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This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 19th August 2019

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 19th August 2019

You've been using a Page Builder to design your WordPress websites and life is great. But it could be better. The Page Builder Cloud plugin allows you to save your layouts to the cloud and reuse them on whatever website you want. So you can start to build your own library of layouts and they're right there, waiting to be deployed and save you a heap of time. The plugin is also going to be able to convert layouts from one Page Builder to another, but this is not ready just yet. Check it out...

In this episode:

Get Page Builder Cloud here…

Interview – Easy life… store your layouts in the cloud with Andrew Palmer

So, go back 20 or so years and building websites was hard, and I mean really hard… You had to use tables and it took hours to make things line up.

Then along came CSS and suddenly the work got a little easier. Then the CMS was born and we could all begin to create websites that could present different things at different times. However, making these websites look good was another frustration. You had to learn the complexities of the WordPress templating system and figure out what you needed to amend in multiple locations to get your posts and pages looking great.

Then a few years back the Page Builders came about. The offered the chance to point-click-drag-save your way into great looking pages. If you spent time with your Page Builder of choice you could get great results really, really fast.

Now let’s put aside whether or not you think that Page Builders are the ‘correct’ way of creating your layouts, and let’s just accept that many people think that they are, we now have a new dilemma!

Page Builders meant that we could create sites faster, and we could also save our creations. We could save the templates for use within the same site and we could save them for use in other WordPress websites. This process is a little fiddly. You need to save the output file somewhere, put it in a folder on your PC with some naming structure so that you remember something about it’s purpose, and if you’re really diligent you might even take a screen shot of what the layout looks like and drop that in the same folder too. You can then find them at a later date and upload them to the other projects that you’re working on.

So we’re not complaining. Run through those 20 years and things are so much better than they were. But, being the technologists that we are, what we’ve got now is never good enough. We want it to be more easy.

Make I introduce Andrew Palmer and his Page Builder Cloud… He felt your pain. He knew that the process of saving layouts needed improving and he jolly well went and did it!

Page Builder Cloud is an easy to use cloud based way of saving your layouts so that you can reuse them on any website that you’re working on.

So the workflow goes like this…

working on website A you suddenly realise that you’ve created a masterpiece. This needs to be saved to use at a later date

install the Page Builder Cloud plugin

click ‘save to cloud’ – this erm… saves the layout to the cloud

you go to website B and think to yourself… remember that fantastic layout that I created on website A… I wish there was some way that I could put that on this website which I’ve called website B

you install the Page Builder Cloud

you find the fantastic layout and click a button and there it is

you finish the project early because of all the time that you’ve saved saving layouts and go to the pub

See, now you get it. It saves you time!

But you’re thinking… how will I find my layouts because this cloud saving plugin just saves them? Well it does more than save them. You can add categories to the, like modern, forms, landing page or website A. This makes them easy to find.

But remember that before I talked about grabbing screenshots. That would be a nice feature wouldn’t it? Well, that’s baked into this plugin too. It takes a scrolling screenshot so that you can even see what the layout looked like.

Your life is complete!

What does it work with? Pretty much all the Page Builders out there:

Beaver Builder

Elementor

Divi

Brizy

Oxygen

Pootle Press

Visual Composer

and more…

They have even begun work on making it so that you can save a layout from one Page Builder and then import it into a different Page Builder, and whilst this is still a work in progress, it’s

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 12th August 2019

This weeks WordPress news – Covering The Week Commencing 12th August 2019:

WordPress Core

Gutenberg 6.3 Improves Accessibility with New Navigation and Edit Modes

Community

Foolish English folk ride 3,000 km for a great WordPress cause – WP&UP

My Final Goodbye to the Tavernand this Tweet

WordCamp US – Community Track Round 3andWordCamp US schedule

Attend the Great WP Virtual Summit for Free: August 19-23

Automattic — the maker of WordPress.com — has purchased TumblrandMatt Mullenweg’s reaction – Tumblr the Day After

Automattic Acquires Zero BS CRM, Considers Rebranding it as Jetpack CRM

WordPress Theme Review Team Scraps Trusted Authors Program Due to Gaming and Inconsistent Reviews

WP Engine Platform Becomes 40% Faster

The JavaScript for WordPress Bootcamp

We benchmarked Amazon’s new Aurora database for use with WordPress

New mycamp.rocks Newsletter Launches with Tips for Conference Organizers, Speakers, and Attendees

Plugins / Themes

Elementor – Celebrating 3 Million Active Installations!

WooCommerce 3.7 Has LandedandWooCommerce 3.7 Introduces New Blocks, Updates Minimum WordPress and PHP Requirements

WPMU DEV 2019 Q3 Roadmap Roundup…It’s Getting Better all the Time

Translate Brizy Page Builder sites using TranslatePress

Project Huddle – Goodbye logins, hello easy!

iThemes – Plugin Roundup – August 2019

Security

WordPress Vulnerability Roundup: August 2019, Part 1

New Windows malware can also brute-force WordPress websites

Cracking WordPress Passwords with Hashcat

WP Builds

Feeling insecure about security (Part 2)

Not WordPress, but useful anyway…

Google Just Revealed a Brilliantly Simple Trick to Totally Destroy Telemarketers

How to opt out of human review of your voice assistant recordings

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This is the second episode about WordPress security. In this podcast we talk about the range of security plugins that we've heard of. It's by no means an exhaustive list, bit we cover some of the main options that you've heard of. We discuss these WordPress security plugins; what options do they offer, do we understand what they're doing and how do we pass on the responsibility for security to our WordPress website clients? Have a listen and post your comments...

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 5th August 2019

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