10 months ago there were very few signs of 3rd party add-on blocks for the Gutenberg editor. But now there is a feast of add-ons just in Time for WordCamp Toronto 2018 plus the imminent arrival of WordPress 5 Final Release. And two of the Gutenberg Add-on blocks, Caxton and kadence, have solved the Multi-columns […]
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WordCamp Toronto 2018 is coming to the North York Civic Centre [North York station right on the Yonge Subway line] on Saturday Dec 1st. And as always it is crammed with attractive sessions that makes for Sophie’s choice decisions on what to attend to immediately and what to wait for their appearance on WordPress.TV. Session
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WordPress 5.0 Beta is out and we get to see such things as the TwentyNineteen theme, how Gutenberg and the Classic editor work together, the status of the heretofore shaky multi-column blocks in Gutenberg, and how well PageBuilders work inside Gutenberg. So the best way to show whats up with WordPress 5 beta is a
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As Gutenberg Editor along with WordPress 5.0 rapidly approach release [now scheduled for November 19th]a number of PageBuilder vendors are promising interfaces with Gutenberg. Site Origins in February was first to announce its compatibility plans. Themify Builder added in May the ability to have Themify blocks interspersed in a Gutenberg session much like it delivers
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WPTavern is the watering hole for the latest news on WordPress. As the Gutenberg Editor approaches Release Candidate in early November and the WordPress 5.0 Launch, there are some roaring debates going on at WPtavern. This is not quite Justice Kavanaugh stridency, but beyond the normal WP civility norms. As an example, the topic of WordPress Theme and Plugin
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For WordCamp 2018 the Organizing Committee decided to do a survey of the Toronto WordPress Group Members on what topics they would like covered in the 2018 Toronto WordCamp coming December 1st. There are over 2300 members and here is a write up about the real challenge posed in processing the survey. 36 topics were suggested
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As Gutenberg approaches in the next few weeks to become the in-house/in-core WordPress Editor, pundits are speculating on how long before the Classic Brontosaur gets clobbered by the full weight of Gutenberg. This review is dedicated to the proposition that: A)The Classic Editor is far from being a vestigial organ and has many active add-ons
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WordPress as well as the W3C HTML standards setters have degraded <marquee>. In other words deprecated is the word that outlaws any use in HTML5. To wit: “Note − The <marquee> tag is deprecated in HTML5. Do not use this element, instead you can use JavaScript and CSS to create such effects.” And indeed there is an active
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Themify 4 is the new upgrade to Themify Builder which is chock full of surprises of both the Good and Bad types. Lets get the bad news out of the way because there is some very interesting new and good features. If you were looking for robust inline editing of text – its not here.
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As WordPress 5.0 and the new Gutenberg editor release date approaches, the topend PageBuilders continue to release new feature at a blistering pace. Thrive Architect has moved firmly into the SiteBuilder camp with more advanced header, footer and sidebar customization capabilities. Themify Builder has a whole new version 4.0 with a host of new features.
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The principal problem confronting Web Developers is the exponential rate of change in the IT industry. There is simply not enough time to check out all the JavaScript tools especially given the underling tools are changing so fast. No more so than in JavaScript UI programming arena where there are literally dozens of frameworks, plugins
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In our web development JavaScript frameworks like Bootstrap, Foundation Zurb and INK have been vital players. Bootstrap in particular has been used to deliver mobile responsive, SPA-Single Page Apps. But all of the JavaScript frameworks provide great templates, solid CSS libraries including new animation styling, plus inline JavaScript support usually with jQuery leading the way.
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Okay what is a WordPress SiteBuilder? Shhh don’t tell anyone but this is the potent combo of a Multilayout Theme [think free Astra, Generate Press, OceanWP] with a top-end PageBuilder [like the free BeaverBuilder lite, Elementor or VisualComposer.io] These combo tools have created a new category of WordPress Frontend UI development- the WordPress SiteBuilder. This
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Web Development is trending good and bad. Bad is Facebook, Twitter and Google – the top three secret personal-data harvesters who are also shucking their duty to patrol what they allow to be “advertised”/published on their systems. The good is that Web Development continues to change and mature at an exponential pace – no more
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EU’s GDPR – General Data Protection Regulation of 2018 had a privacy predecessor regulation, the EU Directive of 2011 called the Cookie Law. The directive may have been misnamed because there are many different types of cookies stored on your local machine that record your browsing habits. Here are the important ones to which the
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Now let us be clear, WordPress themes and plugins have been operating in Z-index space for many years. Sliders, animations, and popup modals have been on the WordPress UI scene placing images and objects above a web page. Also think of tabs, accordions, gallery lightboxes, and background hero images revealed in parallax glimpses. But with
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Monitoring your WordPress database tables has long been a nuisance – not any more. Within the past 3 years a steady stream of improved plugins allow users to view, optimize and even directly update their WordPress tables. Instead of having to go into cPanel and run PHPMyadmin to see the underlying WordPress database tables, developers
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I could not quite believe what BoldGrid is offering – a free Cloud-based WordPress site with few strings attached. So why not try it: And voila here is what you get, a robust WordPress website where you can try BoldGrid’s software. What You Get A fast cloud installation which is as smooth and easy as the WordPress
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General Data Protection Regulations GDPR is the response to the Wild World of Web data stolen, collected and exchanged on individual Eurpoean citizens. The rules of GDPR have a long history over the 40 years as seen in this chart: The GDPR current intent is to assure that IT organizations provide individuals with more control
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It started with Beaver Builder creating its add-on Beaver Themer last year. What Beaver Themer does is allow developers and users to takeover creating the header and footer area of any page, post or custom post. Here is how Beaver Builder spotlights its theme building add-on: Beaver Themer works with Beaver Theme plus a small
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