According to the WAVE web accessibility tool, Gravity Forms scores a perfect score out-of-the-box for their front-end forms. Same with Ninja Forms, Contact Form 7, and WP Forms. I tested 2 other popular WP form plugins that did not fare as well. Gravity Forms’ Investments in Web Accessibility Are Paying Dividends The Tavern reported in 2021 that Gravity Forms invested …
Freenginx’s Stand Against Corporate Limits: Potentially A New Era for WordPress Hosting
The Latest In a recent development within the world of web servers, the highly regarded service Nginx has undergone a significant transformation. Russian developer Maxim Dounin has made waves by announcing a new fork of the Nginx web server and caching proxy. The new fork is called freenginx. This move is strategically aimed at steering clear of the corporate control …
Automattic Releases wp-now: A Local Development Environment Powered by WordPress Playground
Automattic has published a new project called wp-now that creates a local development environment in seconds. The tool is a NodeJS app that is powered by WordPress Playground, an experimental project that uses WebAssembly (WASM) to run WordPress in the browser. wp-now allows developers to quickly spin up a new WordPress site with their chosen theme and then open it in …
Engagement Tips to Woo Clients and Extend the Honeymoon Phase
Having a brilliant website isn’t enough. Even if your business came with a substantial, pre-existing customer base (and let’s face it, most don’t), continuing communication is essential for retainment and growth. Running a successful business means building and maintaining a connection with your clients – existing and potential. There are, of course, many ways to reach your business prospects in …
Navigating the New Era of AI-Assisted Code Generation in WordPress
The world is learning new ways of moving faster with the help of AI, as the increased availability of the technology is poised to transform the way humans work. Generitive AI is decades old but recent advances and new tools like DALL-E (launched in January 2021) have made AI more accessible to the public. When ChatGPT arrived in November 2022, …
How This Web Dev Went from 0 to 60 (Websites)
This is the first in a series, Member Success Stories, where we ask WPMU DEV-ers who are killing it in the WordPress web dev business to share key contributors of their success with us – and you. Today we welcome Phil, the owner of Capital Web Design, a Canadian web services agency based in Ottawa. WPMU DEV: Congrats on your …
5 Brilliant Companion Products to Make Your WordPress Websites Compliant
Compliance on websites isn’t a fringe component. It’s a serious, legal matter, which can seriously affect your business. Legal fees can be expensive, and add up quickly. Also, law is complicated, and can vary based on where you live and do business from. How does one accomplish compliance without getting their own law degree? (Or having a best friend who …
6 Key Web Developer Trends to Watch in 2023
If you’re in the field of web development, you might want to pay attention to these industry-predicted trends. There are a lot of design and development trends floating around the internet. Researching this topic, I came across articles that listed upwards of 50. While many of these are legitimate topics of interest, most of them weren’t headline worthy. So how …
The Ultimate WordPress Local Development Cheatsheet
Want to set up a local WordPress development environment without thumbing through pages and pages of documentation? Our WordPress local development cheatsheet will help you get up and running quick smart! In this ‘no-fluff’ practical guide, we’ll cover briefly what WordPress local development is and some of the key benefits of using it, and we’ll then get straight into how …
Theme Redone: A New Block-Based Starter Theme for Building WordPress Websites and Gutenberg Blocks with an MVC Framework
In the days before Gutenberg, the maturity of the WordPress theme ecosystem offered a diverse selection of dozens of well-known starter themes where developers were likely to find one that suited their individual preferences or could easily be modified. Theme authors have frequently asked if there is a good starter theme for building block themes, but at the moment there …