This is quite old and is showing the WordPress classic editor rather than the newer (Gutenberg) block editor. I don't use WordPress as much, but I still go back to the classic editor with this plugin wordpress.org/plugins/disable-gutenberg/

I did not understand 1. But 2. you should be able to do now with the new :has() pseudo-class. Something like this .clickable-col:has(:hover) a { color:red ; }

@@DavidWaumsley on chrome, when you hover over a link, it displays that link URL in the bottom left-hand corner of the browser. This doesn't happen on the column hover, but will happen if I hover over the text wrapped in the <a href>

@@natebanker1263 Oh I see. This shows the HTML title attribute that is in the element being pointed at i.e title=" this is my hover-over text". I'm not building with WordPress and BB anymore so I'm not sure how you could add this to a clickable column. I think there was an attribute plugin for BB on GitHub somewhere that allowed to to insert these any any module. I don't think it is an option by default on anything that is not a link in BB.

Universal Sans is not a Google fonts. I think it is a commercial font, but I have no idea if they have made a variable version. I would guess not.

Thanks so much 🙂

I'm sorry it's gone for good.

Thanks Derek

I'm sorry. I had to take my demos down as it was too much to maintain with false accounts being set up. This video is quite old and I'm not not using a page builder any more.

That is understandable. I only wish the code was saved via github or something so that the information would still be usable because this is exactly the type of thing I was looking for.@@DavidWaumsley

Thank you Great tip. Much appreciated.

Hi Julian. Thanks for watching. I see no reason why not. One thing that was not around when I did this was fetch priority (web.dev/fetch-priority ). Worth checking out - although this is probably even harder to implement via WordPress. I am out of touch now as I decided scrap using a builder. With all the cool new stuff browsers are supporting hand coding started to appeal.

Great, Thank you too.

Thank so much Paul. Not just for this, but for being a supportive friend who just gets the dilemmas. You may not realize this but you flipped things the most. I was using the HTLM module in Beaver Builder for lots of things and you said if doing that you dont really need Beaver Builder. I need to tighten things up and battle test it some more, but the nice response makes me want to do more content again.

Hi Melvin thank you so much. That is great to hear, I was wondering if it might be worth setting up some kind of life membership where I shared everything I did with on going tutorials. I think I would have to provide a version that did it all via the theme so folk did not have to use WP Code Box. It is just a thought. at this moment I have 5 projects running now to learn from so I don't think I will get anything done quickly.. I would like to get to the point where I know what I have is solid and faster then using a page builder.. Thank you again.

I used to use it, and did a video on it ages back. This video is about page load.

I really appreciate this comment. Thank you. Clients needing to change their own content is a real weakness in this. Presently, I would be the bottleneck in the situation where the client needed to quickly up date content for visitors. So far, for me that type of content has just been booking or calendar stuff which is done via a 3rd party. I thought I would end up limiting my type of work. Which was fine me me. I passed on a WP membership site that was broken, but luckily found out that it was only a directory and that updates were not often. Users struggled with the complexity and restriction of fields and some had to be banned for messing up the site (I think funky copy and paste text). Before going this route I would have looked to rethinking the fields and adding safeguards. After I just asked could they just not do it via Google docs or via a feedback overlay (Userback or Project Huddle). That was preferred. I am not done, but it has got me really thinking about where and when a client really needs a CMS. Anyway there still is a route either the Jamstack way or reverting some things and putting the WordPress site live. I think we are in the middle of quite a division of approaches. I think I will be some months learning from some new projects before I could come back with more detail, but wanted to see if there was any interest in this.

​@@DavidWaumsley this video inspired me to show some of the things I keep thinking about in regards to approach we have with Builderius site builder. Specifically HTML first approach. You control all the html and css, so you build it all as if its a static html site, and then we simply pull dynamic data where we need it. This makes it really easy to create stuff using modern css and html approaches without the complexity of blocks and other simiar stuff. The entire thing becomes so much simpler. I want to try and make a video about this to communicate some of excitement I have about it. :)

@@thisweblabvideos That sounds fabulous. I will be really interested in that. I was always interesting in what you were doing with Builderius, but it was only today that I followed your RU-vid channel. I'm amazed this video has got good views. It looks totally mad from serious developers point of view, but I perhaps I'm not the only WordPress person who feels first they need to level their CSS and HTML skills first in familiar surrounding in bite sizes pieces. Still, even if I was a wiz kid with npm, right now I have a few jobs to do with 100's of WP pages and posts on the existing sites.

Nice to see you Dave. There's is no CMS with this WP approach so clients give me what needs to be updated. One advantage of Astro (and other SSG's) is that you can add editable areas (to their "front matter") and use Netlify's CMS option to give client access. Most JamStack CMSs are really expensive! I could talk about this a lot. It took me a long while to realize that a CMS was not what my clients actually wanted for the HTML type content. Actually, either they never used it or really got into it and started messing things up. I have had jobs where the original dev restricted what the client can edit (with ACF) and that client has come to me to get the restrictions removed. Much later after a proper chat with the person behind one of those those jobs it was not as I thought. The restriction were just too much, but they would rather someone else was altering the site for them. With new clients it is easier as over the build time we are working with shared Google docs so this is how they tell to make changes. For one site with many people needing to give feed back on what needs altering I am considering using UserBack or Project Huddle for it. Things like taking payment and bookings are all coming via other API so they have their own accounts to manage that. I can't do a full ecommerce site, because I don't have the skills to connect the Stripe API to the HTML, but it would be that way would go if needed.

Just to follow up - I could put my local site on to a server for clients and let them adjust this. I think the Simply Static Pro plugin would allow the client to push the static version to where it needs to be. I have not needed to do this as clients have been keen to just communicate with me. I think I would be back to square one if I did this. I would be dependent on a plugin (which recently has let me down) and fixed to WordPress. With the new sites I chose my tool - WP or Astro and should be able to swatch with the client not knowing or caring.

@@DavidWaumsley Thanks for the replies David - trust all is well with you?

@@DavePerth Thanks. yeah all is good here . A bit more work than I would like but I am more excited to be doing it than I have for a while.. I got my Facebook hacked account and saw it as a good time to get off it.

Hi Steven, sorry I need to get this out as a blog post as I don't show everything I mention. I use Formspark which actually still is on a deal: www.dealify.com/formspark/

Sorry, what do you mean by database? Local WP provide MySQL for WordPress.

@@DavidWaumsley - I think a separate video on your full stack (and development environment) would be great. I'm using FluentCRM currently...so I can't go truly static...but I'm interested in how far I could push it..and see what my options are in a serverless model.

@@stevendavis7628 Ah yes I see what you are saying. I have a new client who relies on a CRM, but luckily it is 3rd party and so I will have to connect FormSpark to Zapier to his CRM. I don't know yet as I have not started that job.

Indeed it is a massive change. In some ways I started this with my Beaver Junction project. That got me thinking that I could manage code in small sections. Thanks so much for watching and commenting.

Thank you. That is so kind of you and appreciated. All the best David

Thanks Maria.

Thanks very much Melvin. I saw it come in. This video is a bit dated, but I actually love WPCB even more now. I'll do more content soonish.

Are you sure?. It was 2 weeks ago when I last used it.

Hi Andrew, so about this. Hopefully this will do: github.com/DavidWaumsley/BeaverJunction/blob/master/animated-hamburger-icon-for-the-beaver-builder-theme I have a back-up of the site, but I grabbed this from web.archive.org/web/20220627074501/only.beaverjunction.com/animated-hamburger-icon-for-the-beaver-builder-theme/

Thanks for this Paul. Indeed, I find it really hard to think in relative units. We now have a whole bunch of new ones with container queries arriving. developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Values_and_Units

On my! That's sound like torture. Thank you though. I am very pleased it has been useful.

Thanks Pete.

Thank you, that is good to know. Have you reported it?

I did this a while ago so am not so fresh on the topic, but as long as modules are not (invisibly) taking up whole of it's container's height it should work. All I can really say is everything on my demo works. designs.beaverjunction.com/sticky-columns/ . If you have a link to a page where it is not working I can have a look at the source code to see if a spot any issue.

It is only for migrating WordPress websites.

That's odd. Do you have a link you could share so I can see the source code?. The link can be anywhere on in the column which needs to have the “clickable-col” class assigned to it .