Pricing is one of the hardest challenges for plugin and theme developers. On one end you have agencies who want an unlimited sites package at an attractive price. At the other end you have single site owners who may not have site income to offset subscription prices. Buyers want a lifetime package while sellers worry…
This is my second look at Zion Builder. With the previous version the builder was not as easy to use as it could be and there seemed to be a number of bugs. The development team just completed a major update and released version 3.0. In the first look I created the single and archive…
The premium version of Advanced Custom Fields has the ability to create custom Gutenberg blocks. I hadn’t used this before as there seemed to be a lot of steps in the block creation process. However, I recently purchased a copy of the Blockstudio plugin, which promises to streamline the process of creating ACF blocks, so…
In this review I’m comparing Kadence Blocks and Stackable Blocks. I’ll be looking side by side at the different aspects and features. These are two of the best Gutenberg addons, especially if you are interested in dynamic data and using Gutenberg instead of a page builder. You will see that while there are some similarities…
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,…
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…