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Mobile WP Trends – Meetup Summary

The Mobile Presence Meetup was filled with as many questions as facts and answers. However,  important facts evident in the presented Hootsuite slides – Mobile  device usage, at 92% of all internet connections. simply demands attention. And the  the second HootSuite slide puts “mobile devices” into perspective – it  shows the multiple flavors for  mobiles …

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Mobile WordPress Trends

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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Elementor’s Risky Changes

From the April 6th Meetup on Elementor Changes there were some interesting observations about Elementor and the WordPress PageBuilder/ThemeBuilder market. First, attendees were split equally between using Elementor, Beaver Builder and the Classic Editor  as their goto post and page editor. Second, choices of Gutenberg Block Editor, SiteOrigin Pageuilder and Thrive architect indicated diverse commitments …

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WordPress Templates 101

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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TD Canada Trust NOT Offering a Sense of Data Security

This morning I discovered a message on my cellphone: (1)TD account blocked click on https://td.1account-web.com/TD,7 to resolve. Now I was immediately suspicious of the message so I went to WHOIS.com to check the link and here is what WHOIS reported: So the same day the phishing attack message arrived, the hackers behind it had setup …

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Backend Bustout – 3 Meetups

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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Meetup: WP Performance Tuning – 5 new Plugins

Within the last two years there has been a whole new batch of better  WordPress Performance Optimization plugins. What sets these plugins apart from the many caching and image compression plugins is that many of the new Gun Performance plugins incorporate not just  caching tools but also image compression, database optimization, app assets cleanup, and …

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Meetup: WordPress Performance Optimization 2 -New Results

WordPress Optimization used to be an arcane art similar to scurrying around in an Alice in Wonderland rabbit hole of  misdirections. But not any more. Now the range of tuning tools  and optimizing methods outlined above can be quickly tracked and corrected.  The net result is that sub 2 second response time for most WordPress …

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Headway ThemeBuilder Alive as Padma

All the WordPress UI Development Community is buzzing about FSE-Full Site Editing plus a whole crop of excellent PageBuilders evolving into Theme Builders lead by Beaver Themer, Divi, Elementor Theme Builder, Thrive Theme Builder which are delivering right now capabilities that Gutenberg promises hopefully some time in the Fall. Add to this array of  FSE Theme …

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WordPress Photo Editors

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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WordPress Editors Innovation

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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