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AI Graphics Tools as Everything Everywhere All At Once

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, orfranticbackend 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 and distractions …

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Thoughtful Buffalo WP Meetup

Our last Buffalo WP Meetup reported in as being packed with cheerful help. The February 2 2023 meetup took a thoughtful turn as major questions got discussed in a surprising turn of events. It started innocently enough with Spokane’s Mark Noder citing an updated Gutenberg roadmap and strategic direction statement in January 16th 2023 by  Josepha, …

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Looking into VPS again

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 …

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WP Rochester Meetup Delivers Insights

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 …

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WPSite Optimization – 2 Recurring Problems

Despite scheduling just five days before Christmas, The Toronto WordPress Group’s Lets FixIt meetup had a strong turnout with many interesting websites and problems. The Big No surprise, Woo Commerce was often used but also the source of difficulties – there were  two consistent vilains: First, image optimizaion was the source of  hard, concrete Woo …

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Breakdancing up with Elementor

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 …

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Creating New Views in WordPress with CSS

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 – …

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Why WordPress Is Changing So Fast

In a series of Fall WordPress Meetup Presentations – Speed Matters on WP optimization, Mobile Presence on how to adapt new mobile device needs on client sites in order to address the profound ascendancy of mobiles use on the Web, and New WordPress CSS Views & Tools show how CSS+JavaScript is breaking the WordPress “No …

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Speed Matters Insights

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 …

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WordPress Under Duress

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 …

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BoldGrid – Cloud WordPress Goes Awry

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 …

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Tutorial for CSS Styling Editors

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 …

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Meetup Summary – Fixing Gutenberg Editor’s Styling Missteps

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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Untapped Gold: Creating & Sharing Gutenberg Blocks

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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Mobile WP Trends – Meetup Summary

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 …

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Mobile WordPress Trends

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 …

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