Making a Wordpress Website woth Cwicly is like making a html-page. The thoughts of making a page usinghtml is completely integrated in Cwicly. It's easy to understand but the basics can found in the HTML language. What you see is what you get. and you can make it all.
A very powerful editing environment for WordPress!
As several reviewers have alluded to, I have been hearing about Cwicly for a while now from other developers. I recently purchased a lifetime copy myself because of the recent availability through AppSumo.
I've been involved in WordPress development at the corporate (government) and private level. I am not a "coder" by profession, but have been pushed to learn a good deal when building sites in WordPress. I have used several themes (with their built-in customizer options) as well as Elementor, with some dabbling in other theme editors. So I was very intrigued when WordPress started pushing Gutenberg as a development environment for sites. Cwicly seems to fill a large gap in what Gutenberg can do by providing a more granular controls when it comes to customizing blocks.
Cwicly is clean in it's presentation when working with templates, and makes it easy to create or modify templates as you need. The editing controls are all located on one side of your screen, which means I don't have to go hunting for where something is set. There are a lot of granular contols presented (margins, padding, fonts, etc.), most of which can apply for global settings, with specific block settings depending on what you are working with.
This is where the interface is a little confusing. Some blocks don't have individual controls, so if you have specific requirements (you want a particular paragraph to look one way, making it stand out from everything else), you need to plan for how a specific set of style settings will be globally stored and re-used.
This doesn't make Cwicly a bad thing by any means. It does, however, mean that it will take longer to configure simply because of the granularity and detail that Cwicly provides. Typically, powerful editing environments have that same problem. That's what makes them powerful, and they take longer to master because of the detail involved. If you are looking to get a site up and running in Cwicly, you can certainly do that, and create a great looking site. If you are looking for more detail, be prepared to roll up your sleeves and dig in.
For me, getting used to seeing style settings based on whether it's a block or global style is taking some getting used to. There's a powerful set of tools, but I have to think more about what I'm trying to do. I know, I know. Making me work for it. That's okay, being retired, I have to have some challenges in my life.
I appreciate the tool that Louis and his team has created, and I appreciate the changes moving forward. I'm really looking forward to continuing my journey with Cwicly in the future.
I really enjoy working with Cwicly or... just "play" with it... This is a very refined product - a class of its own. Perfect consistency of UI/UX, arrangement of elements... - I feel the word "future" here at every stage of working with CWICLY.
The purpose of this review is to add some comments, which have not been touched much upon in the other reviews.
It is simply incredible what Louis and team have managed to build and the development that they have managed to maintain over the last year.
I have followed the plugin from quite early on, but only recently bought my first ordinary license (November 2022). One reason for this situation was that the videos/presentation of the plugin were “different” visually than most videos I see on WP Plugins (background, presentation style (a bit formalistic) etc.
To be honest I didn’t really like the initial presentation style – but like many other things with the plugin, I can see that Louis and his team are gradually adapting their product and making it better every day.
And I have gained a strong feeling that Louis truly wants to use his obviously great programming talent to improve the world by giving us NoCoders a tool that enables us to implement so much of what you could otherwise only implement with the (expensive) help of a developer.
So, for many startups this is a truly great and astonishing plugin that I highly recommend.
The issue with the previous page builders like Elementor (that I have used to build my company’s homepage) is very much speed issues – which affect both the front and back end. I am currently using the following 5 Gutenberg themes/plugins – comments on each in comparison:
1. Blocksy /Stackable - a great combination – and probably easier to start out in than Cwicly. You can use dynamic data with Stackable, but it lacks such things as “Interactions”, which have been a part of Cwicly from very early on (has just come to Bricks Builder). 2. Astra Theme/Spectra - one of the easiest combinations to use. But the Spectra plugin is still not available in a Pro version – where e.g., dynamic data should be included. 3. Generate Press / Generate Blocks - feels like a good solution, and I know that they are quite popular. However, I don’t believe that they have a popup and interactions functionality yet. Therefore, Cwicly is better for my needs. 4. Cwicly Theme / Cwicly Plugin - Cwicly Plugin also works with other themes – but I see no reason to use other themes, as the Plugin gives you so much power. Very fast and responsive both on the front and back end. Great user interface. Higher learning curve than 1-3 due to added functionality and constant improvements. 5. Bricks Builder (installed as a theme). Also a great WordPress page builder, which is fast, and I really like the UI and the development speed. I also have bought a lifetime subscription with them when it was available for § 149 a while ago.
So, I will be using Cwicly (bought 3 codes) and Bricks for my projects going forward. But Cwicly has the advantage that it respects the Gutenberg page builder and only adds to it (does not replicate Gutenberg functionality), so it should be better for speed and interactions with other plugins.
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Doomed to fail
March 2024, cwicly founder just quit on users citing criticism and negativity surround their developmental work as the main reasons.
Cwicly have the head but no heart to go the distance for their fans. What a waste of time and energy.
Am glad I refunded this and stuck to bricksbuilder.
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Wonderful powerful editor
Making a Wordpress Website woth Cwicly is like making a html-page. The thoughts of making a page usinghtml is completely integrated in Cwicly.
It's easy to understand but the basics can found in the HTML language.
What you see is what you get. and you can make it all.
Love it!!
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A very powerful editing environment for WordPress!
As several reviewers have alluded to, I have been hearing about Cwicly for a while now from other developers. I recently purchased a lifetime copy myself because of the recent availability through AppSumo.
I've been involved in WordPress development at the corporate (government) and private level. I am not a "coder" by profession, but have been pushed to learn a good deal when building sites in WordPress. I have used several themes (with their built-in customizer options) as well as Elementor, with some dabbling in other theme editors. So I was very intrigued when WordPress started pushing Gutenberg as a development environment for sites. Cwicly seems to fill a large gap in what Gutenberg can do by providing a more granular controls when it comes to customizing blocks.
Cwicly is clean in it's presentation when working with templates, and makes it easy to create or modify templates as you need. The editing controls are all located on one side of your screen, which means I don't have to go hunting for where something is set. There are a lot of granular contols presented (margins, padding, fonts, etc.), most of which can apply for global settings, with specific block settings depending on what you are working with.
This is where the interface is a little confusing. Some blocks don't have individual controls, so if you have specific requirements (you want a particular paragraph to look one way, making it stand out from everything else), you need to plan for how a specific set of style settings will be globally stored and re-used.
This doesn't make Cwicly a bad thing by any means. It does, however, mean that it will take longer to configure simply because of the granularity and detail that Cwicly provides. Typically, powerful editing environments have that same problem. That's what makes them powerful, and they take longer to master because of the detail involved. If you are looking to get a site up and running in Cwicly, you can certainly do that, and create a great looking site. If you are looking for more detail, be prepared to roll up your sleeves and dig in.
For me, getting used to seeing style settings based on whether it's a block or global style is taking some getting used to. There's a powerful set of tools, but I have to think more about what I'm trying to do. I know, I know. Making me work for it. That's okay, being retired, I have to have some challenges in my life.
I appreciate the tool that Louis and his team has created, and I appreciate the changes moving forward. I'm really looking forward to continuing my journey with Cwicly in the future.
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The Uniqueness. The Quality. The Future.
I really enjoy working with Cwicly or... just "play" with it...
This is a very refined product - a class of its own. Perfect consistency of UI/UX, arrangement of elements... - I feel the word "future" here at every stage of working with CWICLY.
Work of art.
Kudos to the developer.
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Michael Johansen (Denmark)
The purpose of this review is to add some comments, which have not been touched much upon in the other reviews.
It is simply incredible what Louis and team have managed to build and the development that they have managed to maintain over the last year.
I have followed the plugin from quite early on, but only recently bought my first ordinary license (November 2022). One reason for this situation was that the videos/presentation of the plugin were “different” visually than most videos I see on WP Plugins (background, presentation style (a bit formalistic) etc.
To be honest I didn’t really like the initial presentation style – but like many other things with the plugin, I can see that Louis and his team are gradually adapting their product and making it better every day.
And I have gained a strong feeling that Louis truly wants to use his obviously great programming talent to improve the world by giving us NoCoders a tool that enables us to implement so much of what you could otherwise only implement with the (expensive) help of a developer.
So, for many startups this is a truly great and astonishing plugin that I highly recommend.
The issue with the previous page builders like Elementor (that I have used to build my company’s homepage) is very much speed issues – which affect both the front and back end. I am currently using the following 5 Gutenberg themes/plugins – comments on each in comparison:
1. Blocksy /Stackable - a great combination – and probably easier to start out in than Cwicly. You can use dynamic data with Stackable, but it lacks such things as “Interactions”, which have been a part of Cwicly from very early on (has just come to Bricks Builder).
2. Astra Theme/Spectra - one of the easiest combinations to use. But the Spectra plugin is still not available in a Pro version – where e.g., dynamic data should be included.
3. Generate Press / Generate Blocks - feels like a good solution, and I know that they are quite popular. However, I don’t believe that they have a popup and interactions functionality yet. Therefore, Cwicly is better for my needs.
4. Cwicly Theme / Cwicly Plugin - Cwicly Plugin also works with other themes – but I see no reason to use other themes, as the Plugin gives you so much power. Very fast and responsive both on the front and back end. Great user interface. Higher learning curve than 1-3 due to added functionality and constant improvements.
5. Bricks Builder (installed as a theme). Also a great WordPress page builder, which is fast, and I really like the UI and the development speed. I also have bought a lifetime subscription with them when it was available for § 149 a while ago.
So, I will be using Cwicly (bought 3 codes) and Bricks for my projects going forward. But Cwicly has the advantage that it respects the Gutenberg page builder and only adds to it (does not replicate Gutenberg functionality), so it should be better for speed and interactions with other plugins.
Thank you Louis.
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