First off, thank you for your positive comments about Breakdance!

I’m commenting here to set the record straight about Oxygen – it is actively developed and requested features are implemented on a regular basis.

Here’s a history of Oxygen’s releases for the past few years: https://oxygenbuilder.com/releases/

Oxygen is developed rapidly. It always has been. Since Soflyy started Breakdance development in late 2019, we’ve made 15+ significant updates to Oxygen that implement popular requests and enhancements.

>>> But it would have been nice for him to dedicate just 5% of his time to add essential Oxygen requests (like copy/paste) before dismissing it entirely to focus on his new child (Breakdance).

Keyboard shortcuts for copy and paste were implemented in Oxygen in May of 2022, long before this article was published.

Again, I appreciate your kind words about Breakdance, and if you ever want to fact-check anything related to Soflyy, Oxygen, or Breakdance, you can email me at louis@soflyy.com and I’d be happy to answer any of your questions.

What I learned here is, if what was said is true, Europe is a pretty garbage place for freedom of expression. I hope the humor isn’t lost under my serious tone as well.

While I am a fan of Cwicly and don’t agree with a lot of points in the reviews, I think my views are more aligned with the people in the comment section. BUT at the same time, the comment section is just… wild.

What IS a review, but a person’s opinions and thoughts about a certain thing?

To call this “not a review”, or that it should be taken down, or that it should or could be grounds for a lawsuit (for which it would definitely lose, no less)… is just unbelievable. It is crazy.

I would like to add these plugins as well, Might help:
1. Zippy
Solution to archive pages and posts as zip file and unpack them back even on the other website!
https://wordpress.org/plugins/zippy/

2. Post Type Switcher
Adds a simple post-type drop-down, allowing you to reassign any post to a new post type.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-type-switcher/

Regards
Kareem

Oh that’s beautiful news!!!

For email marketing, you need a transactional or marketing email sender, like MailerLite or MailGun.

There are no fair assessment in WordPress ecosystem, you need to try on your own and evaluate whether it’s compatible with your plugins and does really help.

Web developers know better how the frontend and backend works, web designer knows their tools. This author and many average know how to use the plugins and that’s definitely biased. What do you expected from a who is not a developer? What do you really know about WordPress?

Your problem is not related to the frontend side but backend side that will never be solve in WordPress ecosystem, and certain page builder contribute to the problem or known problem if other experience the same issue. The question is why did you choose WordPress plugins in the first place? Or Why WordPress at all when tons of other non-WP sites are running smoothly?

Mxroute does NOT allow email marketing at all. What would be the solution to get the best of both worlds (sending 300 outbound emails per hour with Mxroute + and email marketing)?

Hey WPJohnny, I’m honestly considering Mxroute.com as my email service provider, HOWEVER they are not forgiving AT ALL when it comes to Email marketing as they say on their own website under “Mxroute Support / Docs” point numbers 2 – 6. What email service provider do you recommend that is also forgiving with email marketing and not potentially going to permanently blacklist me (the user) domain, IP, or both unless I file an appeal through their email abuse department. What would be the solution to all of this as far as a forgiving email service provider that also allows email marketing as well?

Yeahhhhhhh, I’d expect as much. I still use it and really enjoy it.

Some of your comments were logical, the others not even close whatsoever. But more than anything…I think it’s you that’s biased in here. You spoke a lot from a hurt POV trying to defend a tool which you invested your heart in. I have no bias for or against CWICLY. I reviewed it as something I knew little or cared about.

With that said, I think CWICLY does have some nice features and its approach is unique and worthwhile even if I thought its execution could use improvement/maturing-time. When you get over your own bias, I think you’ll come around to agree more with me than you think. I mean this sincerely.

This review is incredibly misleading and unfair to our beloved WordPress community.

In a nutshell, I hope that Johnny, as a role model in the WordPress community, refrains from publishing such blatantly biased reviews in the future. It’s disheartening to see Johnny begin by dismissing the Cwicly family as “no-one” or unknown while failing to provide similar information about Spectra and even WPMU DEV, such as their number of employees and business details. Many of these companies may only appear superficially impressive but Johnny seems to focus solely on Cwicly’s shortcomings.

I strongly urge the removal of this review, and here are some of the reasons why:

1. Johnny compares BMW versus bicycle, unfairly blaming Cwicly for being too advanced without even taking it for a realistic test drive. In reality, Cwicly is one of the world’s easiest applications to use, despite its robust features, flexibility, and power. It’s akin to criticizing the price of a BMW without considering the long-term value of the investment. Moreover, Cwicly is incredibly affordable and even comes with integrated ACF Pro!

2. Johnny has overlooked numerous outstanding features of Cwicly, such as the convenient pop-up CSS editor on hover in the Navigator panel, incredible interactions for almost every element, global pseudo-rendering (hover, active…), integrated ACF Pro(!), relocating the unnecessary BIG title field to the toolbar, hassle-free installation, premium support (prompt, friendly, and useful email assistance), and so much more!

3. Having classes at the top of the tab is tremendously helpful for those utilizing utility classes and plugins like Motion.Page. Classes are essential and relevant throughout the entire development process. Even Breakdance had the wisdom to listen to common sense and reintroduced custom classes at a central location. Who is Johnny actually addressing? Certainly not real-life web developers like myself, who do work for clients, but perhaps teenagers who spend their money based on Johnny’s advice without much consideration.

4. While Spectra may appear cleaner, it lacks the same level of power, and notably, there is still no professional version available. This may suggest that their product may not yet be suitable for commercial or professional use.

5. It’s puzzling that Johnny fails to mention Greenshift, an exceptional alternative to Cwicly. Greenshift is fresh and remarkably intelligent! In my opinion, Greenshift surpasses Spectra by a wide margin, although it remains to be seen if Spectra Pro will bring more innovation and usefulness to the table.

6. Breakdance and Bricks are undoubtedly fantastic, but they couldn’t be further away from the core essence of vanilla WordPress. Johnny therefore bases his comparison on false premises. If Johnny were to compare the code volume of WP + Cwicly versus WP + Bricks + ACF + complementary plugins, he would discover that Cwicly utilizes significantly more vanilla WordPress code, resulting in a considerably smaller overall codebase. Additionally, Cwicly evolves in tandem with WordPress, avoiding any detours or dead ends.

7. Oxygen is undeniably impressive, but once again, it strays far from the essence of vanilla WordPress and offers a more complex editor, which unfortunately tends to be sluggish. Breakdance can accomplish everything Oxygen does, and in most cases, does it better, at least based on my experience developing real-life sites and marketing brands for customers.

8. Furthermore, it’s worth mentioning that Cwicly is the most advanced and versatile add-on for the vanilla WordPress editor. Comparable add-ons like Greenshift can work seamlessly alongside Cwicly, something that would be very worth mentioning in the review.

9. This review borders on a defamatory campaign against a brand, which violates marketing laws, particularly in Europe. Johnny, as a commercial entity, speaks negatively about a brand and its product without providing any substantial arguments. It’s even worse considering that Johnny is financially rewarded for this and possibly derives satisfaction from it. Such actions would undoubtedly result in Johnny losing a legal battle in any European courthouse. If I was Johnny, I would think twice before responding to any comments since his negative critique of Cwicly lacks any substance, as does his positive critique of the non-pro version of Spectra. It simply doesn’t make any sense.

10. Having said that, I wish Johnny all the best, and I hope he recognizes the humor in my serious tone. I want to clarify that I hold nothing against Johnny as an individual. My criticism is directed solely at a business model that promotes biased recommendations. While commercials are acceptable, commercialized reviews are most certainly not.

Kind regards,

Havard

23 years of experience in digital branding and development of premium brands and websites for leaders across various industries, but I am still learning 🙂

Johnny is referring to his review of GS. I think it is after the 10 minute mark. You can have a look at what he meant.

https://youtu.be/_PbwamAmQg8

This has been an educational and interesting discussion. Thank you to both of you.

Cool idea. I’ll check it out myself.

Can you give your opinion when you have a little time? Thanks a lot broz!

This is free plugin, they have pro too.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/ultimate-post/

Forgive me, my English is not good, so have many mistakes.

You can deactivate them with a neat little plugin called Supervisor. When you deactivate an autoload option, you are not removing it. You are just telling WordPress to not load that option automatically on every request it does. In other words, the option will be loaded only when it is needed.

I’ll take a look when I have the chance. I generally like CloudPanel even though I don’t use it.

Ok man…you need to watch my specific video about Greenshift. I’m losing track of your comments throughout various posts. I tested your site for pagescore because it’s YOUR site that made pagescore claims, the others did not. Anyway…my comment remains the same. Sites load fast with Greenshift, but I don’t think they score high. At least not from what I’ve seen with your very own demos from your very own site. And furthermore…I think Greenshift has a lot to grow before I’d compare it favorably with the other block builders.

Now please…keep your comments on the Greenshift post because that’s really where they belong. I wish you all the best.

I’m still a Linode fan, and my nodes haven’t changed since the Akamai acquisition.

#variable-inspector

https://wordpress.org/plugins/variable-inspector/

I watched only video from this post. It has nothing about Greenshift, but my comment is for your content where you mentioned “that their outputted code (although loads fast) doesn’t deliver the super high page scores as they advertise all over their site”

I proved my words that Greenshift is the fastest from all of your mentioned page builders in previous comments.

Ok, and special for you. We made a contest https://www.facebook.com/groups/greenshiftwp/posts/970723777700228/

And also I added to the testing page the next heavy things: 3d, parallax, text animation effects, tabs, slider, carousels, and youtube videos. And yes, the page still shows me 100 score on google speed test. Everything is made without caching, only via the inner features of FREE version of Greenshift plugin (I even didn’t use pro blocks) https://theme.greenshiftwp.com/

Currently, we provide $100 guaranteed gift for anyone who can show something even close to this result. Special for you, I will provide $500 for you if you can show me your page with 98-100 score which fits to contest (it must have enough media elements, interactions, animations, check FB post).

I have 2 sites on WPMU, 1 on Hostinger and getting to launch a fourth, each time I try to evaluate the hosts so your article is great for that. I love the candidness.

I ask about Linode because I was going to just move all 4 sites there.

Mr. Jesse Nickles has good reputations.
Even though he was reported a lot of times very long ago(refer to this: lumendatabase.org/notices/10191576), he is still at large…
How can you defeat him? lol

It seems a bit gimmicky and the company behind it seems gimmicky as well. Like usual ThemeForest/CodeCanyon stuff with too many flashy effects and generic designs.

Yeah, I feel Neve is a good mix of all of the top themes.

From what I saw, MainWP paid version has cloning and staging as well. And likewise the feature is also a paid one on ManageWP. But usually, I manage that feature from my webhosting panel since it’s already free/included there. Do come back and let me know what you find. 🙂

Hi Jann,
Thx for the reply and the info, Well, I would love to set Relevanssi as a default search for the websites I use now and later on.
But the cons of it “Relevanssi can’t search content that is stored outside the wp_posts database”
SeachWP does this out of the box and makes things easier, that is the only reason I’m in.
I know it is possible to do this with Relevanssi but requires PHP work, I can do it but always require manual work for each website needed.

Best thing you can do is have other people link back to you, also you can link to this page to help boost its SEO rankings and help raise awareness about what he does. I’m sorry for what happened to you. Jesse calls himself “the little guy” who gets bullied by other companies…but actually he’s the one who does that.

If you do write a post, I can link to you.

AMEN!!! I’ve been using Mikko’s Relevanssi since 10 years ago and absolutely love it. He’s provided great service. His help allowed me to do so much with my site.

Kareem, I’m a bit late to the party, but have you tried Relevanssi Search?

Imho it has better search features than searchWP, has no annoying nags and cross sells, no flashy ui dashboard, great extensibility and awesome Support. And it is still maintained by the original dev, Mikko Saari.

I’m a happy customer of the plugin and if we don’t want to leave the wp ecosystem to the big corporations we need to support devs like Mikko.

I am facing issues with my clients based on his review. Johnny please suggest how can I remove this fake bad review about my company on his website?

Hey,

i have sent a request to join :).

Thank you, added!

If you can share direct links in the Facebook group, we can give you more precise ideas. The sites you shared really aren’t so hard. Either option could work.

I think it is really hard to design, e.g. i encountered the issue that it is not possible to edit the different product categories from woocommerce.

If you would create a ecom shop with focus on posters/canvas like deseniodotcom or posterstoredotcom.

What pagebuilder and theme would you use?

WP Repo:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/the-plus-addons-for-block-editor/

Pro:
https://theplusblocks.com/