The is a review of Presto Player, a new video player for WordPress. Presto Player has a large number of user interface and optimization options. There are several video hosting options. There is the ability to make videos public or private. There are analytics options. There is a Gutenberg block and an Elementor widget. In…
This is an in-depth look at the Kadence Modal Block. After reading this post you will know what it is, what it isn’t, and how to use it. The Modal block comes as part of Kadence Blocks Pro. It is fairly unique as neither Qubely nor Stackable, the other two general block sets I prefer,…
This post is meant for people who are considering Oxygen for site building. It is not like most builders as it is both more involved and more powerful. In a companion video I created an Oxygen site from scratch so that people could see the process and what was involved. In this post I’m providing…
Introduction Oxygen is a website builder for WordPress. It installs as a plugin, disables the theme, and lets you build up your site more or less from scratch. For various reasons that I explain below, I felt it was time to give Oxygen a full fledged test and use it on a production site in…
Introduction For learning purposes I’m building a new site using Oxygen. I typically use some code snippets on my sites and added a few to my regular library for Oxygen specifically. I wanted to share them in case there are some that are useful to other site builders or Oxygen users. For programmers, a code…
The Gutenberg Post Blocks plugin provides a solution to the common problem of how to show a listing of your posts or Custom Post Types. Many block addons have a Posts block, but you are stuck with the layout and display options they provide. Gutenberg Post Blocks, on the other hand, is a dedicated tool…
Introduction WordPress natively supports custom fields and the ability to create Custom Post Types, but WordPress doesn’t by default provide any way to show them on the front of the site. There are a large number of third party options to solve this. This series on Custom Post Types and Theme Builders has looked at…
Introduction WordPress has several options for creating custom fields and Custom Post Types. Meta Box is the second most popular option with more than 500,000 active installs and the base plugin is available for free from the WordPress plugin directory. This is the ninth tutorial in the series looking at Custom Post Types and Theme…
