What Is Fluent Community? Fluent Community is similar to platforms like Circle.so. It combines a discussion area and a course platform into one unified space. Even though it’s a WordPress plugin, it works as a standalone portal separate from your main site’s design and theme. For example, I set mine up on a subdomain: community.jonathanjernigan.com. … Read more
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SureCart recently released the ability to send invoices via your WordPress website’s eCommerce system, which opens up a huge world of possibility for all kinds of clients. In my case, building websites for Homeowners Associations means I can give my clients the ability to send invoices to their members directly inside their existing WordPress website. … Read more
Creating a dynamic form that allows your visitors to RSVP to an event on your WordPress website can be setup by following this tutorial, thanks to Pie Calendar and WS Form. In this video, I’ll show you how to bring in the events start date and time in the form dynamically so that when users … Read more
Custom fields enable you to do so much more with your WordPress websites. While the name “custom fields” implies a complicated feature, custom fields are actually quite easy to grasp and you’ll find countless uses for them. In this video, I’ll be showing you why learning even just a little bit about custom fields will … Read more
Performance optimization plugins for WordPress are a great way to get your website to nearly perfect scores in page speed analysis tools like Google Page Speed Insights and GTMetrix. Using a quality web host and theme/page builder is often the most significant contributor, but a performance plugin is something I still use on nearly every … Read more
Form plugins for WordPress are really dime-a-dozen so I never figured I’d consider switching away from Gravity Forms, but WS Form is certainly making me consider doing so. I recently was asked by a customer of mine in Pie Calendar with help creating an event from the front-end of their website using WS Form. I … Read more
The recently released Fluent Booking seems to be a great plugin to replace Calendly or similar booking SaaS services with a WordPress plugin. In this video, I’m taking a first look into the software to see how viable it might be as a booking system for a small massage studio. Fluent Booking is extremely easy … Read more
Are you searching for an easier, more powerful way to manage events on your WordPress site? You might have just found that with Pie Calendar – a revolutionary new plugin that lets you turn any post on your site into an event and display it on a front-end calendar in just minutes. It works seamlessly … Read more
A new member of CSS Made Easy asked if it was possible to get their recipe plugin looking more like a provided example. In this video, I’m showing you how to use CSS to do exactly that. Lots of plugins in WordPress either lack design controls entirely or force you to pick from predefined styles. … Read more
My tech stack over the last year or so has seen some dramatic changes. If you watch videos and read my tutorials from early 2022, you’ll see a wildly different list of recommendations than you’ll see below. The list below includes the plugins and tools I use on just about every website build project, both … Read more