Let’s get right to it. Here is ParagraphAI in action.as AII discover what AII can do beyond Grammarly: The original thought: How can AIWriting Tools assist me in writing especially in WordPress posts? And here is what free Paragraph’AI added to Chrome did with my first idea: I am interested in finding out what assistance […]
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Wouldn’t you know it, you set a free Meetup for Tuesday March 15th all about WordPress CSS Tips and Tricks – and then two major WordPress software developers, Elementor and Brainstorm Force, annouce that theyare shifting to flexbox framework for all of their basic layout routines. So much a commitment that Elementor has decided to
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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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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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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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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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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
WordPress users are finding it more important than ever to be able to quickly view their WordPress files, media and database directly within the WordPress admin area. Yes, file managers with your hosting serviceor FTP access or PhpMyAdmin provide access but often not on a convenient and/or timely basis. This WP Developer has found a
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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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WPTavern is the watering hole for the latest news on WordPress. As the Gutenberg Editor approaches Release Candidate in early November and the WordPress 5.0 Launch, there are some roaring debates going on at WPtavern. This is not quite Justice Kavanaugh stridency, but beyond the normal WP civility norms. As an example, the topic of WordPress Theme and Plugin
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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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