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 Doll set of technologies which drive how AI is used, modified and self-generated. Yes, AI tools are used to refine themselves. The remarkable coding feat is AI Tools are actively used to loop on themselves to generate better AI tools in a process called transformative generator models or
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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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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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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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“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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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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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
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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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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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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Mobile WordPress Development often gets the short emd of the analytics stick. Fortunately, Hootsuite publishes annual reports on the state of the Web World which clearly shows the pivotal role mobile devices play on the Web. Mobile in their many forms play everywhere in contemporary computing. For the past 5 years these reports have marked
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I have been a TotalAV PC Internet security user since late October 2017 and have been reasonably happy with the service. But in mid-February that all changed with the following notices from TotalAV: This was the first notification that arrived unannounced mid-screen, mid-day. Surprise! but it was not the last – as suddenly, out of
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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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Cybersecurity resources are constantly changing with the onslaught of cyberattacks . Here are some valuable and up to date reports. The IBM Cost of a Data Breach repot underlines the costs and recovery time for a Data Breach. Next is the Cisco CyberThreat Review of 2021. Look for basic cybersecurity threat trends and at the
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With the arrival of Gutenberg and rapid change in drag and drop PageBuilder capabilities, the humble WordPress Visual Editor is getting lots of attention and frankly welcome innovations from plugin developers. This starts with the TinyMCE Advanced with its improved Table and top menu bar commands. But Editor innovation extends to Joom United’s WP Smart
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Our technical blog, TheOpenSourcery.com recently did a major review of Google’s New Sites and App Maker programs to support G Suite. Both Google programs are clearly committed to the Drag and Drop, “no programming required” coding model used by a wide range of Website Builders. These including the leading edge WordPress PageBuilders. So wouldn’t you
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WordPress 5 and the Gutenberg Editor have been tantalizing WordPress developers for the last half year. There have been at least a half dozen “tentative’ delivery dates from May through November. And the Gutenberg team certainly came down to the wire in delivering a “working” version of Gutenberg. Now of course “working” is relative but
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