My Codeless Website is a new tool that detects if a site was built using a website builder. The app can detect more than 50 different tools that people use to create sites, including WordPress-powered ones like Beaver Builder, Elementor, and Divi, as well as Drupal, Squarespace, Shopify, Wix, and others. It was built using PHP and an AJAX call …
How to Speed Up and Optimize Avada for Free Using Our Smush and Hummingbird Plugins
Avada is already one of the most popular premium WordPress themes available. We’re going to make it even better by enhancing it with our free optimization tools ― Smush and Hummingbird. It’s not uncommon for WordPress sites built with Avada to experience page loading slowdowns. This can happen for a variety of reasons, including data-heavy images, lack of caching, CDN …
How to Attract the Right Kind of Twitter Audience
First, determine your strategy — local leads, a national following or international visibility — then follow these tips for attracting an audience. View original post at Entrepreneur…
You Might Not Need That Block
As I was perusing the WordPress plugin directory this morning, I noticed a new block plugin, which is always one of the highlights of my week. It was a simple pricing block. Of course, I installed it and began playing around with its features. It was a version-1.0 product, so I was not going to fault it for not exceeding …
How to Build Your Brand on Twitter
Answer these four questions about your company in order to determine just how you want to brand yourself. View original post at Entrepreneur…
Google Aims to “Revitalize RSS” and Recapture Users’ Trust with Experimental Follow Button in Chrome
The internet was set abuzz yesterday after Google officially confirmed that it has been testing a Follow button for websites in Chrome. In February, the publishers of Chrome Story spotted the button on Canary for Android, and speculated that it may be integrated with Google’s Discover feature. Chrome announced that it is building on RSS to allow users to follow …
Tesla, Facebook and Chick-fil-A Were Brand Renegades. Here's How You Can Be One Too.
Disruption doesn’t have to be as elusive as you think. View original post at Entrepreneur…
Optimizing WPBakery’s Impreza Theme With Smush And Hummingbird Plugins
Impreza is a popular WPBakery-based theme with a flavor all of its own. In this post, a WPMU DEV member shares how to optimize this multipurpose WordPress theme for top speed and best performance. As Phil Martin, WPMU DEV member, web developer, and owner of Canadian-based web design company CapitalWebDesign.ca recently shared with us, “there is a lot of interest …
No More Accidental Custom Plugin Overrides, WordPress 5.8 To Allow Developers To Set Plugin Hostname
Almost since the dawn of the plugin and theme upgrade mechanisms inclusion in core over a decade ago, third-party developers have asked for an easy way to bypass the system. WordPress 5.8 will finally deliver on this feature request. While it has long been possible to filter the update system, methods for doing so were more complex than needed. They …
Blocksy Theme Expands Free Starter Site Collection, Plans to Create New Suite of Blocks
When Sergiu Radu and Andrei Glingeanu launched their free Blocksy theme nearly two years ago, they were surprised by how quickly their business grew during a global pandemic without any investment in marketing. Blocksy is now active on more than 20,000 WordPress sites and its commercial version, launched in October 2020, has grown to where both founders are now working …