Getting people to contact you is pretty much the reason your WordPress website or blog exists. It’s all well and good if you’re using one of the most popular website builders around, but if you get no interaction, you might as well not bother. Comments are great of course, but if you’re running a business, then it’s essential your contact form works as intended.
We’ve rounded up five plugins which aim to give your visitors the best contact form experience around.
I was wondering if you could help me. I want to convert all of my old posts (about 600) to Gutenberg blocks. Do you know an easy way to do that?
Philip
I often get these short questions via private messages. I always try my best to help other WordPress users whenever I can. This was an easy solution in Philip’s case. After a quick chat, he actually learned that he did not need to migrate his posts to the block system. I thought it would be best to open this topic to a wider audience. Maybe it would help someone else along the way.
There is currently an open ticket on the…
TasteWP is a newcomer among online WordPress sandboxing solutions. The site allows users to spin up a new WordPress instance in a matter of seconds. Web-based sandboxes like these have been popular for a long time, since they are convenient to fire up and destroy when performing a quick test on a plugin or theme. It’s easier than maintaining a local development environment, which many casual WordPress users have not taken the time to set up.
TasteWP’s temporary testing sites are hosted for 48 hours for non-logged-in users and 7 days for those who are logged in. The one-click…
Parler, the Twitter rip-off that served as one of the main organizing tools for the Donald Trump fanatics who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, has been largely offline for more than a week. But even in suspended animation, the preferred online home for QAnon, the Proud Boys, and other elements of the American far-right is still creating trouble.
Decisions by Amazon, Apple, and Google to quit hosting the site and forbid mobile users to download the app have triggered cries of Big Tech censorship. First Amendment and internet regulation politics aside, the way Parler gushed data on…
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WordPress sites account for more than one-third of all websites on the Internet, including some of the most highly trafficked sites and numerous e-commerce sites. So it stands to reason that companies would spend a lot of time and resources on protecting site security, right?
Unfortunately, says Ted Harrington, executive partner at Independent Security Evaluators (ISE), too many organizations believe that because WordPress runs on open source,…
President Joe Biden took office today and unveiled a new whitehouse.gov that has been relaunched on WordPress. The previous administration switched from Drupal to WordPress in 2017, and technologists working with the Biden administration decided to stick with the same CMS.
In keeping with the multilingual and accessibility features implemented on the Biden-Harris transition team website, whitehouse.gov launched with toggles for contrast and font size, along with a Spanish language switcher. The relaunched site also includes an accessibility statement with a commitment from the…
The CMS rolls out agency services to compete with drag and drop website builders Squarespace and Wix
WordPress announced in a January 4, 2021, blog post that it will now offer custom-built websites for a limited number of ecommerce, education, and professional services companies. Interested businesses must apply through a form at WordPress.com, and the price starts at $4,900.
WordPress is offering these custom sites in response to the growing popularity of drag-and-drop website builders like Wix and Squarespace, which are quickly…
NEW YORK, Jan. 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — GeneratePress Theme Update Review: Having a website or building one for a client is a way that bloggers make money. Building a website is not an easy task though Generate Press has made it an easy and flexible process. GeneratePress is a web publishing software used to create a beautiful website or blog, GeneratePress has both free and paid package themes that the user can select. It is user friendly and the most flexible blogging and website content management system available in the market. Generate Press offers features like colors, font…
Best WordPress gallery plugins
Like any decent website builder, WordPress comes with its own image gallery feature, but it doesn’t hold a candle to what third party developers can offer. With that in mind, we’ve gathered five of the most popular ones for you.
FooGallery comes in two flavours, a “free” and a “PRO” version. But although you do have access to some of its exciting features, such as drag and drop ordering, album creations,…
Best WordPress gallery plugins
Like any decent website builder, WordPress comes with its own image gallery feature, but it doesn’t hold a candle to what third party developers can offer. With that in mind, we’ve gathered five of the most popular ones for you.
FooGallery comes in two flavours, a “free” and a “PRO” version. But although you do have access to some of its exciting features, such as drag and drop ordering, album creations,…