Going to a WordPress Meetup there is always at least one question about one of 3 topics: 1)What is the best hosting service to use with WordPress; 2)What is the best WordPress Theme to use; 3)What is the best Themebuilder to use for WordPress apps. Now this is very dangerous advisory territory given the continued […]
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AI-Artificial Intelligence today is a Russian Overlapping Dollset of technologies which drive how AI is used, modified and self-generated. Yes, AI tools are actively used to generate better AI tools in a process called transformative generator models. A key tool in AI technology is LLM-Large Language Models which are built from huge, multi-billion record data
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AI-Artificial Intelligence today is a Russian Overlapping Dollset of technologies which drive how AI is used, modified and self-generated. Yes, AI tools are actively used to loop on themselves to generate better AI tools in a process called transformative generator models or Generative AI. The key tool in AI technology is LLM-Large Language Models which
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AI-Artificial Intelligence today is a Russian Overlapping Doll set of technologies which drive how AI is used, modified and self-generated. Yes, AI tools are actively used to generate better AI tools in a process called transformative generator models. A key tool in AI technology is LLM-Large Language Models which are built from huge, multi-billion record
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Just a year ago WP Masters featured a review Using Carousels, Sliders, Slideshows to Manage UI Display Space which echoed the ideas found in ISitWP 2024 Slider review which confirmed the key role that slider and carousels were playing in WordPress Page Display. Now page designers can choose from a variety of layouts including justified grid,
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In case you didn’t know, AI is a blazing economic, social, political, scientific and business wildfire raging just beyond control throughout the world. AI is being driven by the Four Horsemen of the 21st Century Apocalypse – The Run Amuck Colossus of the Dark Web, Deep Staters Vying to be Masters of Misinformation, Monopolists Seeking
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Let’s get right to it. Here is ParagraphAI in action.as AII discover what AII can do beyond Grammarly: The original thought: How can AIWriting Tools assist me in writing especially in WordPress posts? And here is what free Paragraph’AI added to Chrome did with my first idea: I am interested in finding out what assistance
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AI Writing and Music tools have an early and deep presence in savvy AI usage. And as a Yoast user in WordPress and Grammerly with Office being a constant companion one can say this scriber is not exactly a Wordcraft Virgin. But ChatGPT has suddenly inserted real muscle into the auto-generation of paragraphs, presentations, and
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For the past half year, AI-Artificial Intelligence on the Web is everyhing everywhere and all at once – ask any SEO junky, social media designer, or frantic backend coder. But fortunately as a WordPress Designer and Developer I could safely ignore AI because it was constantly “arriving”. Truly, trying to get into AI incurred waits
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Four years ago I did a review for a client on what were the major dedicated VPS-Virtual Private Server options. It is important to identify a dedicated server because that means you are the only user of the server and have access to its IP, transcode, and password so you can customize the hardware and
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Having attended the January Buffalo Meetup and gotten some good advice about email tools, it seemed a natural to try out the nearby Rochester NY meetup and see if the crew their could supply some insights on how to speed up response time for the mobile side of websites – particulary Woo Commerce. Well low
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“WordPress is not in Kansas Anymore” means WordPress is no longer a simple, easy-to-use app of early years. Many basic features of WordPress, such as simple point-and-click UI operations, are subject to more complex options as online computing becomes riddled with hard choices. So not just WordPress but most web development tools are challenged to
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Readers of this blog will have seen since the beginning of this year a steady stream of pleadings for better stability from Elementor Builder. The most recent review, just a week ago, noted the continuing problems with flexbox, template code, and the debilitating collisions/conflicts with Elementor’s own 3rdparty addons that take hours if not days
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As always we start off with a look at some CSS Help Tips and Tutorial Resources which will be reviewed with special attention to attendees recommendations for CSS websites chock full of at the start of the Meetup. This is aalways a helpful start off point into the CSS World. So without further todo –
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The first question to answer is why duplicate a WordPress website? For someone who has created dozens of XAMPP & Laragon temporary WP websites the need for creating a temporary WordPress website seems obvious:1 – Testbed to try out a new theme or plugins in a secure & web realistic environ ;2 – An open sample
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In a recent Meetup on Speed Matters we did some simple exercises with Google’s Page Speed Insights to illustrate the information that this free website speed tester provides. But at the same time we got some extra insights which were enlightening. Here is the simple Elementor Gallery post using first flexbox in component layouts and
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Here are basic CSS Help Tips and Tutorial Resources which will be reviewed at the start of the Meetup. This is a helpful start off point into the CSS World. And a smapler of Yellow Pencl as one of the Best CSS Style Editors There are 3 advantage:s to Yellow Pencil It is easier to
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WP Tavern has been reporting stories which show WordPress and Automattic under duress for the past few months. It started with the May 12th 2022 story WordPress Community Attributes Declining Market Share to Performance Issues, Increased Complexity, and the Lagging Full-Site Editing Project. This is a tough indictment for WordPress and some of the evidence
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3 years ago we we did a meetup presentation on WordPress Page Styling which highlighted changes in WordPress Page Design. The big underlying trend was the rapid standardization of new CSS features in the top 5-6 desktop and mobile browsers. WordPress vendors in turn took advantage of these CSS styling techniques in 4 ways: 1- adding animation,
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In 2018 MasterWP.guru wrote an optimistic review of BoldGrid Cloud WordPress. The report examined the Pros and Cons for BoldGrid Cloud WordPress and found many positive features Pros: + fast and easy full WordPress install, easier than most manual installs + reasonable performance for editing and runtime operations + SSL support right out of the
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