Customizing WordPress User Roles With Branda

Human beings may be created equal, but admin users–not so much. Some admins know their roles and stick to them, while others behave like over-stimulated children in a toy store, touching everything in sight until something breaks. In this post, we’ll show you how to use Branda, WPMU DEV’s ultimate white label branding plugin, to customize the default WordPress user …

How To Choose The Best CDN For WordPress

If you’re serious about speeding up your site and you’ve optimized the heck out of it (smushed images, minified CSS and JavaScript, set up a caching plugin…), it’s time to think about signing up to a content delivery network, or CDN. A Content Delivery Network (CDN) will drastically reduce server lag by storing static resources on a network of faster …

Post to WordPress by Email: 3 Alternatives While Postie is Suspended

The ability to post to WordPress via email has been around for a long time. However, the surge in mobile technology has made posting by email more relevant than ever before, especially for people on the go. Whether you run a news site or blog with daily updates, an eCommerce store, restaurant, or any kind of business really, composing and …

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 should create a visual sitemap and show you some easy tools (from whiteboards to WordPress plugins, we’ve got …

The Ultimate Guide to Image Optimization for WordPress

Images are one of the most important elements on your site and getting them right can be the difference between a popular site that provides an awesome user experience and one that doesn’t get any traffic or conversions. But images are, well, complicated. There’s a lot you need to do to get them perfect so you get the most benefit. …

Love Advanced Custom Fields? Now SmartCrawl Does Too!

Advanced Custom Fields didn’t feel supported. WPMU DEV users almost divorced us. SmartCrawl brought us together again. This is a true WordPress “searching for SEO love” story… Passionate doesn’t even begin to describe WordPress users. I mean, I once blurted out to Matt Mullenweg (the co-founder of WordPress) that I’ve spent more time dreaming about WordPress than I’ve dreamed about …