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WordPress JavaScript Reactions
WordPress Gutenberg and Calypso are back in the tech news now that CIC Matt Mullenweg has rejected React.js as the core JavaScript library for WordPress. The issue
RIP Akismet
One of the reasons WordPress became my favorite CMS nearly 10 years ago was Akismet. Back then Akismet eliminated spam like no other plugin. But
Web Design: Full Page Slider Splash
Big commanding full page slider as LibreOffice’s home landing page This is a new trend that is picking up steam as sliders become ever more
Blog Authority and Readability Tools
Google has shaped content on the Web more than any other technology vendor. True, Apple has had a wide influence on the design and
Elementor: Top WordPress PageBuilder
In the past three years WordPress 3rd party developers have produced some of the best Post and PageBuilders available. And even more remarkable, two of
Wallace Theme: REST API and Angular 2
Wallace Theme has been featured in WP Tavern as an Angular 2 JS based driven theme with use of the latest REST API. Given the
NextGen Pro WordPress Gallery Plugin
WordPress Gallery Plugins over the past 3-4 year have become feature rich allowing display of images in thumbnail, masonry , mosaic and justified grid styles
AI Writing Tools – Aint Going To Change My Style
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
CiviCRM: CMS Integration Example
I discovered CiviCRM this past Tuesday at The Social Impact Meetup at CSI [The Centre for Social Innnovation]. What makes CiviCRM compelling is that it
Nextgen Gallery 2 Beta
NextGen Gallery image using ScrollGallery plugin One of the better gallery plugins for WordPress has been Nextgen Gallery which uses the WordPress database as a
Meetup-WordPress Backend Bustout
Most of the attention in the WordPress community for the past five years has been about the effort to build a better WordPress frontend –
The Gutenberg Post
Here is our Gutenberg Post transferred to theOpensourcery.com See the complete Gutenberg preview and impact analysis here. Below the line is our first post using
CSI Best Website: GreenMajority.ca
GreenMajority.ca is an example of excellence in small business, non-profit websites at Toronto’s CSI- Centre for Social Innovation. Here is is a screenshot of GreenMajority.ca
Best Free Image Gallery Plugin for WordPress
WordPress has left a tremendous gap in support of images and galleries. First, the Media Library is still woefully poor for creating and managing galleries
Replacing Adobe Dreamweaver
This reviewer has been a Dreamweaver user since its early appearance as a Macromedia program over 15 years ago. Dreamweaver was the first IDE for HTML+CSS+Javascript
Online Website Speed Testing Tools
Speed of website load and operation has been recognized as a very desirable trait for your website. Numerous Studies show that the faster a website responds
WordPress Revolution: Elementor Cloud Website
Elementor Cloud Website is Elementor’s dramatic entry into the WordPress Cloud Hosting Service business. Here is what you get: $90US/year = 1 cloud website “No
CSS in WordPress – Sep 20th Meetup Review
This afternoon’s free WordPress CSS Style Editors Meetup is so crammed with helpful info on WordPressDesign and Styling we will have to take the Trevor
MultiPurpose, Multilayout Themes or How PageBuilders Became SiteBuilders
WordPress themes have always had multipurpose capabilities to a degree. One has seen it with built-in front page sliders, configurable headers,multi-page theme layouts, and even importable
Discovered at WordCamp 2015 TO:Geo Mapping Tricks
At a WordCamp there is inevitably Lecture Regret – that is when you have to make a hard choice between 2 or 3 equally interesting
Looking for a Better Visual Editor
It maybe late to be looking for a better Visual Editor given the rapid improvement in both Page Builders like Elementor, Beaver or Divi plus
How Much Does a WordPress Website Cost?
Codeable has an interesting infographic about the pricing for building a new WordPress Business website with 6 pages and a blog as shown below. Lets
Gutenberg will be THE WordPress Visual Editor
Late October 2017 the latest 1.6.1 release of Gutenberg, the new WP Visual Editor => PageBuilder => SiteBuilder being created by Automattic for WordPress, appeared
JetPack Tiled Gallery: A Disappointment
Masonry Image Grids have become very popular in WordPress Plugins because they allow users to post images of varying size all together in a gallery. The
Elementor Flexbox: A MVP Achilles Heal?
Elementor has reached the pinnacle of WordPress Frontend tools – a PageBuilder become ThemeBuilder that has 10million active user websites, has just released a Elementor
Using Google Fonts in WordPress
The previous post describes the many advantages of using Google Fonts on your website. This post will look at some of the ways of using Google Fonts in
Creating Lively Splash Pages in WordPress
Creating lively and attractive splash pages in WordPress is easier than ever to do. And the payoff is not only more visitors but also more
Discovered at WordCamp 2015 TO: WP-Optimize Plugin
During Jessica Gardners talk , WordPress Development for Non-Developers: An Introductory Tour Under the Hood, the discussion turned on how to clean the various database
NextGen Gallery Plugin Improvements
NextGen Gallery has had a very shaky start to its new 2.0 upgrade since Photocrati took over the plugin’s development. As previously reported the plugin
WordPress Slider Usage
Now that sliders for WordPress and general Web Development have become rich and varied in their features and reliable in their performance, it is worthwhile
Is WordPress Losing its UI WYSIWYG Advantage to Webs and Weebly?
Over the past 3-5 years one of the key selling point for WordPress has been the ability to say to clients that editing Pages and
Toronto WordPress Group Mobile Performance Meetup
Normally Toronto WordPress Meetup Group has a monthly meeting designed to help fix any WordPress problems that attendees want to pose to the Meetup Organizers,
MultiLayout Themes: WP-PageBuilder Framework
MultiLayout Themes are changing profoundly how WordPress Page and Post Designs are done. This website has covered the trend and our companion Web Development site
Now WordPress PageBuilders Become SiteBuilders
There is no doubt there is a lot of competition in the WebBuilders marketplace. There are at least 10 very good WordPress PageBuilders. WordPress is now
Why CSS Is So Busy
Inherently CSS, Cascading Style Sheets, do not have to be busy or complex. Classic CSS 1 & 2 commands like color, margin, text-size, and others
CSS Hero and Site Origins CSS Editor:Update
At the start of this year, theOpensourcery did a review of twoWordPress CSS Editor plugins that help WP developers make CSS corrections more effectively. Since then
Calypso: New WordPress Music
At a recent WordPress Meetup, convener Brent Kobayashi went around the table and greeted everyone. And for the new attendees coming to learn more about
Banned WordPress Plugins
At a recent WP Meetup about Database plugins I was faulted for not citing which of the plugins being reviewed had been banned by WordPress
Thinking Styles and UI Widgets
There has been a revolution in thinking over the past 50 years. How rationalizations is colored. The dual nature of Decision making. And better processes
Protected: The WordPress Role in the GDPR Rollout
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CSI Member’s Excellent Website: Kunle.TV
Kunle.TV states its purpose and vision on its front page with a full width, video mission statement capped with the Cisco declaration – “By 2019,
JavaScript Arriving in WordPress Stealthily
With Calypso and Gutenberg, clearly JavaScript is arriving onto WordPress in a big way. Here are seven reasons why: Gutenberg is not just the new
Elementor + Livemesh Free Addon Plugin
In the next few months , the OpenSourcery will be featuring good plugin add-ons to the popular WordPress PageBuilders. What are the popular WordPress ?
Discovered at WordCamp 2015 TO: Content Modeling
Jamie Schmid came to WordCamp Toronto all the way from Portland Oregon. And as you can see from the slides of her presentation she certainly
Cookies Required in WordPress
How often have you as a WordPress User gotten this demand in any browser – Chrome, Firefox, Opera? Too often or hardly at all? My
WordPress Optimizing: Clean-up tools
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How Gutenberg is Shaking WordPress UI Foundations
But It Is Theme And PageBuilder Vendors Who Are Currently Transforming How WordPress UI Design Is Actually Done Let us be clear, Gutenberg is by
Post Grid Plugins
Grids are vital UI elements in medium to large scale websites. Think of websites with scores if not hundreds of products or properties or simply