Author: Josh Pollock


No One Wants Plugins, They Want Solutions

The Solar System
This may sound odd coming from someone who sells plugins, but the truth is that most WordPress users, and more importantly potential users, don't want a plugin, or a theme -- they want a complete website solution.Read More


Win The WordPress Visual Editor For Permalinks

We're so excited about Caldera URL Builder, the visual editor for WordPress permalinks, that we are giving away a developer license for it! Enter to win below, and you could be easily create SEO-friendly permalinks, for each post type on all of your sites, in seconds with your free developer license for Caldera URL Builder.Read More

Two New Caldera Forms Add-ons

Today we are happy to announce the release of two new Caldera Forms add-ons--one for limiting duplicate entries and one to let users mark content as viewed. Beyond being cool tools, they help show the direction we plan to follow with Caldera Forms add-ons.Read More

The Visual Editor For WordPress Permalinks Is Here

A few months ago I tried to write some custom rewrites rules for a project I was working on to make the URL’s reflect the relationship between post types. I spent a few days on it and failed miserably. I like to think I’m a pretty good developer, but the Rewrites API is ...Read More

What, Are You Taking On Gravity Forms?

This company could have been named after my dog Hobbes. Instead its named after a free plugin that our lead developer David Cramer wrote before we started working together called Caldera Forms. That can make it appear as if we see ourself as in competition with Gravity Forms. But I don’t see it that ...Read More


Taking WordPress eCommerce Farther With Caldera Easy Pods

A product search form for WooCommerce Products
Using an eCommerce plugin like WooCommerce or Easy Digital Downloads, makes it easy to get an online store set up on your WordPress site. Getting all of your products into the site and and configure a shopping cart and payment gateways. The more products you have, the harder it is for customers to get to &...Read More

WordPress Custom Fields Theme Integration Just Got Easier

Easily output Advanced Custom Fields Repeater Fields with Caldera MetaPlate
At CalderaWP we love working with custom fields in WordPress, because it allows us to use WordPress as a custom content management system or to build apps. We enjoy those sorts of challenges, but we’ve never been happy with how integrating those custom fields with WordPress themes traditionally works. When you use a custom ...Read More