WP Builds Newsletter #53 – WordPress triage team, plugin updates and Google+ is no more

This weeks WordPress news – Covering The Week Commencing 4th March 2019: WordPress Core Introducing the WordPress Triage Team“As WordPress has grown, the volume of tickets in Trac has naturally increased. While the number of open tickets on its own should never be the sole metric of software health, a large number of open tickets…

WP Builds Newsletter #51 – WordPress 5.1 released, plugin updates and AI gets really scary

WP Builds Newsletter #47 – WordPress 5.1, Gutenberg and Page Builder updates and new Google Search Console features

106 – With the right tools and guidance, anyone can design a great site with Mor Cohen

This week we have Mor Cohen on from Washington State in America and she’s with us because she has a new course that she’s launching called “The GeneratePress and Elementor Design Course”. This course is designed for people like me, and when I say that it’s unlikely that you need this course as much as I do because I have the design skills of a peanut! I can see what makes a design good, and I can appreciate a good design, but I cannot seem to be able to make a good design. That stuff is hard, or so I thought. Mor thinks otherwise!

WP Builds Newsletter #34 – Help needed with Gutenberg, Elementor adds Custom Fields integrations and DuckDuckGo on the rise

WP Builds Newsletter #34 – Help needed with Gutenberg, Elementor adds Cusomt Fields integrations and DuckDuckGo on the rise

WP Builds Newsletter #29 – New vunerabilites, Drupal Elementor and significant Chrome updates

WP Builds Newsletter #28 – Long live the Classic Editor, Gutenberg updates and AI taking our jobs

WP Builds Newsletter #22 – WordPress 4.9.8 improvements, UI fun and weird divs

69 – Using Elementor? You need Katka from Barna Buxbaum

In this episode of the WP Builds podcast we get to talk to a very generous man! He’s called Barna Buxbaum and he’s the man behind the wildly popular template pack for the Elementor Page Builder called Katka. I’m always astonished by how people produce amazing things in the WordPress space and then just give them away for nothing! How cool is that? Barna’s Katka is a huge library of over 170 (yes 170!) design elements that you simply download and drag and drop into your page designs. There’s something for everyone, from ‘Calls to Action’ to ‘Testimonials’, ‘Pricing Tables’ to ‘FAQs’.

59 – Ben Pines, tell us about the future of the Elementor Page Builder – Part 2

The Elementor folk are thinking about the future and how the product is going to evolve over the coming year. The obvious question is how Elementor is going to align with Gutenberg which is now only a few months away. Are Gutenberg and Elementor in opposition or are they going to work in harmony together? What are the plans to introduce an Elementor Theme Builder, and will it be a new product, or an upgrade to the Pro version of the current product? Also, what’s going on in the longer term?