Last Updated August 10, 2018 Over the past year, several major plugins have stopped offering a lifetime license. I’ve kicked myself for waiting on a few that I could have used. The trend is to switch to annual subscriptions. A couple of vendors said their lifetime plans were going away. Astra and Astra Agency are …
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Video Here is a video overview of the Crocoblock suite for Elementor and a walk-through of the different installation options. The screens are shown in more detail in the video while in the article there are just screenshots taken at important points in the process. There is some information in the article that is not …
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A major feature of Elementor 2.1 is the ability to work with Custom Post Types (CPT) to make templates for displaying the data from CPT fields. To review the lay of the land, WordPress has long had support for custom fields and custom post types, but a WTF is that displaying this data was not …
Who Is This Article For? In this article I review Jetpack Premium, one of the paid Jetpack plans. The review is for people with a single site who have a small annual budget and who need to have support available. Now, if you have a high traffic site, an ecommerce store, or a membership component, …
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When we share our blog posts to social media we want them to look attractive. We spend some time on a nice featured image that lets people know what the post is about and then tweet our creation to share it. For a long time I did this by logging into Twitter, uploading an image …
I’ve been using Laragon for a while now for local WordPress development. Recently someone asked for help because they had forgotten their WordPress username or password. I made a short video walkthrough that shows how to change the password using the HeidiSQL program that comes with Laragon. Below the video are the written out instructions …
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In the video below I look at using the Meta Box suite of plugins to create a Custom Post Type and using that together with Beaver Themer to create a template for the output in WordPress front-end. There are two parts to creating a Custom Post Type: Creating the Custom Post Type itself, and …
Code snippets are small bits of PHP code that you can use to customize your WordPress website. The Code Snippets plugin is a great convenience for adding snippets. The plugin is available for free from the WordPress plugin directory. It is regularly updated, is widely used, and has good reviews. I’ve been using it for a …
Last updated 4/27/2018 A year and a half ago, when Pippin Williams wrote the authoritative review of WordPress page builders, there were several strong contenders. If you’ve been paying attention, you’ll have seen that the field quickly narrowed to two: Beaver Builder and Elementor. These two giants in the page builder arena have been locked …
Interested in CSSIgniter? Thinking of making a purchase? This review will give you what you need to decide, you’ll discover the good and the bad, so you might want to read this first. I have summarized the main points in this article. Watch the view for details and to see the setup, demo data import, …
There are a number of free online services useful for site builders. The four listed below are helpful for checking if DNS changes have been picked up, troubleshooting SSL errors, finding the cause of a site slowdown for speed optimization, and using search engine auto-suggest features to gain insight into common searches. What’s My DNS …
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