Divi is the major WordPressThemeBuilder software of Elegant Themes. But Elegant Themes did the unthinkable on the Divi Blog – a 30-page review of WordPress Alternatives in a breathtakingly frank discussion of the competitive environment Divi and WordPress find themselves in. Here is a distressed screen capture: What makes this overview compelling are three facts […]
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With the intro back in 2009 of quick setup, low-cost CMS-Content Management Systems, WordPress led the way in medium-scale web development. This position was consolidated with a dual mode Visual/Text editor using changeable and customizable theme files, and supported by 30++ thousand largely free plugins. These components delivered a broad range of backend capabilities [SEO,
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According to IBM Hyperautomation is the concept of automating everything in an organization that can be automated. Organizations that adopt hyperautomation aim to streamline processes across their business using artificial intelligence (AI), robotic process automation (RPA), and other technologies to run without human intervention. Meanwhile, Gartner also sees hyperautomation as one of the top 10 strategic
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Elementor has a problem, its widget library is too popular. There are over 120 Elementor add-on plugins available in the WordPress plugins directory Now this turns out to be a dual edge advantage for Elementor. First, users can find added help among the many add-ons making Elementor a more attractive WordPress ThemeBuilder buy. But there
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AI Writing and Music tools have an early and deep presence in savvy AI usage. And as a Yoast user in WordPress and Grammerly with Office being a constant companion one can say this scriber is not exactly a Wordcraft Virgin. But ChatGPT has suddenly inserted real muscle into the auto-generation of paragraphs, presentations, and
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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
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“WordPress is not in Kansas Anymore” means WordPress is no longer a simple, easy-to-use app anymore. Many basic features of WordPress are being challenged when used beyond blogging apps. For example, simple point-and-click, and drag-and-drop operations are subject to more complex steps. Meanwhile, pledges of WYSIWYG edits or”no coding required” development are being qualified or
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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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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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Testing Elementor Flexbox Again Elementor introduced Flexbox in version 3.6 in late 2021 but by March of 2022 it presented a lot of bugs for users. Given that Flexbox as seen in the first YouTube tutorial is designed to provide advanced layout features while delivering faster UI response time- it is viewed a s vital
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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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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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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The Gutenberg Team has a checkered history with MVP- Minimum Viable Products. Check on the Kinsta Blog which cites effect that the MVP strategy had on the Gutenberg Editor. The Gutenberg Editor deficits incurred are well delineated in the review – Gutenberg Editor: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. So what exactly is a
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With the arrival of Gutenberg and rapid change in drag and drop PageBuilder capabilities, the humble WordPress Visual Editor is getting lots of attention and frankly welcome innovations from plugin developers. This starts with the TinyMCE Advanced with its improved Table and top menu bar commands. But Editor innovation extends to Joom United’s WP Smart
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