It’s exciting when readers of your blog take the time to leave comments on your posts. It’s often what makes the arduous process of creating content feel totally worth it at the end of the day. Of course, you could always see how many people visited your posts in Google Analytics, but there is something […] View original post at …
How to Use Domain Mapping When You’re Not Running Multisite
Our Domain Mapping plugin makes mapping domains super easy in Multisite. It lets you create as many sites as you want in one WordPress installation and then make them all behave as if they’re separate sites echo on their own domain. But sometimes you want to map a domain when you’re not running Multisite. You’ve […] View original post at …
How to Run a Contest with WordPress (and Plugins to Help You Do It)
About a month ago, a woman named Mavis Wanczyk won a monster Powerball payout of $758.7 million. Wanczyk wasn’t the only winner that night either. In a store nearby, someone else bought a ticket worth $1 million. There were also other winners from this single Powerball play—9.4 million people (or, rather, tickets) to be exact. […] View original post at …
The No-Plugin Guide for a Multilingual WordPress Site Using Multisite
It’s easy to forget that the internet is a World Wide Web. Which means that people from all over the world have access to your website. So, if you only serve content in one language, you’re at a potential disadvantage. Communicating with an international audience through a multilingual site has its perks. Not only can […] View original post at …
18 Creative Ways to Make More Money with WordPress in Q4
The final quarter of the year is a stressful time for everyone, no doubt yourself included. Things have been chugging along fine all year long with sales projections looking mostly positive. But then you start to panic about the holidays. What’s going to happen if all your clients decide to leave town for most of […] View original post at …
24 Ways to Prepare Your eCommerce Site for Cyber November
If you run an online store, there is a massive opportunity approaching with the upcoming holiday sales cycle. Is your WordPress site prepared for it? November and December of 2016 set all sorts of new records in terms of online sales. If you’re in the business of selling physical goods, digital products, or services online, […] View original post at …
Hummingbird: All-New Ultra-Fast Minification Engine & Gravatar Caching
This week we’re excited to announce we’ve added a brand new, ultra-fast minification engine to our Hummingbird performance plugin! But that’s not all. Hummingbird now features Gravatar caching, too! So what does this mean? Well, two things: The new minification engine uses an API located on our dedicated servers, so when you minify a file, […] View original post at …
Handling Form Submissions in WordPress with Admin-Post and Admin-Ajax
WordPress provides incredible support for you to work with form submissions in your application. Whether you add a form in the admin or public facing areas, the built-in mechanism with the admin-post and admin-ajax scripts will allow you to handle your form requests efficiently. In this article, I’ll show you how to handle custom form […] View original post at …
7 WordPress SEO Plugins to Get Your Site on Google’s Front Page
We often talk about our performance and security plugins here on the WPMU DEV Blog, but did you know we have a nice collection of SEO plugins too? We’ve been developing SmartCrawl, our primary SEO plugin, for a few years now (it used to be called Infinite SEO), and we’ve got a huge update to […] View original post at …
5 Smart Plugins for Generating More Leads with WordPress
Look, we all know that generating sales is what counts when all’s said and done. But you can’t expect your visitors to be so easily persuaded that they take one look at your site and think, “Yep, I gotta get me some of that.” While that instant sell isn’t totally outside the realm of possibility, […] View original post at …