Last year you provided us with 998 responses to our annual survey and they were amazing. This year, again, I will personally read every single one and if we can crack 1,000 responses we’ll DOUBLE the prize pool. Read on for more info on why you should participate (basically me demonstrating to you that we really do listen and act), …
Your Hosting Backups Are Automatically Safe With WPMU DEV…100% Guaranteed!
Fire, flood, rain, or shine, WPMU DEV’s managed WordPress hosting keeps your backups safe and fine. If you follow IT-related news, you may recall the March 2021 fire that destroyed one of Europe’s largest hosting provider’s data centres in Strasbourg, France, knocking out major websites around the world. Does your website disaster recovery plan include total hosting backup redundancy? Source: …
Create Amazing Free Frontend Tables, Graphs, and Charts with Forminator and wpDataTables
Turning form data into insightful tables, graphs, and charts just got easier with the introduction of wpDataTables Integration for Forminator Forms. This add-on to our popular 5-star Forminator plugin will allow you to create responsive, sortable tables & charts based on Forminator’s form, quiz, and poll submissions from your WordPress site’s frontend. This feature is great for: Public Directories – …
How to Speed Up and Optimize Avada for Free Using Our Smush and Hummingbird Plugins
Avada is already one of the most popular premium WordPress themes available. We’re going to make it even better by enhancing it with our free optimization tools ― Smush and Hummingbird. It’s not uncommon for WordPress sites built with Avada to experience page loading slowdowns. This can happen for a variety of reasons, including data-heavy images, lack of caching, CDN …
Optimizing WPBakery’s Impreza Theme With Smush And Hummingbird Plugins
Impreza is a popular WPBakery-based theme with a flavor all of its own. In this post, a WPMU DEV member shares how to optimize this multipurpose WordPress theme for top speed and best performance. As Phil Martin, WPMU DEV member, web developer, and owner of Canadian-based web design company CapitalWebDesign.ca recently shared with us, “there is a lot of interest …
New Hub Feature: Ignore Updates For WordPress Core, Plugins, and Themes
Don’t want certain plugins or themes to automatically update on your WordPress site? No problem! Say hello to The Hub’s new kid on the block…Ignore Updates! If you manage more than one WordPress site for yourself or your clients, WPMU DEV’s The Hub is the ‘no-brainer’ all-in-one WordPress management solution that lets you manage all of your sites’ hosting, security, …
New Schema Markup For SmartCrawl: Recipe, Job Posting, Movie, Course, Books & Software Application
SmartCrawl is picking up the pace with new supported schema types. Here is a quick rundown of the plugin’s new schema markup types. We recently published a detailed tutorial on using SmartCrawl’s schema options feature. See this post if you’re not sure what schema is (tl;dr – schema types help search engines better understand your site’s content, increasing your visibility …
Optimize Elementor for Core Web Vitals Using R.O.S.E.
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 …