I’ve been building websites since 1994 and really enjoy it. In posts tagged as “Site builder,” I provide tutorials and information to help people creating sites with WordPress or Drupal.
Crocoblock used to just be for Elementor, but has been bringing features over to Gutenberg. JetEngine is the Crocoblock plugin for working with dynamic data. In addition to the ability to create Custom Post Types, custom taxonomies, and custom fields, it also has a number of extra features. Displaying Custom Post Type records on a…
Introduction and Props In the WordPress ecosystem we are fortunate to have lots of good options for building a site. Sridhar Katakam of the Bricks Labs had a great idea and proposed a WP Builders Fight Club where people pick their favorite site building option and everyone tries to reproduce the same home page. More…
In this post I’m looking at three popular block collections: GenerateBlocks, Kadence Blocks, and Stackable Blocks. People often ask which one is best and which should you use. We’ll take a look at the similarities and differences of these three block collections and I hope by the end of the post you will have a…
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…
Meta Box announced the release of the MB Toolset Migration plugin. This new plugin provides the ability to migrate custom fields created with Toolset over to work with Meta Box. It will be welcomed by users interested in moving old sites built with Toolset to Meta Box. The MB Toolset Migration plugin is available for…
This is the second video in a mini-series looking at getting started with Cwicly. Cwicly is a new toolkit that enhances the Gutenberg Full Site Editor. The first video in the series provides an overview and a tour of the user interface. In this video we are looking at how to get started by creating…
The video is part of a mini-series looking at getting started with Cwicly. Cwicly is relatively new. It is an advanced toolkit for Gutenberg and is designed to work with the Full Site Editor. As you know, the Full Site Editor is still in beta and it is very bare bones. Cwicly enhances the site…
The Kadence team has done it again. They released an update to the Pro version of Kadence Blocks. The newest version adds a Dynamic HTML Block and support for pulling dynamic content using a post relationship. In this video we take a look at these two new features. Video Walk-Through Test Site Setup On my…