Cursor Browser Visual Editor – Game-Changing Tool for WordPress Developers
Today I’m experimenting with Cursor’s brand new Browser Visual Editor tool, and it’s absolutely fascinating! This tool lets you inspect elements, capture screenshots, and even attempt pixel-perfect page replication right inside your development environment. I’m testing it live with Fernando to see what’s possible – and learning some valuable lessons about when to use new tools versus traditional methods. Plus, I’m sharing real results from yesterday’s video (2,500+ views from complaining about bad customer service!) and revealing a major breakthrough where we replaced 18 plugins with ONE lightweight custom solution.
“Gemini is like a hippie artist at some kind of renaissance fair. He makes really cool stuff, but he’s just smoking dope and hanging out and having a good time, really bad with details.”
The Power of Complaining: 2,500+ Views Overnight
Before diving into the Cursor tools, I have to share something fascinating. Yesterday’s video where I complained about Cloudways and StreamYard treating customers with contempt got incredible traction. The full video only got 19 views, but when Streamyard automatically sliced it into shorts, those shorts got 1,000 views, 959 views, and 399 views – totaling around 2,500 views. Apparently, complaining in public about companies behaving badly resonates with people!
Even more interesting: when I search Google for topics I cover (like “WordPress Pixel Perfect Design AI”), my videos show up prominently in the results – right after the AI overview and sponsored results. YouTube shorts are dominating Google search, which proves my theory that video content is the fastest path to search visibility in 2025.
Cursor’s New Browser Visual Editor
Cursor has released a powerful new tool that integrates a browser right into your development environment. To access it, you need to navigate through Cursor’s somewhat complicated five-panel system (left panel for agents, right panel for files, double middle panel for chat/terminal, and now a browser panel). Once you right-click in the middle panel and select “Open Browser” from the three dots menu, you’re in business.
The browser tool includes several powerful features: an element selector (similar to Chrome’s inspector), a CSS/HTML inspector showing computed styles, and a screenshot capture tool. The screenshot feature is particularly useful – you can drag to select any area of a webpage, and it immediately saves to your downloads and can be uploaded directly to your WordPress media library.
Testing Pixel-Perfect Design Replication
I challenged Fernando to use the new Cursor browser inspector to create a pixel-perfect recreation of the WP Launchify homepage. The results were… interesting. While Fernando could see the page structure and CSS values through the Cursor inspector, the recreations weren’t quite pixel-perfect. He got the essence of the design but missed crucial details like exact colors, the blue gradient background, and the navigation bar.
The problem? I discovered Fernando had 487,000 tools enabled in his MCP configuration! After disabling unnecessary tools and getting him down to a reasonable number, his performance improved. But even then, the Cursor inspector alone wasn’t giving him the nitty-gritty details needed for true pixel-perfect work.
The lesson: When you need pixel-perfect design replication, the traditional method still works best – use Chrome Developer Tools, tell your AI to analyze one section at a time, and extract the exact computed styles. The Cursor browser inspector is great for quick analysis and screenshots, but for precision work, stick with the proven methods.
Choosing the Right AI for the Job
Through this experimentation, I confirmed something important: different AI tools excel at different tasks. Gemini is fantastic for creative design work and animations – I showed an example of animated cheese for Vince DePinto’s project that looked amazing. But Gemini is terrible at precise coding and pixel-perfect layouts.
Sonnet (Claude), on the other hand, excels at technical layouts and precise coding but isn’t as creative with design. The key is knowing which tool to use for which task, and not being afraid to switch between them based on what you’re trying to accomplish.
Major Breakthrough: Replacing 18 Plugins with 1
The most exciting development from today came from my session with Antonio and Irina. We were working on a project that initially seemed to require LearnDash, Events Calendar Plus, and a dozen other plugins. By the time you add all the necessary add-ons, you’re looking at 18+ plugins just to handle courses, events, and user management.
Instead, we created a lightweight single-file plugin combined with HTML5 templates that handles everything: custom courses, event management, user invitations, roll-call functionality, and automatic tagging in FluentCRM. The entire system is incredibly lightweight, connects directly to the FluentCRM database we’re already using, and eliminates the bloat of 18 separate plugins.
This is similar to what I did with Neil’s project – creating custom HTML5 interfaces that do exactly what’s needed without the overhead of massive plugin ecosystems. I’ll be showcasing this system in detail once we finish it.
Cloudways Update: Still No Response
As of today, I’m midstream migrating four or five of the nine sites that Cloudways deleted over a $29 billing issue. I still haven’t heard a single thing from them about my problems. They can go fish – I’m done with Cloudways and Digital Ocean. I don’t think they care one way or the other about “little Spence,” but I definitely won’t be making any more recommendations to use that service.
🔑 Key Topics Covered
- ✓ Cursor’s new Browser Visual Editor and how to access it
- ✓ Screenshot capture tool that saves directly to media library
- ✓ Element inspector with CSS/HTML analysis capabilities
- ✓ Testing pixel-perfect page replication with Fernando
- ✓ Real results: 2,500+ views from yesterday’s video
- ✓ How YouTube shorts dominate Google search results
- ✓ Replacing 18 plugins with 1 lightweight custom solution
- ✓ Custom course system with FluentCRM integration
- ✓ Choosing the right AI tool for specific tasks
- ✓ When to use Cursor inspector vs Chrome DevTools
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- ✓ Full AI tool suite (108+ plugins)
- ✓ Fully Hosted on Rocket.net
- ✓ Voice-controlled WordPress with Fernando
- ✓ FluentMCP integration for direct WordPress control
- ✓ Custom plugin development capabilities
- ✓ Unlimited personal email support
- ✓ Traditional WordPress tools (you own everything)
- ✓ No vendor lock-in – leave anytime
- ✓ Early access to new features
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00:00 – Introduction & Yesterday’s Results
Hey, it’s Spence, the evil genius. I’m here with Fernando, having a very good day and much better day than yesterday. No day is bad. These are just first world problems. But yesterday, I actually was wondering when I made yesterday’s video, I wonder if that’s going to get more traffic. And I’ll be damned, complaining in public about the company’s behaving badly with their customers. That’s a lot more traffic.
00:43 – The Power of Shorts
One of the things that I wanted to share with you is that the things that I work with, the tools that I work with, they’re used by a lot of customers. And I might be just a little fish, if you will. But it does apparently register with folks when I describe the tools and explain what the difficulties were. When I look at the video from yesterday – 20 minutes, it really got very few views. I mean, 19 views, but what’s fascinating to me is if I go over to shorts, and I’ve got sliced and diced – look at this, I got a thousand views, 959 views, 399 views. These are small numbers for normal YouTubers, but I think I’ll told to, I’m going to call it 2,500 views. I got 2500 views by complaining out loud, and having it sliced in the shorts.
03:08 – Google Search & Video SEO
Apparently, YouTube and Google love shorts. If you search Google, and one of the topics I talk about would be like WordPress, Pixel Perfect Design AI – notice if I don’t put the word “how to”, I don’t always get the same results, but either way, if I say “how to”, it’ll be an AI answer first. But the thing that’s really important to me is, the first thing that happens after the AI and the sponsor – there’s a hide-sponsored results option. If I don’t open the AI, and I hide the sponsor’s results, all my videos show up because of these little YouTube clips, which is sort of proving my theory in my opinion, correct.
06:46 – Cursor’s New Browser Visual Editor
There’s a new tool that’s available in cursor. And if you’re following me, cursor is the tool that I use with the dudes. Cursor is the tool that I’m using to do most of my development. Had a great session this morning with Irene and Antonio. So I’m going to share the screen. This is the visual editor for cursor browser. Here’s how it works. In cursor, there’s a new tool that you can go over here up in the top, I believe, is how I get through it.
08:15 – The Five Panels of Cursor
What you have to do and this is really weird with cursor and I wish they would make this easier. There are five panels. There’s a left panel that pops out for your agents. There’s a right panel that pops out for your files. There’s a double middle panel that can hold your chat which can go like this or can also open up at the bottom and toggle a terminal in power. This thing is like some kind of Mercedes Benz with all these little drawers. Anyway, once you open up the middle panel, you right click in it and you’re going to open up the tool from the three dots called Open Browser.
09:30 – Element Inspector Features
Here’s what’s cool about this. I can put in a URL. Let’s do WP Launchify.com. I’ll be able to put something in minute launch. If I put a website in wplaunchify.com and I browse to it, there is actually a really, really wicked new tool in here that allows me to essentially do all kinds of neat stuff. Here are the tools on the top right. I have the select element tool, which works almost the same. This works like the chrome inspector. Look, I can roll my mouse so we’re going to look. It’s the H1 headline.
11:04 – CSS Value Inspection
If I were to use the inspector for cursor, the benefit of that, which is I think interesting is I can switch to CSS and I can actually see what the CSS values are for a value. Like this button, I can immediately see the background color right here, RGB255, which is essentially white. I can see the border color, the border left position, box shadow. I can see everything that this is made up of.
15:09 – Screenshot Capture Tool
Look at this neat tool. Let’s say Uncle Spence is interested in taking some screenshots to use in the website or to share with Fernando or your particular name dude. This here capture area screenshot. I turn it on and I just drag my little mouse and look what happens. It puts a screenshot right in Fernando. But look what I can do. I can save this. I can download this bad boy and I can be like WP launch phi home page PNG. Why is that awesome? That’s awesome because right there saved me a fortune of aggravation.
17:01 – Image Optimization
If I select this image, I can just immediately get access to the media library, which gives me access to what I just saved. And I can immediately have that in the library. Now it should be told it’s 364 pixels. So I would probably optimize that first. I would use a tool like tiny png or I would use tiny png as a plugin. And this means that I don’t really need a 364 pixel kilobit thing. I can get it down to look 114 kilobits. And then I’m going to download that because that’s what I really should be uploading.
23:00 – Testing Pixel Perfect Recreation
Does this mean that you could hypothetically get the full Pixel Perfect HTML for this page and give it back to me in a single component HTML with CSS that I could paste into another website and absolutely duplicate this page? Yes, exactly. Can you please use this tool while I show some folks some other things to get me an exact Pixel Perfect copy of this page from wp launch file and then I’m going to paste it at minutelaunch.com into a canvas block and see if it’s exactly right.
31:00 – Traditional Method Still Works Better
I think the problem is when you rely upon the cursor inspector, you don’t have the details, the nitty-gritty details. And when you do it from Chrome developer tools, you actually spend the time to figure out where it goes in the colors. Like right now, you don’t have the blue in there. You don’t have the navigation. It’s really kind of sucky. That’s a technical term. You’re 100% correct. Cursor Inspector doesn’t give me the nitty-gritty details. When I have Chrome developer tools, I can.
33:00 – Disabling Extra MCP Tools
Notice, he’s got a shit ton of tools here that are enabled that are not helping out because they’re crashing his party. I think that might not be helping, too. Oh my goodness. He’s got like every – I got like four sites connected with fluent mcp and he’s got every single tool enabled, which is probably making him a little confused. Fernando had the full stack. Fernando had 487,000 tools enabled. No wonder he’s so confused. I’m surprised he got out of bed for that.
38:00 – Cloudways Migration Update
By the way, I’m midstream now. I’ve migrated four or five of the nine sites that cloudways dumped in my lap yesterday. I have not heard a thing from them about my problems. So, they can go fish because I’m pretty well done with cloudways and digital ocean. I don’t think they care one way or the other about little little Spence, but I definitely will not be making any more recommendations to use that service.
40:00 – Replacing 18 Plugins with 1 Custom Solution
One of the things that happened today that was interesting – I’m working on a project with Antonio and Irina and one of the things that we came up with, which is, I think fascinating was we looked at whether or not the new site needed three extra plugins. Of course, LearnDash, Events Calendar Plus. At the end of the day, we did a full analysis. We had Fernando working on this and we came up with the idea, no, we did not. So we ended up making a system very similar to what happened when I was working with Neil that ended up being a very small plugin, plus a series of HTML5 templates on the front end that created a whole custom interface for the site owners to create content like custom courses that are all HTML5 that connected with the events that invited users who could be saying yes or no, they want to check in and that could also be roll-called by the teacher and then that roll-call and the other stuff would be saved to the CRM with unique tags.
The thing that was really fascinating is the whole system was incredibly lightweight, a very small single file plugin, some HTML templates and a connection to the FluentCRM database which we are already using versus I think it was 18 plugins because by the time you’re done with all the nonsense add-on plugins for Fluent Forms, Fluent Events – oh my god there’s like four other add-on plugins you needed, then you needed the events calendar, events calendar plus, you needed the community – each of these plugins had like five plugins to add. It was like literally a dozen or more plugins. We saved all of that with one lightweight single file plugin and a couple of templates. Done and done. And I will be showcasing that later after we get that finished.
42:00 – Final Thoughts
Okay, so I’m gonna say good checking in with you. Hopefully we’ll have the updates for tomorrow. There’s been a lot of interesting developments but again a lot of you patiently waiting for me to finish coding which I’ve been diligently doing and building infrastructure things. Because I do have a lot of successful client projects completing and then launching that has kept me away plus I am spending six or seven hours migrating sites off of cloudways because of their 29 bucks. As they used to say in Friends, I’ll see you guys tomorrow.