From this blog to Hello WP and The WhiP email newsletter, we’ve got a long and storied history of publishing about WordPress… and now it’s time to start a new chapter. So, if WP is your passion, read on! Did you know that this blog (which started as wpmu.org) is almost 11 years old and has, over the years posted …
Hustle 4.0: Better Pop-up Design, Analytics, and Privacy
Hustle 4.0 comes with an improved workflow, better design, more analytics, and a slick data privacy upgrade. If you’re looking to increase your following, grow your mailing list, or capture leads with WordPress, Hustle has you covered. Hustle is the WordPress marketers best friend with master level control over pop-ups, slide-ins, opt-ins, and social sharing. No coding required and seamless …
30 Essential WordPress Plugins You Should Install If You Haven’t Already
While WordPress offers a ton of features and flexibility, there is still a lot of functionality missing from the core software. The best way to fill in the missing pieces, of course, is to get yourself the right plugins. WordPress plugins offer all kinds of customization for site admins; however, with over 55,000 options to choose from in the WordPress …
10 Best Image Optimization Plugins for Speeding Up WordPress
There are all kinds of WordPress Image optimizer plugins available in the WordPress plugin repository. They can help you compress images for the web or handle things like resizing images or lazy loading. In this post, we’re going to look at the features of the most popular image optimization plugins. Some are all-in-one image optimizers while others have some unique …
How to Improve Google Pagespeed User Interaction Metrics in WordPress
User Interaction is one of the critical aspects you need to concentrate on if you want to deliver a welcoming user experience. Unfortunately, you can’t sit down in their place and see your site from your visitors’ point-of-view, so you need a way to figure out how your site responds to input. Enter Google PageSpeed Insights. There are 3 metrics …
Why You Should Optimize WordPress by Fixing Your Images First
In 2019, the size of the average mobile webpage is 1.6 MB. Images usually account for about half of the average webpage because they’re so resource-intensive to serve up. If you’ve never taken image optimization seriously and your WordPress site is slow, then you have the most to gain by doing it right. If your WordPress images are loading slowly, …
Poppin’ Conference Swag and Giveaways People Want
In just a few short weeks over 3000 WordPress fans like ourselves will descend on Berlin, Germany for WCEU to network, connect, celebrate, learn, and of course, collect bags and bags of swag! We’re proud sponsors of this mega WordCamp and as such our super design team was pumped to break from digital design for a short moment to create …
Refer Your Way to a WPMU DEV Lifetime Membership
We’ve heralded our disdain for affiliate programs for years, swearing them off for good. And yet, here I am, with a bold announcement… WPMU DEV affiliates are back and better than ever. It’s been a dream to reimagine our rewards system in a way that protects the integrity of the web and honors our tens of thousands of faithful Devians …
Best Free Form Builder Plugins WordPress 2019
There’s no shortage of free amazing form plugins to make data collection in WordPress a breeze. I noticed that a lot of form plugins in the WordPress plugin repository appear feature-rich, but once you install them, most features aren’t available unless you upgrade. I call this, upsell hell. Especially since some form plugins charge you for every extension that adds …
A free WordPress Form Builder with Calculations and Payments?!
Forminator 1.7 is here including calculations and Stripe payments. A new bar has been set for what you can expect for free from your WordPress form builder plugin! Not familiar? It’s time for a change. Name a lead generating, money making, revenue growing website that doesn’t have some way to capture information… you can’t! Forms are as essential to WordPress …









