8/2/16 WP Meetup

Topic:  Rise of the Page Builders

Attendees:  Verious Smith; Gregg Franklin; Jess Boctor; Cathie Seifen; Josh Knapp; Dave Brick; Pete Parker; Jeremy; Jose Hernandez; Michael Kirk; Jeff Zinn (AdSanity & Pixeljar); Nate Conley; Bruce Campbell; Ira

Announcements: 3ways to find info about Inland Empire wordpress group:  

1) Meetup.com 2) FB group 3) IEWP website

--Workcamps can be checked out at WP.tv

Web Builders--Page Builders

Jess Boctor presented Divi page builder examples

• Need to pay for plug-ins
• Need Divi builder plug-in
• Need to spend some time understanding layouts & how Divi works with layouts
• Can have sliders, headers, blurbs,
• Info you put into Divi will be dropped into your content section
• Want a theme that uses a full width content when uses Divi
• Could download Divi themes
• Save data as shortcodes

Gregg Franklin presented Elementor Page Builder

• Free page builder w/ 27 different elements/widgets
• Stay away from Visual Composer page builder
• Elementor Page Builder--faster than otherpage builders, free open source, easy to use, & no coding

• Can resize columns by dragging
• No templates at this time
• Built in google fonts
• Can drag & drop elements/widgets
• Doesn’t use short code like Divi, uses HTML
• Works with most themes

Verious Smith presented Beaver Builder

• Have a plug-in version & a theme version
• Front end editing
• Mobile friendly/responsive
• Works with almost any theme
• Multi-site capable
• WooCommerce support
• Developer friendly
• Reusable templates
• Supports posts, pages, & custom post types
• Can import & export
• Costs $99-$399 per year
• Wpbeaverbuilder.com
• Layout templates give you a quick start to page building
• Uses rows & columns

Pete Parker

Clef for log-in ease using your smart phone

Optimal Layout