I subscribed to Pinegrow with WP 5 years ago... and besides some testing, never really used it... One of the reasons is the lack of tutorials, specially for the WP functions. So, thanks a lot for that video! Not sure yet if I'll dig into it, but at least now I know how to do it (and where to come back as a reminder)!
I'm glad to hear that. My best advice is to just pick a project and dive in. Pinegrow isn't a tool you can easily learn just by playing around, you need to use it with a purpose and push through the initial obstacles. Once you've done that, it all becomes second nature.
I swear it’s not as daunting as it looks. The fact that I did each piece step-by-step and showed the results after each change made it take much longer than it does in practice. I also purposely left some things out during the tutorial, such as not adding labels or not configuring the loop, so I could demonstrate what happens behind the scenes and could explain some of the inner workings. Setting the blocks up on my own to make sure the tutorial worked properly only took me 10-15’ish minutes total.
Asalamalaikum brother I have subscribed to your channel wonderful wonderful content and explanation. Thank you so much please keep making more videos. May God bless you and your family Inshaa Allah thank you again. Asalamalaikum.
Huge thanks. I am trialling Pinegrow at the moment with a view to creating my own custom blocks. Your video has moved me along in leaps and bounds. Please keep them coming!
Happy to help, Julie. Pinegrow has helped me tremendously. I swore off custom themes years ago because they took so long to create & manage, and I never messed around with custom blocks even though ACF made them somewhat accessible. Pinegrow opened those doors for me by giving me the flexibility of custom blocks/themes with the efficiency and ease of use of a page builder.
Thank you. I have a list of topics I want to cover and now that we are officially moving away from Oxygen and toward Pinegrow I have some real motivation to record them.
@@AdamLoweIO any reason for moving away from oxygen? as you mentioned in your previous video that of all the sites your agency have built majority of them oxygen. please share your thoughts.
I’ve always been concerned about the over-reliance on 3rd party plugins and integrations, particularly in the Oxygen ecosystem. I’ve seen too many instances of Plugin A breaking Plugin B and the fact that most Oxygen tools are written by single-developers or small teams only increases their risk. I was already using Pinegrow as part of my toolkit and had plans to eventually make it our primary tool. The recent announcement of Oxygen’s sort-of-but-not-officially end of life by their developers just forced me to get off my butt and start formalizing the transition. I came from the custom theme world and moved away from it for the efficiencies offered by page builders. Pinegrow has given me the power and stability of custom themes and blocks with the ease of use of a page builder. Sure, there is a big learning curve and things aren’t perfect, but the fact that everything I put on my client’s sites is open and easily modifiable makes this a great choice for what we deliver.
Thanks for this useful tutorial. I've been trying Pinegrow over the last week and I'm quite excited about how powerful it is and although it's a bit overwhelming at first I'm ready to up my game and to offer an alternative to Oxygen and Bricks. What held me back so far is their even more overwhelming pricing system, I just had a really hard time making up my mind about which license to get but finally decided to go for the yearly subscription (probably). You got me a bit confused there in your video, I think the subscription renews at the price you've bought it for (discounted or not) and only the one time payment renews at 50% of the (normal) price. That's the only thing I don't like about Pinegrow actually, if you get it for the normal price and not at a sale, it makes a big difference in the long term, kind of unfair for someone who got it at the normal price. That's something Oxygen did right in my opinion, not offering sales.
Thanks for pointing that out. Yes, I had the subscription pricing wrong in the video. The subscription renews at the price you paid, and the one-time payment option renews at 50% off the normal price. Per the Pinegrow FAQ: "For any subscription plan or add-on, the price for the yearly or monthly RENEWAL is the price you initially paid for the first purchase (discounted OR not) as long as the subscription is not stopped/cancelled/unpaid." And I agree that it would be beneficial for Pinegrow to revisit their pricing structure to bring it more in-line with other Website Builders.
More tutorials like this! Perfect. I am still trying to figure out what I will use instead of Oxygen. I gave gutenberg a try but I ran into limitations. Bricks looks promising but..I am not super convinced about Bricks
I'm glad you found it helpful. I'm hoping to record another tutorial this week showing the side-by-side build process of an Oxygen site vs a Pinegrow site. I'm just struggling with how I want to present it. As for Bricks, I'm right there with you. It has a lot of promise but still carries the same lock-in and longevity risks that I want to avoid.
@@AdamLoweIO Dude, create a course on how to use Pinegrow with WP. I want to build my own WP theme, with dynamic capabilities. I would pay hundreds for course like this.
@@uioverhaul Pinegrow actually has some pretty good tutorials on their site already. Check out Start your first WordPress theme development in less than 12 minutes (pinegrow.com/tutorials/start-your-first-wordpress-theme-development-in-less-than-12-minutes/). I'm not sure the market is there to support a formal paid course, but maybe I'm wrong... I do have a list of smaller bite-sized tutorials that I'm going to work on which, if I do a decent job organizing them, might fit together nicely and serve as a mini-course. I had originally intended to create them as documentation for my team, but seeing that there is a broader desire for them I might need to rethink that.
There is definitely a market for pinegrow tutorials. Pine grow does have videos, but they are incomplete, IMO. I didn't know this until last gear but Pinegrow has been around longer than Webflow. Now's the time to promote Pinegrow as Oxygen users looking for a replace.
Hi Adam. I know this is not the point of this tutorial. But I noticed that you have the BEM class names backwards, I think. "title__hero" should be "hero__title". "wrapper__hero" should be "hero__wrapper" etc.
Umm…. I was just checking to see if anyone was paying attention? (Okay, I admit, naming classes has always been a weakness of mine. Thankfully, my team of developers does a better job of it than I do.)
