Just a day after launching its new privacy-first web analytics product last week, Cloudflare announced Automatic Platform Optimization (APO) for WordPress. The new service boasts staggering performance improvements for sites that might otherwise be slowed down by shared hosting, slow database lookups, or sluggish plugins: Our testing… showed a 72% reduction in Time to First Byte (TTFB), 23% reduction to First …
Create a Free Track and Trace COVID-19 Form for Businesses with Forminator
Whether you or your client runs a cafe, boutique, hair salon, a place of worship, or practically any business or organization, with the help of our 5-star rated plugin, Forminator, you can track & trace and help manage COVID-19. We’ve developed an easy-to-implement track and trace template that you can use or add to your clients’ websites using Forminator. It …
Jetpack 9.0 Introduces Loom Block, Twitter Threads Feature, and Facebook and Instagram oEmbeds
Jetpack’s highly anticipated 9.0 release has landed, introducing some of the new features the team has previewed over the past week. Users can now publish WordPress posts to Twitter as threads. This new feature is available as part of the Publicize module when you have connected a Twitter account. Posting Twitter threads is a feature that only works with the …
Exploring Full-Site Editing With the Q WordPress Theme
I have been eagerly awaiting the moment when I could install a theme and truly test Gutenberg’s full-site editing feature. By and large, each time I have tested it over the past few months, the experience has felt utterly broken. This is why I have remained skeptical of seeing the feature land in WordPress 5.6 this December. The Q theme …
How to Get the Most Email Subscribers Using Hustle
The money is in the list…but it takes a little hustle to build that list! Hustle takes the hassle out of getting more subscribers on your email list. Hustle is the best free email list-building plugin for WordPress that turns visitors into leads and subscribers. In this post, we’ll go over the basics of setting up an effective email capture …
Gutenberg 9.1 Adds Patterns Category Dropdown and Reverts Block-Based Widgets in the Customizer
Gutenberg 9.1 was released to the public on Wednesday. The team announced over 200 commits from 77 contributors in its release post yesterday. One of the biggest changes to the interface was the addition of a new dropdown selector for block pattern categories. The team also reverted the block-based widgets section in the customizer and added an image size control …
Cloudflare Launches New Web Analytics Product Focusing on Privacy
In pursuit of “democratizing web analytics,” Cloudflare announced it is launching privacy-first analytics as a new standalone product. The company is entering a market that has been dominated by Google Analytics for years but with a major differentiating feature – it will not track individual users by a cookie or IP address to show unique visits. Cloudflare Web Analytics defines …
Jetpack 9.0 to Introduce New Feature for Publishing WordPress Posts to Twitter as Threads
Jetpack 9.0, coming on October 6, will debut a new feature that allows users to share blog posts as Twitter threads in multiples tweets. A recent version of Jetpack introduced the ability to import and unroll tweetstorms for publishing inside a post. The 9.0 release will run it back the other way so the content originates in WordPress, yet still …
Supercharge the Default WordPress Theme With Twentig, a Toolbox for Twenty Twenty
Custom page pattern from the Twentig plugin. I am often on the hunt for those hidden gems when it comes to block-related plugins. I like to see the interesting places that plugin authors venture. That is why it came as a surprise when someone recommended I check out the Twentig plugin a few days ago. Somehow, it has flown under …
A Forminator Quiz Is the Answer to Collecting Emails and Generating Leads
Collecting leads has never been as much fun! Thanks to our free 5-star plugin, Forminator, you can now create engaging quizzes and capture emails simultaneously. Plus, you can easily manage your leads, integrate the emails with a 3rd party app (like Mailchimp, Aweber, etc.), automatically run submission reports, and more! Quizzes are highly engaging, can offer personalized feedback, are interactive, …