Over the past few weeks, I’ve written quite a bit about SEO here on the WPMU DEV Blog because what’s not to love about getting free website traffic from Google? Yet so many people get discouraged when it comes to SEO because they are under the impression that it is insanely hard to get right. […] View original post at …
Adding Super Cool Animations to Your WordPress Site
Animations are cool. We’ve seen them at play in gamification, in page transitions, and also in the latest navigation design trend. The best part about animation? You don’t see them all too often in web design, which is sure to give your WordPress site an edge over the competition. I think part of the reason […] View original post at …
Congratulations to the WPMU DEV 2017 Survey Winners!
Thank you to everyone who took part in our annual survey! We sent it out via email and you all responded in droves. So much so that our CEO James Farmer has spent all week poring through pages and pages of responses, making notes, laughing at some of the funnier responses, and thinking seriously about […] View original post at …
How to Build a Staff Intranet with BuddyPress and WordPress
BuddyPress continues to be one of the most popular free WordPress plugins. Its customizability and flexibility make it a great tool for creating your own social media platform. But it has another use as well, one that I’ve used with a number of clients, and that’s as the basis for an intranet, or an internal […] View original post at …
Where to Put Your Contact Form? What the Research Says
You want leads. You need conversions. So you put a contact form on your website (or you build one from scratch). Here’s the million-dollar question though: how do you know if you’ve placed it in the right spot? I recently shared research I found that focused on optimal logo placement as well as CTA placement. […] View original post at …
How to Download WordPress in Any Language
The WordPress admin is fairly straightforward to use no matter where you live in the world since it has been translated into many different languages. The trickiest part is knowing where to grab a translated copy. While WordPress can be downloaded in US English by default, the WordPress.org download page doesn’t provide any obvious directions on how […] View original post at …
9 Reasons Why You Should Have an Explainer Video on Your WordPress Site
Let’s face it: no matter how intelligent or well-informed your audience is, there are some parts of your product or service they might not be able to comprehend just by reading through your site. And that’s might not be the fault of your content or even the deliverable itself. Think about the last time you tried […] View original post at …
24 Weird Ways to Find New Gigs as a WordPress Developer
There are plenty of people and businesses in need of a WordPress developer’s assistance, even if they don’t know it or aren’t ready to admit it to themselves yet. Whenever they do become ready, you’ll need to be in the right place and the right time in order to deliver your pitch and land that […] View original post at …
15 Competitor Analysis Tools to Help You Spy On Your Competition
Running a business can be tough, especially when you have pesky competitors jeopardizing your bottom line and stealing away potential customers. Fortunately, there are competitor analysis tools out there you can use to get the drop on your competition so you can blow them out of the water. Today, I’m going to share some of […] View original post at …
Learn WordPress and Dream Big: Academy Courses Now Available On-Demand
All courses in our online learning school, The Academy, are now available to enroll in and complete at any time! Yes, we’ve scrapped start and end dates for courses and removed the week-by-week release of units. Now you can join a course at any time, work through the videos, tutorials and assessments at your own […] View original post at …