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 …
Introducing…Blog XChange! Contribute Your Knowledge To Our Blog And Get Hero Points Plus Links To Your Site
Are you looking for great tips, tutorials, and hacks from experienced web developers to take your skills to the next level and help you solve client problems faster? Well, so are we! That’s why we are launching The BLOG XCHANGE! Chun-chun-chun-chun…Blog XChange! [Members Only] tl;dr – The Blog XChange is a new initiative for WPMU DEV members aimed at providing …
How to Optimize Elementor for Free Using Our Smush and Hummingbird Plugins
Elementor is no stranger to the WordPress community, considering it’s one of the best and most popular page builders out there. And to make it even better when it comes to optimization, you can enhance a ton with the help of our free plugins: Smush and Hummingbird. WordPress sites built with Elementor sometimes have unnecessary slow page loading due to …
Web Developer Ditches $500 Security Fix And Cleans Up Over 5,000 Malware Hacks Using Defender
When New Now Creative had their site hacked, they paid a security company hundreds of dollars to fix it. This time around, when their client’s site got infected with malware, they simply used Defender to get rid of 5000+ hacks. Getting your own site hacked when you’re supposed to be the expert is not only embarrassing, it’s every website owner’s …
Improve WordPress Excerpts for Better Performance, Traffic, and Engagement
Excerpts are vital for your WordPress posts. They’re a short snippet from your posts that you can display on your homepage or elsewhere. The more fine-tuned the excerpt, the faster your site can load. Plus, your SEO can improve, and the snippet can be the clincher to entice users to read your article. All of this can lead to increased …
WordPress Security Expert Stories & 40 New Security Tips from Our Members!
We recently interviewed four WPMU DEV members, who provide professional WordPress security services, about keeping WordPress secure. Here’s what they said… Earlier this month we published a series of tutorials on WordPress security, ran a discussion on our members’ forum about WordPress security issues, and put out a request to interview WordPress security experts about…well, you guessed it…WordPress security! We …
7 Quick & Easy WordPress Security Vulnerability Fixes
It would be nice if WordPress sites weren’t vulnerable to hackers. Everything was safe and secure, right out of the box. Unfortunately, that’s not the case with WordPress, or any website. But…fear not. Most safety issues aren’t because of WordPress core vulnerabilities. It’s usually because somebody didn’t implement simple preventative measures. As you’ll see in this article, fixing vulnerabilities in …
So You’ve Been Hacked! How to Clean Up a Hacked WordPress Site
You visit your WordPress site and, wait a minute…it looks different. There were some changes made that you didn’t create yourself. So, you go to log in to take a peek around and fix the issues. However, it’s not letting you log in. Uh-oh. It looks like your WordPress site was (gulp!) hacked. As concerning as that is, take a …
Test Your WordPress Site Security – 6 Free WordPress Security Scanners
We think our security plugin, Defender, is pretty darn good, but we’d never tell you to put all your eggs in one basket. Even with a super-reliable and robust security plugin, you should still carry out extra checks on your site’s security… Gone are the days where the only way to infiltrate someone’s computer or accounts was to send them …
The 16-Step Checklist for Securing Your WordPress Site
We can’t stress enough the importance of having robust site security. When you’re rushing to meet a deadline, properly securing your WordPress site might not be your biggest priority, so we’ve put together a checklist to make sure you don’t miss any of the essentials. In a sea of over 2 billion websites, it’s understandable why many people don’t think …