Changing Your WordPress Password – Laragon and HeidiSQL
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…
MetaBox and Beaver Themer – Walkthrough
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…
Code Snippets for Easy Site Customizations
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…
Decisive Victory in the Page Builder War
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,…
Themes on Fire – CSSIgniter Review
Last Updated January 18, 2019. 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,…
Free Services for Website Building & Optimization
Last Updated November 24, 2018. 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…
Best Web Hosting for Site Builders
Introduction If you need a Virtual Private Server (VPS) or a physical machine in a server facility then this article isn’t for you. For a high-level view of hosting considerations, see…
Creating an Off-Canvas Menu for Astra
As you may know, Astra is a relatively new WordPress theme created by Brainstorm Force. They are the company behind the Ultimate Addon for Beaver Builder as well as a…
The Not So Skinny on Custom Templates: Toolset, and Beaver Builder
The WPBuilds Facebook group is a friendly and interesting bunch of site builders. Periodically there is a discussion about plugins for creating the "display template" for Custom Post Types. This…
Gutenberg Will Bring Marketplace Shakeup
For the past couple of years, we have been hearing about how hard it is to break into the WordPress theme and plugin markets. I think there will be a…
Three FOMO Marketing Failures
We are all familiar with FOMO marketing - playing on the consumer's Fear Of Missing Out to quickly move them to purchase. This might be your standard sale - "buy…
Thrive Comments: Walkthrough and Review
A few weeks ago I was thinking to myself that WordPress comments were really a black hole. So I was surprised and intrigued when I received an email from Thrive…
Beaver Themer vs Toolset
When Posts Are Not Enough WordPress core supports custom fields and custom post types, but there is no admin UI for managing them and they are not output for display…
Best WAMP Server for Local WordPress – Laragon is Easy
Everyone doing web development or training up in web technologies needs a local test server. You know that testing on a live site is risky. Building websites or evaluating themes and…
Website Backup Plugins – Three Options
Having a good backup option for your WordPress site is essential. It helps you recover in the event there is a problem with an update, a user error, or a…