WordPress

In my previous article, I explained how my WordPress web building toolset had changed in the last couple of years and why I am now all in with the Etch builder (which they actually call a “visual development environment”). Although Etch is quite young in the space and is still evolving towards a certain maturity…

Since I wrote my last article about the themes I use on this site and in my client work… everything has changed multiple times for me. The biggest difference from 2023 to now for me is that GeneratePress is no longer alweays my go to solution and has not been for a while. There are…

Here’s my 2025 year-end review. This is about my 2025 in WordPress and the things that changed for me, tools I discovered, workflows that changed and all that. If you are looking for a generalized wide scoped year-end review, this one is not it. But if you are a WordPress builder (developer, freelancer, agency owner…

This post was a long time coming but I started writing again recently. I have quite a few articles in draft here or on my computer. But there are two big changes that have or are happening that will influence the future direction of the site: First is that I just started a major clean…

The last time I wrote an article about my themes toolset was over 5 years ago. A lot has happened for me personally since then as well as in the WordPress ecosystem. The rest of my toolset has also changed quite a bit since 2017, both for themes and the main plugins I use as…

My last post on the subject of WordPress themes was in 2014. At that time, I had just gone through a process of changing my themes toolset for my small business to Genesis from StudioPress. ( Note, April 2023 : when I wrote this article in 2017, the older themes I referenced were already obsolete…

These State of my Toolset blog posts are becoming a annual tradition on pixelyzed.com and this year will be no different. If 2012 had been a year of all around stability and growth for me and my business, 2013 was one of continued growth in my business but one of significant change in my toolset.…

This weekend I decided to work on my own projects for a change, something I had not had the luxury to do for quite a while, client work always coming first. I took the time to complete a redesign of this site which I’ve worked on very sporadically for months. Earlier today I finally updated…