Michael Bourne

I help alcohol brands make more money. @5forests @ursasix

[Michael Bourne @calgarywebdev]

@gridpane @PineDigitalCo GridPane is one of the best to ever do it. Patrick won't steer you wrong.

(although we do not see eye to eye on Kinsta, who make me want to rip my eyes out when a client uses them)

[Michael Bourne @calgarywebdev]

Book direct @westjet flight to Tokyo, extended comfort. Upgrade to premium economy. They cancel flight night before and rebook me a connecting JAL flight. Lose priority status. Lose seat upgrades. Last row in economy section. "You arrive at a similar time". 😵‍💫 Le sigh

[Michael Bourne @calgarywebdev]

@brevo_official I'm seeing a ClickFix malware on your main website when connecting from Canada. You may want to look into that.

[Michael Bourne @calgarywebdev]

@mateusjatenee I just walk back to the kitchen and do chip+pin myself when they don't have portable readers. Even at the fancy places. They don't seem to mind.

[Michael Bourne @calgarywebdev]

@gridpane Agreed on all fronts. Charge us more.

"WordCamps provide so little value to actual operators" -- hard truth to swallow for some, but you know my thoughts on it :)

[Michael Bourne @calgarywebdev]

@ben_gabler @wpumbrella @RocketDotNet @AurelioVolle "Keep X revisions" when optimizing sites, add the new broken link/image scanner into reports so clients can action them 😎

[Michael Bourne @calgarywebdev]

@RocketDotNet @wpumbrella Oh man that's huge. Nicely done!

[Michael Bourne @calgarywebdev]

@0aveRyan @mikemcalister @KadenceWP It's pretty nice. I have an automation that generates a kadence cloud API key and a theme license (updates) key when they sign up for a template. Gives them access to the shared cloud right away. Between that and their efforts into accessibility, Kadence was (is?) top tier.

[Michael Bourne @calgarywebdev]

@0aveRyan @mikemcalister @KadenceWP ^ the Ollie design library is much better UX. All Mike would have to do is build a way for devs to swap his patterns and starter sites with their own (via api key and url perhaps). That might even be enough to replace the starter sites (although the plugin import part is needed)

[Michael Bourne @calgarywebdev]

@mikemcalister Not great for migrating, very much aimed at selling turn-key templates into "nearly done for you" sites. Customers edit images and lorem ipsum text. Launchable site in hours.

[Michael Bourne @calgarywebdev]

@mikemcalister Upload and activate the child theme, it imports a full site: pages, content, images, plugins, parent theme, customizer settings. I add a theme updater to functions.php so i can release updates as needed. We have many hundreds of businesses using them. Slick and easy for users!

[Michael Bourne @calgarywebdev]

@gridpane @KatieKeithBarn2 @daniel_iser @zackkatz @learnwithmattc @jjack_arturo @STEVEW00DY @mikemcalister Patrick had to clean up a literal flood in order to make it on time so someone buy him a beer. 😎

[Michael Bourne @calgarywebdev]

@briancoords Much better than the current core experience.

Separating post/block tabs and changing the "3 dots" icon are great ideas to me. Sneak this into 7.0 please.

[Michael Bourne @calgarywebdev]

@gridpane @rileybrown New UIs and merch, the real retention tools.

[Michael Bourne @calgarywebdev]

@natmiletic Don't stop there, use all your rules to block or challenge bots and malicious traffic. https://t.co/41dNII6r5Y

[Michael Bourne @calgarywebdev]

@gridpane

[Michael Bourne @calgarywebdev]

@natmiletic @gridpane by leaps and bounds. They even have options for Nat since he doesn't want to manage his own servers.

[Michael Bourne @calgarywebdev]

I've been testing this since version 0.0.0, it's rock solid and a must have for every WordPress site. I'd like to see every webhost on the planet buy this and make in an mu plugin on their platform, it's that good.

[Calvin Alkan @calvinalkan]

🧵 About five weeks ago, pre wpdrama, I started working on the relaunch of the snicco/fortress site.

And... TBH, I hated every minute of it.

I'm used to working all day in the IDE, not WordPress. PHPStorm has me spoiled - everything is one key press away, barely using the mouse.

I started building something to scratch my own itch for what, I thought, would be a quick 2-hour job.

Instead, it turned into something that, I believe, will fundamentally change how many power users and agencies use WordPress going forward - CommandUI.

[Michael Bourne @calgarywebdev]

Looks like I'll be at @WordCampUS this year after all😎 Already booking times to meet a lot of you fine folk, but if anyone else I know is headed there, drop me a message. #WCUS