I am doing a 30 day series on my real life evaluation of the crocoblock framework. It is a series of plugins designed for no code development of wordpress sites. I am trying it out as a RAD for one of my own micro-SaaS projects. I called this Day 0, since it was my wedding anniversary and I only had about an hour or so free to purchase it and install on a basic cloudways dev site.
Before installing crocoblocks, I did a WP install, adding mainwp (which I use for monitoring and managing all my sites and micro-SaaS apps), and updraftplus (my backup plugin of choice). I then used the crocoblock wizard to get things going.
The wizard allowed me to easily install the free version of the GeneratePress theme. I happen to have a premium license of GP so I downloaded the plugin .zip from GP's wensite, so now I have the full premium version running. crocoblock claims 100% compatibility with GP (and a half dozen other good plugin choices).
This episode is part of a 30 day test I am doing to crash-learn how to use the crocoblock ecosystem of plugins. I am building or should I say rebuilding one of my micro-SaaS apps that I previously developed using PODS, and lots of custom code. I want to see how far I can push crocoblocks :) I will save any coding for my secret sauce of the functionality of the application.
