Do you want to draw, paint and animate your WordPress page to create something unique and legitimately cool? Haven’t you always secretly wanted jellyfish swimming on your site, for example? Who hasn’t! Well – today is your lucky day because we’re going to be covering Paper.js, the brilliant javascript library which makes sites like patatap and paperoids possible. If you have …
Why You Should Create a Visual Sitemap For Your WordPress Site
Embarking on a new website build? Creating a visual sitemap is an often-overlooked step that can help you improve client relationships and overall productivity. They’re also super simple to create with the right tools. In this post, we’ll explain why you would create a visual sitemap and show you some easy tools (from whiteboards to software) that will help you …
Impress Clients Before They Even Log In With a Custom Login Page From Branda
Branda is the ultimate tool for white labeling the front and back-end of your WordPress site. One of the many tricks up her sleeve is the ability to create custom login pages to ensure that every inch of your site is true to your brand. If you have a beautiful and well-polished website, it makes sense to continue this theme …
7 Useful Plugins for Adding Features to Contact Form 7
Contact Form 7 is a fantastic free plugin for adding contact forms to a WordPress site. But despite its ease of use and reliability, it’s missing a lot of features out-of-the-box. I recently showed how you can style Contact Form 7 with the help of plugins. In this post, I’ll show you how to extend Contact Form 7 even further to …
7 Plugins to Encourage User-Generated Content Submissions on Your WordPress Site
There are a number of reasons why companies use content marketing to power their lead generation efforts. While a business’s services or products are what a customer ultimately needs from them, a high-quality content offering increases the value of that company’s solution. Content marketing helps businesses establish themselves as thought leaders and stay top-of-mind with their audience. In a recent …
39 Must-Have WordPress Development Tools
WordPress isn’t just for blogging. It’s a full-fledged CMS and undoubtedly a strong platform for developers. But the world of related trends and tools can be exhaustive when you just need a solid solution real fast. Given the fact that WordPress is used by millions of people, it’s only natural many use it to make a living, too. From plugin …
WordPress MU-Plugins: What They Are + Useful Must-Use Plugins For WP Web Developers
Do you need features to activate automatically and remain enabled on your website? Then consider adding these to WordPress as an mu-plugin…even create your own! In this tutorial, we’ll explore: What Are MU-Plugins? A Brief History of MU-Plugins MU-Plugin Features How to Change the Default Must-Use Plugins Directory When Not to Use MU-Plugins How to Create and Install MU-Plugins in …
Use a Form’s Style Everywhere (for Free!) with Forminator’s Global Appearance Presets
Maintaining the same form styles and appearance across all of your forms has never been easier with Forminator’s Global Appearance Presets. The look and style of a form you create with our free plugin, Forminator, can be replicated and used for all of your forms. Even change existing forms to your new style and appearance with a click of a …
The Best Methods for Preventing Spam Registrations in WordPress
Spammers are getting sneakier all the time, making it easy for your site to be quickly overcome with fake comments and bogus sign-ups. Trying to outmaneuver this never-ending influx can feel like a futile effort. Leaving it makes your site look messy, and clutters your database. Deleting it takes chunks of your valuable time, on a repeated basis. The best …
Prevent Form & Comment Spam (for Free!) With Forminator
Ridding your site of Spam comments and registrations is an on-going battle. But if you arm yourself with the best defenses, you’ll be much better poised to win the war. Forminator is a free, easy-to-use WordPress form builder plugin that protects your forms from bogus comments and registrations at all times, using a combination of industry-leading anti-spam tools. Preventing form …