All Things WordPress Discussions

vyas

@Mew said:

It will redirect you to the old domain when you try to access the wp dashboard. Fastest way is just edit the url in the db.

Hm. Maybe you are right. Been a while since I faced this issue. Had read up on Stackexchange (or similar) on how to resolve.

These days, I use Gridpane cloning (migration or clone) or Webinoly (same server, staging to live) and updraft for backups

flips

So AIO WP does cost money? The description only says it's open source, but I thought it was commercial ...
I've only used manual method and a plugin called Duplicator (IIRC). Worked well.
Then when I needed to migrate a site from standalone into a subdomain of a Multisite WP I checked out Updraft and others, but pricing were insane, so I ended up doing it manually.
Only issue I've had with manual search&replace, is that I sometimes loose Theme customization (Appeance->Customize and Divi settings or similar for other themes).

From all the discussion above, I still don't know which tool/plugin is worth buying. (I'm about to duplicate a site from a host with max upload of 128 MB, so I guess I'll have to migrate files separately anyways ...)

flips

Ended up just doing:

Host A:
- mysqldump
- tar zcf
- scp

Host B:
- create db
- tar zxf
- mysql <dumpfile
- vim wp-config
- wp-cli search-replace

Worked flawlessly, it seems ...
And not that much more work than installing plugin, creating backup, copying, installing restoring ...
(WP-CLI worked better than the sed/search&replace in sql file I've used before.)

vyas

@flips said:
Ended up just doing:

Host A:
- mysqldump
- tar zcf
- scp

Host B:
- create db
- tar zxf
- mysql <dumpfile
- vim wp-config
- wp-cli search-replace

Worked flawlessly, it seems ...
And not that much more work than installing plugin, creating backup, copying, installing restoring ...
(WP-CLI worked better than the sed/search&replace in sql file I've used before.)

That’s how I learnt. Except in my case
(Nano instead of vim, ftp download from A/upload to B )

Ympker

@flips said:
Ended up just doing:

Host A:
- mysqldump
- tar zcf
- scp

Host B:
- create db
- tar zxf
- mysql <dumpfile
- vim wp-config
- wp-cli search-replace

Worked flawlessly, it seems ...
And not that much more work than installing plugin, creating backup, copying, installing restoring ...
(WP-CLI worked better than the sed/search&replace in sql file I've used before.)

That's the oldschool way I used to do. At some point I got convenient with AIO WP though.

flips

I really think Wordpress could be better designed/programmed in this regard. Why not use relative paths for everything that's local?
... anyways ... How much is AIO migration support? Seems Updraft is $69 ...

bikegremlin

@flips said:
I really think Wordpress could be better designed/programmed in this regard. Why not use relative paths for everything that's local?
... anyways ... How much is AIO migration support? Seems Updraft is $69 ...

WP started as an idiot-friendly tool.
And then got pushed to be everything to everyone tool, and greatly influenced by the Automattic company (owned by one of the "founders"). Both these things have influenced some decisions that are greatly criticized by some experienced WP developers I've had the pleasure of talking to.

It has a lot of cons, along with all its pros. But, for me at least, it's still faster and simpler to use compared to alternatives: both when it comes to designing the visuals, and functionality, along with content editing & adding. But it is far from perfect, that's for sure.

Chievo

@bikegremlin said:

@flips said:
I really think Wordpress could be better designed/programmed in this regard. Why not use relative paths for everything that's local?
... anyways ... How much is AIO migration support? Seems Updraft is $69 ...

WP started as an idiot-friendly tool.
And then got pushed to be everything to everyone tool, and greatly influenced by the Automattic company (owned by one of the "founders"). Both these things have influenced some decisions that are greatly criticized by some experienced WP developers I've had the pleasure of talking to.

It has a lot of cons, along with all its pros. But, for me at least, it's still faster and simpler to use compared to alternatives: both when it comes to designing the visuals, and functionality, along with content editing & adding. But it is far from perfect, that's for sure.

It is called Chievo friendly. Wordpress had lot of paid plugins that make the life easier/ cheaper. Let s find bookly plugin which costs 200 euros and which comes with different addons. Well even a chievo like me could make it work without paying some xxx euros for a bespoke solution. Yes far from perfect but is working fine for small/medium size companies

vyas

While we are on the topic..
5 websites backup for US Dollar 39.

https://appsumo.com/backupguard-wordpress-plugin/

If anyone interested, can send my aff link. Cheers

Ympker

@vyas said:
While we are on the topic..
5 websites backup for US Dollar 39.

https://appsumo.com/backupguard-wordpress-plugin/

If anyone interested, can send my aff link. Cheers

Doesn't look bad but seems to be a fairly unknown backup plugin (70k installs on wp plugin marketplace). Also no mention of GDPR compliance in privacy policy.

78$ for unlimited sites doesn't seem tol bad though. Might give the free plan a try first. However, with especially with Backup Plugins I usually like to settle with established, highly popular plugins. Even though BackupGuard has reviews ranging back to 7 years ago, somehow they only have 70k free installations, Updraft and AIO WP are in the millions. Ofc I can't speak for the paid/premium installs.

NoComment

@Ympker said:

@vyas said:
While we are on the topic..
5 websites backup for US Dollar 39.

https://appsumo.com/backupguard-wordpress-plugin/

If anyone interested, can send my aff link. Cheers

Doesn't look bad but seems to be a fairly unknown backup plugin (70k installs on wp plugin marketplace). Also no mention of GDPR compliance in privacy policy.

78$ for unlimited sites doesn't seem tol bad though.

It is unknown and also my first time hearing of it, but it looks really decent. Assuming their website isn't lying, they have all the important features for a backup plugin. (Encryption, incremental updates, upload to cloud etc.) The "protection" features are whatever. Looks like they use their own archive format for backups though.

Ympker

@bibi said:

@Ympker said:

@vyas said:
While we are on the topic..
5 websites backup for US Dollar 39.

https://appsumo.com/backupguard-wordpress-plugin/

If anyone interested, can send my aff link. Cheers

Doesn't look bad but seems to be a fairly unknown backup plugin (70k installs on wp plugin marketplace). Also no mention of GDPR compliance in privacy policy.

78$ for unlimited sites doesn't seem tol bad though.

It is unknown and also my first time hearing of it, but it looks really decent. Assuming their website isn't lying, they have all the important features for a backup plugin. (Encryption, incremental updates, upload to cloud etc.) The "protection" features are whatever. Looks like they use their own archive format for backups though.

AIO WP uses their own format, too. I don't mind this as they are very well known.
Backup Guard does indeed seem to tick all the important features , but in the premium version only. As such, it only manages to accumulate 70k installs on its free version making for a lack of "feedback". There may be millions of premium users but we wouldn't know. Also this is the first time I heard about them and I have read many wp blogs about backup plugins etc. For having been around for 7 years this seems to be just too little a spark.

vyas

There are Low End Hunters, and then there are idiots with money to burn.

vyas

.#Themealert

I have been hearing good things about the izo WordPress theme

https://wordpress.org/themes/izo/

Planning to check it out in the coming week.

_MS_

@vyas said:
There are Low End Hunters, and then there are idiots with money to burn.

GoDaddy or even the hosts listed in the poll won't work for him/her. Somebody suggest him/her WordPress VIP for the high load of those 400 visitors. The network is fast, and the price is good.

bikegremlin

Some top class tech. support (and WP developer) guys from my country are hired by Kinsta and Cloudways.

Not my cup of tea, but paying a bit more for a service one is happy with isn't completely insane. And it's not EIG, it is relatively decent hosting for all I know.

Just like I'm certain that my paying extra for cPanel hosting seems completely senseless to some people.

vyas

@bikegremlin said:
Some top class tech. support (and WP developer) guys from my country are hired by Kinsta and Cloudways.

Not my cup of tea, but paying a bit more for a service one is happy with isn't completely insane. And it's not EIG, it is relatively decent hosting for all I know.

Just like I'm certain that my paying extra for cPanel hosting seems completely senseless to some people.

Kinsta and Cloudways for 100 visitors a day would be an overkill IMO

bikegremlin

@vyas said:

@bikegremlin said:
Some top class tech. support (and WP developer) guys from my country are hired by Kinsta and Cloudways.

Not my cup of tea, but paying a bit more for a service one is happy with isn't completely insane. And it's not EIG, it is relatively decent hosting for all I know.

Just like I'm certain that my paying extra for cPanel hosting seems completely senseless to some people.

Kinsta and Cloudways for 100 visitors a day would be an overkill IMO

There are other things to consider. The less a person is knowledgeable, the more important these are:

• The amount of "hand-holding" offered by the tech. support.
• Reputation (marketing/advertising) - if people feel something is better, for them it is better (placebo, psychology, PMS - call it what you like, but it does affect things).
• Security and performance - even if it only shows in the backend (for 100 daily visitors).

I've experienced all these things as feedback from various people and their explanation why they prefer certain options.
If it weren't for that - no one would ever buy a Mercedes now, would they?

vyas

@bikegremlin said:

@vyas said:

@bikegremlin said:
Some top class tech. support (and WP developer) guys from my country are hired by Kinsta and Cloudways.

Not my cup of tea, but paying a bit more for a service one is happy with isn't completely insane. And it's not EIG, it is relatively decent hosting for all I know.

Just like I'm certain that my paying extra for cPanel hosting seems completely senseless to some people.

Kinsta and Cloudways for 100 visitors a day would be an overkill IMO

There are other things to consider. The less a person is knowledgeable, the more important these are:

• The amount of "hand-holding" offered by the tech. support.
• Reputation (marketing/advertising) - if people feel something is better, for them it is better (placebo, psychology, PMS - call it what you like, but it does affect things).
• Security and performance - even if it only shows in the backend (for 100 daily visitors).

I've experienced all these things as feedback from various people and their explanation why they prefer certain options.
If it weren't for that - no one would ever buy a Mercedes now, would they?

I want to disagree with you for the sake of disagreement, but I concur with your sound logic.
Does that make me half human/ half Vulcan?
Cheers!

bikegremlin

@vyas said:

@bikegremlin said:

@vyas said:

@bikegremlin said:
Some top class tech. support (and WP developer) guys from my country are hired by Kinsta and Cloudways.

Not my cup of tea, but paying a bit more for a service one is happy with isn't completely insane. And it's not EIG, it is relatively decent hosting for all I know.

Just like I'm certain that my paying extra for cPanel hosting seems completely senseless to some people.

Kinsta and Cloudways for 100 visitors a day would be an overkill IMO

There are other things to consider. The less a person is knowledgeable, the more important these are:

• The amount of "hand-holding" offered by the tech. support.
• Reputation (marketing/advertising) - if people feel something is better, for them it is better (placebo, psychology, PMS - call it what you like, but it does affect things).
• Security and performance - even if it only shows in the backend (for 100 daily visitors).

I've experienced all these things as feedback from various people and their explanation why they prefer certain options.
If it weren't for that - no one would ever buy a Mercedes now, would they?

I want to disagree with you for the sake of disagreement, but I concur with your sound logic.
Does that make me half human/ half Vulcan?
Cheers!

Live long and prosper.

vyas

Finished updating a long-ish post on How to Install and Configure ClassicPress on my blog.
Ironicaly, WordPress started giving errors left and right, and I had to pause updating the post. Will do so in 'offline' mode tonight and update. Particularly in line images.

On a side note: Neve theme was giving some funny results on Safari. so I dropped it for Hestia (again)

Link to post
https://amarvyas.in/different-ways-install-classicpress-cms/

bikegremlin

Just to confirm - using AIO WP Migration plugin free version, I have managed to clone a site - so migration + (sub)domain change.

At the destination:

• Created a subdomain (temp.mydomain.com) - adding it's A record to Cloudflare DNS.
• installed SSL/TLS to it.
• Made a new WP install using softaculous on the temp. subdomain.
• Created the main, real, destination domain, leaving it empty for now.

Procedure, as @Ympker had instructed:

• Backing up only the database with AIO WP (excluding all else in the Export options, except the .sql ones).
• Downloaded the export file to my computer.
• Coppied the files from wp-content directory "manually" (zip from control panel, then FTP).
• Extracted them at the source.
• Activated all the plugins (not 100% sure that matters, but I did) at the destination.
• Used AIO to import the previously made export

Then, using Softaculous:

• After testing the temp. clone works, I used Softaculous to create a staging copy of the temp. website.
• Chose option "Push to live" on that copy, and then sellected the option to "make this one main".
• Deleted the temp. install from Softaculous, deleted the temp domain, and the files.

As things stand for now, HostMantis have disabled the remote import option in their Softaculous options.
While Softaculous support has decided to take a look into why it doesn't seem to work. As it is for now:
https://io.bikegremlin.com/18015/softaculous-wordpress-management/#4.1.1

Ympker

@bikegremlin said:
Just to confirm - using AIO WP Migration plugin free version, I have managed to clone a site - so migration + (sub)domain change.

At the destination:

• Created a subdomain (temp.mydomain.com) - adding it's A record to Cloudflare DNS.
• installed SSL/TLS to it.
• Made a new WP install using softaculous on the temp. subdomain.
• Created the main, real, destination domain, leaving it empty for now.

Procedure, as @Ympker had instructed:

• Backing up only the database with AIO WP (excluding all else in the Export options, except the .sql ones).
• Downloaded the export file to my computer.
• Coppied the files from wp-content directory "manually" (zip from control panel, then FTP).
• Extracted them at the source.
• Activated all the plugins (not 100% sure that matters, but I did) at the destination.
• Used AIO to import the previously made export

Then, using Softaculous:

• After testing the temp. clone works, I used Softaculous to create a staging copy of the temp. website.
• Chose option "Push to live" on that copy, and then sellected the option to "make this one main".
• Deleted the temp. install from Softaculous, deleted the temp domain, and the files.

As things stand for now, HostMantis have disabled the remote import option in their Softaculous options.
While Softaculous support has decided to take a look into why it doesn't seem to work. As it is for now:
https://io.bikegremlin.com/18015/softaculous-wordpress-management/#4.1.1

Glad it worked for you mate

vyas

Kinsta (WP Hosting Provider) launched something called DevKinsta for Local (Win and Mac) development and testing for WordPress sites. Other options in this space are XAMPP and Laragon or Desktopserver.
Posting from FB group announcement by Kinsta

DevKinsta is a FREE local development environment that uses the power of Docker for WordPress developers. It’s available on Windows and macOS.
What can you do with DevKinsta?

• Create WordPress sites locally in a few minutes
• Turn on HTTPS with 1 click
• Catch and debug all outgoing e-mails inside the app
• Manage your database via Adminer
• Test your sites on multiple PHP versions
• Find the cause of issues through logs
• Access WP-CLI
• Pull your sites from Kinsta
• Push changes to a Kinsta staging environment
  To download the application and learn more, visit us at https://kinsta.com/devkinsta/.

vyas

Posted a note on Backing up WP site in the SEO discussion thread.

Intelpentiumm

@vyas iam still searching for a nice plugin+theme for listing hotels and resorts of my place. My district has around 600 properties and iam looking to list all those along with their features, tariff, a few pics etc. Its something like a directory but with booking facility. Would like to categorise resorts, homestays, serviced villas and so. A free listing site. Shortlisted one called Brikk. Yet to purchase.

Ympker

@vyas said:
Kinsta (WP Hosting Provider) launched something called DevKinsta for Local (Win and Mac) development and testing for WordPress sites. Other options in this space are XAMPP and Laragon or Desktopserver.
Posting from FB group announcement by Kinsta

DevKinsta is a FREE local development environment that uses the power of Docker for WordPress developers. It’s available on Windows and macOS.
What can you do with DevKinsta?

• Create WordPress sites locally in a few minutes
• Turn on HTTPS with 1 click
• Catch and debug all outgoing e-mails inside the app
• Manage your database via Adminer
• Test your sites on multiple PHP versions
• Find the cause of issues through logs
• Access WP-CLI
• Pull your sites from Kinsta
• Push changes to a Kinsta staging environment
  To download the application and learn more, visit us at https://kinsta.com/devkinsta/.

Interesting Thanks for the share.

vyas

Sending mail from WP via SMTp- another option
https://wordpress.org/plugins/fluent-smtp

bikegremlin

@vyas said:
Sending mail from WP via SMTp- another option
https://wordpress.org/plugins/fluent-smtp

I tend to avoid newly made plugins (50 installs, 2 reviews so far). Unless I have a very good reason to trust them.

This one looks interesting. It promises some options I hadn't seen with other such plugins. Like:

• Choosing different providers depending on the "from" address.
• Keeping a log of failed deliveries (not sure how they do this).
• Amazon SES integration.

Remains to be seen if it's fast, stable, and secure.

Not_Oles

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25887674

Interesting discussion of Wordpress versus other options. ?

vyas

Saw this on PH :
"Open source" page speed, accessibility and site performance score.
https://websu.io

They use google Lite whatever as backend, clean interface, no ads (yet).

Below is score for my blog (Un optimized. just switched to GeneratePress)
https://websu.io/r/600e63ad7bcf3740862d3f7b

NoComment

@vyas said:
Saw this on PH :
"Open source" page speed, accessibility and site performance score.
https://websu.io

They use google Lite whatever as backend, clean interface, no ads (yet).

Below is score for my blog (Un optimized. just switched to GeneratePress)
https://websu.io/r/600e63ad7bcf3740862d3f7b

>

Looks like a blatant copy of pagespeed insights.

vyas

The site mentions using pagespeed backend

vyas

Full sote editing coming from WP 5.8

https://wpdevelopment.courses/articles/full-site-editing-in-wordpress-5-8

Ympker

@vyas said:
Full sote editing coming from WP 5.8

https://wpdevelopment.courses/articles/full-site-editing-in-wordpress-5-8

Interesting to see where this takes us.

Fritz

Is anyone ever tried Wordpress SEO plugin called "Rank Math".

Is it better than Yoast or AIOSEO ?

vyas

Rankmath was (and is) good, the free tier is now limited and during BF the developers bombed their paid version launch . Poor marketing.

But product remains solid

bikegremlin

AIO was very limited in its free version when I last tried it - but that was 6 years ago, so take this with a bucket of salt.
Pro version was praised by some developers I consider to be very good.

I've given up on Yoast since their indexables blunder.
Considered Rank Math, but stuff like this got me a bit weary.
What tipped the scales was praises from the devs I trust in favour of The SEO Framework.
The free version + free options given by their extensions manager do all you need - technically.
If you need help writing content, keyword analysis is provided only in pro version, so in that case I'd consider paying, or using Yoast, at least with the first 100 or so articles, until you get the hang of it (Yoast offers basic, limited keyword analysis in their free tier).

EDIT: to avoid any misunderstanding - I'm not paid, nor in any way affiliated with TSF. It's just like MXroute when it comes to emails, and this forum when it comes to hosting-related forums - it's my choice, based on all the info available, and all the stuff I've tried so far. Neither is perfect, it's just "the least bad" choice for me. Nothing more, nothing less. (OK... LES is perfect! )

vyas

If you need help writing content, keyword analysis is provided only in pro version

True, but I would not trust a SEO plugin to do that.

There are a different tools for keyword search. Most SEO plugins for WP help in one or more of the following:
a. Tips for Optimizing existing text
b. Suggesting best practices from SEO POV
c. Identifying broken links etc.
d. Duplicate content if any

bikegremlin

@vyas said:

If you need help writing content, keyword analysis is provided only in pro version

True, but I would not trust a SEO plugin to do that.

There are a different tools for keyword search. Most SEO plugins for WP help in one or more of the following:
a. Tips for Optimizing existing text
b. Suggesting best practices from SEO POV
c. Identifying broken links etc.
d. Duplicate content if any

Good points, and worth stressing. Yes, even all those tools won't make you a good content writer. But they can help. Especially with the technical stuff. SEO plugins, for example, can do the basic checks: are the keywords added to the title, heading(s), starting paragraph, meta description...
TSF Pro comes with a relatively "smart" tool (unlike Yoast for example), that recognizes synonyms, so it's as close as it gets (of all the SEO plugins) to not making you write for robots. I don't always "listen" to it, but take a look and consider the suggestions.

TSF keyword analysis good and bad.
Hemingway editor (a bit buggy on-line version, and no Linux app, but still useful)

Fritz

@bikegremlin said:
AIO was very limited in its free version when I last tried it - but that was 6 years ago, so take this with a bucket of salt.
Pro version was praised by some developers I consider to be very good.

I've given up on Yoast since their indexables blunder.
Considered Rank Math, but stuff like this got me a bit weary.
What tipped the scales was praises from the devs I trust in favour of The SEO Framework.
The free version + free options given by their extensions manager do all you need - technically.
If you need help writing content, keyword analysis is provided only in pro version, so in that case I'd consider paying, or using Yoast, at least with the first 100 or so articles, until you get the hang of it (Yoast offers basic, limited keyword analysis in their free tier).

EDIT: to avoid any misunderstanding - I'm not paid, nor in any way affiliated with TSF. It's just like MXroute when it comes to emails, and this forum when it comes to hosting-related forums - it's my choice, based on all the info available, and all the stuff I've tried so far. Neither is perfect, it's just "the least bad" choice for me. Nothing more, nothing less. (OK... LES is perfect! )

I'm using AIOSEO and I found that since version 4, they do big upgrade to their program, not as sophisticated as YOAST (BLOATWARE), but it is good for my needs.

I will try to test Rank Math, it offers simpler interface than AIOSEO.

Fritz

@vyas said:

If you need help writing content, keyword analysis is provided only in pro version

True, but I would not trust a SEO plugin to do that.

There are a different tools for keyword search. Most SEO plugins for WP help in one or more of the following:
a. Tips for Optimizing existing text
b. Suggesting best practices from SEO POV
c. Identifying broken links etc.
d. Duplicate content if any

SEO Plugin is very useful for non Pro Content Writer like me.

Ympker

@flips Are you still happy with LiveCanvas mate? Considering grabbing it while the discount lasts

flips

@Ympker said:
@flips Are you still happy with LiveCanvas mate? Considering grabbing it while the discount lasts

Yes, I find it useful. Not sure I'd pay the full price, but it's worth the discounted price!
There also stuff to discover, that I haven't dug into, yet. For me the possibility to edit css and html at the various levels are very useful...
Considering using it as a page builder for some static sites. (Export the stuff.)

Ympker

@flips said:

@Ympker said:
@flips Are you still happy with LiveCanvas mate? Considering grabbing it while the discount lasts

Yes, I find it useful. Not sure I'd pay the full price, but it's worth the discounted price!
There also stuff to discover, that I haven't dug into, yet. For me the possibility to edit css and html at the various levels are very useful...
Considering using it as a page builder for some static sites. (Export the stuff.)

Sounds good Thanks for the headsup! Gonna watch some more videos, then decide. Yesterday, I also tried to just add HTML code to WP using the Gutenberg "HTML Block" with inline CSS to see how far that can go.

bikegremlin

@Ympker said:

@flips said:

@Ympker said:
@flips Are you still happy with LiveCanvas mate? Considering grabbing it while the discount lasts

Yes, I find it useful. Not sure I'd pay the full price, but it's worth the discounted price!
There also stuff to discover, that I haven't dug into, yet. For me the possibility to edit css and html at the various levels are very useful...
Considering using it as a page builder for some static sites. (Export the stuff.)

Sounds good Thanks for the headsup! Gonna watch some more videos, then decide. Yesterday, I also tried to just add HTML code to WP using the Gutenberg "HTML Block" with inline CSS to see how far that can go.

Inline CSS leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to the dark side...

vyas

@flips said:

@Ympker said:
@flips Are you still happy with LiveCanvas mate? Considering grabbing it while the discount lasts

Yes, I find it useful. Not sure I'd pay the full price, but it's worth the discounted price!
There also stuff to discover, that I haven't dug into, yet. For me the possibility to edit css and html at the various levels are very useful...
Considering using it as a page builder for some static sites. (Export the stuff.)

https://wpastra.com/gutenberg-templates/

https://gutenberghub.com/introducing-gutenberg-templates-library/

flips

Hm, I guess I should give Gutenverg another try ... (Haven't used it much, usually just activate the classic editor.)

Also testing out Caldera Forms. (Needed a form with conditional email logic.) Looks like it works.

flips

@bikegremlin said: Inline CSS leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to the dark side...

True, try to keep CSS in global location

Ympker

@bikegremlin said:

@Ympker said:

@flips said:

@Ympker said:
@flips Are you still happy with LiveCanvas mate? Considering grabbing it while the discount lasts

Yes, I find it useful. Not sure I'd pay the full price, but it's worth the discounted price!
There also stuff to discover, that I haven't dug into, yet. For me the possibility to edit css and html at the various levels are very useful...
Considering using it as a page builder for some static sites. (Export the stuff.)

Sounds good Thanks for the headsup! Gonna watch some more videos, then decide. Yesterday, I also tried to just add HTML code to WP using the Gutenberg "HTML Block" with inline CSS to see how far that can go.

Inline CSS leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to the dark side...

True. Could also wpenqueue my stylesheet for HTML blocks.