Slim SEO is a free SEO plugin that was first released about two and a half years ago. It is developed by the same team that makes the popular Meta Box suite of plugins. I tried out Slim SEO when it was first released and gave the author some feedback. Recently I got the chance…
Zion Builder is a relatively new builder and as of this writing is already on version 2.5. This tells you that the developers are busy adding features and fixing bugs. Zion Builder was recently offered at a discounted price on AppSumo, not to raise money, but to raise awareness. The team wanted to get the…
By default WordPress does not show custom fields on the front-end and to do so requires some theming. In this series we have looked at a number of tools, both plugins and themes, for creating the theme templates for Custom Post Types in order to show their custom fields. In this post we will instead…
The block-based widget editor is a new feature coming to WordPress 5.8. I took a look at the release candidate and found a number of issues. What I realized is that this is a bigger change than many people realize. The video has a full walk-through and discussion. Points for Discussion and Conclusion from the…
For years the trajectory of Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) was a rock solid, reliable, slow progression that everyone took for granted. After the recent ACF sale to Delicious Brains there was a brief time when the future of the ACF lifetime licenses were in doubt. It was as if people woke up from a deep…
It is important to optimize your images for the web so that visitors don’t have to wait for large images to show. A popular solution for this is the ShortPixel Image Optimization Plugin for WordPress. The plugin is available for free in the plugin directory. You get 100 free credits per month and can purchase…
I recently did a deep dive into the WordPress theme directory. In that process I identified the nine most popular themes based on active install counts. Nine seems like an odd number, right? Well, nine is the number of themes with more than 100,000 active installs. I will quickly review these top themes and then…
GeneratePress was one of the first, general purpose, page builder friendly themes. The pro version of GeneratePress has recently added a theme builder and in this walk-through I’ll use it to create the single and archive templates for a Custom Post Type and we will see how it works. I created the Custom Post Type…