schemawp.com Built with @EtchWPOfficial, dressed with @AutomaticCSS. What a toolkit, really.

I recently watched @RinodeBoer's live where he rebuilt his personal website (rinodeboer.com) with the new Elementor v4 builder. If you're looking for Elementor content, it's a good time. But as a fellow content creator desperate for something to make content about, I decided I would also rebuild his website but in @EtchWPOfficial with @AutomaticCSS. (that video will go live hopefully tomorrow). Afterwards, I had AI compare the code output, and this was the result (disclaimer: the intent of this post is not to drag on Rino, he's a good guy. This post is strictly about Elementor code output vs Etch code output) docs.google.com/document/d/1… Here's the summary: Etch has substantially higher code quality — cleaner, more semantic, more maintainable, less bloated, better for performance and accessibility, and follows modern frontend best practices. The Elementor version is typical of page builder output: functional but bloated, opaque, and hard to maintain manually. This reflects the trade-off: Elementor enables fast no-code development for non-coders but generates poor HTML. Etch reflects a developer-first philosophy that values clean markup. If performance, SEO, long-term maintainability, or custom development matter, Etch is strongly preferable.

Part 2 of rebuilding my super old agency website in @EtchWPOfficial and @AutomaticCSS dropped this morning. This one gets good particularly towards the end as I get to create a loop within a loop. Fancy stuff. Part 3 will never drop because I recorded it, and then discovered the audio was all messed up for some reason....and I'm not un-building the website so I can re-build it on camera. Just trust that I basically completed the project (I'm like 90% there). youtube.com/watch?v=byCCx7s1…

This is the tech stack I used to reach €80K revenue in 2025 (stolen from @T_Zahil) 🖼️ Frontend - WordPress - Bricks Builder - AutomaticCSS ⚙️ Backend - WordPress 🔐 Authentication - WordPress 💾 Database - MySQL 💰 Payments - Manual Invoices through Lexware 💌 Mails - M365 🤖 IDE AI - VS Code Copilot ☁️ Hosting - all-inkl.com - Deictard server on hetzner 🌐 Domains - variomedia 📊 Analytics - Matomo, self hosted

Yeah. Ditto on the 101 series. So, much value packed into those.

Looking forward to @AutomaticCSS 4.0 release, looking forward to @thekevingeary dropping the updated page building 101 series. Looking forward to the unified block editor experience of WP 7.0

I'm going live today at 1pm CST for Episode 3 of Website Rebuilds Nobody Asked For. I'm in the process of rebuilding cyberinnovation dot com. Why? Because I stumbled upon it, and found too many things about it I hate and I couldn't just stand by and do nothing. I'll be using @EtchWPOfficial and @AutomaticCSS of course. I've already recorded 2 episodes, this will be the 3rd episode (Ep1 dropped this morning, Ep3 will drop Friday) Don't worry you don't need to watch them in order =] youtube.com/live/Mn8pVzecGYM…

People really like build videos

this is by far my most popular video to date. 425 views after just 2 days is a lot for my channel. It's literally just me building 3 sections of some random website using @EtchWPOfficial and @AutomaticCSS after @thekevingeary put out a challenge in his Inner Circle: youtube.com/watch?v=a9cyg_UR… I guess I gotta do more build videos.

I wanna make a video about @AutomaticCSS feature called content-grid but I'm exhausted from working on my stupid truck today, and walking around a german-amish village with a buddy of mine. Is this how you know you're old when you're too tired to sit in a chair and record a video?

@thekevingeary issued a challenge in his Inner Circle to build out 3 sections of a random website and record yourself doing it. This challenge was in response to his own tweet where he gave some advice regarding hiring a developer. That advice being to pay them to build out a landing page from a Figma file, and have them record themselves talking through it so you can get an idea of their workflow and thought process when building out a site. That's like, 90% of what my YouTube channel is so I obvs had to do it. So I accepted the challenge, picked a crappy Framer website and built some of it in @EtchWPOfficial and @AutomaticCSS youtu.be/a9cyg_URHxY

The AutomaticCSS Naming Was Just Stupid → iconick.io/the-automaticcss-…

Automattic Sends Trademark Notice to AutomaticCSS Over Name Similarity ⚠️ wp-content.co/automattic-sen…

新たなWordPress騒動の予兆 Automattic社及びMatt氏（.comの方のWP運営元）が、WordPressプロダクト名にautomaticと名付けているAutomaticCSSに対し「Automatticと混同する恐れ」と懸念を表明。 一方でautomaticは一般的な英単語であり、Automattic社がそもそも社名変更すれば簡単に解決するのだが・・・

Why go with "AutomaticCSS" as the name though? Options like "AutoCSS" or even "AutomatedCSS" would have been even more suitable IMHO. It could indeed raise the question of whether there was some other motive at play. Just sharing my thoughts! 🤷‍♂️

AutomaticCSS is called "automatic" because it's the only CSS framework that does a lot of things automatically. Congratulations on owning the domain name for a generic term. Let me know when that fact becomes relevant.

It cannot be recognized as intellectual property since it’s far too generic. “Automatic” at least carries a genuine meaning in “AutomaticCSS.” Mr. Auto“Matt”ic should come up with a more original name.

ok building jameswelbes.com was fun (it was my first time using @AutomaticCSS ) but it's a pretty lame layout (generated by AI) so I'm going to do something I've never done, I'm going to hire someone on Fiverr to design a website for me. To clarify, I've hired folks on Fiverr many times, but never to design a website. I've also hired folks to design a website, just not from fiverr. If this was for a client I have a local designer that is my go-to. This will be a fun experiment. Looking at his portfolio, I can't imagine whatever he comes up with isn't going to be better than what is there right now.