WordPress test and development website
Ferdinand The WordPress plugin I use for realizing more advanced stuff is Toolset. Toolset lets you create custom post-types with custom fields, display (filtered) lists, link post-types together in various ways (e.g. parent-child, one-to-many or one-one) and create frontend forms. When combined in the right way you can achieve a lot of functionality with these elements. For … Read more
For this website I use GeneratePress (free version). The reason for this is that I also use Toolset and GeneratePress is one of the recommended themes. For years I have been using Weaver Xtreme as my go to theme because it is fully customizable and I know my way around. Now I will go with … Read more
So I’m extending WordPress with Toolset and adding all kinds of functionality. There are hundreds of little things that need to be in place for the experience to be ‘app-like’. Not all of the these things can be done with Toolset. One of the things is displaying the (logged in) username in the WordPress menu. … Read more
In 2015 I decided on a paid subscription of a WordPress Theme called WP Weaver, now called Weaver Xtreme. I had been using it for some time because it was ‘fully customize-able’ and beside that there is this companion plugin called: Weaver Show Posts Options which lets you make filtered lists. In the proces of … Read more
Sometimes you want tot display a specific sidebar on a specific page. In Weaver Xtreme, my go to theme, this custom sidebars are integrated. On this website I use Generate Press because this is one of the themes Toolset advises. And Generate Press doesn’t have this functionality, at least not on the free version. So … Read more
Frontend forms, when designed with the essence in mind, can streamline processes. If you can educate the user in filling in forms from top to bottom it should be possible to minimise errors. Filling out forms can feel as a burden and as an administrative hassle. So it’s important to remember that forms are a … Read more
So now I will finally try to learn the new WordPress. For years I have been dodging this Gutenberg Block thing by installing the Classic Editor directly after starting a new project. The Block Editor was introduced by the end of 2018 and occasionally I gave it a try. Within minutes I was mumbling ‘This … Read more