Awesome Motive, the company behind MonsterInsights, OptinMonster, WPForms, and several other popular products, has acquired SearchWP, a commercial plugin that enhances WordPress’ search functionality. No changes have been announced for the plugin and Awesome Motive CEO Syed Balkhi says it will be “business as usual” for current customers. “We have built a lot of internal tools to improve our website …
Create a Custom Search With Toolset That Helps Customers Find Exactly What They Want
Customers are becoming more and more demanding and have much shorter attention spans. It’s your job to help them find exactly what they are looking for, as fast as possible! For WordPress developers and site owners, that means you need to install a custom search tool on your site. Custom search will not only help […] View original post at …
Speeding Up Search on Big WordPress Sites with Elasticsearch
Large sites with a lot of content can easily get bogged down when people try to find content. Every time someone uses the “Search” box on your site, they’re using MySQL queries to the database, eating up resources and slowing everything down. Check out our post 27 Solutions to 14 Forgotten WordPress Page Speed Problems for more […] View original post at …
5 Ways To Figure Out What Your Website Visitors Actually Want
If you make a living from your WordPress website(s), then you need to know what your visitors want. It’s natural to assume that you already know exactly what your visitors want. You got them to show up in the first place, right! Except, maybe you don’t… Assuming that you know what your visitors want is a sure-fire way to lose …
4 Powerful Ways to Improve WordPress Search So It Doesn’t Suck
The search function built in to WordPress core has come a long way over the past few years. However, if you have a large, complex site you still probably aren’t very satisfied with the results it produces. Fortunately, there are lots of ways to improve it. In this guide, we’ll take a look at how the default WordPress search function works and consider …