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. …
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 …
User-Friendly Methods for Testing Gutenberg Enhancements and Bug Fixes
Living on the bleeding edge of Gutenberg’s development is not particularly easy for everyone. There is a ton of work and know-how involved with getting everything set up. You have to clone a Git repository, grab pull requests, and run a build process. Non-developers may find themselves facing an overwhelming learning curve. It can be rough for developers who like …
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 …
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 …