Tutorials
Tips for Building an Awesome About Page with Beaver Builder
Riddle me this: What’s greeted often and yet highly neglected at the same time? Your About page.
An article on Inc. showed that one of the first three pages a consumer often visits is your About page.
Read MoreBe a More Efficient Web Designer with ManageWP and Beaver Builder
Hey everyone! I want to introduce my good friend, Ariel. Ariel is a blogger and a regular around the Portland WordPress scene. She wrote up a great article for us about using Beaver Builder with ManageWP. It’s a real powerhouse combo. We love ManageWP’s service (and their community news aggregator is really cool too). Anyways, I’ll her…
Read MoreIntegrating A Page Builder With Your WordPress Themes
In Beaver Builder 1.8, we launched a new feature that allows theme authors to create and bundle templates with their themes. Be sure to read about the Theme Author Templates feature in the Knowledge Base. The days of mega themes packed with features appear to be on their way out while we see the rise of…
Read MoreDemo Video: Using Beaver Builder with the Genesis WordPress Theme
A lot of our customers want to know whether Beaver Builder works as a page builder with the Genesis WordPress theme. In this video, I demonstrate how you can use both tools together.
Read MoreFaster WordPress Development = Happy Clients & Increased Profits for Everyone
The era of slow, expensive and unprovable web design is coming to an end as would-be clients are getting hip to other website creation options. Instead of fighting this change, I recommend embracing it by focusing on clients’ business needs and ditching technologies and skills that don’t follow this philosophy. Faster WordPress development = happier…
Read MoreGetting Started with Google Analytics & WordPress
I think most webmasters/bloggers would agree, one of the most amusing aspects of publishing on the web is watching how the web responds. Out of the box, WordPress does not track any meaningful analytics on how your content is being accessed! Even if driving large amounts of traffic to your site isn’t your main goal, staying familiar with…
Read More3 Ways To Build WordPress Layouts Your Clients Can Edit With Ease
We’ve all seen it done plenty of times. What am I talking about? The WordPress editor, stuffed with HTML or shortcodes to build a custom page layout. That may be fine and dandy if you’re a developer and the only one working on a page, but what if the page you built was for a client that wants to make changes once you’re done?
Read MoreCreating A WordPress Plugin Is Easier Than You Think
Until a few years ago, I hadn’t written a single WordPress plugin. I had created and customized many themes for our clients, but for some reason, I kept telling myself that creating a plugin was beyond my capabilities. In hindsight, I couldn’t have been more wrong. If you’ve ever felt this way, let me tell you something. Creating a WordPress plugin is not beyond your capabilities. Anyone that has skills enough to write basic PHP and modify a theme can create a plugin.
Read More10 Things You Might Not Know About WordPress
One of WordPress’ most powerful features is its simplicity. Mainly due to the text-editor-like post editing dashboard, anyone familiar with MS Word or Pages can jump right in and start publishing on the web. While this simplicity is awesome, some super powerful WordPress features get hidden away behind the scenes. Today, I wanted to dig…
Read MoreMake Your WordPress Site Fast as *$#@!
Wear and tear is inevitable. Shoes, cars, tools, homes, and everything else degrades over time. Well, software is no different. Ever notice how a four-year-old computer just doesn’t have the same pep in its step like when it was new? Or, how that contacts app on your phone seems to get bogged down more and…
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