Almost every WordPress site needs form functionality and Piotnet Forms is an attractive choice. Piotnet Forms started off as a popular addon for Elementor but then a standalone plugin was created and now Piotnet Forms is releasing version two. Some features of the new version include an updated user interface, enhancements to multistep forms, easier…
In April Kadence released the Dynamic List Block. This block fills in a gap in the ability to display dynamic data and is important for creating theme templates. It is included in professional version of Kadence Blocks. You might think from the block name that the Dynamic List block is similar to the Icon List…
In this article I want to look at WordPress Custom Post Types (CPTs) and the display of dynamic data using page builders. WordPress has had internal support for Custom Post Types since version 3.0, but does not have a built-in way to create them or to display CPT content on the front-end. For a long…
A year ago I took a look at the WordPress theme directory and identified the nine most popular themes based on having 100,000 or more active installs. I reran the numbers and today there are twelve themes in the WordPress theme directory that meet that threshold. In this article I’ll take a quick look to…
The WordPress admin dashboard is not optimized for any particular use case, it is not that attractive, and can become cluttered. There are a number of plugins available for “taming” the admin. Some try to make the admin more attractive, some let you apply branding, some make navigation more efficient, and some let you provide…
Cwicly has a powerful query builder with grid option. In this video I take a create a post grid for the home page and show how to set the grid columns to be equal height. With the Cwicly query template block you build up the template for a single loop item. The loop item layout…
UiPress is a Toolbox plugin for customizing and extending the WordPress admin. There are a large number of individual utility plugins for this purpose, but UiPress brings the features of several of these together in one. I recently did a walk-through of WP Adminify and there were questions about how it compares to UiPress, so…
Why WP Adminify? While the admin is functional, it is an area of WordPress that hasn’t gotten much love. It looks dated. Getting from point A to point B involves more clicks than it should and there are common operations that can be streamlined. There is a lot of information that you have to dig…