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 …
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 …
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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As Gutenberg Editor along with WordPress 5.0 rapidly approach release [now scheduled for November 19th]a number of PageBuilder vendors are promising interfaces with Gutenberg. Site Origins in February was first to announce its compatibility plans. Themify Builder added in May the ability to have Themify blocks interspersed in a Gutenberg session much like it delivers …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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. …
The principal problem confronting Web Developers is the exponential rate of change in the IT industry. There is simply not enough time to check out all the JavaScript tools especially given the underling tools are changing so fast. No more so than in JavaScript UI programming arena where there are literally dozens of frameworks, plugins …
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In our web development JavaScript frameworks like Bootstrap, Foundation Zurb and INK have been vital players. Bootstrap in particular has been used to deliver mobile responsive, SPA-Single Page Apps. But all of the JavaScript frameworks provide great templates, solid CSS libraries including new animation styling, plus inline JavaScript support usually with jQuery leading the way. …
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 …
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 …
Javascript has achieved ascendancy in Web development Over the past 26 years of Web Development, many programming languages have had reigns as the major language for Web development. Java had the support of major players like IBM, Oracle, Redhat and Sun but the decisive opposition of Microsoft which poisoned the well with J++ and a …
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 …
CSI Best Member’s Website: A Tour-de-force Design for a WordPress Newby Read More »
Cyber Attacks Have Become Pervasive There are three World Wide Webs – the Surface Web which most people browse, the Deep Web which is the hidden purview of businesses, governments, institutions and cyberhackers of the contained Dark Web. The current outbreak of cyber-crime plus malicious hacking is based in the Dark Web portion of the nearly invisible Deep Web. …
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 …
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 …
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. …