Michael Bourne

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

[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

[Michael Bourne @calgarywebdev]

@DerekAshauer @arniepalmer @stripe I ran my own ecommerce store for a while and we would lose Stripe chargebacks 50% of the time. Shipping one off items with the boxing process photographed, shipped with insurance and signature delivery, proof of delivery. Chargeback: "item not received". It was always a coin toss

[Michael Bourne @calgarywebdev]

@calvinalkan @heyamberhinds This is the way. Just cover your bases in an SLA. I make clients editor accounts for editing their site, and an admin login "for ownership", but I tell them all the reasons they would need to actually use the admin account, and that list is small. Fortress makes that much safer.

[Michael Bourne @calgarywebdev]

@JoelKlettke Was fun watching you go from start to finish on this. Enjoy the time off buddy. Cant wait to see what you do next.

[Michael Bourne @calgarywebdev]

@pmabray It's been a few years, but Martin's BBQ on Belmont is the only restaurant I went back to 3 times... if you head east, Mas Tacos Por Favor is my stop. And end it at Bourbon Street Blues. None of these places are fancy, but they're all memorable.

[Michael Bourne @calgarywebdev]

@AutomationAlex @Kasra_Dash @loom Yup. I can already see this being in the next @Charles_SEO video.

[Michael Bourne @calgarywebdev]

@naniigrant @kxly4news Yikes, GIS still shows the fire as only west of Clear lake, I didn't realize it had blown that far east already.