WordPress is synonymous with "No Coding Required"
Cornerstone & Divi PageBuilders
Here are two WordPress PageBuilders which support important features that make for productive development – extensive styling options for each UI element plus targetted section
Gutenberg vs the PageBuilders- Performance Speed Tests
Among the many WordPress PageBuilders, the conventional wisdom is that Gutenberg Builder is on the rise as long overdue features such as more styling options
WordPress Debugging 101
This is a case study in debugging WordPress when things go crazy wrong. Here is the problem: It is really very simple – when I
Measuring your Website
Measuring the Web The Web is the20th Century’s Cauldron of Change. The Web is spilling out change that is innovative, widespread and intimidating. Innovative because
Mobirise JavaScript Website Developer
The last 4-5 years have seen the rise of open, free and popular CSS+HTML5+JS frameworks like Bootstrap, Foundation Zurb and Ink for creating mobile responsive
Speed Wins: Why WordPress Adopted JavaScript
Why More of WordPress UI is written in JavaScript not PHP With the announcement of Calypso, a JavaScript based UI in November of 2015 and
Hiding Nuisance Notices in WordPress, etc
Okay, Nuisance Notifications [aka Nags] are not exclusive to WordPress. You may also be plagued by unsolicited notices in the lower right-hand corner of your
Gutenberg will be THE WordPress Visual Editor
Late October 2017 the latest 1.6.1 release of Gutenberg, the new WP Visual Editor => PageBuilder => SiteBuilder being created by Automattic for WordPress, appeared
Web Design: Full Page Slider Splash
Big commanding full page slider as LibreOffice’s home landing page This is a new trend that is picking up steam as sliders become ever more
Banned WordPress Plugins
At a recent WP Meetup about Database plugins I was faulted for not citing which of the plugins being reviewed had been banned by WordPress
Wallace Theme: REST API and Angular 2
Wallace Theme has been featured in WP Tavern as an Angular 2 JS based driven theme with use of the latest REST API. Given the
JavaScript Arriving in WordPress Stealthily
With Calypso and Gutenberg, clearly JavaScript is arriving onto WordPress in a big way. Here are seven reasons why: Gutenberg is not just the new
Post Grid Plugins
Grids are vital UI elements in medium to large scale websites. Think of websites with scores if not hundreds of products or properties or simply
WordPress World of Change
Like the World in general , the WordPress World is subject to major waves of change – a deadly and persistent pandemic outbreak, climate change
3 WordPress Visual Page Builders
WordPress has seen an explosion of no-coding, drag and drop Visual Page/Post Builders. These Visual Page/Post Builders bring 5 major benefits to the WordPress design world:
WordPress PageStyling with PageBuilders
WordPress Page Styling has moved from being the primary domain of the Theme chosen to display the website to what can now be called PageBuilder
Web PageBuilders Are Essential Tools
How PageBuilder Tools have become essential in web development The combination of no-coding-required UI/UX PageBuilding features plus comparative operational ease of use has made WordPress.org
Thinking Styles and UI Widgets
There has been a revolution in thinking over the past 50 years. How rationalizations is colored. The dual nature of Decision making. And better processes
WordPress UI Christmas Presents
The WordPress Year long race to launch the Gutenberg Block Editor in 2018 has triggered a whole Christmas bag of related WordPress UI developments. And
WordPress Gutenberg Looms Large
On St. Patricks Day in Toronto, The Toronto WordPress Meetup Group had a 2 1/2 hour session devoted to the implications of Gutenberg to the
Web Design SaaS
Web Design tools are going SaaS-Software as a Service whether you are designing websites with HTML pages or using a CMS like WordPress, Joomla, Drupal or
CSI Member’s Excellent Website: Kunle.TV
Kunle.TV states its purpose and vision on its front page with a full width, video mission statement capped with the Cisco declaration – “By 2019,
Discovered at WordCamp 2015 TO: WP-Optimize Plugin
During Jessica Gardners talk , WordPress Development for Non-Developers: An Introductory Tour Under the Hood, the discussion turned on how to clean the various database
Advanced Page Manager WP Plugin
A Plugin for Managing Pages and Menus Easily How many times have you had a project in which you have to build dozens of pages
Bulking-up WordPress Security
WordPress hack attacks are becoming more prevalent – almost like a multi-headed gorgon, hackers have many more sinister attack vectors as seen in these reports
CSS in WordPress – Meetup Review
The WordPress CSS Meetup on March 24th was just as advertised – jam-packed with tips and tutorials, plenty of CSS links plus live demos of
SquareSpace vs WordPress : A Second Look
A review of SquareSpace vs WordPress in the WPMUDev blog raises the question of whether web development reviews are becoming as partisan as politics. Jenni
CiviCRM: CMS Integration Example
I discovered CiviCRM this past Tuesday at The Social Impact Meetup at CSI [The Centre for Social Innnovation]. What makes CiviCRM compelling is that it
How Gutenberg is Shaking WordPress UI Foundations
But It Is Theme And PageBuilder Vendors Who Are Currently Transforming How WordPress UI Design Is Actually Done Let us be clear, Gutenberg is by
WordPress Plugin Auto-Update Goes Awry
In a review in December of last year, this website reviewed 4 plugins that helped control the Nuisance Nags that plague many WordPress admin pages.
Putting W3CSS into Your WordPress Pages
W3Schools W3CSS is a robust CSS Framework for use in WordPress The following examples show some of the advantages of having a mobile/responsive CSS Framework
Free Online Web Testgrounds
Over the past year, three online Web testing “playgrounds” have emerged which can be quite useful to WordPress and Web developers alike. All three allow
Smart Slider 3: Best New Free WordPress Slider
For the past year I have been recommending Cyclone Slider 2 as the best free WordPress Slider. But that has changed with the free version
RIP Akismet
One of the reasons WordPress became my favorite CMS nearly 10 years ago was Akismet. Back then Akismet eliminated spam like no other plugin. But
Automation of Website Translations
About five years ago for a consulting assignment, we looked at programs that could automatically translate from one language to another. Of course, Google Translate
How Pagelines Caught My Attention
And how JavaScript is becoming main language for WordPress Development Pagelines in 2012 was part of that Wave of WordPress Page Building software that has taken
WordPress Optimizing: Clean-up tools
Related posts: WordPress Migration Tools Web Development Tools Overview Blog Authority and Readability Tools Muse-like Tools for Fast Website Development UI Design Tools: Future Directions
Gutenberg Page Builder: A September UI Autopsy
Matt Mullenweg has written a detailed post on Gutenberg, the upcoming WordPress PageBuilder plugin. Within the post is a critical commitment by Matt: WordPress has
The WordPress UI/UX Development Revolution
This website and its cohort have been underlining the rapid improvements in development tools and plugins available to WordPress Designers in their UI/UX tasks. These tools
NextGen Gallery Plugin Improvements
NextGen Gallery has had a very shaky start to its new 2.0 upgrade since Photocrati took over the plugin’s development. As previously reported the plugin
Best Free Image Gallery Plugin for WordPress
WordPress has left a tremendous gap in support of images and galleries. First, the Media Library is still woefully poor for creating and managing galleries
WordCamp Toronto 2018 Features Gutenberg
WordCamp Toronto 2018 is coming to the North York Civic Centre at roughly the same time as WordPress 5.0 and the new Gutenberg will be
Scanning Online for WordPress Security Flaws
WordPress Security flaws have been a growing risk to developers and owners alike over the past 3-4 years. As if on cue, a Halloween 2017
CSI Members’ Websites: Insights Into Small Business Web Development
CSI-Centre for Social Innovation provides co-working space and collaboration tools for Toronto small businesses and non-profits. As of mid-August 2017 CSI had 517 member websites
Gutenberg 1.9 Update: Two Big Promises
Despite WordCamp.US having only 4 of 52 sessions devoted to Gutenberg, the impact of the Gutenberg editor went well beyond Matt Mullenweg’s State of the
Oxygen and the WordPress ThemeBuilders
WordPress has seen a wave of Themebuilders over the past few years and coming from two sources – themes with builtin PageBuilders and PageBuilders taking over
Elementor: Top WordPress PageBuilder
In the past three years WordPress 3rd party developers have produced some of the best Post and PageBuilders available. And even more remarkable, two of
Now WordPress PageBuilders Become SiteBuilders
There is no doubt there is a lot of competition in the WebBuilders marketplace. There are at least 10 very good WordPress PageBuilders. WordPress is now
