Contact forms not only let visitors get in touch with you, they are also essential for lead generation. With our free 5-star Forminator plugin, adding a contact form to your WordPress site is easy, as this guide will show you! This tutorial will demonstrate how to set up the perfect contact form and create the ability for visitors to reach …
Major jQuery Changes on the Way for WordPress 5.5 and Beyond
With all of the advancements made in JavaScript and newer, shinier frameworks, it is sometimes easy to forget that WordPress still relies on the aging jQuery library. The same holds true for thousands of plugins and themes in the official WordPress directories. For some, this may feel like a journey back to the mid-2000s, a time when JavaScript very much …
Astra Theme Suspended and Reinstated, Themes Team Works Toward Delisting Strategy for Guideline Violations
The Themes Team suspended Astra from the official theme directory just a few short weeks after it became the first non-default WordPress theme to surpass one million active installs. The reason: the theme was breaking the directory’s ban on affiliate links. The theme has since been reinstated. However, it has been delisted from the popular themes list. After the Themes …
New WordPress Plugins Disable Unsplash CDN
In light of the recent conversations about the Unsplash plugin’s CDN, several extensions have popped up this week for disabling it. By default, the plugin serves images from the CDN but saves copies to the WordPress media library in case the plugin is disabled or removed. The plugin does not currently have an option to change this. Disable Unsplash CDN …
Create an Easy Payment Form (for free!) with Forminator
Selling items on WordPress has never been as streamlined, thanks to Forminator, our 5-star forms plugin. You can set up your shop quickly and efficiently with free payment options like Stripe and Paypal integration, customizable product features, discount codes, and more — all for free! If you’re trying to figure out an easier way to accepts payments online securely or …
Automattic Relaunches P2, Self-Hosted Version on the Roadmap
Automattic’s relaunch of P2 is now in Beta. This is the long-awaited update to the company’s internal collaboration software that is also used on WordPress.org and other self-hosted sites via a theme. For years, Automattic, which now counts more than 1,200 employees in 77 countries, has had P2 at the core of its written communication tools. It is used as …
How To Completely Customize The WordPress Admin Area With Branda
Branda gives you the power to white label WordPress, letting your brand flow from the front to the back-end of your site. In this guide, we’ll show you how to renovate your admin area with some of Branda’s most impressive features. White labeling your WordPress site has never been easier. Branda splits every one of her features into easy to …
WordPress Cancels All In-Person Flagship Events Until 2022
As the world scrambles to invent and manufacture therapeutics and vaccines for COVID-19, the World Health Organization has declared the pandemic “a once-in-a-century health crisis, the effects of which will be felt for decades to come.” Outbreaks vary in severity across the globe, making it impossible to host international conferences safely for many months (and possibly years) to come. In …
Free Wildcard SSL For Multisite Subdomains Now On WPMU DEV Hosting
Setting up SSL on Multisite subdomains was complex and expensive…until now! WPMU DEV hosting with Free Wildcard SSL automatically included on all hosted sites solves this issue! One of the most powerful features of WordPress is that you can set up and manage multiple sites under one parent WordPress Multisite environment using subdomains. That’s Multisite in a nutshell. Simple, huh? …
Redux Framework Relaunches, Focuses Efforts on Gutenberg Templates
Dōvy Paukstys was rushing out another update with bug fixes yesterday morning as we chatted about the future of his popular Redux Framework. It was not the first update of the day. The Virginia-based developer is just over a week into what he has called the soft launch of Redux 4.x. It is a major reconstruction of a plugin that …








