turtlepod

<a href="http://genbumedia.com/plugins/fx-builder/" rel="nofollow ugc">f(x) Builder</a> is a new page builder plugin that provides visual columns in the post editor without using shortcodes. From the setting page, you can enable it for posts, pages, and custom post types. There is no vendor lock-in. If you decide you no longer wish to use the plugin, you can disable it without losing your content (though you would loose the column formatting).
GITHUB
You can contribute to development at GitHub https://github.com/turtlepod/fx-builder
Features:
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<li>Super simple to use.</li>
<li>Visual columns in the post editor.</li>
<li>If you disable the plugin, you content is not lost.</li>
<li>Settings to enable/disable for each post type.</li>
<li>1 – 4 columns supported.</li>
<li>Free, Open Source, GPL v2.0 or later license. 🙂 Use it to make something cool.</li>
<li>Support available at <a href="http://genbumedia.com/contact/?about=f%28x%29+Builder" rel="nofollow ugc">Genbu Media</a>. 
Notes for developer: </li>
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<h4>GitHub</h4>
Development of this plugin is hosted at <a href="https://github.com/turtlepod/fx-builder" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a>. Pull request and bug reports are welcome.

f(x) Builder

No bells and whistles, just a plain and simple page builder, with a FULL editor at our disposal. Perfect for those who create their own themes or shortcodes or use some quality shortcodes plugins. 

What's really amazing is that it add 0 (ZERO) strain on the server - the page loads are exactly the same with this page builder active or not. If you are using a shared hosting, and especially if you are using a "heavy" plugin like Woocommerce, and if you want to have a page builder without effecting the speed of the site, then besides a good theme and agood cache plugin, this is the page builder to use.

I cannot specify how excited I'm with this, I hope they don't add too many things to it. There are a million other page builders that have plenty of features, at the expense of speed and memory (RAM). We needed at least one that is extremely lightweight, and this is it. Besides, there is no way any builder plugin can compete with Visual composer, so dominating a different niche is very clever. 

If anything that needs to be added, the ability to have full width content when the theme is fixed width, ala Visual Composer, or SiteOrigin. The Divi builder plugin and the Beaver builder plugin fail miserably with this. 

EXACTLY What I was craving for!!!

Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks a lot. Works great.

This is awesome!

A simple page builder plugin. The one you can actually use.

Andy Fragen

Peter Westwood

Colin Stewart

Paul Biron

Maura Teal

This plugin provides an easy way to get involved with beta testing WordPress.
Once installed it will enable you to upgrade your website to the latest Nightly, Beta, or Release Candidate at the click of a button using the built in upgrader.
By default once enabled it switches your website onto the point release update channel.
For the more adventurous there is the option to switch to the bleeding edge (trunk) of development.
Don’t forget to backup before you start!
Please enable auto-updates for this plugin to ensure future changes are properly handled with core updates.
<h3>Extra Settings</h3>
There is a setting to Skip successful autoupdate emails. It functions to disable sending emails to the admin user for successful autoupdates. Only emails indicating failures of the autoupdate process are sent.
There is a setting to Skip bundled plugins and themes. It functions to disable the installation of any plugins or themes that are bundled with the Core update.
PRs are welcome on <a href="https://github.com/afragen/wordpress-beta-tester" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a>.

WordPress Beta Tester

This plugin works great, as advertised.

A lot of people complain that you can't revert the DB changes. I bet (hope) that they are not plugin developers. The plugin warns you about this. You are meant to keep a backup of your site first. If you are testing in a container such as docker or a VM, then it's even easier.

This highlights the issue that user reviews are not always reliable. A lot of users click on plugins and run arbitrary code on their sites without even reading the readme, then they come here and complain. Makes you wonder if there should be a feature on this site for users to rate the usefulness of reviews. Oh well, I'm getting side-tracked!

Anyway, thanks for a great plugin.


Must-have for any theme or plugin developer

When I activated my plugins page returns 503: Server runs out of time. Deactivated this plugin and all back to normal. Not recommended for 4.8.3!

Not recommended for 4.8.3

Great plugin to install beta releases for testing plugins and themes.
It would be helpful to see information about version numbers which will be installed.


Great for testing beta releases but missing information about version numbers


This is just brilliant. It allows anyone to test out the beta and see if everything works - Nice work here! I only found out about this from the WPBUILDS podcast - needs more promotion - its fantastic! 


What a fantastic facility!


As a plugin developer, I need this extension to be able to test my plugin against future versions before the officiale release.


Mandatory for a plugin developer!


Seems to work as expected. Great tool to test plugins before release and ensure they are compatible with the next Wordpress release. So thank you for the plugin. 


Great tool


Perfect for developers to test plugins with new versions of WP. 


Working great

Allows you to easily upgrade for testing the next versions of WordPress.

f(x) Builder vs WordPress Beta Tester