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.
Brainstorm Force has a very popular Gutenberg Addon called Spectra. The name was just changed, it was previously called Ultimate Addons for Gutenberg. A big update to version 2 has just gone into beta and there is news about a pro version which is forthcoming. 300,000+ Active installs 769 5 star reviews Pro version coming…
The Plus Addons for Gutenberg recently added support for dynamic data to their collection of Gutenberg blocks. I have been waiting for this feature before reviewing the plugin and am excited to take a look. As we will see, the Plus Addons for Gutenberg is a unique block collection. The video includes a brief overview…
The Crocoblock team has recently released a big update to JetThemeCore. JetThemeCore is Crocoblock’s template and theme builder plugin. It used to only work with Elementor and required their Kava theme, but the new version now also works with Gutenberg and with popular page builder friendly themes. The messaging around the new theme builder has…
Today Kadence Themes released another big update to the free and pro Kadence Blocks plugins. This release continues a streak of new blocks, Gutenberg enhancements, and fixes. Video Version The video does a walk-through of the new features. New Features Summary The free Kadence Blocks had these new additions: Add: Section blocks can be used…
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…