For WordCamp 2018 the Organizing Committee decided to do a survey of the Toronto WordPress Group Members on what topics they would like covered in the 2018 Toronto WordCamp coming December 1st. There are over 2300 members and here is a write up about the real challenge posed in processing the survey. 36 topics were suggested […]
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As Gutenberg approaches in the next few weeks to become the in-house/in-core WordPress Editor, pundits are speculating on how long before the Classic Brontosaur gets clobbered by the full weight of Gutenberg. This review is dedicated to the proposition that: A)The Classic Editor is far from being a vestigial organ and has many active add-ons
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WordPress as well as the W3C HTML standards setters have degraded <marquee>. In other words deprecated is the word that outlaws any use in HTML5. To wit: “Note − The <marquee> tag is deprecated in HTML5. Do not use this element, instead you can use JavaScript and CSS to create such effects.” And indeed there is an active
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Themify 4 is the new upgrade to Themify Builder which is chock full of surprises of both the Good and Bad types. Lets get the bad news out of the way because there is some very interesting new and good features. If you were looking for robust inline editing of text – its not here.
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As WordPress 5.0 and the new Gutenberg editor release date approaches, the topend PageBuilders continue to release new feature at a blistering pace. Thrive Architect has moved firmly into the SiteBuilder camp with more advanced header, footer and sidebar customization capabilities. Themify Builder has a whole new version 4.0 with a host of new features.
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Okay what is a WordPress SiteBuilder? Shhh don’t tell anyone but this is the potent combo of a Multilayout Theme [think free Astra, Generate Press, OceanWP] with a top-end PageBuilder [like the free BeaverBuilder lite, Elementor or VisualComposer.io] These combo tools have created a new category of WordPress Frontend UI development- the WordPress SiteBuilder. This
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Web Development is trending good and bad. Bad is Facebook, Twitter and Google – the top three secret personal-data harvesters who are also shucking their duty to patrol what they allow to be “advertised”/published on their systems. The good is that Web Development continues to change and mature at an exponential pace – no more
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EU’s GDPR – General Data Protection Regulation of 2018 had a privacy predecessor regulation, the EU Directive of 2011 called the Cookie Law. The directive may have been misnamed because there are many different types of cookies stored on your local machine that record your browsing habits. Here are the important ones to which the
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Now let us be clear, WordPress themes and plugins have been operating in Z-index space for many years. Sliders, animations, and popup modals have been on the WordPress UI scene placing images and objects above a web page. Also think of tabs, accordions, gallery lightboxes, and background hero images revealed in parallax glimpses. But with
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Monitoring your WordPress database tables has long been a nuisance – not any more. Within the past 3 years a steady stream of improved plugins allow users to view, optimize and even directly update their WordPress tables. Instead of having to go into cPanel and run PHPMyadmin to see the underlying WordPress database tables, developers
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I could not quite believe what BoldGrid is offering – a free Cloud-based WordPress site with few strings attached. So why not try it: And voila here is what you get, a robust WordPress website where you can try BoldGrid’s software. What You Get A fast cloud installation which is as smooth and easy as the WordPress
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General Data Protection Regulations GDPR is the response to the Wild World of Web data stolen, collected and exchanged on individual Eurpoean citizens. The rules of GDPR have a long history over the 40 years as seen in this chart: The GDPR current intent is to assure that IT organizations provide individuals with more control
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It started with Beaver Builder creating its add-on Beaver Themer last year. What Beaver Themer does is allow developers and users to takeover creating the header and footer area of any page, post or custom post. Here is how Beaver Builder spotlights its theme building add-on: Beaver Themer works with Beaver Theme plus a small
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CSS Hero 3 has added its latest version to the very competitive WordPress CSS IDE Styler market. Two other tools, Yellow Pencil and MicroThemer also vie for user’s allegiance. Here is CSS Hero 3 in action: The scene is a Gutenberg test post edited on the left and then styled by CSS Hero 3 on
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Your Head for the Hills Here New Website Challenge Creating a brand new website is a daunting task even if you are using the most popular website development tool, WordPress [29.3% of the world’s websites are done in WordPress]. First, WordPress tools and features are developing rapidly – in a 2016 Podcast review we cited
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Gutenberg Review As promised in our previous Gutenberg posting, this is the first of a continuing “look see” at how Gutenberg is progressing. The 2.1 Gutenberg is showing much more refinement throughout. For example, in the edit sidebar which shows the pervasive use of accordion toggles throughout the Gutenberg editor. Also the sidebar is more
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In the past 5 years the combination of Multi-Purpose/Multi-Layout themes with advanced PageBuilders have revolutionized “no-coding” required interactive Webpage creation. This is important as designers and end-users can now participate more actively with developers in creating, refining and updating a website. It is true DIY development as seen here – not only are end users able
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This post represents the start of a series of posts about the new WordPress Visual Editor, Gutenberg. But first we need to review the state of the Gutenberg plugin to date. At the start of November 2017 the 1.6.1 release of Gutenberg, the new WP Visual Editor, appeared in the WordPress plugin library. This was
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How New Web Design Has Changed and Obsoleted this Layout As suspected getting through the the first of a WordPress Starters Guide proved to be full of questions and demos. And as presenter I should have warned attendees early at the outset that the sheer volume of material would necessitate splitting the presentation into 3 parts.
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