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Best Free Form Builder Plugins WordPress 2019
There’s no shortage of free amazing form plugins to make data collection in WordPress a breeze. I noticed that a lot of form plugins in the WordPress plugin repository appear feature-rich, but once you install them, most features aren’t available unless...
read moreA free WordPress Form Builder with Calculations and Payments?!
Forminator 1.7 is here including calculations and Stripe payments. A new bar has been set for what you can expect for free from your WordPress form builder plugin! Not familiar? It’s time for a change. Name a lead generating, money making, revenue growing...
read moreHow to Embed a Google Form in WordPress
Can you remember the last time you filled out an online form? I’m guessing it wasn’t that long ago, especially if you regularly buy things online. It is easy to underestimate the importance of forms when it comes to the business of collecting customer data...
read moreHow to Use Googles Speed Index to Improve WordPress Performance
Does your site load content steadily like the tortoise, or wait until the race is almost over before it kicks into high gear, like the hare? In the race to provide the best user experience, steady is best. That’s why Google PageSpeed Insights measures your...
read moreThis Is Gonna Be Emotional, We’re Setting over 90% of Our Premium Plugins Free!
WordPress is evolving, and so are we, even though it’s hard to see the kids leave home. It’s almost 12 years since Andrew and I launched WPMU DEV Premium as ‘a subscription-based service that offers advanced plugins for WordPress Multi-User’...
read moreHummingbird 2.0: Mobile Scans and Advanced Speed Tests… Vroom!
Hummingbird performance tests, reports, and recommendations just got a major upgrade but to get access to the all new lean-mean-humming-machine…you need to update! In November, Google made much needed changes to PageSpeed Insights. Speed is now being calculated...
read moreHow to Improve First Contentful and Meaningful Paint
You’re not optimizing your site to please a stopwatch. You’re optimizing your site for real people. So how can you determine if you’re achieving your goal? You need to include metrics such as First Contentful Paint and First Meaningful Paint in your...
read moreUltimate Guide to Integrating Zapier with WordPress Form Plugins
You’ve just designed the perfect form that’s going to hook your leads like fish at the end of a line, and you’re ready to reel them in. But what happens when the responses come flooding in? Who’s going to end up with the task of copying...
read moreBulk Photo Editing for WordPress
Is there anything that sucks up creative energy more than tedious repetitive tasks? Editing a memory card full of images for a new site or redesign can take up precious time you can devote to something less boring. In this post I’m going to show you different...
read moreBranda 3.1 Smarter SMTP, Signup Codes, and +25 Upgrades
Branda is all about giving you fast easy control over white labeling WordPress…and quite frankly she rocks it. She just got some special new configurations for managing users, lightning fast setup, compatibility checks, and even more brand magic. “How is...
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You got this.
I’M LEARNING new tech and it’s hard. Maybe you’re in the same boat. Through the rosy lens of memory, learning HTML and Photoshop back in the day was a breeze. It wasn’t, really. And CSS, when it came along in 1996, was even tougher to grasp—in part because it was...
Figma for Sketch users
You may have heard of Figma recently. It’s a web-app (with a hybrid-native version) that aims to solve the same problem Sketch solves: make it easy and fast to design and prototype software. When two apps solve the same problem, why would you want to learn to...
Designer Journeys 🗺️
“Sometimes it’s a little better to travel than to arrive.” ~Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance I interview a lot of designers in the course of any given week. Less than half have taken the usual path to becoming a designer. Most...
Pablo Honey Senior Design Director at Automattic. Previously Red Antler, R/GA, DoubleYou. pablohoney.co
Code is easy. Ego is a challenge.
I enjoy the Tim Ferriss podcast, where he interviews top performers in all fields. I find that success leaves clues and even though I may not have much in common with Neil Gaiman or Arnold Schwarzenegger, I sometimes stumble upon a nugget that transforms my map of the...
Open web meditation, now in Japanese!
I recently shared a video I created (with the fantastic Caresse Haaser) that explored the spaces of the open web in contrast to the more closed environments that have dominated our recent online experiences. As part of that project, we shared the source materials on...
Q&A with Dave Martin
Dave Martin is one of the world’s most experienced distributed designers and design leaders. I first found out about Dave’s work by reading one of his old blog posts where he described the challenges when hiring for an all-distributed design team. Dave...
Designing Design Leadership
I don’t have a formal design background. I had to learn everything the hard way through the usual methods. Diving into, or letting myself get thrown into, the deep end of the pool. Working hard to learn as much as I could whenever I could. Asking lots of questions....
Changing your own oil
I learned how to change the oil in my car before I could drive. Twenty years later, I still change it myself. Sure, I could have someone else do it in the same amount of time for the same amount of money, but I think its important to get under the hood yourself. I...
Breaking the silver bullet fallacy
This post originally appeared on filippodt.com. Wikipedia defines a silver bullet as “a metaphor for a simple, seemingly magical, solution to a difficult problem”. Working in product development, I have come across my share of silver bullets and every time they end in...
