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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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From the meetup on Methods for Fixing up Gutenberg Editor’s Styling Problems there came a 4 step plan. First was to use the Classic Editor for posts and pages that did not need extensive styling – fast, easy-to-use, and ever more capable with Advanced TinyMCE plugin[See our upcoming free Meetup – Classic Editor Hot Tips
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