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5 WordPress Design Tricks You Probably Don’t Know
Introduction: WordPress is incredibly powerful, but even experienced users miss some of the design functionality hidden in the platform. In this post, I’ll share 5 WordPress design tricks that can level up your page building skills. You can add gradient backgrounds to blocks and adjust them using the gradient color picker. Add additional color points…
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Sync specific Gutenberg Block Templates, Template Parts, Page and Posts from Staging to Live
InstaWP released a new service that allows you to create a staging website that mirrors your live site, but that also lets you sync back only the bits you choose. 👇💪
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How Michael the Waffleman is using Ai for SEO
Today, I received a heartwarming message from one of my YouTube subscribers: “Hey Jamie, just a little positive feedback for you. The last couple of months I’ve been learning about blogging using AI for my SEO on my Food Truck business and been getting good results. I watched your video on the SEO writing tool…
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WordPress 6.4 explained in 250 seconds
WordPress 6.4 is due to be released on November 7th, 2023 and here is my video outlining the main features 💪👇 Note: The update also introduces a new default theme, the 2024 theme, but some anticipated features like the font library and certain blocks were deferred to WordPress 6.5.
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How TechCrunch Spent $1 Million Rebuilding Their Website
About a month ago I recreated the TechCrunch website in 30 minutes in one of my rapid recreation videos on YouTube. What I didn’t know at the time was that Tom Willmott, the CEO of Human Made, the company that actually built the TechCrunch website watched my video. Tom tweeted to let me know the…
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Meet the new Gutenberg Pro designer view
I love creating pages with the WordPress Block Editor (Gutenberg) but I sometimes wish that there was a way to zoom out and see the whole design. So we built a little tool into our Gutenberg Pro plugin that makes this possible. Check out the video below to see how it works 💪👇
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The most popular WordPress Page Builders (2023)
I went down another rabbit hole yesterday and decide to research the current state of the WordPress Page Builder Market, and this is what I discovered. The information is taken from builtwith.com and ahrefs.com. Bricks Builder Visual Composer Oxygen Builder Beaver Builder Site Origin builder Divi Elementor Page Builders ranked by Search traffic
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Watch me rebuild the official Tom Cruise website in just 15 minutes 🔥
Today, I embarked on a mission to recreate the Tom Cruise website in just 30 minutes. Spoiler alert: I did it in half the time!💪👇 Video summary What You’ll Learn: The Process:
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Gutenberg Pro gets fancy Post Grids
A couple of days ago we rolled out a new version of our Gutenberg Pro WordPress plugin. Now you can create beautiful Post Grids, just using the WordPress Query Loop Block. Here’s a quick video walkthrough.
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Is WordPress losing the YouTube battle to Wix, Canva, Squarespace and Webflow
I was looking at the official WordPress.com and WordPress.org YouTube channels today, and decided to spin out a quick blog post to show how they compare to the official channels of Wix, Canva, Webflow and Squarespace. It doesn’t make pretty reading 👇 YouTube Channel Subscribers Monthly Views Subscriber monthly increase WordPress.com 16.3k 88,928 700 WordPress.org…
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Which WordPress Brands get the most website traffic?
Introduction I was doing some keyword research on ahrefs.com today, and I went down a rabbit hole of looking at which of the big WordPress brands get the most traffic. Three hours later, here’s what I found 👇😬 Note: The data below is taken from ahrefs.com. Elementor.com Visits per day: 303,377 Interesting fact: Although traffic is…
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Discover the Ultimate WordPress SEO AI Tool: Bulk generate Amazing Posts
The seowriting.ai tool lets you bulk generate high quality WordPress posts. In this video I take it for a spin. It’s great if you want to super charge your content generation, or maybe built an affiliate website. But use it wisely, with great power comes great responsibility 😉 Video Summary – generated by AI The…
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My Interview with Rand Fishkin
Rand Fishkin, founder of Moz and now SparkToro, provides insights on the evolution and future of SEO. Check out the conversation and comments on Rand’s LInkedIn Post. Video Summary (generated by AI)
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Will WordPress Block Themes ever be as popular as Classic Themes?
In this interview with Mike McAlister (Ollie Theme) we discuss some of the reasons for the slow uptake in WordPress Block Themes. Video summary (generated by AI) WordPress block themes, with their potential to reshape website creation, have witnessed a measured pace towards widespread acceptance. Delving into the reasons provides intriguing insights and offers a…
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Choosing Between WordPress Custom Post Types and Post Categories: A Beginners Guide
Using WordPress as a content management system (CMS), you often have the choice between using a custom post type (CPT) or simply categorizing your posts. Both methods have their own advantages and use cases. Here’s a breakdown to help you decide: Use a Custom Post Type (CPT) when: Use a Post Category when: Conclusion: Remember,…
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Recreating TechCrunch with WordPress: A 30-minute Challenge
When it comes to versatility and ease of use, WordPress is amazing. To put it to the test, I attempted to recreate the TechCrunch website using the default 2023 Block Theme and no plugins. Here’s my experience. The Challenge With a blank WordPress website on my left and TechCrunch on my right, my goal was…
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WordPress Gutenberg versus Page Builders – The Kevin Geary Interview
In this interview I chat to Kevin Geary about the WordPress Gutenberg Project and the future of Page Builders like Bricks and Elementor. Here’s a summary of our conversion
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Club Pootle discord channel
Exciting news! I’ve just integrated a private discord channel for all existing Club Pootle members 😀 Imagine a virtual clubhouse where you can drop by, chat with friends, share pictures, or even have voice conversations. This clubhouse can have different rooms, each dedicated to specific topics or activities, like one room for sharing book recommendations…
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Why I love The Ollie Theme onboarding Wizard
I’m super excited to share something I’ve recently discovered and absolutely love — it’s a real game-changer for anyone working with WordPress. If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed setting up block themes on WordPress, then my latest video is tailor-made for you. In today’s video I take a FIRST LOOK at a fabulous onboarding Wizard built…
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The Best Ai Website Builder I’ve ever seen
In today’s video, I dive deep into “ZipWP,” an AI-driven web builder for WordPress. I introduce you all to “ZipWP,” a tool that can whip up a website in just about 60 seconds I also throw in some questions about who’s really thriving in the WordPress space and the challenges they face and how this…
