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Tips, announcements, and in-depth guides to help you get the most out of SiteOrigin's WordPress tools.

AppThemes Vantage and SiteOrigin Vantage

· Themes

In a case of mistaken identity, WordPress has been updating users of AppThemes’ Vantage to SiteOrigin’s Vantage. This is a very unfortunate side effect of how the WordPress updates system works. First, let’s take a look at how the WordPress updates system works. WordPress uses the theme slug as the identifier for a theme. A […]

Page Builder Introduces 16 New Languages

· WordPress Plugins

With Page Builder, we want to bring content creation that’s free and powerful to the world. It’s our goal to democratize content creation in the same way WordPress itself has. Yesterday, we made a huge leap in that direction by adding 16 more languages to Page Builder.

Introducing Aviator

· Themes

Aviator is available on the WordPress theme directory. Download it now, then help Aviator take flight by giving your input. Download Demo When we create a new theme, we have two main considerations. What will the theme look like, and who we’re creating it for? The audience we’re creating the theme for as the biggest influence […]

Page Builder 2 Changes Everything

· Plugins

We’ve been working on version 2 for months and planning it since last year. I’m glad to be able to give you a sneak peek at the next generation of Page Builder. This update is far more than a small iterative update. It’s a complete rewrite and redesign of almost every key component. We’re hoping to […]

Design in the Crowd

· Experiments

As far as I know, there hasn’t been a lot of research into using crowdsourcing to optimize or even design web elements. So this weekend I ran a simple experiment into using crowdsourcing to create the world’s first crowd designed button.