPress Development often gets the short emd of the analytics stick. Fortunately, Hootsuite publishes annual reports on the state of the Web World which clearly shows the pivotal role mobile devices play on the Web. Mobile in their many forms play everywhere in contemporary computing. For the past 5 years these reports have marked …
From the April 6th Meetup on Elementor Changes there were some interesting observations about Elementor and the WordPress PageBuilder/ThemeBuilder market. First, attendees were split equally between using Elementor, Beaver Builder and the Classic Editor as their goto post and page editor. Second, choices of Gutenberg Block Editor, SiteOrigin Pageuilder and Thrive architect indicated diverse commitments …
Wouldn’t you know it, you set a free Meetup for Tuesday March 15th all about WordPress CSS Tips and Tricks – and then two major WordPress software developers, Elementor and Brainstorm Force, annouce that theyare shifting to flexbox framework for all of their basic layout routines. So much a commitment that Elementor has decided to …