The Buffalo WordPress Meetup this past Friday was both cheerful and helpful. Cheerful with Michelle’s video upside down like mine so we both revert to static text or image. The ripostes were devoted to the Snow job northwest New York had to endure and the Bills Eeking out Erie wins. What made the Buffalo WordPress […]
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Just finished doing the Presentation notes for the upcoming December 6th CSS meetup, and here is the inside scoop. There are so many very good CSS Apps and Learning resources, we shall have to tailor the presentation to attendees interests and needs. In anticipation of that let us take a look at some of the
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The following is a list of Worldwide WP Meetups. It is about a year out of date. To search for a particular meetup use CMD/CTRL F browser page search. Many WordPress Meetups WordPress NYC Meetup Group| New York, NY PHP London| London, United Kingdom WordPress Delhi NCR Meetup Group| Delhi, India South Florida WordPress Meetup Group| Miami, FL Memphis
For many WordPress Developers the attraction of WordPress is great UI design tools with No Coding Required. But within the last year that promise has changed to “Some Coding Required” with the emergence of Gutenberg FSE and new ThemeBuilders like BreakDance, BricksBuilder, Elementor Pro, and OxygenBuilder, All of these tools are now using advanced CSS
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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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This meetup tomorrow on Wednesday at 6PM is packed with new insights on Mobile Usage in WordPress. The foremost is how Mobile Devices are now the number one presence on the Web carrying close to 56% of Worldwide Internet traffic Yes, in North America desktop traffic at 50% exceeds mobile. But as a WordPress developer
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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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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
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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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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,
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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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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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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 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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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
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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
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This post is about the the free online Holiday Meetups featuring 6 Backend plugins – all of which have substantial free versions in addition to premium plugins with specialized add-on features. Users get choose the approach for WP Optimization to Backup Migration and Staging services. Also, welcome to being a part of the multi-billion $
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Within the last two years there has been a whole new batch of better WordPress Performance Optimization plugins. What sets these plugins apart from the many caching and image compression plugins is that many of the new Gun Performance plugins incorporate not just caching tools but also image compression, database optimization, app assets cleanup, and
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WordPress Optimization used to be an arcane art similar to scurrying around in an Alice in Wonderland rabbit hole of misdirections. But not any more. Now the range of tuning tools and optimizing methods outlined above can be quickly tracked and corrected. The net result is that sub 2 second response time for most WordPress
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Web Trends 2021-2022 This review looks at how Computing has become world-wide personally pervasive – 66% of the world’s population have a personal computer. But not quite as expected – the PCs are predominately mobile phones and though slightly lagging [59.5% of mobile PCs are connected to the Web], these PCs are not isolated
