Amir

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• Views 3 Beta Allows Building Beautiful Dynamic WordPress Sites

  This new beta release brings the biggest features that Toolset’s integration with the Block Editor was missing. You can now use blocks to create custom searches, display blocks conditionally,  style blocks, and display map markers. New features in the release Watch the following video to see a quick preview of

  September 9, 2019 70 Comments

• Do You Need Calendar View for Toolset?

  For a long time clients have been asking how to show content from Views on a calendar. We’re finally starting with this project now and we want to make sure that we build what you need. We understand the general concept. For example, if you’re creating a website for events,

  June 27, 2019 128 Comments

• It’s Here! Toolset’s “Custom Types Training” Course

  The new training course on custom types allows developers of all levels to improve their knowledge and become more efficient when building rich WordPress sites. It explains the basics to beginners and quickly moves to advanced (and powerful) techniques. Why a course? Custom types for WordPress is a huge subject.

  May 29, 2019 17 Comments

• Maps 1.7.3 and new Toolset Blocks beta bring Dynamic Map Markers and other improvements to Blocks

  Did you know you can design your templates using Toolset and WordPress Block Editor? You can now create markers based on custom fields in the Toolset Maps block. We also improved the “Fields and Text” block so you can more easily use custom markup when needed. Dynamic Markers in the

  May 28, 2019 15 Comments

• New Integration with the Block Editor Offers Rapid Visual Design and Dynamic Content

  Intuitive visual design, powerful dynamic content, everything integrated and working. If this is how you’d like to build websites, welcome to Toolset Blocks. https://youtu.be/yPExGHvf_mI Toolset’s challenge is being powerful while remaining easy to use. With Toolset, you already skip the PHP and Javascript development. However, to achieve great design, you

  April 10, 2019 62 Comments

• Toolset Types Removed from WPORG – Where to Download and What’s Coming

  Last week, we permanently removed Types plugin from the WordPress.org plugins repository. We wrote about it at the end of 2017 and it’s time for us to move on. All Toolset clients can download Types from their accounts. Of course, if you’re interested in Types, you’ll get it when you

  April 7, 2019 28 Comments

• Enable Gutenberg per Page and for Entire Post Types

  How do I try Gutenberg in a safe way, so that I can enjoy the new editor without first breaking my site? If you’re asking yourself this question, you’re not alone. Toolset Types allows you to enable the new Gutenberg editor exactly on the pages that you want and go

  December 18, 2018 10 Comments

• New Toolset Release with Compatibility for WordPress 5.0 and Gutenberg

  We just released an update for Toolset which focuses on compatibility with WordPress 5.0 and Gutenberg. You will find Gutenberg blocks, a better workflow and many usability improvements. Last week, we shared our vision of how we see Toolset and Gutenberg editor working together. Now, we take a big first

  November 29, 2018 11 Comments

• Chat Support for Toolset

  If you created any new support tickets for Toolset in the last few days, you probably noticed a “chat” option. Chats allow Toolset support team help you much faster than with tickets. When you open a support ticket, you’ll see an option to start a chat. Chat is a faster

  November 26, 2018 4 Comments

• Toolset’s Plans for WordPress 5.0 and Gutenberg

  For over a year, Toolset project has been following Gutenberg and preparing for WordPress 5.0. In this post, I’ll share our current status and present our vision for WordPress + Gutenberg + Toolset. Our Vision – One Visual Editor for Everything Right now, Gutenberg is somewhere between an editor and

  November 14, 2018 29 Comments

• New Migration Guide from Drupal to WordPress

  Many developers using Toolset have come to WordPress from Drupal. For them, Toolset provides the functionality that they love in Drupal, but in a friendly way (the WordPress way). To make the move easier, we updated our migration guide from Drupal to WordPress. Updated migration details for Drupal 7 and

  October 18, 2018 0 Comments

• Contractor Offers Help Toolset Clients get Custom Work from Peers

  Toolset support handles around 1,000 tickets every month. If you’ve ever used our support, you probably know that we’re doing our absolute very best to resolve problems and come up with creative solutions. However, sometimes you may need work which is beyond our support. To answer this need, we’re proud

  October 3, 2018 10 Comments

• Need More Power for Toolset Membership Sites?

  We want to make it easier to build fully-featured membership sites with Toolset. To do this, we need to know what you need, so we can make it exactly right for you. Update – Feb 2019 Since WordPress 5 got out in December, Toolset team is spending more time on

  August 20, 2018 56 Comments

• Changes Coming to NEW Toolset Accounts

  In a few days, we’re going to make another small change to Toolset accounts. We’ll be renaming the accounts and slightly changing their content. This change is only for NEW accounts and has zero effect on all clients with existing accounts. Upcoming Toolset account options The new accounts will be:

  August 13, 2018 15 Comments

• More Flexibility for Toolset-Based Themes

  Toolset-themes got a big update this week. Now, you can build themes with or without Layouts plugin and using any theme. Toolset themes will also run on Types 3.0, so you can use post relationship. If you’re not familiar with it, Toolset-themes allow you to build advanced themes, based on

  June 27, 2018 2 Comments

• When/If to Migrate Relationships in Old Toolset Sites

  Yesterday, we released a major update for Toolset with new post relationships. In this post we explain in what cases, and if at all, you should migrate existing sites to use the new schema. What’s new The new post relationship feature in Types 3.0 allows you to build one-to-one, one-to-many,

  May 29, 2018 23 Comments

• Toolset Post Relationships Release

  We just released Types 3.0, Views 2.6, Layouts 2.3 and CREDToolset Forms 2.0 – making up the “Post Relationship” package. Post Relationships » Types 3.0 allows connecting posts as either one-to-many, one-to-one or many-to-many. It includes a wizard which explains what the different relationship means and helps you set-up relationships

  May 28, 2018 82 Comments

• Release Candidate for Toolset’s Post Relationship

  We’re ready with a release candidate for all Toolset plugins. This should be the last version before a production update, very soon now. As we get closer to the production release, the number of changes is going down. In this release candidate, we focused on completing the last remaining functionality

  April 26, 2018 66 Comments

• Why We’re not Going to Offer any More Lifetime Accounts for Toolset

  We recently changed the accounts system for Toolset, effectively stopping to sell new Lifetime accounts and upgrades from existing accounts to Lifetime. This change brought a lot of concerns, which I’d like to address in this post. First, we understand that now Toolset costs more. We raised the cost of

  April 23, 2018 70 Comments

• Toolset moved to toolset.com

  This morning, we finally moved our own site from wp-types.com to toolset.com. It’s the same site with the same accounts and the same everything else, but on the right domain. Right after switching, I noticed that I need to log-in again. Of course, the browser doesn’t “remember” my login because

  April 11, 2018 5 Comments