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Today, we take a look at a few cool tools that might be useful to your business. In this month’s toolbox, we look at OrganizeWP, SEO Key, WP Wallet and a couple of nice little tools shared by The ProToolbox. Let’s get started, shall we? OrganizeWP your WordPress junk drawer Does WordPress have a “junk drawer” problem? One can conclude that. One problem with the WordPress dashboard is the number of content types in the sidebar, but often, it’s hard Continue reading the post...

Email marketing is one of the most accessible and efficient ways to reach your audience, whether a small business or a giant company; developing a good email marketing strategy can help you generate more leads. According to the statistics, more than 4 billion people around the globe own at least one email address. That is why 91% of marketers declared that email marketing is essential for their business growth. As a web user, you might have multiple email addresses, one Continue reading the post...

With the massive amount of plugins available for WordPress, it can be hard to know the most useful ones if you are a WordPress developer. 1. WP Crontrol WP Crontrol is a plugin that allows you to see and control the CRON events in wp-admin that are running on your WordPress site. The cron events will be broken down from one native to WordPress core. The CRON events from active plugins on the site would show in the custom cron Continue reading the post...

What is it like to become a MainWP user? We visit with Dutch developer Jos Klever to learn more about him, his business and how he became a MainWP customer. Klever has a background in IT support for about 16 years before he started his own business providing support for his customers starting in 2015. After a short history with ManageWP, Klever jumped over to MainWP and has been using our product for about 7 years. Today we learn more Continue reading the post...

Generating critical CSS on your site can help improve front-end performance and remove float issues. Being able to generate critical CSS quickly can be painful if handled manually, or the process can be slow if run locally. There is a new stand-alone plugin for critical CSS generation from ShortPixel. After the plugin has been installed and activated on your site, you will need to add the ShortPixel API, which you can grab from your ShortPixel account. The API key and Continue reading the post...

Being an agency, developer, and freelancer, how do you handle the entire process of design changes suggested by your clients? Do you get feedback from clients via emails, WhatsApp, etc., and create a list of tasks that still may have ambiguity? How about adding a tool to your workflow where you can visually collaborate with your clients on their websites by putting post-it note-like requests on the page, which are neatly organized? That’s where Atarim comes in handy! 📢 Today, Continue reading the post...

Working well with a web design and development partner is a two-way street & becoming the ideal client to work with is the best way to enjoy working with each other and getting the best possible output and results you’ll be pleased with. Now, it’s true that there are hundreds of web dev freelance stories out there, from ghosting developers to missing deadlines entirely. This article will dive into the 10 best ways to work well with your web design Continue reading the post...

In this month’s roundup, we take a look at a some upcoming events, a new platform where you can find more WordPress events, a vulnerability, the importance of messaging in your forms and a couple of new designs. There is a lot to explore, so let’s get started. Shall we? Shall we begin? Upcoming conferences Let’s take a look at few of the upcoming conferences and events. Email List Building School Jan Koch of Virtual Mastery Summit is launching an Continue reading the post...

A fast loading website is an integral part of building websites nowadays as it may help site visitors stay and explore more. Lazy loading images is one of the techniques which may result in better performance. One of the easy plugins to enable lazyload of background images is called Lazyload Background Images. 1. Lazyload Background Images In the plugin settings, you can also add the selectors for elements that contain background images. By default, the plugin will lazyload background images Continue reading the post...

When building websites for clients, you usually have to juggle multiple priorities, from staying within the budget to presenting outstanding designs that your clients will love, to building out all of the features and functionalities that have been requested. One facet of website design that many designers and clients overlook is the meeting of privacy-related requirements. In this article, we will discuss why you should keep privacy in mind when designing websites, the concept of privacy by design, examples of Continue reading the post...