WP Theme Speed Blog
WordPress and the plugins, web services, automations and processes that let WordPress do amazing things.
Genesis + Divi Builder Plugin vs Divi Theme speed comparisons (video)
Anecdotal speed test of a site running a Genesis Child theme + the Divi Builder Plugin vs switching that same site over to only run the Divi Theme. The results surprised me. Divi Theme was faster. Note the site also ran the ACF plugin. (VIDEO)
How to Activate Jetpack Premium Free in my.pressable.com
Need to Activate Jetpack Premium (for free) with your Pressable hosting plan? There’s a specific order to this process, 10 steps actually. I walk through it in a video example. Thanks to Jess and the team at Pressable, (I made 3-4 attempts for each of about 17 accounts last year. This method worked the first time!)
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Quick items we are working & researching
Three Easy to Edit Image Hover Effects Free Divi Layout from Divi Soup
This free Divi layout uses the native Divi image and text modules with absolute positioning to show or hide text or swap the image for another on hover. View the demo and download this free
Convert Text Blog Posts to Videos -Automated tool
Came upon this excellent freemium service that converts text blog posts into a video with royalty free video clips and sound. You can story board your article and easily share the video to Facebook & other social media channels
Find Essential Divi Theme Resources
Large Collection of Divi Theme Tips and Resources
Super Easy WordPress Tools For Restaurants!
Need some great tools to make building a Restaurant website with WordPress and Divi Themes, easy. There are three things to focus on in this article:
OpenTable Plugin
Creating Food Menu pages that look awesome & include categories like Gluten Free, Range Free Chickens and more
Conversion Tracking (for OpenTable) and other things on a site
Quickly create Color Palettes from Images or logos
Video tutorial showing how to generate a color palette from any image (logo, picture, book cover) to then use in designing web themes, or any print document or infographic. Free tool always
1Password: 1k less Passwords to worry about (video)
Manage thousands of passwords individually or amongst your team or family with controls, backups & syncing among all devices. Includes video intro to the app and system.
Sort LearnDash Lessons/topics Drag and Drop Plugin
Have LearnDash? Need drag and drop sorting options for lessons in LearnDash or topics in LearnDash? This blog shows a solution!
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Quick items we are working & researching
Mechanism for selling Spotify Playlists or lists of Spotify tracks
Say you have created the best party playlist ever, and you want to sell it. How do you do that? In theory the process would be... Create a file of your Spotify tracks/playlists that can be sold and bought Just export your Playlist and then sell the export file and the...
Updated Roadmap for WordPress in 2019| WordPress.org
Joost De Valk, the founder of Yoast aka the WordPress SEO plugin and NEW head of Marketing for WordPress' Automatic, has updated the 2019 Roadmap for WordPress. Now that Gutenberg, the codename for WordPress update 5.x, has successfully launched, phase 2 of the Block...
Testing a Gravity Form to Conversational app converter
Having a little fun testing out a tool (Free on repository and Pro versions) that converts Gravity Forms forms into a conversation experience, sort of like AI but more of a chat bot. The key here is converting complex gravity forms into a better experience to increase...
Apple Touch Icon 404 errors
I run the Redirection Plugin on some sites. It logs 404 errors which is handy to clean up loose ends. The Apple Touch Icon 404 errors get annoying. Handing reminder of the solution here on Stackexchange. 2 solutions - Define the icon in the head file or upload 100x100...
Default Featured Image Plugin to transform site without
Found a handy, simple plugin for setting Default Featured Images on a Wordpress site. Client had 370+ posts (podcast episodes) without featured images. Going back and adding them one at a time for the old articles wasn't in the cards for now. However we needed some...