Chasing Stripes, a Blog

  • GutenTour: Kadence Blocks, Part 1


    A lot of the third-party activity around blocks these days is centered on putting together sets of blocks, and one of the more widely used sets out there is Kadence blocks, which has a free and a pro option. For a recent project I spent quite a bit of time working with the Kadence Pro…

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  • GutenTour: Spectra Blocks


    Let’s check out some more WordPress blocks. Third-party blocks. On our last outing we looked at blocks that work together for a specialized purpose—JetFormBuilder, which is a forms package that builds forms using a block for each field.   The people that make the widely used Astra theme have built (and continue to expand) a…

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  • GutenTour: JetFormBuilder Block Collection by CrocoBlock


    I’ve headed out on a world tour of Gutenberg blocks. Third-party blocks. There are starting to be quite a few of them out there, sometimes singly, sometimes in groups of layout and design-related blocks. Especially for the groups of them, you’ve typically got to pony up a few bucks to license them. But one I…

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  • the Dashboard Gets a CPT and wordpress child theme


    But wait! I’ve got more about dashboards! Dashboards in WordPress, I mean. Not the admin dashboard, but other kinds of dashboards. We need a WordPress child theme and a custom post type (CPT) to do the job right. When we left last week’s dashboard scenario, we had a flat page built using Divi. Dashboard Custom…

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  • Creating Your Canva Ebook


    Let’s talk about Canva, shall we? It’s a brilliant execution of an online service that caters to the world of people (like me, maybe like you, too) who aren’t professional designers but who need things that look reasonably good, that look like they were designed by a competent, if not necessarily downright brilliant designer. You…

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  • Toward web3 Marketing


    Supposing you are a startup in the blockchain space… How can you do a genuine web3 thing around your presence and your marketing? What does it mean to communicate in a “web3 way?” Here are some thoughts, still a bit random, but “experiments are ongoing”… Probably better launch a coin of some kind. Unless your…

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