I’ve been all about WordPress Blocks lately as I’m convinced that this is the future of WordPress, especially once Full Site Editing finds its way into WP core. Blocks, blocks everywhere! 🙂 And as they are utilized more by the general WordPress community we are going to see some creative solutions to enhance our ability to build websites. So for now I’ve been updating our Genesis DevKit Plugin and building a couple of Genesis Child Themes with it. These Child Themes, DevKit Journal and DevKit Parallax, are based off of similarly named Premium Dynamik Skins. These two Themes are included with your active Genesis DevKit license and can be downloaded (once logged in) from the Genesis DevKit Pricing page.
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Extender Pro 1.2.0 Update Now Allows Customizations To Remain In Effect Even After Deactivation
Ever since Extender Pro was released there have been quite a few freelancers who’ve wanted to know if they could use it to customize a website and then deactivate/delete Extender Pro without losing their customizations. And until now the answer was always no, you have to keep Extender Pro active to retain your customizations. But now, with this 1.2.0 update, Extender Pro allows you to install/activate a simple “Extender Pro Export” Plugin on the site in question so you can then remove Extender Pro without losing your custom work that was done through the Extender Pro Plugin.
Read more “Extender Pro 1.2.0 Update Now Allows Customizations To Remain In Effect Even After Deactivation”WordPress Web Design Challenge: Ask Eric Hamm
What’s up guys! I’ve been looking for various ways to offer more consistent tutorials and screencasts that are specific to our Cobalt Apps DEV tools, and WordPress Web Design in general. Yet I find that trying to come up with my own ideas is much less fruitful than responding to your own requests for Freelance Development insight. So I’ve come up with an idea that could be really useful or a total waste of time. 🙂 Time will tell.
Read more “WordPress Web Design Challenge: Ask Eric Hamm”Ace Editor Update To Both Dynamik 2.6.0 And Extender Pro 1.1.0
For quite some time now I have received feature requests for both Dynamik Website Builder and Extender Pro to add Ace Editor support to both the Custom Template and Custom Hook Box features. And in this update I’ve decided to do just that. You’ll also now find Ace Editor Support in the Dynamik Responsive Design Options, for the six media query boxes.
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To finish off these 12 Days Of Coding, as well as 2019, we are offering one of the biggest discounts in our 10 years in business! For the next 48 hours you can save 50% (yes, that’s 50%) off all CobaltApps.com purchases, renewals, and upgrades!! Just use the coupon code COBALTAPPS50 at checkout.
Read more “12 Days Of Coding End Of The Year Sale!”12 Reasons Why Instant IDE Makes WordPress Development Awesome!
In this 12 Days Of Coding post I’ll be focusing all of my attention on Instant IDE, our ultimate coding/DEV tool for the serious WordPress users and freelancers. Specifically, I’ll be focusing in on my 12 favorite features found in Instant IDE and explain how these notable tools combine to make Instant IDE the ultimate browser-based WordPress Development Environment.
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To continue our 12 Days Of Coding posts I want to get a little more specific about some of our powerful WordPress Development Tools. In this particular case I want to showcase our Themer Pro Plugin and share some of the many powerful features it offers both WordPress power users and full blown freelancers alike. And this is not an exhaustive list, but just some of my favorite goodies found in Themer Pro.
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In this 12 Days Of Coding tutorial I show you how to use your browser’s Inspector tool, as well as our Themer Pro Front-End DEV Tools feature, to tweak the design of your WordPress pages and posts. With this combination you’ll find that most any custom design needs, beyond what your active theme provides, will be thoroughly covered.
Read more “12 Days Of Coding: How To Manipulate The Styles Of Your WordPress Website Using Themer Pro And Your Browser Inspector”12 Days Of Coding: Using Instant IDE To Create And Explore The Files And Folders Of The WordPress Platform
In this 12 Days Of Coding tutorial I use Instant IDE to create a fresh installation of the WordPress Platform and then explore the various files and folders found in that WP install to show you how it is organized for ideal compartmentalization and functionality. I don’t get into a lot of the coding aspects of WordPress here, but instead take a birds-eye view to show how WordPress is purposefully structured.
Read more “12 Days Of Coding: Using Instant IDE To Create And Explore The Files And Folders Of The WordPress Platform”12 Days Of Coding: How To Create And Customize A SASS/SCSS Version Of The Genesis Sample Theme Using Themer Pro And Instant IDE
In this 12 Days Of Coding tutorial I walk through the process of creating a custom Genesis Sample Theme that is pre-configured for SASS/SCSS compiling. Using both Themer Pro and Instant IDE I show you how you can easily compile SCSS code using these powerful WordPress DEV Tools, with each including the ability to auto-compile SCSS code with each save to changes made to your .scss files. I also go over some basic ideas behind preprocessors such as SASS/SCSS, like variables, mixins, and includes.
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