marc_io

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by marc_io 6y ago
There are already solutions for this, like Stackbit and Publii.
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by marc_io 6y ago
> They often find the new UI brittle and difficult to work with, even for core WP blocks. There's a new (official) UI system in the works that aims to solve usability issues in WordPress components. https://g2-components.
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by marc_io 6y ago
This looks like Publii: https://getpublii.com/ Much more client-oriented than Getsby, Jeckyl or Hugo.
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by marc_io 6y ago
> it does not work with a git centric development flow, which any modern dev will insist on. Yes, it does. Just use Trellis and Bedrock.
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by marc_io 6y ago
For the uninitiated, yes. This is no different from other CMSs that offers plugins from third-party developers.
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by marc_io 6y ago
There are also webhosts that specialize exactly in this kind of feature, generating those static assets and hosting them for you.
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by marc_io 6y ago
This is why I generally recommend a solution like Publii (also Open Source) for simple sites that don't need extreme flexibility. It's “client friendly“ as WordPress, but generates static content in nature.
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by marc_io 6y ago
Just a quick note regarding Beaver Builder: when the Full Site Editor arrive on WordPress this year, we will be able to use native functionality to build the entire website, without relying on a third-party page builder to do this.
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by marc_io 6y ago
Lots of Open Source icon libraries here: – https://icones.netlify.app/ There are also two others that aren't on the list above: – https://github.com/bytedance/IconPark (Apache) – https:/&#x2
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by marc_io 6y ago
They may be “excited”, but this really doesn't make it less problematic. They must follow the labor laws too.
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by marc_io 6y ago
> This whole report makes me question the sanity of everyone involved. It's very unlikely that a highly trained professional military pilot, which operates a incredibly sophisticated machine costing millions of dollars, suffers from
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by marc_io 6y ago
Sure, people should at least use the more modern acronym UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena), which is less descriptive and broader in scope than UFO.
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by marc_io 6y ago
> I can't speak for other countries, but in the Netherlands WhatsApp is undeniably a part of your social infrastructure. It is in Brazil too, without a shadow of a doubt.
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by marc_io 6y ago
This is much more important than personal preference. This is detrimental to the flow of information in entire countries, no kidding. Each person can contribute to end this – or not.
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by marc_io 6y ago
It's not only expensive, SMS is dangerous too! There is huge amount of fraud around SMS and the “SIM swap” technique to clone credit cards and cause all kinds of havoc, some of them with the participation of corrupted employees from te
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by marc_io 6y ago
Updating to a major version is not mandatory, as they support older versions as early as 3.7. The real problem is the plugin ecosystem, which does not do the same.
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by marc_io 6y ago
Yes, there are many sites using the Classic Editor plugin, but its “active installation growth” declined a lot in the last year: it went from 3% in April 2019 (1), to around 0.4% currently (2). Sources: (1) 2019: https://wptavern
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by marc_io 6y ago
I don't know if they are too late. WordPress is a 10 ton animal that moves rather slowly, but still has a growing user base. Gutenberg is part of a long-term project, as Matt said. I'm confident that they will eventually catch up
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by marc_io 6y ago
This is probably what is going to happen, indeed.
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by marc_io 6y ago
https://w3techs.com/technologies “We include only the top 10 million websites (top 1 million before June 2013) in the statistics in order to limit the impact of domain spammers”. So, affiliate sites with shallow content – a
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by marc_io 6y ago
You can use something like Publii for this exact thing (creating a static site with affiliate links). No code involved.
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by marc_io 6y ago
Unfortunately, WordPress will stop supporting it by the end of 2021.
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by marc_io 6y ago
There is no guarantee that this will work for the next years, as the author itself states in the plugin page: > “I can’t make any promises, but I intend to develop with WordPress for the long-haul. Who knows what the future holds, but th
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by marc_io 6y ago
How to prevent my own visits to appear on the dashboard?
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by marc_io 6y ago
Installing WordPress on a desktop computer (Mac, PC or Linux) is easy using the Local app (free, originally called Local by Flywheel).
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by marc_io 6y ago
An average user can do this, for sure. But, yea, some sort of instruction is necessary, as it is not something that the platform itself offers by default. For example: the user needs to be aware of this possibility to begin with and also ne
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by marc_io 6y ago
> A fear of breaking things means WP shies away from large-scale changes that would help it become a modern-looking PHP app. They are strongly advocating Javascript as the future of WordPress right now, so I'm not sure if they would
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by marc_io 6y ago
> I would love to buy a tool that lets me generate the static html that squarespace does. Some options are: Bootstrap Studio, CoffeeCup Site Designer and Blocksapp. They have shortcomings, but all of them allow to export a complete HTML
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by marc_io 6y ago
Webflow is great, but it's quite expensive to host a simple static website there. They used to allow exporting a website on the free plan, but that's gone now. There are other Webflow-ish options that doesn't require to keep
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by marc_io 6y ago
You can easily export your website to a free static hosting using with a free plugin, after creating it on your desktop computer. No online PHP hosting required.

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