SmartCrawl is picking up the pace with new supported schema types. Here is a quick rundown of the plugin’s new schema markup types. We recently published a detailed tutorial on using SmartCrawl’s schema options feature. See this post if you’re not sure what schema is (tl;dr – schema types help search engines better understand your site’s content, increasing your visibility …
Optimize Elementor for Core Web Vitals Using R.O.S.E.
Core Web Vitals is a standard used by Google to measure overall page web experience. If you’re using Elementor, there’s a lot you can do to optimize your site for high performance. This article will show you how to turn a poorly configured Elementor site into one that scores big with Google based on a 4-step process called the R.O.S.E. …
Google XML Sitemaps vs SmartCrawl Sitemaps – Which is Best for SEO?
The Google XML Sitemaps plugin is extremely popular, well-rated, and free to use. However, are its features better than our own popular, well-rated, and free-to-use plugin, SmartCrawl? This article will put these two SEO plugins to the test to see which one delivers the best results and if one outranks the other. Sure, we’re more partial to SmartCrawl, considering she’s, …
How to Easily Use QR Codes with WordPress (for free!)
QR codes have been around a while now, and they don’t seem to be going away any time soon. That’s a good thing because they can benefit your WordPress site for sales, awareness, engagement, and more. Though they look complicated, adding a WordPress QR code is simple to do — and free! Are they that great? Well, considering mobile QR …
How to Optimize Divi for Free Using Our Smush and Hummingbird Plugins
When it comes to themes for WordPress, Divi needs no introduction. It’s only the most popular WordPress theme out there, created by one of the leading WordPress theme shops globally, Elegant Themes. Considering its popularity, it’s worth demonstrating how to enhance Divi’s optimization as much as possible — which can be done (for free!) with our Smush and Hummingbird plugins. …
2021 Roadmap Roundup Q1 – New Year, New Prospects
To say we’ve been busy is an understatement! From the beginning of 2021, our team has been grinding day in and day out to deliver the top-notch quality that you all know and love. As always, we’ve taken your suggestions on board as best as we can. It’s incredibly important to us to make the time to hear each of …
True White Label WordPress Hosting Now Available From WPMU DEV
Your secret’s safe with us. Reselling WPMU DEV just got easier thanks to some new behind-the-scenes tweaks to our platform. Learn what those tweaks are and how to white label our hosting. White labeling has been a big deal at WPMU DEV for a while now. Our freemium plugin Branda gives you the power to completely rebrand WordPress, with over …
How To Optimize WPBakery Sites Using Free Smush And Hummingbird Plugins
WPBakery is one of the world’s most popular WordPress page builders. Learn how to speed up and improve your site’s performance with the WPBakery plugin installed. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how we took a site using WPBakery from this… GTmetrix results for WPBakery site before optimization. To this, using our free plugins Smush and Hummingbird… GTmetrix results for …
Your All-in-One Traffic Report: Analytics In The Hub Keeps Getting Better and Better!
Gorgeous (yet highly practical) analytics graphs/charts, easy-to-interpret breakdowns in one place, customizable page-by-page stats. Meet your new and improved Hub Analytics. The Hub Analytics recently got a makeover, featuring stunning analytics that monitors your site’s top pages, traffic, bounce rates, and referrals. The new design is for web agencies, freelancers, and site owners to monitor analytics — all in one …
How to Easily Convert Forms to PDF with Forminator and E2Pdf (For Free!)
Thanks to Forminator and E2Pdf, you can now quickly and easily generate a PDF from a form in WordPress. This makes it as simple as ever when creating agreements, contracts, certificates, licenses, and more directly from a form on your WordPress site. Plus — it’s free! As you’ll see, when these two get together, they form a PDF-ect team. To …