The NewYork Times and Washington Post and other news/sports media are constantly confronted with the issue of what stories are to appear on their landing pages. This balancing act is further complicated by what media need to be used – images, videos, podcasts or even design objects . This is the same issue faced by […]
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Managing content in UISpace, the display on a landing page or mobile screen has always been a challenge. Now with AI Chatbots disgorging huge amounts of information the task is even more daunting. To manage such an overflow the classic editor worked well with the Shortcodes plugin So here is an example of a Toggle
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For 200 years Automation has been the major economic motive force throughout the Industrial Powered World as a driver of innovations and economic growth. 200 years is a very short tiime span in Human history given the rise of agriculture and city states took 1o-2o thousand years The key to Automation’s success is the the
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Our last Buffalo WP Meetup reported in as being packed with cheerful help. The February 2 2023 meetup took a thoughtful turn as major questions got discussed in a surprising turn of events. It started innocently enough with Spokane’s Mark Noder citing an updated Gutenberg roadmap and strategic direction statement in January 16th 2023 by Josepha,
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Despite scheduling just five days before Christmas, The Toronto WordPress Group’s Lets FixIt meetup had a strong turnout with many interesting websites and problems. The Big No surprise, Woo Commerce was often used but also the source of difficulties – there were two consistent vilains: First, image optimizaion was the source of hard, concrete Woo
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The Buffalo WordPress Meetup this past Friday was both cheerful and helpful. Cheerful with Michelle’s video upside down like mine so we both revert to static text or image. The ripostes were devoted to the Snow job northwest New York had to endure and the Bills Eeking out Erie wins. What made the Buffalo WordPress
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Just finished doing the Presentation notes for the upcoming December 6th CSS meetup, and here is the inside scoop. There are so many very good CSS Apps and Learning resources, we shall have to tailor the presentation to attendees interests and needs. In anticipation of that let us take a look at some of the
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The following is a list of Worldwide WP Meetups. It is about a year out of date. To search for a particular meetup use CMD/CTRL F browser page search. Many WordPress Meetups WordPress NYC Meetup Group| New York, NY PHP London| London, United Kingdom WordPress Delhi NCR Meetup Group| Delhi, India South Florida WordPress Meetup Group| Miami, FL Memphis
For many WordPress Developers the attraction of WordPress is great UI design tools with No Coding Required. But within the last year that promise has changed to “Some Coding Required” with the emergence of Gutenberg FSE and new ThemeBuilders like BreakDance, BricksBuilder, Elementor Pro, and OxygenBuilder, All of these tools are now using advanced CSS
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Testing Elementor Flexbox Again Elementor introduced Flexbox in version 3.6 in late 2021 but by March of 2022 it presented a lot of bugs for users. Given that Flexbox as seen in the first YouTube tutorial is designed to provide advanced layout features while delivering faster UI response time- it is viewed a s vital
This meetup tomorrow on Wednesday at 6PM is packed with new insights on Mobile Usage in WordPress. The foremost is how Mobile Devices are now the number one presence on the Web carrying close to 56% of Worldwide Internet traffic Yes, in North America desktop traffic at 50% exceeds mobile. But as a WordPress developer
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In a series of Fall WordPress Meetup Presentations – Speed Matters on WP optimization, Mobile Presence on how to adapt new mobile device needs on client sites in order to address the profound ascendancy of mobiles use on the Web, and New WordPress CSS Views & Tools show how CSS+JavaScript is breaking the WordPress “No
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For the past 20 years WordPress has gained worldwide website markets share [currently 44.0% of the top 10 million websites] by delivering easy-to-use, “no coding required” frontend design and backend operational tools. The WordPress Classic Visual Editor is simple, easy to use as seen in 5-million active installations , being a Gutenberg core block, and
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WordPress themes and templates are on the frontlines of frontend development. Why? Because every theme contains 12+ key templates and style codes that determine the layout and design of a WordPress website. Here is the diagram of some of the key templates that shape the look and feel of a WordPress website: There are 6
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The Gutenberg Team has a checkered history with MVP- Minimum Viable Products. Check on the Kinsta Blog which cites effect that the MVP strategy had on the Gutenberg Editor. The Gutenberg Editor deficits incurred are well delineated in the review – Gutenberg Editor: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. So what exactly is a
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This post is about the the free online Holiday Meetups featuring 6 Backend plugins – all of which have substantial free versions in addition to premium plugins with specialized add-on features. Users get choose the approach for WP Optimization to Backup Migration and Staging services. Also, welcome to being a part of the multi-billion $
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As a WordPress developer one dreaded problem was the prospect of having to correct a number of DirtyDog images on the website. What is a DirtyDog image? It is an image that has to be corrected or replaced. The process is tedious , time-consuming and awkward But what are examples of Dirty Dogs: as images
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Web Trends 2021-2022 This review looks at how Computing has become world-wide personally pervasive – 66% of the world’s population have a personal computer. But not quite as expected – the PCs are predominately mobile phones and though slightly lagging [59.5% of mobile PCs are connected to the Web], these PCs are not isolated