There are many reasons why you might want to add a map to your WordPress site. Do you have a shop and want to display your location? Or maybe you’re into real estate and need to show your latest listings. Whatever the reason, adding a map to WordPress is easy to do. Like a good map, we’ll guide you through …
How to Easily Capture Email Addresses for Lead Generation Using Forminator…for Free!
Capturing email addresses for lead generation is as easy as ever and can be done for free with our five-star rated WordPress plugin, Forminator. Whether you have a service-based business, an eCommerce site, are selling information – anything that brings in an income from the internet – lead generation is a term that needs to be a part of your …
WPMU DEV Plugins for Free – Our Commitment to WordPress.org
We’ve always provided free versions of our most popular pro plugins on WordPress.org, but recently we’ve been stepping that up. So even if you’re not a member, you should check them out and let us know what you think 🙂 I’ve said it before, but it’s worth reiterating: the more you help the community and the better the quality and …
Creative Website Menu Designs and Best Practices
Site usability should be one of your top considerations when building or maintaining a website. If your website is difficult to use, people will be discouraged from using it—or ever coming back. Furthermore, in many cases, good usability directly translates to better results when it comes to SEO. Some of the hallmarks of good website usability include: Mobile responsiveness: More …
Custom Sidebars Plugin Has New Ownership
WordPress is continually evolving. As Gutenberg marches toward full site editing, it’s inevitable that some things will change and get left behind…like our Custom Sidebars plugin. Whether you love Gutenberg or don’t, the fact is that WordPress is heading toward a “full site editing” user experience built entirely out of using blocks. As has been covered extensively since WordPress introduced …
Slack Workspaces Great For WordPress Pros & Developers
Slack mimics the way large groups naturally communicate, adding tide pod emojis, savage bots, magic 8 ball decision making, and of course gifs! No wonder the WordPress community has started to use Slack to coordinate activity. Standing for Searchable Log of All Conversation & Knowledge, Slack is more than just a glorified text message platform. It’s a central knowledge base …
How To Stand Out From The Crowd Using Paper.js With WordPress
Do you want to draw, paint and animate your WordPress page to create something unique and legitimately cool? Haven’t you always secretly wanted jellyfish swimming on your site, for example? Who hasn’t! Well – today is your lucky day because we’re going to be covering Paper.js, the brilliant javascript library which makes sites like patatap and paperoids possible. If you have …
Why You Should Create a Visual Sitemap For Your WordPress Site
Embarking on a new website build? Creating a visual sitemap is an often-overlooked step that can help you improve client relationships and overall productivity. They’re also super simple to create with the right tools. In this post, we’ll explain why you would create a visual sitemap and show you some easy tools (from whiteboards to software) that will help you …
Impress Clients Before They Even Log In With a Custom Login Page From Branda
Branda is the ultimate tool for white labeling the front and back-end of your WordPress site. One of the many tricks up her sleeve is the ability to create custom login pages to ensure that every inch of your site is true to your brand. If you have a beautiful and well-polished website, it makes sense to continue this theme …
7 Useful Plugins for Adding Features to Contact Form 7
Contact Form 7 is a fantastic free plugin for adding contact forms to a WordPress site. But despite its ease of use and reliability, it’s missing a lot of features out-of-the-box. I recently showed how you can style Contact Form 7 with the help of plugins. In this post, I’ll show you how to extend Contact Form 7 even further to …










