For the past few years I’ve taken time to express my appreciation for free plugins that have served me well over the past year by leaving a review on the WordPress plugin directory. While some of these may have a premium version, the free plugin provides good value. I know that free support can be…
In this short article I’m looking at Full Site Editing, specifically what tools you will need and what you will need to know in order to create the single and archive templates for Custom Post Types. Full Site Editing is coming in WordPress 5.9 and it will bring new opportunities for creating theme templates, but…
This review takes a look at a new Gutenberg solution called Cwicly, pronounced “Quickly.” This is a kit that includes a block-based theme, a Gutenberg blocks addon, and Advanced Custom Fields Pro. You can use ACF Pro, along with the free CPT-UI to create your Custom Post Types and custom fields, and then use the…
My first IT job was doing customer support, later at another job I helped program an internal support application, and of course as a customer I’ve experienced different ways companies offer support. What I’ve learned is that customer support is essential for the success of a company, that offering support day in and day out…
Over the past few years I’ve written several tutorials on how to create Custom Post Types in the WordPress admin. I’ve also created a large number of walk-throughs and videos on how to show your Custom Post Types on the front-end of your site. In this article I’m looking at a missing piece, and that…
I’ve been publishing tutorials about Custom Post Types for a few years and I’ve been asked several times to do one on Pods. My reply has been that I’d do one when Pods version 2.8 was released. Pods 2.8 has been in development for more than 6 years and I started to think that I…
Gutenberg was merged into WordPress core almost three years ago. Now we are seeing the introduction of Full Site Editing. With Full Site Editing we will be able to create templates for post types and archives using the block editor. It is now time to bring dynamic data options to the Gutenberg editor and Stackable…
CSS Hero is a power tool that lets web masters modify the design of their site using a front-end editor. You can see the changes live as you make them and the changes you make are “non destructive,” which means that you can easily undo previous steps. This makes CSS Hero a good tool for…
