WordPress plugins and auto-renewals
Several years ago I sold my house to a friend. I did all the normal things you do when selling your home—from switching the water and gas to my friend to canceling services like cable. When my wife and I ...
Recommending the best cache plugin for WordPress
In my experience, there are three ways to determine how to recommend any plugin as the best for any particular area, including the best cache plugin for WordPress. The first is simply based on a proven track record. In other words, you ...
How do you find the best WordPress slider?
How do you find the best WordPress slider? Compare 20 of them. In 2013 I reviewed slider plugins for performance. It's been a long time since I circled back because, after all, these are sliders and I'm not that much of ...
A drag and drop WordPress Page Builder: Good or Bad?
Some context for the discussion A couple months ago I started work on a website that will soon launch. The reality is that much of the time on the project has been spent on discussion—determining the right solutions to the ...
WPForms: A fast new solution for WordPress Forms
There's a new solution for WordPress forms. Who knows the exact back story on how WPForms came to be? (Now you can know it.) Maybe it was someone who was frustrated with the underlying code or performance of an existing ...
My Rainmaker Platform Review
I realized, when someone asked the other day, how I felt about Rainmaker and how it was going, that I'd written a lot about its features without telling you what I felt about it. So here are my feelings. https://youtu.be/gikdvEYNT4s ...
Protecting yourself against WordPress plugin collisions
WordPress plugin collisions aren't fun What do you do when you have a stable website and then you want to install a new plugin? How do you know that it will all work? That the plugins won't destroy each other? ...
Has Website AI Arrived?
If you haven't heard of website artificial intelligence, the concept is not hard to grasp. Instead of a designer or developer building your website, software creates it. And it does so by leveraging all sorts of logic rules and best ...
The one thing many WordPress plugin developers seem to forget
Today I'm speaking at WordCamp Sacramento about the lessons I've learned while reviewing 30 membership plugins. While I get into product development, product marketing, writing review posts, and even membership details, I thought this quick review might help. Have you ...
Why I recommend Beaver Builder to WordPress Freelancers
Yesterday I was the presenter at our local WordPress meetup It's a great group of folks that are developers, designers, site configurators, implementers and business owners. Basically, the group is diverse with a variety of skill sets. And my topic was ...