Hello, everyone.
Welcome to another master stack preview.
This is Jimothy, and today we're
going to talk about Qubely.
So that means we're going to talk a
lot about WordPress and Gutenberg.
And I guess if you're here, it's
because you're interested in knowing
more about this and we will begin
by talking a second about Gutenberg
because it's obviously that it's here
to stay and it's been here for a while.
And.
Gutenberg is the new WordPress editor
that's increasingly getting more features.
But as of now, it's still not as good
as, page builders that are custom made
to create, a website as we wanted,
it's still very good for normal
content pages, and it uses blocks, but
sometimes the blocks are a bit lacking.
So ever since wordpress 5.5, which
came out very recently, there is a new.
Saw four blocks, which we can import
and use ourselves, but I'm not really
happy about it because anything we add
to our website is potentially going
to make their websites slower to load.
So even a very simple block could be
very poorly coded, and I'm not happy
to get that off of random plugins
and just have 15 blocks installed.
That's gonna make it very difficult
to have a fast loading page.
That being said, there are also
plugins that have a bunch of
blocks that we use really can
enable and disable on as a whole.
So they usually do not
have much bloat in there.
So we have a lot of blocks available
and we don't have to install a
new block each time we need it.
So this kind of plugins usually
make our, Gutenberg experience, much
better, much faster, and allows,
allow for much better looking pages.
And this is what Qubely does.
Qubely is a block plugin that allows
to have sections and all the end
starting pages, just like page
builders, like element or Divi have.
The aim is to get an experience,
not quite a page builder, but
almost as good and within Gutenberg.
The company behind Qubely is Themeum.
They've been around for a while.
They've made a lot of plugins
and themes, so they're known
and they have a good reputation.
So there is a solid company behind Qubely.
Let's see what the features are.
We get 39 blocks.
Now, Qubely also has a free version
of the plugin, which we can see
on the WordPress repository.
It's also updated and it
sorts up frequently enough.
And while it doesn't give as much
as the pro version, it does have
a lot of free blocks available.
These are the blocks we have available.
Yeah.
With QuBely pro, which is what the
AppSumo deal gives us, each one
of those, we can check the demo.
these are just gutenberg blocks.
We can have a new page and add
this block and change the images.
So it's very easy to have
this same kind of effect.
And we have all of these blocks
image comparison, which was just
seen table of contents, which.
Many plugins already have, but as I said,
it's better to get all of these things
from one maker, rather than I have 10
different plugins for 10 different blocks.
It just doesn't work that way.
The table of contents looks good.
I'm sure we can edit as well.
So we have animated the headlines,
vertical tabs by progress media card,
testimonial, carousel team cars, or post
cards or form builder image gallery.
In which carousel pressing least
advanced post grid, grade timeline,
image pricing, accordingly.
Once list, contact button, group
counters, Google map, heading
for progress bar Infoblox.
I can list roles, social icons tabs.
Read your popup, testimonial and
team, as you can see, took me a
minute to name all of the blocks.
And there are a lot of
use cases available.
This is the form.
Suppose I hold so many
complex forms it seems.
Then we have.
The advanced boss grid.
That looks nice.
doesn't have, okay.
Does it look nice?
You can customize it, obviously.
Meaning different ways for it to
show the past screen standard.
Very good for want for archive pages.
Sorry.
If you want to list something
at the bottom of our posts.
Then we have info infobox such
as this or this looks very nice.
You're not gradients and effects on hover.
And then these social icons,
that's very nice as well.
Tubs also.
Also, actually it looks
rather than nice to me.
really nice.
Okay.
So we've seen a few of those,
but it looks very cool to me now.
Let's look at the other feature sections.
We get over 160.
Premade sections, which means
these are all made by the cubic
team, using their own blocks.
And they're very useful if we want to have
some part of the website as a template
to begin then editing to our needs.
And I have also footers and headers.
Content pages.
So we could just import each of those and
use this part and then change the image,
change the text to whatever we need.
So that's very useful to quickly whip
up a nice looking website or page.
And then we have starter packs, which
is, not just sections, but a whole page
as a template that we can then edit.
And I got to say these look good.
Let's see the food trucks.
So we have.
That's really actually really nice.
We can import this whole website,
just like we would in a page builder,
like elementor, we import the template
and then we can just edit whatever we
want, but we have everything there the
starting point and it does look good.
It also serves to show us
what you really can do.
And this is all done within Cubely.
With Cubely blocks.
No other dependencies about it.
And yeah, this looks good.
So you have a video background,
you have a hero had there then.
This part that appears on the,
as we scroll down then emission.
I got to say this very good.
Okay.
So as far as we can see
the features are great now.
I do not know how the code is
because as even a block can be
made in many different ways.
And there are some blocks that have
10 divs for the same kind of things
that could be done in two divs.
So the HTML they were allowed
to put, which is very important
for our website speed.
I don't know if, how optimized it is.
And that's something where I'm not even
sure we can thoroughly check enough
during a review, but it's probably
within average, it's not as good as
something, an expert would make, but
it's probably still much better than
page builders except for oxygen, which
is another kind of different thing.
So whenever I mention the bloats that page
builders do have I am never talking yeah.
About oxygen just to make sure.
Okay.
But this thing, since it uses gutenberg
again, it's all made by a company that's
well versed in both themes and plugins.
I have good expectations
that it's not too bloated.
Obviously it will not be perfect,
but for some, for someone that
doesn't have the time or the
knowledge to build custom blocks,
this is probably as good as it gets.
And that's important to set our
expectations for the eventual review.
So we don't expect this to be good
enough for a professional, but we
expect it to be good enough for anyone
with not enough time or knowledge
to custom, make their own design.
We can then look at the documentation
available and, the change log to see
how supported this Qubely seems to be.
Now, before we got further documentation
of whoever, we can also consider
the demos that we have available
for everything it's all here to see.
So we have a lot already here
and then we have documentation
itself, which seems very thorough.
The explanations for each and every block.
And as we can see, each block has its own
settings, and it seems, very customizable.
So I would say we are completely
happy with what we have here.
As far as change log, we can see
here how often it gets updated.
And since it started less than one
year ago we have had a lot of updates
and each update adds new settings
and fixes whatever is not working.
And as there was, a major WordPress
release recently, Qubely really
hasn't had much issues, and
they already updated anyway.
So this seems to be well supported.
And now I guess, it's all about pricing.
What we get in the AppSumo deal and
what is normally Qubely's price.
You can check their own pricing here.
As you can see there have three forms of
license, one website, five and unlimited.
It's all for one year's
worth of updates and support.
So you could keep the plugin
without paying for the second year,
but you wouldn't get the updates.
And I would never suggest
anyone uses, keeps alive
website with no updates at all.
So we could consider it.
There's not a mandatory
yearly fee, but almost.
And that's fairly nine 59 in 99 a year
for the AppSumo deal, we get all the
features of the pro plan, which is the
paid That's all we've been talking about.
The free one you can get, anytime
you want on your website yourself,
you can install it as you would
install any of the free plugin.
So we, and we get all the
features within the pro plan.
So all the sections on the
blocks of the template, we get
10 licenses with just one stack.
And if we check the price,
we could compare it here.
So we get 10 licenses and then websites
for less than their own five license park,
we can then update with two stacks to 50.
And then the third stock gives us
unlimited licenses, which would
be 99 a year on their own pricing.
So their own pricing is good.
And it's normal for a WordPress plugin.
And the AppSumo deal is very.
Interesting cause it doesn't force
you to go unlimited because the other
licenses allow only few websites,
even just the single could be enough
for most people, it offers up to 10
websites and then if you go double, you
get 50, that's a huge amount of web.
Websites, I guess agencies are the ones
we'll be interested in more in their own
limited licenses the most, but that's just
three stacks and you get a unlimited use
of this plugin so it's a very good deal.
Even on the app Sumo side and you
don't even need to get three stacks to
get the really good use out of this.
So let's get back to our expectations
and what we think of this.
We've seen, very good
things on the features side.
The presentation is great and
there is a lot of documentation
and information available.
We believe this could be very useful
to many people, especially non
professionals, as it can allow for very
good looking pages just with blocks.
You don't even need to go
to sections and templates.
You can just add those good looking
blocks and easily customize them
to have a great looking page.
So it's very user friendly seems
very good, even just one stack.
So we think this is worth going
for now to be completely fair.
I, I do not use Gutenberg too much.
I.
Have a use page builders mostly, but I
don't use Gutenberg from time to time.
I do teach people using
WordPress, how to use Gutenberg.
I do not teach them how
to use page builders.
Deskers yeah, that's difficult.
Whereas good.
And Gutenberg is very easy to learn.
So I would see myself teaching
how to use these blocks as well.
So they can have good looking pages
without really much effort at all.
That's my expectation.
So that's what we will check
on a review, which is going
to come in a couple of days.
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