I saw a comment where someone said that Gutenberg doesn’t yet have all of the widgets and features that Elementor has. They were going to wait to switch to Gutenberg until those were available. That got me thinking. The most efficient page will just be plain text and after that a page built using semantic…
When one year comes to a close and another one starts two things typically happen. First there are the retrospectives that summarize and diagnose what happened in the previous year. Second there are the predictions that forecast the trends and events to watch for in the upcoming year. This post is of the second type,…
We now have available a new resource to help us track the market share of popular page builders. W3Techs, a popular site that tracks web technology usage, now tracks subcategories for WordPress, giving us some insight into popular plugin usage. This post takes a look at the page builders they are reporting on to see…
I’ve been waiting for the Kadence theme builder for a long time and was excited to hear that it was now available. In this post I share some of the main steps in using the Kadence theme builder for creating the single and archive templates for Custom Post Types. The full step-by-step walk-through is available…
There is a perception among people who don’t administer websites that a website is something that is “done.” I remember working with a talented marketing team and after a redesign the marketing lead checked “website” off of her task list and said “Website’s done.” Since we have been working with websites for a while we…
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…
