Love this Kevin… hosting ..security.. perfmatters ..these all would be great to expand on

Time to start prepping your 2024 video! 😁

Kevin, can you do a video that covers some of the amazing things you've been able to do with WSForms? Thanks for sharing your stack!

Watch it when it came out and just watched it again and there is No One that delivers Kevin’s value, Thanks Again!

You're on a level by yourself Kevin. Excellent content man.

A video about how to set Perfmatters while using ACSS and frames would be massive! Also showing some use cases of WS form :) Amazing video as usual!

Very good Kevin, but next time, don't hesitate to zoom in a bit It is very small on small screens. Don't forget that a lot of people watch videos on their phone or small screen laptop

Wow, that was an incredibly informative and engaging video! I would love to see more content like this in the future, specifically on topics such as optimizing Wordpress sites and building fully-functional blog websites using best practices for HTML structure and SEO on Bricks Builder. Keep up the great work!

Also, I would love to see some videos on the other tools that you use plus your hosting set-up. that would be amazing :)

Essential viewing! Circling back and learning what I should have learned a year ago!

Definitely a continuation of the stack with other tools, best practices, it's really great insight even for us that do a lot of the things the same way, in a sense there is validation to what we use is also what other people do, but videos like these always bring more insight to something we did not think of. I also use most of the plugins you do, especially the underrated WP Gridbuilder and exactly the same way as you do, just for facets haha. But man those facets are CAPABLE! I also went deeper into using their hooks and other code instructions supplied on their site to modify the standard behaviour of some things and I must say, the level of customisation they enabled... is just not comparable with any other facet plugin I've used. Not saying there is nothing better than it, but what I tried could not even compare. Great content as always, you are by all means the most valuable WP KZfaq channel out there. Heck, most of the things you talk and show people pay a dozen to get advised and most of the time the advises they get are not nearly as good as yours xD

Frames in Oxygen ?! So great, you made my year Kevin !!!

Kevin, you really do create the best content. Thanks for all of this sharing! It's tremendously helpful. Narrowing down which plugins are useful and which aren't is pretty tedious so you've saved us all some valuable time here.

Hi Kevin, I just wanted to mention that if you have a Meta Box license, they are currently offering discounts for (among others): - WS Form (20%) - WP Grid Builder (20%) Very valuable content and solid explanations as in all your other videos. Thanks for sharing your Blueprint!

No lies about wsform, the support with Mark is crazy good. I've had on several occasions submit a problem and fixed the same day. The integration with ACF has been their for years while other form plugins fumble at this awesome feature.

Kevin, fantastic video. Really good to see that Admin Columns Pro is in you're video. I have regularly promoted it in the circle and I really think it is one of the best tools I have. The meta box relations in the latest version are also gold! The company is 5 km away from where I live, I'm going to have a coffee and tell them what a good tool they made.

Great stuff again Kevin. REQUESTING: --Setting up PerfMatters vs duplicate settings in GridPane; --Accounting Stack; --Non-WP tools stack. Cheers my friend.

I've used a ton of form plugins (and certainly the big ones) and WS Form is my #1 choice. It's amazing.

Hi Kevin, Another excellent video. Could you do one on your GridPane Setup including your security settings if possible. Also any chance in going into more details on the specific plugins setting that you use (especially for Perfmatters and Short Pixel Image Optimizer)? Thank you.

At first I thought to myself... this guy needs to switch to decaf! But the longer I listened, the more I realized that I had just discovered a legit resource! Turned out to be one of the best WP resource videos I've seen in a long time. Thanks, Kevin. I'll definitely subscribe and start hearing more of what you got.

24:59 exactly this. Having clients understand why things are being structured matters.

Thanks Kevin! It’s amazing how much my toolstack has changed over just a year, quite happy it’s pretty dang similar to yours! You’ve convinced me to use WP GridBuilder for a couple of sites too.

Can't wait to see the 2024 stack video

I have used the blueprint feature for a while and it really speeds up my workflow. I use instawp to spin up a site in 30 sec. I have more or less the same plugin stack. Might look into admin columns and WS form . Have a nice one Kevin.

Great video Kevin. I took several notes and am now looking to upgrade my standard stack. Really liked the blueprint website concept -- definite gold nugget there!

Would be lovely to see a new video on this blueprint website 1 year later.

Thanks Kevin! Gonna play with the gridbuilder facet functionality, I totally forgot about that. Ws forms looks very interesting, currently using either gravity or fluent forms. Well, my Saturday is filled with learning new stuff, great!

My vote is for a video regarding the Mac apps you use daily. Thanks!

Perfect 👍

Automatic css - I became addicted after half design of webpage 👍😀😀

Pure Value, thanks for sharing. Please show us your UI design process. your design for clients are looking very good.

Really good and valuable! Thank you Kevin!

No other channel is doing better. Thank you! Any updates for 2024? Is there a video on your security plugins?

No one is doing it better than Kevin!!! 🎉

54:30 Yes. Hosting, email, CRM, etc.

Great video Kevin. Great to come across your content. My stack has shifted into something very similar to what you're using. Loving the content!

Very soon figma Frames Release: Interesting 😍

I would love to see your hosting stack.

Thanks for bringing it so quickly.

I think it would be interesting if you could show us the plugins you use to make an e-commerce site? Thank you for all your tutorials, thank you for your tools (ACSS in particular) with which I have evolved enormously. Keep up the good work. Thanks again

Kevin, your content is amazing, can you do a hosting stack

Hi, thanks for the great video. Would love to see how you handle security and backups. Probably via server configuration? Please make a video, what hosting are you using and what is your server setup. Or possibly what to look out for in good hosting. Somehow i find myself having trouble with WordPress security and have to use extra security and backup plugins. With your tips, my plugin stack keeps somehow getting bigger. 😁

Love your videos, Kevin. Always informative. Many thanks!

Great job!

Cwicly is doing the advanced filtering with their filter & query blocks. Looking forward having ACSS with Cwicly... you should get in touch with them.

Great video!

thank you! impressive lesson as always!!

Solid Stack Kevin

Thank for this!

Good stuff. My stack is about 80% similar. My main difference is that I use GeneratePress and GenerateBlocks. The upcoming GenerateBlocks release looks amazing.

Thanks for all this gems

Very good content =D

At 31:26 where you shed light on "selling" (wrong word) optimizing websites, telling the client that all the bells and whistles they want will add page load time, then they need to pay for it.... (I'm paraphrasing here, but you get my drift :)

I would love a hosting/pagespeed combo video.

Need a Blueprint install video for 2024 .. probably one with the new acss 3.0

Always the best wp tutor! I want to know which is the best SMPT plugin.

Super valuable and also entertaining. Do you have a video that discusses how to create a blueprint WordPress install?

Nice content. What about the security plugin? Is that unnecessary? Thank you

Fantastic kevin, this is great....as you mentioed above you had some videos on scrset and wp code box but I cant find then are they separate videos or are they buried within another video?

Great video as always. I have been avoiding ACSS and Frames purely because I always have the mindset to use minimal plugins, especially for things I can do myself. I'm also focused on productivity. The more I see you use ACSS and Frames, the more I see its productivity benefits. I'll be grabbing some licenses today to get started. I have a JetEngine LTD license which I have used for some time, it does pretty much what Admin Columns Pro and MetaBox do in your video. Do you have any experience/opinion on JetEngine, and could you see any compelling reason to change to Admin Columns Pro and MetaBox ?

Great video, just a remark. On the info markers, you do need to do style with html and CSS and I believe a bit of PHP. It is not doable out of the box with WPGrid Builder. Would be great to see how Automatic.css could work with that and make it much easier. The rest, this is a dream team set of plugins. Thanks.

Another amazingly helpful video, thanks Kevin! Possibly dumb question: do you enable auto updates for these plugins? If not, what's your workflow process for updating plugins on so many client sites? Thx!

Thanks so much, Kevin, for these fantastic videos! I was wondering, when you change up your plugin stack do you go back and change out the plugins for all of the other sites that are on your membership plan? Or do you keep paying for all of the "depricated" plugin memberships since costs are passed onto the client?

Okay, I watched the part about Happy Files Pro again and did not know about the ability to activate it for pages. This is absolutely amazing for querying in Bricks, but I wonder: When to use Categories and when to use the HappyFilesPro folder structure to organize pages or custom post types? Any insights on this?

Its similar to our stack, since we based it on your recommendation 😇 We also got SlimSeo Schema and Dashboard Switcher, but havent used them yet. Excited to try the WP Grid Builder Facets: Got an upcoming Website with a filterable map. Admin Colums Looks nice. Perfmatters is no caching Plugin, is it? Guess youre doing caching on the Server Level?

Noticed MetaBox has MB Admin Columns extension. For a MetaBox LTD owner, would that be a better choice than paying for Admin Columns too? I would love to see a complete WordPress optimization tutorial, including webp/avif issues you could run into, CSS/JS optimization issues you might run into with a Bricks site, etc.

when you create these blueprints, im assuming you would also want to copy the database also to set common settings, or no? Also, have you used formidable forms? that was supposed to be one of the more comprehensive options also. My main requirements are being able to have a dynamic selection of other post types, that may or may not be in separate tables created by metabox. And ability to save into those custom tables. Of course Wsform metabox integration is on the most expensive plan. Always seems to be the case. I am not an agency, I am just trying to build something myself, so I cant afford all these pro plugins just to get that one bit of extra functionality i need. How much would you charge to sublet one of your licenses on your unlimited sites plans while I do the work? Or at least temporally so I can see if it will even meet my needs?

Great list, Kevin! thanks for the powerful insight as usual. Curious: is there a specific reason you're not using OxyExtras for bricks builder?

Could you possibly please explain the functional difference between ShortPixel Image Optimizer vs. ShortPixel Adaptive Images -- and why you went with I.O. and not A.I.?

How do you handle caching? Do you have a specific tool for it? Thank you so much as always for putting out this content. I was telling a colleague about your channel and one thing I really appreciate is that you are opinionated; it's not a matter of "oh check this random plugin out you might like it and it does some things well". As someone new to WP and building sites, this whole space is an overwhelming mess of choices and options. I need to know what works, works well, and fits together in a coherent system and I feel like I get that from a lot of your content. Obviously it's up to me to test things out and see if I can accomplish what I need to with tools, but I need meaningful recommendations with substantive reasons, not a bare bones feature list. Thank you for that. Your channel and your circle are extremely helpful.

Thanks Kevin great info. So can we replace CPTUI, ACFPRO, and Post Snippets with MetaBoX? And, any experience on WP Rocket as compared to PerfMatters?

Would be great to see videos on how you handle hardening security and performance optimization.

Hi Kevin, thanks for the great videos. What do you think of Crocoblock plugins? I used them for a couple of years and they are fantastic and do the work, also there support are very responsive and excellent. They have elements, JetEngine for CPT, JetForms, JetFilters...etc I am asking because they started integrating with Bricks Builder, and I want your professional opinion about the code quality they produce?

Kevin, we are still waiting for a new video for 2025!

But how are you cloning the site? Duplicator? All in one migration?

Hi Kevin, any chance you have a video with the perfmatters optimization tutorial?

Thanks for this video! Do you use wp codebox to handle all your GTM, Hotjar type of tracking implementation? Could be good content for a video.

Hi kevin, is there any plan to make tutorials about rank math like schema (video, music and etc). Because there are so many tutorials that they just talk about the basics! Like to learn from a pro Also do you have plan make some ws form tutorials?

great video once again - You say in the start you have this blueprint site and duplicate on each new client. How do you duplicate the blueprint site to a new client? are you using a duplicator plugin or?

Question: Do you use (develop on) a local host like MAMP or Flywheel local or do you only use a hosted container of some kind?

Why are you not using litespeed cache with a litespeed server? So fast and delivers nearly everything and more.

Thank you Kevin, disnt know Admin. Columns. Nect stack your music effects stack 😂 just kidding thank you so mich again!

Its some good notes here, but as a true developer when working with wordpress, your NUMBER one tool actually isn't ANY plugin. It is WP-CLI. NOT even having to touch wordpress or it's dashboard is key. Mastering WP-CLI will save you even more time then anything mentioned in this video! And then add PHPAdmin, but I use Navicat.. to enter 'certain' data DIRECTLY into the database.. still never even having to see wordpress admin. Lastly, the last 2 items albeit a bit more advanced knowledge is necessary, but as a developer or agency you must utilize is making wordpress headless and at minimum a simple API on all wordpress installs.. now that is a true wordpress blueprint .

Is Frames working in Oxygen now? I have Frames but wasn’t aware that we could use in in Oxygen!

Penny-wise, pound foolish 😀

Thank you for sharing. For the SEO Plugins: for me, RankMath is a trash can🤮. I only use "The SEO Framework"♥ better than all SEO plugins.

where do you create your blueprints? I use local wp and I have to reenter the license keys after using that install for a live site

Hey Kevin - Is the dynamic centered logo in one of the header frames?

No cache plugin needed, e.g. Lite Speed Cache?

Security ? I didn't see anything about that in plugin list , or am I mistaken ?

Imagine a wordpress super plugin with all functionalties baked in.

What about a smtp plugin? which one do you use? or is this integrated in WS-form?

Hi why don't you use "MetaBox Admin" columns instead of adding a new plugin ?

What about security for websites, what and how do you secure them ?

You just need a "stop being a chump" video on pricing, what's not worth worrying about, and just fundamental mindset suff, that we can play for motivation.

Your monitor size seems pretty big in size & in pixels too. It's hard to see on Phone

Why not ShortPixel AI instead of ShortPixel Image Optimizer?

How do you find the accessiblity of WP Grid Builder?

Do you have a video creating this blueprint front scratch?

How do you deal with plugins with renewal? Does the client pay for any annual fee?