No in-house dev team? No problem. With our newest On Demand Development Service Add-On, our expert team of WordPress developers will be on hand to help you with anything you need, from simple CSS issues to building custom functionality. Need help with expanding the capabilities of the Forminator plugin so it caters to your specific ..read more

Read to the end to see a baby penguin who, for some reason, has the energy of a 58-year-old mob boss. In today’s edition: Hello to everyone in Portland posting selfies with folks IRL that they’ve worked/gossiped with on Slack for ages.? Etch, please! Kevin Geary attempts to stir up FOMO with his big, bold ..read more

We’re launching a new feature on The Hub: Tickets. Now you can effortlessly communicate with your clients entirely within The Hub, with an easy-to-use instant ticketing system. Plus, it’s entirely white label so it’ll appear to clients as part of your own site. Why We Created Tickets At the moment, you’re probably using email or ..read more

Read to the end for a tiny yet extremely majestic lion. In today’s edition: The truth behind the classic “average person eats 3 spiders per year” factoid. Tips that’ll make organizing your taxonomies a little less, uh… taxing. America’s finest news source, The Onion, is now powered by our old friend WP. Hot Off The ..read more

Pssst… have you noticed your site loading a bit faster than usual? It’s not your imagination! We’re happy to let you know that we’ve rolled out Brotli to all of your WPMU DEV hosted sites, giving you on average 11.62% better compression than before (and faster sites as a result!) It’s a change that’ll make ..read more

Read to the end for two very cute blondes at a baseball game. In today’s edition: We talk about voice search… and why it’s more important than ever to optimize for it. Sometimes a horse is just a horse, and not a Trojan horse in the WP code after all. Can living next to a ..read more

Read to the end for two very cute blondes at a baseball game. In today’s edition: We talk about voice search… and why it’s more important than ever to optimize for it. Sometimes a horse is just a horse, and not a Trojan horse in the WP code after all. Can living next to a ..read more

Welcome to our new roundup blog post / email, it’s called DEV. We’ll be publishing over email and here on the blog every two weeks, we hope you like it :) Sign up here to get the email. Read to the end for a sweet tune from WP 6.6’s namesake, the Sentimental Gentleman of Swing. In today’s post: Hide yo kids, Hide yo wife… or Awesome Motive might try to acquire them. We shine a light on Dark Mode. Is it actually better for your eyes? A gallery of the worst web designs we’ve ever seen. And more! Hot Off the Presses: What’s New? The Latest #WPDrama Gossip: BuddyBoss Acquired by Awesome Motive I ..read more

We tested our AI Search Assistant vs ChatGPT to see which tool can help convert more clients by successfully addressing their objections and concerns. Here are the results… Meet your new sales assistant … WPMU DEV’s AI Search Assistant! It’s no secret that more businesses are now turning to AI-powered tools like ChatGPT to assist with their sales and marketing. You’re probably using AI tools yourself to craft emails and product descriptions, generate headlines and article outlines, etc. We’ve previously written about how we think AI will affect the WordPress industry and listed a number of inc ..read more

If you typically spend 30 minutes or more creating forms on WordPress sites, you are going to love Forminator’s exciting new feature … Preset and Cloud Templates! Oh, and did we also mention that you can now easily add star ratings to your forms too? Save time creating forms with Forminator’s Preset and Cloud Templates. Forminator now lets you easily create professional forms to suit all kinds of purposes in just a few clicks. Simply select the type of form you’d like to create from the template gallery, customize it to suit your needs, copy and paste the shortcode where you would like to disp ..read more