AI Writing Tools – Aint Going To Change My Style
Jack Surveyer
April 18, 2023
AI Writing and Music tools have an early and deep presence in savvy AI usage. And as a Yoast user in WordPress and Grammerly with
HTML5 has opened up a World of Coding
Why CSS Is So Busy
Jacques Surveyer
January 12, 2023
Inherently CSS, Cascading Style Sheets, do not have to be busy or complex. Classic CSS 1 & 2 commands like color, margin, text-size, and others
WordPress ThemeBuilders Under Stress
Jacques Surveyer
January 4, 2023
Our MasterWP.guru blog recently posted WordPress Under Duress, a report underlining multiple signs of pressure impacting WordPress. The WP Tavern Posting acknowledged several signs of stress.
WordPress WebPage Performance Tuning
Jacques Surveyer
August 29, 2022
WebPage Performance Tuning WordPress Performance Tuning is like WordPress SEO, an anointed discipline akin to Alchemy – complex practices subject to many sub-disciplines. As a
Meetup-WordPress Backend Bustout
Jacques Surveyer
December 29, 2021
Most of the attention in the WordPress community for the past five years has been about the effort to build a better WordPress frontend –
How to Find News About WordPress
Jack Surveyer
May 25, 2021
One of the most frequently asked questions about WordPress is what is the WordPress market share? The answer is easy – go to W3techs.com scroll
Looking for a Better Visual Editor
Jacques Surveyer
February 24, 2021
It maybe late to be looking for a better Visual Editor given the rapid improvement in both Page Builders like Elementor, Beaver or Divi plus
Banned WordPress Plugins
Jack Surveyer
October 9, 2020
At a recent WP Meetup about Database plugins I was faulted for not citing which of the plugins being reviewed had been banned by WordPress
WordPress Popup PDFs
Jacques Surveyer
September 12, 2020
This tutorial is based on the fact that PDFs have become the leading document integrators on the Web. Note the distinction – PDFs are multi-page
Measuring your Website
Jacques Surveyer
August 27, 2020
Measuring the Web The Web is the20th Century’s Cauldron of Change. The Web is spilling out change that is innovative, widespread and intimidating. Innovative because
Editorx Beta Bolsters Wix?
Jacques Surveyer
July 19, 2020
Wix and Squarspace have to watch out, Shopify, a Canadian startup specializing in shopping sites, has taken over their runner-up position in the Content Management
Element Kits Free & Pro Elementor Widgets
Jacques Surveyer
July 16, 2020
At the Toronto WordPress Meetup Group we have been doing a series of presentations about the substantial widgets and features available in Elementor. But in
Happy Addon’s Free & Pro Elementor Widgets
Jacques Surveyer
July 15, 2020
At the Toronto WordPress Meetup Group we have been doing a series of presentations about the substantial widgets and features available in Elementor. But in
ClassicPress: Why a WordPress Clone?
Jacques Surveyer
June 30, 2020
ClassicPress is a GPLv2[Free Software Foundation] clone of WordPress version 4.9.x – any theme, plugin or website that runs on WordPress 4.9 will run on
Thinking Styles and UI Widgets
Jack Surveyer
February 16, 2020
There has been a revolution in thinking over the past 50 years. How rationalizations is colored. The dual nature of Decision making. And better processes
Data Recovery Processes
Jack Surveyer
December 31, 2019
Data loss through a failed PC hard drive or cyber-attack is a galling problem for three reasons. First, you missed the warning signs of disk
WordPress PageStyling with PageBuilders
Jack Surveyer
September 19, 2019
WordPress Page Styling has moved from being the primary domain of the Theme chosen to display the website to what can now be called PageBuilder
Interactive News
Jack Surveyer
September 5, 2019
If this post’s title sounds like an oxymoron – it is deliberately so. Print newspapers are declining – not yet Dodo material. Even in Toronto
Website Backups – WayBackups
Jack Surveyer
August 24, 2019
As a website developer it is amazing and disconcerting the number of times the “problem du jour” is a website backup recovery. Yes, just getting
WordPress PageBuilders as PageStylers and ThemeBuilders
Jack Surveyer
August 13, 2019
This is a story about the intense competition among the WordPress PageBuilders for the past 3 years has added substantial PageStyling and ThemeBuilding capabilities to
Automation of Website Translations
Jack Surveyer
June 24, 2019
About five years ago for a consulting assignment, we looked at programs that could automatically translate from one language to another. Of course, Google Translate
Mobile Development With “No-Coding-Required” Mandate
Jack Surveyer
May 20, 2019
While doing a review of Google Sites, a second “no coding required” app making system was encountered. Forrester calls this tool system – Mobile Low-Code
Web Development Tools Overview
Jack Surveyer
May 19, 2019
While completing a posting on the Mobile Mandate in Web Development, I ran across this excellent review of contemporary Web Development skills and tools. What
US CyberSpy vs CyberSpy Incompetence
Jack Surveyer
May 6, 2019
Spy vs Spy was a Mad Magazine comic strip started during the Cold War era in 1961. Drawn by Antonia Prohias, the strip featured two
Appointment Scheduling
Jack Surveyer
April 14, 2019
Appointment Scheduling is a pervasive requirement for a wide range of service businesses.Think of rentals of equipment, rooms, expertise. Or scheduling events, classes, and training.
WordPress Gutenberg Editor Episode
Jack Surveyer
December 12, 2018
The Columns Block was the cliffhanger in the rollout of the Gutenberg Editor with WordPress 5 a week ago. It simply did not was glitchy
WordCamp Toronto 2018 Features Gutenberg
Jack Surveyer
November 14, 2018
WordCamp Toronto 2018 is coming to the North York Civic Centre at roughly the same time as WordPress 5.0 and the new Gutenberg will be
Keywords Help Everywhere
Jack Surveyer
October 6, 2018
Having been badly cash-burned by Facebook and Google on their pay for click schemes, this reviewer has concentrated on 2 different SEO Marketing strategies. First,
Google Cloud Summit Toronto 2018: Mixed Messages
Jack Surveyer
October 5, 2018
Systems as a Service are slowly hollowing out corporate data centers while bringing every major system direct to the Web to serve customers in myriad
Zedity: Killer Addon to WordPress Classic Editor
Jack Surveyer
August 28, 2018
Gutenberg as upcoming replacement for the Classic Editor this Fall is forcing an issue for WordPress users from newbies to hard-in-the-trenches WP Pro Developers –
WordPress Debugging 101
Jack Surveyer
August 23, 2018
This is a case study in debugging WordPress when things go crazy wrong. Here is the problem: It is really very simple – when I
How Gutenberg is Shaking WordPress UI Foundations
Jack Surveyer
June 29, 2018
But It Is Theme And PageBuilder Vendors Who Are Currently Transforming How WordPress UI Design Is Actually Done Let us be clear, Gutenberg is by