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Introduction This post is part five in a series looking at Custom Post Types and the theming functionality of page builders. By “theming” I mean the ability to create content templates for Custom Post Types. Premium page builders now have that ability, but there are a lot of differences between them. This series provides a…
Introduction This post is part four of a series looking at Custom Post Types and the theming functionality of page builders. Premium page builders now the ability to create theme templates, but the process, difficulty, and limitations are different for each page builder. This series provides a walk-through of options so you can see what…
Introduction BetterDocs is a new knowledge base (KB) plugin for WordPress. It gives you the ability to add a knowledge base or FAQ area to your website. BetterDocs comes with a large number of features and allows you to create a help section similar to what you have seen on vendor sites using help desk…
Introduction This post is part three of a series looking at Custom Post Types and theme builders. Most premium page builders now include a theme builder, the ability to create theme templates. However, the theming process, difficulty, and limitations are different for each page builder. The idea of this series is to get a walk-through…
Introduction This post is part of a series looking at Custom Post Types and theme builders. In part one I used Custom Post Types UI and Advanced Custom Fields to create a custom post type. The plan in subsequent parts of the series, is to use the theme builder functionality built into popular page builders….
Beaver Builder and Elementor are the two most popular and frequently recommended page builders in the WordPress ecosystem. For years they were locked in a page builder war for the hearts and minds of site builders. In April 2018 the stats were compelling enough that I called it, Elementor had won a decisive victory. The…
In this post I want to look at 10Web. 10Web is a WordPress provider that offers several services and features. They are currently running a deal on AppSumo, so I want to provide my take on the deal. There is a video that accompanies the post that goes into the 10Web platform and shows the screens in…
Introduction In this post I want to look at some gotchas when using Gutenberg, the new WordPress block editor. The demonstration is very visual and I’m not going to try to capture it all in screenshots. I recommend watching the video for that. Here I’ll review and summarize the issues. To illustrate the issues, I’m…